Business analytics, machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies will transform virtually every aspect of the economy in the coming decades. One of the biggest stumbling blocks, however, remains capturing, organizing and delivering the vast amounts of data from sensors, industrial equipment, power supplies and other operational technologies (OT) in a timely fashion to achieve genuine, actionable insights for information technology (IT). Too often, this data—the raw material of business analytics—remains landlocked in disparate systems and getting it out requires inordinate amounts of time and money. OSIsoft brings OT and IT together through its PI System and PI Integrator technology. The PI System captures, cleanses, augments, and shapes OT data from thousands of disparate systems, often using hundreds of connectors, and then transmits analytics-ready data in a coherent fashion to IT systems. By combining the PI System with Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft SQL Server, R Services, Azure IoT and Cortana Intelligence (Azure ML), companies can dramatically accelerate their digital transformation and IoT strategies.