Comparison · Industrial AI
Curiosity and AVEVA and Cognite
Operational data, or the whole record
Curiosity connects every industrial record; AVEVA and Cognite contextualize operational data.
Your data · your environment
Who each tool is for
Different problems, honestly stated
Curiosity
For industrial and regulated teams whose knowledge sits in engineering systems and structured records, where the answer depends on how those records connect, and where the deployment has to run on their own infrastructure.
AVEVA and Cognite
Cognite Data Fusion is an industrial DataOps platform with a knowledge graph of assets, time series, events, documents and 3D models, and Atlas AI for building agents on it. Schneider Electric agreed in June 2026 to acquire Cognite and combine it with AVEVA, its industrial software business. Both are strong in energy, utilities and process industries, delivered mainly as cloud services.
How Curiosity compares
Where the boundary falls
Cognite and AVEVA are very good at putting sensor and asset data in context. Curiosity is broader in what it connects (tickets, supplier notices, email, engineering change orders), runs on your own infrastructure and sits outside any one automation vendor.
Every record, not only plant data
Sensor and asset data tell you what happened. The tickets, part records, supplier notices and field reports around them tell you why. Curiosity joins both.
Across vendors, not inside one
A plant runs systems from many suppliers. Curiosity connects them into one graph rather than adding intelligence to one vendor’s applications.
Tools your teams describe
Studio builds the app, dashboard or agent from a sentence, on the connected data, so a new tool is not a new project.
Side by side
Feature comparison
The same five questions, answered for both.
Deployment
Cloud or self-hosted, ready to use
Vendor cloud
Data model
Managed context layer and knowledge graph
Industrial knowledge graph of assets
Industrial fit
Built for industrial and enterprise teams
Energy, utilities, process industries
Data reach
70+ systems connected, and yours through a connector you write
OT, IT and engineering data
Residency
EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure
Vendor cloud regions
At Airbus, we developed the next generation of customer support AI assistance tools with Curiosity, enhancing our technical support’s ability to access and navigate vast data from multiple sources, including millions of documents.
Services Innovation Team
Airline Services at Airbus
Industrial AI
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CompareYour data. Your infrastructure.