Inductive Automation
Inductive Automation creates industrial software that empowers organizations to swiftly turn great ideas into reality by removing all technological and economic obstacles. By cross-pollinating IT with SCADA technologies, Inductive Automation created Ignition software, the first and only universal industrial application platform. With Ignition, industrial organizations are able to create virtually any kind of industrial application – SCADA, IIoT, MES, and beyond – all on one platform. 69% of Fortune 100 companies depend on Ignition, with its outstanding software platform and top-notch support. Visit our website to try it for free.www.inductiveautomation.com
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Oct 21, 2026
Ryan CrownoverGUEST
And as we all have learned, you can't just grab all those software tools and dump them into the industrial space and just have it work.
Ryan CrownoverGUEST
There are those unique components of the industrial space and with the Ignition product and you guys at Inductive Automation have always played the long game in trying to figure out how to get those two things to converge.
Ryan CrownoverGUEST
And with us as the community, I think perspective is probably the best example.
Ryan CrownoverGUEST
For years as the community, we were like, we need something beyond Java Swing.
Thomas BurkeHOST
We know that.
Thomas BurkeHOST
Before COVID.
Thomas BurkeHOST
Well, what you guys have just said is the kind of the reason that I want to work for Inductive Automation because it really resonates well.
Thomas BurkeHOST
Obviously, I'm very biased now, you know, because I believe in IA and it's more about, you know, us partnering and working with companies like yours because we got a great product, but we know that our customers need more than just our product.
Nikki GonzalesHOST
Welcome to Automation Ladies, the only podcast we know of where girls talk about industrial automation.
Nikki GonzalesHOST
This episode is brought to you by Inductive Automation.
Nikki GonzalesHOST
Guys, this is a brand new season of Automation Ladies.
Nikki GonzalesHOST
I don't even know what season number it is.
Nikki GonzalesHOST
Eight, I think.
Nikki GonzalesHOST
We didn't have too much of a hiatus, but we wanted to take a little break and come back with, you know, fresh season.
Nikki GonzalesHOST
It is the fourth quarter of 2026, and we have, to kick off the season, Colby Clegg with us from Inductive Automation.
Nikki GonzalesHOST
Colby, welcome.
Nick PlatheGUEST
Um, there's other technologies that just seem to lend itself a lot more to a lot more customers.
Nick PlatheGUEST
So Ignition, uh, Inductive Automation with Ignition, um, there's the SCADA system.
Nick PlatheGUEST
And it's, uh, it's, it's a great product and it's, it's easy to use and it's, uh, it's very cost-effective, and it's sort of a, a very hot item right now.
Nick PlatheGUEST
So w- we've been doing a lot of work in that.
Travis CoxHOST
And today we have a great episode for you.
Travis CoxHOST
We're gonna sit down with the CEO of Inductive Automation, Colby Clegg, and the co-founder and CTO of Tiger Data, Mike Freedman, about the Historian, about the sh- strategic partnership that we just announced here at ICC 2026, and what that means for the future of the Ignition Historian.
Travis CoxHOST
Guys, thanks for coming on the show.
Colby CleggGUEST
Thank you for having us.
Colby CleggGUEST
Sure
Travis CoxHOST
... bring yourself in and give us your background.
Colby CleggGUEST
Well, Colby Clegg, CEO of Inductive Automation.
Colby CleggGUEST
Uh, you know, before that I was one of the original developers, and I think what's relevant here is that my specialty was always the tag system and the history system, so I'm very passionate about this subject.
Bryan ThykenGUEST
I've had great discussions with people coming by the booth, just talking about the problems and how Ignition and all the community partners have really solved those problems for them.
Mike FloresHOST
You know, that's interesting you say that because I think this is where I want to get your perspective on how Sorba.ai fits in the ecosystem and the partnership with inductive automation recognition.
Bryan ThykenGUEST
Yeah, so what we set out to do 12 years ago as a company is to build a no-code AI platform for SMEs.
Bryan ThykenGUEST
Data science is...
Bryan ThykenGUEST
But it's kind of unapproachable in a lot of ways, especially when you're in a plant floor, you're dealing with old equipment, you're dealing with different protocols, different things that kind of make it complex for people who don't have a data science background to build things.
