This is a very interesting experience for me, because this is the first time in years, I think, that I've been at a user group meeting without having to help produce a show daily. I can actually go to the sessions I'm interested in, as opposed to the ones I have to cover. The choices are nearly overwhelming!

PAS has a well-publicized relationship with both Honeywell and Invensys, the latter cemented by the new President of PAS, former Invensys official Chris Lyden. PAS as we have reported before, has an interesting take on workflow management and documentation called "The Automation Genome."

One of the first questions that came to me in yesterday's press conference was, what does this aquisition (of Skelta Software) do to the relationship that Invensys has with PAS.

During the just concluded high level press conference with Invensys Operations Management's Rashesh Mody and Rob McGreevy and Skelta's Sanjay Shah, McGreevy reminded me that even though I have been saying that it is Invensys' master strategy to become the world's largest system integrator, they expect to go to market through their "existing ecosystem partners" - by which I take him to mean the Wonderware distribution organization, not necessarily the Foxboro one.

Hanging out on the Twittersphere this morning and came across the following, thanks to Eoin O'Riain at Readout: The Instrumentation Signpost. It's a Frost & Sullivan interview with Sudipta Bhattacharya of Invensys Operations Management. See here for what he has to say.

Found this in the course of my ritual morning check of Twitter. Invensys Operations Management has launched its redesigned website with the goal of rationalizing to outsiders the relationships between its various companies. See the new site here.  The news release is below.

Invensys figures it out—Sudipta Bhattacharya on the new ecosystem of Invensys Operations Management