Direct Data Management
Direct Data Management connects data across control systems, historians, lab systems, business applications, databases, and equipment to improve visibility, simplify reporting, and support better decisions.
About Data Management
Industrial data management connects information across control systems, historians, laboratory systems, business applications, databases, equipment, and spreadsheets. Direct Data Management organizes it around how your operation works, creating a stronger foundation for reporting, analytics, software, and decisions.
We connect and improve the technologies you already use across OT, historians, databases, lab systems, and business applications without forcing unnecessary replacement.
Start with one workflow, site, or data source and expand as needs grow with an architecture built for new systems, users, and priorities.
Our Services
Our industrial data solutions help organizations connect, organize, analyze, and use information across manufacturing data systems, operational technology, business applications, historians, and databases.
Connect plant, business, laboratory, historian, and operational systems with data integration services that create reliable information flow across your entire organization.
Turn operational data into dashboards, KPIs, trends, and visual insights that help teams understand performance, identify issues, and make better informed decisions.
Build a connected AVEVA PI System environment with historian integration, Asset Framework, PI Vision dashboards, system connectivity, and reliable ongoing support.
Build custom applications, databases, integrations, and workflow tools around the way your operation works when off-the-shelf software doesn’t fit your specific needs.
Centralize information from multiple systems into a structured reporting and analytics environment with data warehousing, ETL pipelines, modeling, and migration support.
Build and maintain the pipelines, transformations, and data architecture that move, prepare, and organize operational and business information reliably at scale.
Use equipment and process data to monitor asset condition, identify performance trends, and give maintenance teams earlier warning of developing issues.
Connect laboratory workflows and LIMS data with plant and business systems to improve quality reporting, information exchange, traceability, and operational visibility across your organization.
Manage visitor check-in, badges, contractor records, emergency mustering, and multi-site history with visitor management software built for operational environments.
Simplify water and utility billing with meter management, automated billing, customer records, delinquency tracking, payments, and reporting in one connected system.
Track vehicles, optimize routes, manage dispatch, monitor fuel costs and driver activity, and document service with fleet management software built for visibility and accountability.
Why Direct
Effective industrial data management takes more than collecting information. Direct combines industrial operations experience, data architecture, software development, automation knowledge, and long-term support to connect plant and business systems and make information easier to use, maintain, and expand.
Industries We Serve
Every industry uses data differently. Our team connects systems and information to improve visibility, simplify reporting, and support better operational decisions.
Connected production data for stronger visibility and decisions.
Connected process, lab, and operational data for plant results.
Operational visibility and reporting across critical infrastructure.
Connected operational, billing, and reporting data across utilities.
Connected production and quality data for consistent operations.
Connected field and operational data for greater visibility.
Connected information and reporting for agricultural teams.
Connected systems and reporting for efficient public operations.
Practical software and information systems for everyday operations.
Free Resource
Use this 20-point data readiness checklist to identify disconnected systems, manual reporting, spreadsheet dependencies, and visibility gaps that may slow decisions, create extra work, and cost your organization money.












Connect With Direct
Tell us what you’re working on, and our team can help identify the right next steps for integration, analytics, software development, warehousing, engineering, or improving operational visibility.
(866) 583-3377
3405 N Louise Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57107
info@directcompanies.com
Looking Ahead
Connect the systems, information, and workflows behind your operation with industrial data management built to improve visibility, simplify reporting, and support better decisions as needs evolve.
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