Bryan ThykenGUEST
And so our two co-founders, Yandy Perez and Aldo Ferrante, they set out 12 years ago to start building a platform where They, as SMEs and processes and controls engineers, could build models without having to know how to write Python, how to know what a deep learning neural net, et cetera, is.
Bryan ThykenGUEST
So over our evolution of building the product for 12 years, we knew about inductive automation.
Bryan ThykenGUEST
Obviously, they've been on a longer journey than that.
Thomas BurkeHOST
It is, yeah.
Thomas BurkeHOST
But I think we have a really captive audience, and I really want to help as, you know, in my role as inductive automation, help you really grow CSIA because I see so much value in what your organization does.
Thomas BurkeHOST
So, you know...
Thomas BurkeHOST
How do you think we can do work together? And what's your message to get the system integrators listening to us to join CSIA?
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Thomas BurkeHOST
So what was the one thing, if you had to name one thing, that surprised you when you came to ICC this year? So in the day and a half you're here, what really surprised you, different from previous years?
Cédric GROCGUEST
Definitely AI, I would say.
Cédric GROCGUEST
I had a big question coming to the ICC this year and the question was how would inductive automation handle this huge revolution with AI because the last two months, twelve months were crazy.
Cédric GROCGUEST
And I wonder how it would be handled for the developers or integrators inside the product, inside the designer, but also for the end users on the HMIs, how to handle all these new technologies and how are they embedded in the product.
Walker D ReynoldsHOST
Today, we are talking about time series in industry.
Walker D ReynoldsHOST
All right? So, um, obviously, ICC announcement, um, two weeks ago, the big announcement from Inductive Automation, in my opinion, was the Tiger Data partnership.
Walker D ReynoldsHOST
Essentially, Tiger Data is the company that owns TimescaleDB, which basically all of you are using and have been using for the last, whatever, six or seven years.
Walker D ReynoldsHOST
Um, uh, the big, the big announcement is that Inductive Automation has a new native historian, which is backed by Timescale and through a partnership with Tiger Data.
Walker D ReynoldsHOST
Uh, we're gonna talk about that a little bit today, but the big thing that I wanna talk about, like the conversation I wanna have with Doug, is around how time series is changing in industry.
Walker D ReynoldsHOST
Obviously, it's been evolving over the last seven years, how it's really changed with this announcement, and then I wanna talk a little bit about time series and its role in AI.
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Walker D ReynoldsHOST
Then at ICC two weeks ago, and, uh, you guys, your CTO was up on stage with Colby Clegg during the keynote, which by the way, never happened before.
Walker D ReynoldsHOST
This is kind of a very, very important thing.
Arlen NipperGUEST
I mean, we started, like, this year, I can just look at it, we started with the Prove It conference, and then that's where 50 vendors actually have to get up and connect to an MQTT broker and show what they can do with the unified namespace, with US.
Arlen NipperGUEST
And then right after that, we had the data center world, where Chris Markstein from Inductive Automation and I spoke with a very large audience about MQTT, Sparkplug, event-driven messaging, to a very large audience of data center customers.
Arlen NipperGUEST
Right after that, we had the Data Center Discovery Day, where we had Veros, we had QTS, we had Meta, all in customers get up and talk about how they were using MQTT, Sparkplug, broker technology, and the Ignition platform to solve their data center problems, and how, you know, really the adoption within the data center market of MQTT is kinda blowing me away because it is so fast and it has so many tags, you know, millions to some of the customers they have now, you know, you're looking at 15 to 20 million tags.
Arlen NipperGUEST
Then we had the Automate show in Chicago, where not only did we have Inductive Automation and Cirrus Link in a, a booth, but there were 17 other companies that had Cirrus Link, Inductive Automation software in their booths, demoing it, a lot of embedded computer companies, a lot of infrastructure companies.
Arlen NipperGUEST
Then right after that, we had the Solar and BESS Discovery Day in San Diego, where again, later in this podcast we'll talk about some of the exciting stuff that I saw there.
Arlen NipperGUEST
And then we're gonna turn right around, and ICC will be here before we know it.
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Arlen NipperGUEST
And with oil and gas it was more, "Oh, we're gonna pull it all in, we're gonna put it in a big tank, and then we're gonna refine it," which I'm not, you know...
Arlen NipperGUEST
But it was a lot more cut and dried than all of the BESS and solar and, and all of that and how those customers are using that.