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 "categories": [
  "manufacturing",
  "energy",
  "engineering"
 ],
 "deployment": "hybrid",
 "evidence": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "homepage",
   "note": "AVEVA presents PI System as an integrated portfolio for collecting, cleansing, storing, enriching, and visualizing real-time operations data, with vendor-neutral connectivity and self-service visualization.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/pi-system/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "name",
   "note": "The product is branded AVEVA PI System and is delivered through AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure, with core components PI Server, Edge Data Store, CONNECT, and connectivity products.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/pi-system/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "vendor",
   "note": "The page is published on aveva.com. The customer portal FAQ still mentions AVEVA or OSIsoft customer accounts for documentation login.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/pi-system/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "deployment",
   "note": "AVEVA describes integrated edge, on-prem, and cloud components, and says subscriptions can include software that runs on-premises as well as in the cloud.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/pi-system/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "deployment",
   "note": "PI Data Infrastructure is a hybrid solution spanning industrial edge, multiple on-premises sites, and the CONNECT cloud.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/pi-data-infrastructure/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "platforms",
   "note": "AVEVA PI Server 2024 R2 installation docs state a basic Data Archive and PI AF deployment requires one or more Microsoft Windows compatible computers with a 64-bit operating system.",
   "source": "https://docs.aveva.com/bundle/pi-server-f-install/page/1020130.html",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "platforms",
   "note": "PI Vision is web-based. AVEVA states users access displays in a browser on laptops, tablets, and smartphones.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-vision/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "license",
   "note": "AVEVA is transitioning to a subscription commercial model. Subscriptions can include on-premises and cloud components. Account representatives structure contracts. This is not a free production tier.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/pi-system/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "status",
   "note": "AVEVA publishes current PI System, PI Server, PI Vision, and developer-technology product pages and points to actively maintained documentation.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/pi-system/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.api.exists",
   "note": "AVEVA documents PI System developer technologies for integrating PI Server data with applications and BI tools, with read and write access. The page names PI Web API as a RESTful HTTP interface.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-system-developer-technologies/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[0]",
   "note": "PI Web API is described as a RESTful API that retrieves and manipulates time-series data, asset metadata, and events stored in AVEVA PI Server using standard HTTP methods. CONNECT data services add further REST APIs.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-system-developer-technologies/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.api.coverage",
   "note": "Documented coverage is time-series, asset metadata, and events, plus AF SDK access to modeled Asset Framework data and PI SQL queries. The public page is not a complete route catalog for every PI Server admin object.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-system-developer-technologies/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.api.docs",
   "note": "This product page is the public description of PI Web API, AF SDK, PI SQL, and CONNECT REST APIs. The docs.aveva.com programmer reference did not render a usable auth or route catalog in this pass.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-system-developer-technologies/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.exists",
   "note": "AVEVA documents Asset Framework SDK as an official object-oriented .NET tool for retrieving and using data stored in PI System Asset Framework servers.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-system-developer-technologies/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.official",
   "note": "AF SDK is listed among AVEVA's own developer technologies, not a community wrapper.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-system-developer-technologies/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.languages[0]",
   "note": "Asset Framework SDK is described as .NET-based.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-system-developer-technologies/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export[0]",
   "note": "PI Web API retrieves time-series, asset metadata, and events over HTTP for custom applications and web front ends.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-system-developer-technologies/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export[1]",
   "note": "AVEVA PI DataLink pulls PI System information into Excel worksheets for monitoring, analysis, and reporting.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/pi-system/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.import[0]",
   "note": "The developer suite supports write access. Eni is quoted storing machine-learning model output in PI via PI Web API and AF SDK.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-system-developer-technologies/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.rpa.ui_stack[0]",
