This paper aims to share Hydro' journey's experience with corporative PI implementation by crossing sensible information between Hydro's different PI servers, enabling new initiatives on Azure cloud platform as the basis of a strong digital transformation of the company. Our approach, is to through a Proof of Concept (PoC), to demonstrate that is possible to use several Analytic tools on this environment and to give us a new perspective about new possibilities ahead, in order to take critical business decisions on time, without old technical limitations

The outcomes motivate us to keep improving and accelerate the next required steps. Its intended to map since the company' shopfloor until our clients', and all stakeholders involved on that long journey of new age of industry 4.0.