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Total Cost of Ownership: The Hidden Cost of Industrial Data Systems
The total cost of an industrial data system is not defined by its license or subscription price. It is defined by its complexity, its integration effort, and the people required to make it work.
Jeff Tao
April 10, 2026 | AI-Native Industrial Data Foundation, Data Historian
TDengine IDMP 1.0.15: Smarter Analytics, Faster Insights, Stronger Foundations
The latest updates to TDengine IDMP focus on strengthening the full data lifecycle—from ingestion and analysis to visualization—while making advanced capabilities easier to use across the business.
TDengine Team
April 9, 2026 | News
Why Industrial Data Must Be Open — Without Losing Context
If industrial data platforms are not open, every new AI capability requires custom integration, making it difficult to keep up with the pace of innovation.
Jeff Tao
April 8, 2026 | AI-Native Industrial Data Foundation, Data Historian
AI-Driven Operational Insights: Removing the Barrier Between Data and Understanding
AI-driven operational insights remove the barrier to understanding data by making it possible to generate insights without requiring deep expertise in analytics or domain modeling.
Jeff Tao
April 7, 2026 | AI-Native Industrial Data Foundation, Data Historian
TDengine Expands Middle East Presence with Arabian Digital Solutions Partnership
TDengine today announced a partnership with Arabian Digital Solutions (ADS), a Saudi Arabia-based industrial automation and engineering company specializing in smart manufacturing and digital transformation.
TDengine Team
April 7, 2026 | News
TDengine vs. PI System: Which Industrial Data Historian Is Truly AI-Ready?
Can your data historian support AI natively, or does it require building a separate AI stack? This is where TDengine and PI System take fundamentally different approaches.
TDengine Team
April 6, 2026 | TDengine vs. PI System
TDengine IDMP Now Supports Spanish and Korean
We’re excited to announce that TDengine IDMP now supports Spanish and Korean, available starting in version 1.0.15.2.
TDengine Team
April 2, 2026 | News
Asset-Centric and Event-Centric Visualization: From Dashboards to Operational Understanding
What industrial users need is a new kind of visualization—one that is asset-centric, event-aware, insight-driven, and tightly integrated with the data foundation.
Jeff Tao
April 2, 2026 | AI-Native Industrial Data Foundation, Data Historian
Advanced Analytics in Industrial Systems: Beyond the Historian
Organizations increasingly expect systems to generate insights—detect anomalies, predict future behavior, identify patterns, explain deviations and analyze the root cause.
Jeff Tao
April 2, 2026 | AI-Native Industrial Data Foundation, Data Historian
Event-Centric + Asset-Centric: The Missing Link in Industrial Data
Assets define what exists. Events define what happens. Only when both are modeled together can we truly understand industrial operations—and only then can AI become genuinely useful.
Jeff Tao
March 30, 2026 | AI-Native Industrial Data Foundation, Data Historian