   "note": "PI Vision is a web-based display and dashboard tool accessed in a browser.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-vision/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.rpa.ui_stack[1]",
   "note": "PI Server Data Archive and AF install on Windows hosts. No UI probe was run.",
   "source": "https://docs.aveva.com/bundle/pi-server-f-install/page/1020130.html",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.agent_docs.llms_txt",
   "note": "https://www.aveva.com/llms.txt opened as a genuine AVEVA index and names AVEVA PI System, PI Data Infrastructure, PI Server, and PI Vision.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/llms.txt",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.api",
   "note": "REST PI Web API plus official AF SDK and PI SQL are a useful production surface with read/write, but public HTML does not establish auth methods or a full route catalog, and access is licensed hybrid/on-prem. That is the useful-with-limits tier.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-system-developer-technologies/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[0].url",
   "note": "Opened AVEVA's current PI System developer technologies page covering PI Web API, AF SDK, PI SQL, and CONNECT REST APIs.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-system-developer-technologies/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[1].url",
   "note": "Opened the current AVEVA PI System portfolio page, including PI Server, PI Vision, developer technologies, and hybrid licensing.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/pi-system/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[2].url",
   "note": "Opened the current PI Vision product page (web displays, browser/mobile access, Flex subscription).",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-vision/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[3].url",
   "note": "Opened the current PI Server product page, including Asset Framework, event frames, notifications, and Windows plus OpenID Connect authentication options.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-server/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[4].url",
   "note": "Opened aveva.com/llms.txt and confirmed it is a real vendor LLM index that names PI System products.",
   "source": "https://www.aveva.com/llms.txt",
   "tier": "declared"
  }
 ],
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  "last_verified": "2026-09-09",
  "volatility": "medium",
  "watch": [
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-system-developer-technologies/"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/pi-system/"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-vision/"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-server/"
   },
   {
    "type": "agent-docs",
    "url": "https://www.aveva.com/llms.txt"
   }
  ]
 },
 "homepage": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/pi-system/",
 "id": "aveva-pi-system",
 "license": "commercial",
 "modalities": {
  "agent_docs": {
   "llms_txt": true
  },
  "api": {
   "auth": [],
   "coverage": "partial",
   "docs": "https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-system-developer-technologies/",
   "exists": true,
   "kinds": [
    "rest"
   ]
  },
  "cli": {
   "exists": "unknown"
  },
  "computer_use": {
   "issues": [],
   "viability": "unknown"
  },
  "data_access": {
   "export": [
    "json",
    "excel"
   ],
   "import": [
    "json"
   ]
  },
  "extensibility": {
   "scripting": [],
   "webhooks": "unknown"
  },
  "integrations": {
   "make": "unknown",
   "n8n": "unknown",
   "power_automate": "unknown",
   "zapier": "unknown"
  },
  "mcp": {
   "first_party": "unknown",
   "third_party": [],
   "verdict": "unknown"
  },
  "rpa": {
   "drivability": "unknown",
   "notes": "No repeatable UI probe was run. PI Vision is a browser dashboard client. PI Server administration is a Windows on-prem stack. PI Web API, AF SDK, PI SQL, and PI DataLink are the documented machine paths. This record is not Ignition and not Emerson DeltaV.\n",
   "ui_stack": [
    "web-dom",
    "windows-native"
   ],
   "vendor_support": []
  },
  "sdk": {
   "exists": true,
   "languages": [
    "dotnet"
   ],
   "official": true
  }
 },
 "name": "AVEVA PI System",
 "platforms": [
  "windows",
  "web"
 ],
 "related": {
  "alternatives": [
   "inductive-ignition",
   "siemens-tia-portal"
  ],
  "our_products": []
 },
 "schema_version": 1,
 "score_version": 1,
 "status": "active",
 "vendor": "AVEVA",
 "verdict": {
  "best_path": "api",
  "scores": {
   "api": 6,
   "cli": null,
   "computer_use": null,
   "integrations": null,
   "mcp": null,
   "overall": 6,
   "rpa": null
  },
  "summary": "AVEVA PI System is automatable today through PI System Access developer technologies: PI Web API (REST) and the official Asset Framework SDK (.NET). This record is the industrial operations-data historian and visualization portfolio formerly branded OSIsoft PI. It is not Inductive Automation Ignition, not Emerson DeltaV, and not AVEVA System Platform as a standalone identity. AVEVA states the developer suite supports read and write access across languages and operating systems. PI Web API retrieves and manipulates time-series data, asset metadata, and events on PI Server over HTTP. AF SDK is the object-oriented .NET tool for Asset Framework data. PI SQL exposes time-series through SQL providers. CONNECT data services add separate cloud REST APIs for accounts, identities, ingress, and data views.     The public programmer reference on docs.aveva.com did not render a usable auth or route catalog in this pass, so PI Web API authentication methods stay unlisted. PI Server documents Windows and OpenID Connect among data-access security options; that is not a substitute for a Web API auth contract. Deployment is hybrid: PI Server on Windows, PI Vision on the web, plus edge and CONNECT cloud in PI Data Infrastructure. Licensing is commercial subscription (AVEVA Flex). No first-party MCP, general CLI, or opened iPaaS connector was established. Computer-use viability is unassessed. API scores 6 and is the best path.\n"
 }
}