Product Intelligence

Product intelligence is defined as an automated system for gathering and analyzing intelligence about the performance of a product being designed and manufactured, such that this data is automatically fed back to the product managers and engineers designing the product, to assist them in the development of the next iteration or version of that product. The goal of product intelligence is to accelerate the rate of product innovation, thereby making the product and its owners more competitive. Product intelligence is usually applied to electronic products, but it is not necessarily limited to electronic products.

Key points of this definition:

Product intelligence can also include two additional functions:

In 2002, Averna Technologies began using the term product intelligence to describe the functionality of its Proligent software, which at that time, was an add-on software product to National Instruments NI TestStand test management software, which is designed to help test engineers develop automated test and validation systems faster.

The Proligent product name was derived by combining the words product and intelligence. In 2006, Averna made available a developer’s toolkit so that test engineers could integrate the Proligent software directly to any test station using Proligent’s API, thereby broadening the Proligent customer base.

In 2009, Averna expanded the functionality of its Proligent product to include automated versioning and configuration management as well as quality enforcement capabilities. In 2011, Averna decoupled the business intelligence portion of Proligent, so that its highly specialized business intelligence solution could be integrated directly to any test database used by electronics manufacturers.

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