Cognite

Cognite develops industrial AI and data software for asset-heavy enterprises that need to unify operational, engineering, and business data. Its core platform, Cognite Data Fusion®, turns fragmented industrial information into a contextualized data foundation that helps users search, analyze, collaborate, and act faster across production, maintenance, and reliability workflows.

Built for sectors such as energy, process manufacturing, power, and renewables, Cognite focuses on making complex OT, IT, and ET data usable at scale. Its portfolio combines data contextualization, an industrial knowledge graph, low-code AI agents, and operational applications that support field execution, maintenance planning, and robotic inspections.

Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations

Cognite’s offering combines an industrial data and AI foundation with workflow applications for operations, maintenance, and engineering teams. Its capabilities span data onboarding, automated contextualization, industrial knowledge graph modeling, search, visualization, collaborative analysis, and low-code AI agent development for industrial use cases.

Integration is central to the model. Cognite supports prebuilt extractors and connectors for common industrial systems and protocols, including OPC UA, OSI PI, MQTT, databases, and SAP-related data flows, and it provides APIs and SDKs for custom development. The platform is designed as an open ecosystem so customers and partners can embed Cognite capabilities into existing applications, enterprise architectures, and cloud environments.

Products and Services

• Cognite Data Fusion®: Industrial AI and data platform that unifies, contextualizes, and activates OT, IT, and ET data through an industrial knowledge graph, open APIs, and user-facing applications.
• Cognite Atlas AI™: Low-code industrial AI agent workbench for creating and managing AI agents grounded in industrial data, agent templates, and purpose-built tools.
• Cognite Success Tracks: Customer success and expert support offering that provides dedicated guidance, best practices, and implementation assurance to accelerate value realization from Cognite Data Fusion®.
• Cognite Quick Start: Fast-start service package designed to help customers deploy a contextualized industrial data foundation and begin realizing industrial AI value in weeks.
• Industrial Canvas: Collaborative industrial workspace for root cause analysis, troubleshooting, planning, and shared analytics using contextualized data, diagrams, images, and time series.
• Cognite InField: Field operations application for supervisors and field workers to plan, schedule, assign, and execute work, complete checklists, capture readings, and record observations on mobile or desktop.
• Cognite Maintain: Maintenance planning application that helps teams prioritize backlog, coordinate schedules, plan shutdowns and turnarounds, and improve execution through a collaborative digital workspace.
• Cognite InRobot: Robotics application for planning, performing, and automating industrial inspection missions and reviewing robot-collected data alongside other operational context.

Target Customers

Cognite targets asset-heavy industrial companies that operate complex plants, facilities, networks, and field assets. Its strongest fit is with enterprises in upstream and downstream energy, process manufacturing, power, and renewables that need to connect siloed operational, engineering, and enterprise data across sites.

Its users span operations, maintenance, reliability, engineering, and digital transformation teams. Typical stakeholders include process engineers, maintenance planners, supervisors, field workers, and industrial data consumers who need trusted context, faster analysis, and scalable AI support inside day-to-day workflows.

Cloud Integrations and Marketplace

• AWS Marketplace: Cognite Data Fusion® is available through AWS Marketplace, and Cognite also promotes joint AWS offerings that pair its industrial AI and data capabilities with AWS services and deployment patterns.
• Azure Marketplace: Cognite Data Fusion® is listed in Azure Marketplace, supported by Cognite’s Microsoft partnership and Azure-aligned architecture for industrial data, analytics, and AI workloads.
• Google Cloud Marketplace: Cognite promotes Cognite Data Fusion® for Google Cloud and directs customers to its Google Cloud Marketplace offer as part of its Google partnership and cloud deployment options.

Key People

• Girish Rishi: Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
• Geir Engdahl: Chief Technology Officer, AI & Co-Founder
• Chirayu Shah: Chief Product Officer
• Jeff Coulter: Chief Financial Officer
• Paul Grenet: President, Global Field Operations
• Liat Berger: Chief Human Resources Officer
• James Sirota: Global Head of Engineering
• Håkon Bjerke: Chief Strategy Officer
• Bill Owen: Chief Services Officer
• Sandy Joung: Chief Marketing Officer
• Christine Tønsberg Nilsen: General Counsel
• Dr. Francois Laborie: Executive Vice President, Strategic Projects

Key Facts

• Headquarters: Tempe, Arizona, United States
• Employees: 866
• Annual Revenue: $170M+
• Parent Company: Aker ASA
• Subsidiaries: None
• Publicly Listed: No (subsidiary of Aker ASA, Euronext Oslo Børs: AKER)

Analyst Recognitions

• IDC: Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Industrial DataOps Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment.