Roman Schindlauer of Microsoft overviews the challenges facing the O&G industry from the context of event data processing. Roman then overviews Microsoft’s StreamInsight complex event processing platform and example query’s that illustrate it’s use. Roman concludes by presenting OSIsoft’s PI for StreamInsight product and discusses use of StreamInsight to perform complex event processing on events as they arrive in the PI Ststen archive and the ability to write events to the PI System.