Cognite expands into North American technology market

OSLO -- Cognite, a leading provider of structured and contextualized data for industrial applications, today announced that it will enter the North American technology market and open a U.S. headquarters facility in the summer of 2019. The company is considering sites in both Texas and California for the headquarters location.

Thanks to the success of its flagship Cognite Data Platform, Cognite is the fastest-growing technology company in Scandinavia, offering a software solution that delivers a digital representation of an organization’s “industrial reality” by transforming existing industrial data into useful, actionable information that builds connections and facilitates analysis across the enterprise that ultimately supports digital transformation and change initiatives at scale.

Driven by the competitive value of leveraging previously untapped industrial data, global demand for Cognite solutions has gone far beyond the company’s native Norway. For asset-intensive industries like oil and gas, power generation, energy grid management, and shipping, the Cognite platform “liberates” data from sources that include industrial sensors, equipment hierarchies, piping and instrumentation diagrams, 3D models, maintenance logs, and even weather information in order to deliver scalable, accessible, real-time and fully contextualized data for application development, enablement of machine learning, and forging ecosystem connections and partnerships. Exclusive Contextualization technology from Cognite links everything from the real world to everything in the Cognite platform, adding layers of context to the data for deeper analytics and insights.