The connected factory vision involves organizing the factory floor, IT, and business systems to optimize efficiency, reduce risk, increase agility, and spark innovation. This vision requires a new level of interoperability between factory, IT, and business operations. Machines must be integrated. Software must interact and process new data sets from a variety of factory elements. Business intelligence must be extracted, processed, and the factory workflow must be agile enough to react and reconfigure to perform new workflows. How to get started?