AVEVA has announced a broad set of innovations for CONNECT, its industrial intelligence platform, aimed at addressing data silos across modern enterprises. The company also announced upcoming capabilities, including an industrial knowledge graph and a twin builder that applies agentic AI, slated for release in Q1 2027.

By establishing a robust semantic model, the framework will act as the underlying architectural schematic that AI requires to deliver useful, accurate and trusted outputs. Instead of feeding AI raw and disjointed information, it will provide critical operational context by mapping complex relationships between physical assets. This will help industrial teams troubleshoot faster and make high-impact decisions with confidence.

The updates are designed to make it faster and simpler for industrial organisations to put the full breadth of their industrial data to work, enabling better decisions, stronger compliance and AI-enhanced intelligent operations.

For industrial organisations, the pressure to adopt AI is intensifying, along with challenges such as complex regulatory environments, growing sustainability requirements, ageing infrastructure and fragmented data. Today, up to 73 per cent of all data collected within enterprises goes unused, while 76 per cent of business leaders report finding it difficult to understand their data.

CONNECT aims to bridge this gap by leveraging the cloud to empower ecosystems securely and seamlessly across the value chain, supporting exponential business growth.

‘For industrial enterprises globally, the challenge is not ambition but infrastructure,’ said Zubin Davar, VP – CONNECT Platform GTM. ‘The promise of AI remains largely unrealised for most industrial teams because operations data, engineering data, asset context, workflows, and compliance frameworks all need to be managed in one place without losing fidelity, lineage, or meaning. CONNECT is designed to close this gap across every layer of deeply heterogeneous industrial technology stacks. By lowering the cost and complexity of unifying industrial data, we help customers turn fragmented data into trusted intelligence, accelerating their AI-driven transformation.’

Highlighting the strategic importance of the platform and its rapid adoption in the region, AVEVA announced the signing of Memorandums of Understanding with leading industry customers, including Deccan Fine Chemicals (I) Pvt Limited and Reliance Power Limited, at the India CONNECT launch event held in Mumbai.

These agreements are aimed at accelerating the implementation of CONNECT by leveraging cloud capabilities to enable a secure, seamless and collaborative digital ecosystem across the value chain, driving sustainable and exponential business growth.

AVEVA also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with VJTI’s Technology Business Incubator. VJTI is an autonomous institution owned by the Maharashtra State Government. The agreement reinforces AVEVA’s commitment to academia-led skill development and innovation, and supports the creation of a future-ready talent pool to meet evolving industry needs.

‘The announcements at AVEVA World, coupled with these MoUs signed at the India CONNECT launch, reflect our commitment to matching the depth and pace of progress Indian enterprises are making,’ said Tarun Singh, Country Head, AVEVA India. ‘India’s industrial sector is scaling rapidly, and by embedding AI and intelligence deeply into industrial workflows through CONNECT, we are helping local organisations move faster, manage complexity, and operate with confidence.’

AVEVA’s industrial intelligence platform CONNECT is also expanding its integrations with leading enterprise data platforms and introducing capabilities critical to industrial pipeline generation and enterprise-wide transformation.

Central to this expansion is a new strategic integration and partnership with Snowflake. Using a zero-copy architecture, industrial enterprises can now query high-fidelity operational technology data directly within Snowflake without duplicating or moving data. This ensures a single source of truth while lowering latency and integration costs.

AVEVA is also streamlining data management with the launch of CONNECT Flows, formerly Crosser. This introduces stream analytics and integration capabilities that enable the seamless assembly and deployment of data processing pipelines for real-time edge-to-cloud cleansing, filtering and transformation.

The platform’s cloud and AI ecosystem is also scaling rapidly. AVEVA is launching multicloud CONNECT in partnership with Amazon Web Services to offer customers greater hosting flexibility. The company is also forging a strategic and technology partnership with IFS and launching Digital Twins for AI Factories in collaboration with NVIDIA and Schneider Electric.

A major CONNECT release is planned for Q1 2027, bringing a range of new capabilities, including an industrial knowledge graph that makes it faster to construct, enrich and operationalise digital twins.

Slated for an Early Access Programme opening this year, the knowledge graph is populated using a twin builder that applies agentic AI to propose intelligent mappings. It aligns existing fragmented data sources to a standard data model, accelerating time-to-value while preserving information lineage and ensuring rigorous data governance so every decision can be trusted.

By bringing these advanced data management and AI capabilities to the Indian market, AVEVA aims to help local enterprises overcome data fragmentation and safely scale their digital transformation initiatives. As India continues its rapid industrial expansion, CONNECT provides a secure, unified foundation for organisations to turn complex operational data into a strategic asset.