Cognite, a leading provider of structured and contextualized data for industrial applications, will enter the North American technology market and open a U.S. headquarters facility in the summer of 2019, the company said on March 11.

The company is considering sites in both Texas and California for the headquarters location.

Thanks to the success of its flagship Cognite Data Platform, Cognite is the fastest-growing technology company in Scandinavia, offering a software solution that delivers a digital representation of an organization’s industrial reality by transforming existing industrial data into useful, actionable information that builds connections and facilitates analysis across the enterprise that ultimately supports digital transformation and change initiatives at scale.

“Our firm has proven the value of unlocking data to create value for industrial enterprises in Europe,” Francois Laborie, general manager of Cognite North Americas, said. “We are confident that Cognite can bring a new level of innovation to asset-intensive companies in North America by liberating their industrial data and making an immediate impact through data analytics that have the potential to reduce costs, optimize production and transform their business models.”

The Cognite Data Platform is built on the Google Cloud Platform, providing customers with high performance and scalability at a reasonable cost, and, according to Darryl Willis, vice president, oil, gas and energy for Google Cloud.