Over 431,000 companies globally use data visualization tools like Microsoft Power BI and Tableau to transform complex information into clear, actionable insights. In high-performance operations, the modern enterprise needs to do more than aggregate and analyze data – they must model it in prescriptive ways.

“Data visualization across all levels, from leadership to the central control room and frontline operations, is crucial for modern companies to achieve growth and profitability. Userful is leading the way in helping leading datametrics platforms, like PowerBI, Tableau, Epic, ServiceNow and others to realize data visualization centrally and the front lines, “ said John Marshall, CEO of Userful.

Enhanced Features & Capabilities:

• Seamless Integration, Authentication & Secure Data Distribution: Integrates with platforms like Power BI, Tableau, Epic, SAP, Siemens, and ServiceNow. Aggregates dashboards as pixels for secure data, using role-based permissions, secure networks, and Microsoft Azure AD for authentication.
• Centralized Management & Real-Time Insights: Centralized management and distribution of global real-time visualizations. Enhances teamwork with dynamic data access for multiple users.
• Operational Flexibility, Effectiveness & Customization: Supports emergency notifications, operational signage, control rooms, and dynamic report sharing with drag-and-drop functionality. Scalable and customizable data visualization solutions tailored to specific needs.

Userful is Transforming Multiple Industries 

This industry-leading solution revolutionizes data operations and IT infrastructure across a variety of sectors. Manufacturers have streamlined production monitoring for improved efficiency and risk management, while healthcare providers have gained access to critical data like admission, discharge and transfer (ADT) and departmental wait times to elevate patient care.

Userful’s Trends data dashboards solution revolutionizes the enterprise market by unifying data from multiple sources and breaking down data silos. It enables real-time interaction with information through Soft KVM and offers organizations a secure, holistic view of business performance.

Userful will showcase its data dashboards solution at InfoComm 2024 in the Sony and PixelFLEX booths. Or to learn more about Userful’s data visualization integration with data dashboards, visit the website here.

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Mr. Jeff Metcalf brings over 20 years of finance and accounting experience to his new role as CFO as well as extensive technology leadership experience. Before joining Userful, Mr. Metcalf held key finance leadership roles as VP Finance and divisional CFO, working for Calgary technology enabled companies DIRTT Environmental Solutions and Pure Technologies. Prior thereto, Mr. Metcalf held several Controller roles, and started his career with KPMG, where he progressed to Audit Senior Manager. As CFO, Mr. Metcalf will serve on Userful’s executive team and lead Userful’s G&A department, supporting the growth and long-term vision of the company.

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The industry has embraced digitalization as a means to navigate these complexities, however, a critical question has emerged: is mere digitization sufficient for true modernization? This article will show that in order to realize the full potential of digital transformation, large distributed organizations need to adopt centralized IT/OT management.

Navigating the Modern Manufacturing Maze

In recent years, the manufacturing sector has witnessed an unprecedented convergence of challenges and opportunities. Economic fluctuations, technological breakthroughs, and shifting consumer demands have propelled the industry into a new era of complexity. To thrive in this landscape, manufacturers must not only adapt but also innovate, leveraging digital technologies to optimize operations and enhance competitiveness.

The Imperative of Centralized Management: A Paradigm Shift

Centralized management is at the heart of any effective modernization. Digital tools alone are not enough. True transformation means consolidating operational functions under a unified platform. Companies are turning away from outdated fragmented approaches–symbolized by hundreds of software offerings that bring with them thousands of user account licenses. Centralization offers the opportunity for a holistic framework that seamlessly integrates data services and operational technologies. What is needed is a centralized IT/OT decision management system that can merge, manage, and monitor a broad array of tools.

Unlocking the Potential: The Economic Benefits of Centralization

The advantages of centralized integrations of this kind are manifold, spanning operational savings, production efficiencies, and quality improvements.

Through centralized monitoring and control, organizations can realize substantial cost savings, enhance production efficiencies, and elevate product quality. More efficient monitoring of operations management tools also facilitates better IT support and ensures continuous uptime, further bolstering operational resilience and minimizing disruptions.

