Dan Potter Vice President, Product Marketing Datawatch Corporation

Datawatch Corporation, (NASDAQ-CM: DWCH), a leading global provider of visual data discovery solutions, announced that it has joined the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), a non-profit partnership of industry, government and academia formed to advance the wide-spread use of interconnected machines, intelligent analytics and people at work.

Datawatch will bring its vast expertise in real-time data analytics and visualization to help develop best practices, reference architectures, case studies and interoperability standards for Industrial Internet applications. The “Industrial Internet” is the integration of complex physical machinery and devices with networked sensors and software, used to predict, control and plan for better business and societal outcomes.

“As a leading visual data discovery solution provider, Datawatch is already very much involved with Industrial Internet technologies,” said Dr. Richard Soley, executive director of the Industrial Internet Consortium. “We’re excited to have Datawatch as a member and look forward to their contributions to IIC working group activities.”

“Datawatch brings unique insight on how to handle the massive analytic challenges, through the use of visual data discovery, from the explosion of real-time data from interconnected machines, sensors and people,” said Dan Potter, vice president, product marketing for Datawatch.  “We are honored to participate in influencing the development of global standards and technologies for next-generation internet and industrial systems.”

About the Industrial Internet Consortium

The Industrial Internet Consortium TM (IIC) is the open membership, not-for-profit organization that catalyzes and coordinates the priorities and enabling technologies of industry, academia and the government around the Industrial Internet. Announced in March 2014, the IIC will systematically address the complexities of the Industrial Internet, leading to faster adoption, deployments and transformational business outcomes across the globe.

About Datawatch Corporation

Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ-CM: DWCH) provides visual data discovery software that optimizes any data – regardless of its variety, volume, or velocity – delivering next generation analytics to reveal valuable insights for improving business. Its unique ability to integrate structured, unstructured, and semi-structured sources like reports, PDF files and EDI streams with real-time streaming data into visually rich analytic applications allows users to dynamically discover key factors that impact any operational aspect of their business. This ability to perform visual discovery against any data sets Datawatch apart in the big data and visualization markets. Organizations of every size, worldwide use Datawatch products, including 99 of the Fortune 100. Datawatch is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts with offices in New York, London, Munich, Stockholm, Singapore, Sydney and Manila, and with partners and customers in more than 100 countries worldwide.