I spent years at Microsoft telling factories to change. They were right to ignore me.
I worked on the industrial IoT product portfolio at Microsoft. My job was convincing manufacturers to rip out their factory connectivity and start over.
Every machine spoke a different language.
And every few years, the standard changed again.
So why would you spend millions rebuilding it — knowing you'd do it all again later?
But one thing never changed. People were reading off documents. When someone needed to know something, they didn't open a dashboard. They opened a document.
You can't change how people work. You meet them where they are.
So we didn't replace the document. We made it smarter.
That’s why we built Quarter20. So people can do their jobs with greater confidence that they have the right data in front of them, not outdated information off from a PDF.
Stop sharing bad data.
