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 suitable merchandise and modifications. We give attention to defending and nurturing our present buyer base whereas additionally investing in new options,” she stated.
One of many key options Kim talked about is CONNECT, AVEVA’s flagship industrial intelligence platform. This platform supplies on-demand cloud providers, enabling groups worldwide to collaborate in real-time throughout varied industrial ecosystems. As an efficient software for predicting outcomes and enhancing effectivity, CONNECT permits customers to share business knowledge on the cloud, enhancing workflow fashions and driving digital transformation throughout sectors equivalent to manufacturing, marine, and power.
CONNECT affords a complete view of commercial knowledge to deal with crucial ache factors that hinder effectivity. By integrating accomplice purposes with AVEVA’s proprietary software program, CONNECT delivers a wide selection of digital options inside a single platform, enhancing industrial workflows and creating interoperability between software program purposes for the advantage of clients. Kim elaborated, “We intention to create an open and agnostic platform, seamlessly integrating AVEVA software program and third-party options. This ensures that every part 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 via user-friendly API integration and a group characteristic that facilitates sharing insights and knowledge.
As an instance the real-world impression of knowledge sharing via CONNECT, Kim shared an instance involving a mining buyer in South Africa. “Our answer permits them to push knowledge to the cloud, granting their service suppliers and companions entry to crucial data and enabling enhanced gear efficiency evaluation. Within the mining business, knowledge sharing via our platform empowers specialists—equivalent to universities in South Africa—to supply insights that assist your entire business function extra successfully.”
Information high quality is paramount for CONNECT and data-driven software program options basically; poor-quality knowledge results in subpar outcomes, whereas high-quality knowledge yields precious 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 affords stakeholders a broader context for fixing particular industrial issues.
AVEVA has a big impression on varied industrial sectors; nevertheless, Kim expressed a need to see the corporate increase additional into industries equivalent 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 high precedence, together with specializing in key sectors and knowledge facilities the place AVEVA software program can deal with crucial challenges in high quality and power effectivity purposes.
Trying forward, AVEVA plans to incorporate purposes 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 “greatest week of the yr,” a sentiment I may simply see throughout my quick time on the occasion.
