Louisiana’s plants, ports, and hospitals run on a patchwork of SCADA, JD Edwards, SAP, QuickBooks, and home-grown Visual Basic tools that stopped talking to each other years ago. Our systems integration company Louisiana teams sweep away the manual spreadsheets and nightly CSV dumps so refineries in Lake Charles can see real-time inventory inside their accounting system and Shreveport hospitals can bill insurers before the patient leaves recovery. We start every engagement by mapping the data flows that actually matter to EBITDA—usually three to five key events like shipment confirmation or lab approval—then build the integration points that close those loops in under four seconds.
CIOs here face a unique challenge: hurricanes, river flooding, and chemical outages can knock a data center offline for days. Our on-prem and hybrid connectors keep critical processes running when the cloud link drops; we proved it during Hurricane Ida when our Baton Rouge client’s SAP-to-warehouse integration stayed live on generator power and they shipped $1.8 M in emergency chemicals while competitors sat idle. That resilience is why FreedomDev is the go-to systems integration agency Louisiana operations managers call when they can’t afford another Monday-morning failure.
We code in the same PLCs, ETL tools, and APIs your engineers already know—Wonderware, OSIsoft PI, SQL Server SSIS, and modern REST—so your IT staff can maintain the solution after we leave. No black boxes, no proprietary middleware that requires a $200 k license renewal. A typical mid-size project—linking a Honeywell DCS to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance—takes 11 weeks from kickoff to go-live and averages a 2.4× ROI within the first year through reduced off-spec product and faster invoicing.
Because we’re headquartered in Grand Rapids but serve clients nationwide, we bring 20 years of manufacturing and distribution expertise without the New Orleans tech-talent premium. Our Louisiana customers get senior architects on-site for critical cutovers and 24/7 support from engineers who have actually stood on the plant floor in Geismar or the warehouse in Westwego. That mix of national depth and local presence is why FreedomDev has delivered 300+ successful integrations across 40 states.
We write direct drivers for Modicon, Allen-Bradley, and Siemens PLCs so 30-year-old glycol pumps can publish MQTT messages to your new cloud dashboard. No rip-and-replace; we add a thin edge gateway that costs under $4 k per skid and eliminates the manual operator rounds.
Our SQL consulting roots let us build low-latency bridges between SAP S/4HANA, Oracle JD Edwards, or Dynamics 365 and your plant historians. Batch records, lab results, and yield variances post automatically, cutting month-end closing from 12 days to 3.
Louisiana distributors using QuickBooks Enterprise for 3 000+ SKUs get real-time inventory from the warehouse without buying a $75 k WMS module. We map item classes, lot numbers, and landed cost so your CFO sees accurate COGS the morning after the truck leaves the dock.
We replicate the 5% of data that must run locally—like reactor temperature alarms—while sending the 95% analytics feed to AWS or Azure. If the fiber link along I-10 goes down, local operators still get critical alarms and the plant stays OSHA-compliant.
Our security stack meets Louisiana Dept. of Health and Homeland Security chemical facility standards. End-to-end TLS 1.3, role-based access, and immutable audit logs keep your integration compliant during every surprise inspection.
When a board machine in Bogalusa stops reporting paper moisture at 2 a.m., our on-call engineer logs in within 15 minutes, not the next business day. We maintain spare edge hardware in Shreveport and Baton Rouge for same-day swap-outs.
FreedomDev brought all our separate systems into one closed-loop system. We're getting more done with less time and the same amount of people.
Eliminating double entry and paper tickets typically saves $1,200 per operator per month. A Lafayette oilfield services client cut dispatch labor 28% after we linked their field GPS trackers to QuickBooks Payroll.
Real-time inventory means you can invoice the moment product ships. Our Baton Rouge chemical customer trimmed DSO from 38 to 24 days, freeing $2.1 M in cash they reinvested in a new isomerization unit.
Integration that surfaces bearing temperature trends into the CMMS triggers maintenance before a $400 k centrifuge seizes. We average 97% uptime across 50+ Louisiana plants since 2018.
Traceability from raw material lot to shipped drum satisfies FDA, EPA, and customer audits without the scramble for paper records. A Plaquemines grain exporter passed their FDA inspection in two days instead of two weeks.
Louisiana’s economy is rebounding with $90 B in new capital investments along the Mississippi River corridor—Formosa plastics, Venture Global LNG, and CF Industries expansions are racing to hire 20 000+ workers. Every new plant brings stricter digital reporting mandates: the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality now requires real-time air-emission data feeds, and the Port of New Orleans wants container weights transmitted before the crane lifts the box. Without robust systems integration Louisiana facilities can’t get their operating permits on time, delaying first production and burning $500 k per day in fixed costs.
Chemical makers along the I-10 corridor are consolidating 1990s Foxboro DCS boards into centralized DeltaV or Experion systems, but the real money is in tying those controls to SAP PM so maintenance work orders trigger automatically when a valve strokes 50 000 times. We recently linked a Geismar specialty chemical plant to their corporate SAP instance; they prevented three unplanned outages in the first six months and saved $3.4 M in lost production. That kind of ROI is why plant managers are prioritizing integration over new reactors.
Downstream, Louisiana’s 3 500+ manufacturers and processors face mounting pressure from Fortune 500 customers to provide lot-level traceability within 30 minutes of an FDA recall request. Paper batch records can’t meet that deadline. Our systems integration agency Louisiana projects typically deliver sub-5-minute traceability by mirroring batch data from Wonderware or OSIsoft PI into a SQL data warehouse that quality teams can query with Power BI. In a state where one recall can shut down an entire sugar or seafood season, that speed is competitive survival.
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