Last week Petuum made its second appearance at the OSIsoft PI World conference with a much larger presence as the sole Platinum Sponsor. It was week was full of customer meetings, great dialogue, informative sessions, laughter, and running like crazy from place to place.

Next week, OSIsoft PI users from all over the world will gather in San Francisco from April 8 – April 12 at OSIsoft’s biggest event of the year, PI World. As the solo Platinum Sponsor of the event, the Petuum team will be there in full force and hope that you will join us.

Artificial Intelligence has begun providing real value to organizations in various industries. This will start becoming more apparent in the future as AI solutions become more accessible and easier to implement. However, even with the high levels of interest in leveraging AI and ML solutions, implementation and deployment in many organizations is still low. Much of this is because enterprises don’t incorporate some realities about AI projects into their thinking.

Blasphemy! How can artificial intelligence (AI) be drunk!? We deployed AI so it can help us scale faster, not be drunk on the job! Interestingly, that’s what lead to Petuum’s breakthrough in scaling machine learning and artificial intelligence.

The Petuum Industrial AI Autopilot product incorporates a pragmatic standardized approach to solving a range of industrial use cases, helping industrial customers achieve substantially higher levels of automation, and in the process, change the economics of running complex manufacturing businesses.

Saranyan Vigraham is Vice President of Engineering at Petuum. Previously, he was a VP of Engineering at Elementum, where he led their enterprise SaaS platform team that digitized the supply chain for Fortune 500 companies like Starbucks and Johnson & Johnson.

The Petuum journey in 2018 has been remarkable on many levels. The numbers in this post reflect both the tremendous growth and the phenomenal quality of work our team has done.