About Software Athlete
Specialist software for better PI System outcomes
Software Athlete creates practical products that extend AVEVA PI Vision—from advanced dashboards and automated reports to governance, recovery, and PI System health workflows.
- PI System specialists
- Product-led engineering
- AVEVA Technology Partner
Operational intelligence layerPurpose-built
Built aroundAVEVA
PI System
PI System
Vision Library+Dashboards
Vision Report+Reporting
Vision Audit+Governance
PI Nexus+System health
DataContextAction
Focused expertise
A software company built around the realities of PI System work.
We concentrate on the gaps between industrial data and day-to-day work: building better displays, distributing reliable reports, protecting critical content, and finding system issues before they create operational noise.
That focus lets us turn recurring customer problems into maintainable products—not one-off workarounds.
What we build
A focused product family for stronger operational intelligence.
Each product addresses a different part of the PI System workflow, while working toward the same goal: useful, trustworthy information with less manual effort.
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Vision Library+
Create clearer, more interactive PI Vision dashboards with advanced symbols, controls, data entry, and workflow capabilities.
Explore dashboards 02Vision Report+
Turn PI Vision displays into scheduled or event-driven PDF and image reports with practical delivery and storage options.
Explore reporting 03Vision Audit+
Add audit trails, versioning, rollback, recovery, validation, and display protection to PI Vision governance workflows.
Explore governance 04PI Nexus+
Find unhealthy assets, stale values, broken calculations, and affected PI Vision displays across the PI System landscape.
Explore system healthHow we work
From recurring operational problem to supported product.
Our approach combines PI System context with product engineering, so improvements are practical to deploy, understandable to users, and maintainable over time.
Understand the workflow
Start with the real operational task, constraint, and consequence—not a feature checklist.
Engineer the product
Turn the repeated need into focused software that fits existing PI System environments.
Support lasting value
Help teams evaluate, adopt, and keep improving the way the product supports their work.
PracticalDesigned for real industrial workflows.
PreciseClear behavior, grounded claims, useful results.
FocusedDeep specialization in the PI System ecosystem.
CollaborativeBuilt with customers and delivery partners in mind.
Founder-led expertisePI System + software engineering
Founder & CEO
Christof Steps, MSc
Software Athlete was founded around a simple conviction: industrial teams should be able to get more value from the PI System without relying on fragile manual workarounds.
Christof brings more than 15 years of experience across digital manufacturing, PI System engineering, software development, data science, and AI. That combination shapes a product approach grounded in both technical depth and practical operational needs.
“Build focused tools that remove friction, protect important work, and make industrial data easier to act on.”Connect on LinkedIn
Connected to the ecosystem
An official AVEVA Technology Partner.
Our specialization is reinforced by close alignment with the AVEVA ecosystem and a growing network of consultants, integrators, resellers, and technology organizations serving PI System customers.
Start a conversation
Tell us where your PI System workflow needs to work better.
Whether the challenge is dashboards, reporting, governance, recovery, or system health, we can help you identify the most relevant next step.
