In a quiet room, away from the hustle and bustle of commercial innovators at AVEVA World 2025, I sat down with Kim Custeau, the Govt Vice President of Portfolio Administration at AVEVA.
Keen to start our dialog, Kim clarified her position at AVEVA. She defined her duty to make sure that AVEVA’s choices align with buyer calls for in an ever-evolving market by investing in client-focused options. “At AVEVA, I’m chargeable for portfolio technique, aligning the enterprise targets with the correct merchandise and adjustments. We concentrate on defending and nurturing our current buyer base whereas additionally investing in new options,” she mentioned.
One of many key options Kim talked about is CONNECT, AVEVA’s flagship industrial intelligence platform. This platform supplies on-demand cloud companies, enabling groups worldwide to collaborate in real-time throughout numerous industrial ecosystems. As an efficient device for predicting outcomes and bettering effectivity, CONNECT permits customers to share trade knowledge on the cloud, enhancing workflow fashions and driving digital transformation throughout sectors comparable to manufacturing, marine, and vitality.
CONNECT gives a complete view of commercial knowledge to handle vital ache factors that hinder effectivity. By integrating companion functions with AVEVA’s proprietary software program, CONNECT delivers a wide selection of digital options inside a single platform, bettering industrial workflows and creating interoperability between software program functions for the advantage of clients. Kim elaborated, “We purpose to create an open and agnostic platform, seamlessly integrating AVEVA software program and third-party options. This ensures that every thing plugs in and works collectively easily.”
For customers, CONNECT simplifies the method: with a single click on, clients can publish their industrial knowledge to the cloud, permitting third events quick access by means of user-friendly API integration and a neighborhood function that facilitates sharing insights and knowledge.
As an instance the real-world influence of knowledge sharing by means of CONNECT, Kim shared an instance involving a mining buyer in South Africa. “Our resolution permits them to push knowledge to the cloud, granting their service suppliers and companions entry to vital info and enabling enhanced tools efficiency evaluation. Within the mining trade, knowledge sharing by means of our platform empowers consultants—comparable to universities in South Africa—to offer insights that assist your entire trade function extra successfully.”
Information high quality is paramount for CONNECT and data-driven software program options typically; poor-quality knowledge results in subpar outcomes, whereas high-quality knowledge yields helpful insights for stakeholders. CONNECT supplies context to knowledge from a number of related techniques, enabling better-informed choices. For instance, integrating temperature, course of, and engineering knowledge gives stakeholders a broader context for fixing particular industrial issues.
AVEVA has a major influence on numerous industrial sectors; nevertheless, Kim expressed a need to see the corporate develop additional into industries comparable to marine, significantly shipbuilding. “Doing extra within the marine sector means forging stronger partnerships, amplifying our message, and integrating deeper into shipyard operations,” she acknowledged. Increasing AVEVA’s “45% market share in ship design” is a prime precedence, together with specializing in key sectors and knowledge facilities the place AVEVA software program can handle vital challenges in high quality and vitality effectivity functions.
Trying forward, AVEVA plans to incorporate functions from each its personal choices and people of companions on the CONNECT platform, additional rising the worth it supplies to clients. As we wrapped up our dialog, Kim mirrored on her 40 years with the corporate, describing her expertise at AVEVA World because the “finest week of the 12 months,” a sentiment I might simply see throughout my quick time on the occasion.