Centralized monitoring and control functions also enable organizations to minimize resource wastage, optimize energy consumption, and streamline operational processes. For example, research indicates that the implementation of SCADA systems can yield cost savings of up to 30 percent, underscoring the economic benefits of this kind of centralized management.

By providing real-time visibility and control over manufacturing processes, centralized monitoring enhances production efficiencies and throughput. Studies suggest that centralized monitoring can lead to throughput improvements of up to 20 percent, highlighting the transformative impact of centralization on operational performance.

Centralized monitoring facilitates proactive quality management and process optimization, resulting in improvements in product quality and consistency. Through real-time quality control measures, organizations can reduce defect rates and enhance customer satisfaction ratings, thereby reinforcing their competitive edge.

Research studies and real-world case studies across various industries corroborate the efficacy of centralized management. The options today are somewhat limited to standardizing on industry leaders such as Siemens, Honeywell or Microsoft. However, there are alternative options that better enable the integration of all these players as well as emerging application providers. Solutions like Userful’s Infinity Platform remain neutral and integration focused, allowing all best of breed applications to be centrally monitored for maximum operational performance.

Regardless of whether companies deploy an industry leader or an open decision support system, the goal remains the same. Centralize IT/OT operations on a given platform. From achieving cost savings to improving efficiency and service quality, centralized integration has become a cornerstone of operational excellence.

From control rooms to operational dashboards, digital signage, and collaboration spaces, an integrated platform for IT/OT decision management brings efficiency, compliance, and innovation across the manufacturing landscape.

The journey towards modernizing manufacturing operations hinges on identifying an integration and harmonization platform for OT and IT operations. Organizations can then unlock new frontiers of efficiency, agility, and productivity.

To learn more about Userful’s Infinity Platform and how it can help with centralized IT/OT operations, visit the website here.

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Userful’s Data Dashboards is the only solution in the industry that offers centralized access to data, seamlessly integrating with top-tier Electronic Health Records (EHR) operations platforms and business intelligence platforms such as Epic, Vida, PowerBI, Tableau, and Siemens. These integrations ensure a cohesive central approach to data management in the healthcare industry while ensuring accessibility to the right teams without compromising security or patient confidentiality.

The ability to enable quick decision-making based on real-time data is critical in modern healthcare. The solution allows healthcare professionals to securely aggregate and distribute visual metrics in real-time within a single platform elevating overall operational performance.

“This solution is a game-changer. By leveraging the Userful Infinity Platform, we’re empowering healthcare professionals with the data they need to make informed decisions that save time, improve efficiency and ultimately, save lives,”said, John Marshall, CEO, Userful.

Traditional dashboard solutions face challenges such as data accessibility, secure integration of multiple tools, and high software licensing costs. Userful’s data dashboards go beyond traditional solutions and address these issues by creating a secure API-based connection, reducing the number of licenses, and providing a centralized hub for visualizing and distributing vital information across nurses’ stations, waiting rooms, emergency departments, meeting rooms, and admin areas.

Userful’s data dashboards solution is transforming healthcare operations:

• Reduce wait times: Monitor patient flow and optimize scheduling to minimize patient frustration.
• Optimize bed management: Gain real-time bed occupancy to ensure efficient patient placement.
• Staffing visibility: Track staff availability for improved resource allocation.
• Appointment scheduling: Boost patient access to care with clear appointment availability.
• Inventory management: Monitor critical supplies and equipment to avoid stockouts.
• Surgery suite efficiency: Track status for smoother surgical workflows.

Userful’s  data dashboards solution will be showcased through exclusive executive meetings at HIMSS 2024, demonstrating its commitment to innovation in healthcare operations.

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Userful’s new enhancements include:

1. Most Advanced High-Power Video/Audio Processing Engine on Earth

Userful has integrated NVIDIA’s most advanced GPU, Ada Lovelace, with its Chronos Video Engine on its Infinity Platform, making Userful’s solution a leading-edge software-defined AV over IP platform. Benchmarking shows that Userful’s platform has up to 2x the compute of its next closest competitor in AV, and 24x the compute of traditional proprietary leaders in AV hardware. Userful’s engine operates at an unmatched 96 4K60FPS max throughput compute.

2. World’s First End-to-End 8K Platform

In addition, Userful’s engine can now deliver 24 8K60FPS, which is unrivaled encoding in the industry. Userful is also announcing the launch of its 8K performance uClient adapter, which is the first enterprise-class 8K decoder. This groundbreaking pairing can aggregate multiple sources into a single 8K stream, ready for delivery through 8K LED controllers and/or to 8K LED walls and LCD displays.Through Userful’s real-time aggregation technology, the creation of a single 8K output enables highest performance, lowest cost deployment of the most advanced control room and video walls in the industry. Fewer controllers, less sync concern, and maximum control through a software-defined architecture.

3. First Browser-Based Soft KVM for Operations Centers – Secure & Low Latency

After several iterations and improvement in latency and security, Userful formally announces enhancements to its operations-center-class soft-KVM, uConduct 2.0, as an augmentation of Userful’s quad-play for modernized control rooms. Userful’s browser-based approach can be operated offline (air gapped from the Internet) or online. uConduct provides operators with simplified workflows, while ensuring secure access and low latency performance (<100ms depending on network design). uConduct provides enterprise class security for most commercial (non-military) deployments. Moving to a soft-KVM architecture enables customers to reduce their cost-per-operator by as much as 75 percent. For clarity, competitive offerings require a separate application, necessitating additional service and maintenance, as well as additional hardware.

4. Browser-Based AV Controls

Userful’s new uControl 2.0 enables both layout switching and whole-enterprise environmental switching. With the touch of a single button, different layouts and different sources (audio/video) can be activated on different screens and different rooms. Scalability testing has confirmed support for up to 200 active screens and LED walls.

5. Next-Generation Audio Service Management

In partnership with Dante Audio, Userful’s AV engine becomes the first that can map a single audio source to many enterprise AV applications. Userful has brought its leadership and years of experience in source management into the audio world enabling more effective and intuitive mapping of audio sources including the integration of Dante Audio.

6. World’s Most Robust Tool for Centralized IT Management of Distributed AV Services – Global Cluster Manager (GCM)

A first-of-its-kind private management system, Userful’s Global Cluster Manager is the world’s only secure cloud-based solution for AV over IP deployments that offers unparalleled distributing, monitoring and managing capabilities. GCM empowers IT departments to efficiently oversee and scale their organization’s AV over IP servers. As the enterprise expands its infrastructure, GCM becomes indispensable, providing secure server management, resource distribution, and comprehensive monitoring across the organization. This innovative approach ensures real-time visibility into implementation growth through a unified control point, safeguarding sensitive data throughout the process.

Capable of managing up to 10,000 clusters, comprising up to 5 video engine servers per cluster, yielding 50,000 servers for a total compute of up to 10M CPU cores and 400,000 GPUs under management. Translation: Unlimited platform scalability.

7. Broadest Software-Based End-Point Management in Industry

Userful supports endpoints running WebOS 4.1 and later, Android 12, Tizen, and API management of Novastar and Megapixel controllers. By deploying soft clients at the edge Userful is able to reduce adapter hardware and decoder hardware while enabling admins to monitor and manage displays as nodes. Management functions on the corporate network include screen power management, scheduled update groups, locking of peripherals and image quality management.

Userful will showcase these groundbreaking enhancements at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) in Barcelona 2024, reaffirming our dedication to pushing the boundaries of AV technology for enterprise IT.

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The Infinity | Pro BRAVIA-certified solution ensures that Userful and Sony have completed rigorous testing of the compatibility and reliability of the combined signage solution. Testing is completed end to end, from source to screen, from subnet to data center to cloud, from end node to network management interface, across multiple APIs. The alliance between Userful and Sony establishes a commitment to certify new features to support continued technology compatibility and enhanced customer experiences.

“The integration of Userful’s uClient application on Sony’s Pro BRAVIA Displays running Android marks the beginning of a powerful alliance and Userful’s continued commitment to expanding our advanced AV solutions within enterprise IT,” said Dan Griffin, VP Infinity Platform, Userful.

“Userful’s innovative approach to solutions aligns with our delivery strategies and together we can further evolve Sony’s end-to-end digital signage capabilities while enhancing our compatibility and growing our Alliance Partner Network,” said Rich Ventura, Vice President, Sony Electronics. “The certification of our Pro BRAVIA displays with Userful’s Infinity Platform instills confidence and dramatically reduces time and friction related to large scale display deployments for our community.”

Userful’s signage solutions leverage a flexible and efficient content delivery network (CDN) to distribute any media content for playback to a large number of displays and/or LED walls with high quality, while also offering an optional cloud-based CMS application. This architecture allows for applications to be deployed in the most cost-effective manner for their use case.

Key admin functions are centralized at the platform level including user management, role-based access, device monitoring, device management, and emergency alerts. This allows IT teams to manage these in one place, while content management by users happens on different applications.

Userful and Sony have showcased their integrated signage solutions earlier this fall during OOH, New York and will also be demonstrating it in San Diego during the AV Tech Expo – a Sony roadshow event on February 5, 2024.

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The Userful Infinity Platform enables enterprise customers to deploy a wide range of solutions from a single pane of glass, integrated with applications like VMS and BMS systems, with support for applications ranging from control rooms to datametrics and operational metrics to digital signage to immersive experiences to remote worker streaming. Whichever initial solution customers need, LG offers a display technology that is most suitable for that need. Should a customer want to expand to other applications, they can do so immediately as the solution is a single license that includes all services offered through the Infinity Platform. Suitable LG displays can be added by extension on the IT network.

The integrated solutions will be made available initially through AV integrators and resellers in North America. This offering will enable AV channel partners to purchase pre-tested solutions that allow easier installation into networked environments, while enabling them to focus more on integration into customers’ workflows rather than IT/network integration. As customer needs expand, or if the needs are greater than the initial bundle can support, both LG and Userful will be available to support the channel partners for such larger opportunities.

“LG has taken a leadership position in the industry by integrating software and platform-as-a-service with display technology,” said John Marshall, CEO, Userful. “Developing solutions that ease the burden of integrating and managing AV services on enterprise networks will accelerate adoption of AV in IT.  As Userful’s Preferred Solutions Partner for display technologies, LG has shown its industry leadership and commitment to integrating software and platform technologies with visualization.”

“As the AV industry has matured, we have increasingly seen comfort rise with advanced AV services being deployed across networks with proper security measures and centralized manageability. Userful’s Infinity Platform will bring all three together, enabling IT leaders a single platform for AV service deployment.” said Peter Kim, Solution Ecosystem Lead, LG Business Solutions USA. “The combination of the Userful Infinity Platform and LG webOS is a powerful pairing. Our collaboration with Userful underscores our commitment to providing the best possible collaboration solutions for the commercial market.”

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Inception will allow Userful to leverage NVIDIA’s most advanced features in graphics, visualization, and cutting-edge AI. As a member, Userful will have access to collaborate with NVIDIA’s R&D leaders to continue innovating its software-defined platform for mission-critical and core operations. Userful will also have full access to the NVIDIA DeepStream software development kit (SDK) team to support the development and deployment of vision AI and low-latency streaming technologies.

“We are pleased to be accepted into NVIDIA Inception,” said Reza Razavi, CTO of Userful. “The relationship will enable Userful to scale faster and further explore the capabilities of integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning into Userful’s software-defined AV-over-IP platform.”

Leveraging the NVIDIA DeepStream SDK, Userful will enhance its future-proof platform solution, amplify competitive advantage, increase customers’ ROI, and lower total cost of ownership.

NVIDIA Inception, which consists of a global network of over 13,000 startups, helps startups evolve faster through access to pioneering technology and NVIDIA experts, opportunities to connect with venture capitalists, and co-marketing support to heighten brand visibility. As Userful prepares for its next round of financing, such validation helps pave the way for Userful’s ongoing capitalization and growth. Through Inception, Userful will also have access to the best technical tools and the latest resources.

To learn more about Userful or the NVIDIA Inception Program, go to the website here.

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