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Fact-check & sources
Every factual claim on this portal was checked against its original source, and every code sample against the actual Cognite software. This page records what was checked, how, what was found, and what was corrected — so you can judge the material's authenticity yourself.
How the validation was done
1 · Sources re-fetched
Company facts, customer results and study figures were re-read on the publishing page (cognite.com newsroom, product and customer pages, Cognite Hub, docs.cognite.com, Wikipedia, press coverage) rather than from search snippets.
2 · Software introspected
The real packages were installed and inspected: cognite-sdk 7.94.2 and 8.16.1, cognite-extractor-utils 7.13.1, cognite-toolkit 0.8.66. 56 SDK classes/methods/parameters used in the course were checked programmatically; Toolkit commands were checked with cdf --help.
3 · Links & videos
All external links on the three level pages were requested (HTTP 200 expected); all 53 YouTube videos were checked through YouTube's oEmbed endpoint, which also confirmed title and channel.
4 · Corrections applied
Where a claim could not be sourced, was out of date, or a code sample did not match the installed software, the portal text was corrected on 15 Sep 2026. The table marks each as FIXED.
Company & business claims
| Claim on the portal | Where | Source | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cognite founded in Oslo by a team from Aker ASA; incorporated Oct 2016; co-founder John Markus Lervik CEO until 2022, Girish Rishi CEO since | L1 · 1.3 | Wikipedia — Cognite; Aker ASA history | FIXED | Cognite's own June-2026 release says "founded 2017" (start of operations); portal now states both. |
| Aker BP was the anchor customer and Cognite's largest customer & shareholder until 2022 | L1 · 1.3, 6.2 | Wikipedia — Cognite | FIXED | Earlier wording "first customer" softened to "anchor customer"; shareholding sold to Saudi Aramco (7.4%) in 2022. |
| Schneider Electric agreed to acquire Cognite for $3.1B (30 Jun 2026); integration into AVEVA CONNECT; closing pending approvals | Home, L1 · 1.3 & 6.4, L3 · 8.4 | Cognite newsroom; Bloomberg, Axios, Forbes (30 Jun–3 Jul 2026) | FIXED | Added during validation — material to the "should I learn this?" advice. |
| 2025 revenue > $170M; ARR bookings +36%; 800+ employees | L1 · 1.3 | Cognite newsroom | VERIFIED | |
| TCV-led $150M round (2021) at $1.6B valuation | L1 · 1.3 | Wikipedia — Cognite | VERIFIED | |
| Forrester TEI (2022): 400% ROI, $21.6M NPV, composite of 30 facilities / 25,000 employees / $2B revenue | Home, L1 · 6.1 | Cognite newsroom, 1 Dec 2022 | FIXED | Portal previously showed only the newer figures; both studies are now distinguished. |
| Forrester TEI (current): 465% ROI, $29.4M benefits; $10.7M production optimisation, $10.5M staff efficiency, $14.5M avoided downtime | Home, L1 · 6.1 | CDF product page; Aker BP page; Celanese page | VERIFIED · CAVEAT | These are modelled composite figures shown by Cognite as an "industry benchmark", not any single customer's audited result; the portal now says so. Study year not stated on those pages. |
| Aker BP / Siemens condition monitoring: 1,300 hours saved (200 h vs. 1,500 estimated), ~$6.5M estimated savings, 400,000+ documents, 20B datapoints | L1 · 6.2 | Customer story | VERIFIED | Ivar Aasen field. |
| Aker BP Atlas AI root-cause-analysis agent: >70% efficiency gain / RCA time cut by over 70% | L1 · 6.2 | Atlas AI product page; Press release, 3 Sep 2025 | VERIFIED | Attribution corrected to these pages. |
| Celanese Enhanced Troubleshooting Agent: 50% acceleration of digital-transformation initiatives | L1 · 6.2 | Atlas AI product page | VERIFIED | Vendor-reported figure. |
| Aker BP field: up to 50% less time on visual inspections; 30–80% less on maintenance execution | L1 · 6.2 | Aker BP page | VERIFIED | |
| Industries and named customers (Statnett, BP, Saudi Aramco, Alfa Laval, MHI, TechnipFMC); partners (Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, SLB, Accenture) | Home, L1 · 1.3 | Wikipedia; cognite.com partner pages | FIXED | SLB was listed as a customer; corrected to partner. |
Platform & product claims
| Claim | Where | Source | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Definition of CDF; data ownership; multi-cloud modular design | L1 · 2.1 | docs.cognite.com/cdf | VERIFIED | Quoted verbatim. |
| The 8 architecture layers and their capability names | L1 · 2.2–2.3 | Official diagram cdf_architecture3.svg from docs.cognite.com (embedded, unaltered) | VERIFIED | Layer names transcribed from the SVG text. |
| Core Data Model types, properties and relations (CogniteAsset, Equipment, TimeSeries, File, Activity, 3D…) | L1 · 4.2, L2 · 3 | CDM reference | VERIFIED | |
| Extractors page shows 102 entries (23 extractors + 79 source systems); marketing says "90+" | L1 · 2.3, 5.2 | Official screenshot (cognite.com) and product page | FIXED | Earlier "100+ pre-built extractors" tightened. |
| 300+ micro-services, up to ~1,000 deployments/week, Kubernetes, polyglot storage | L1 · 7.1 | Cognite Hub answer by Jason Dressel (Cognite), 27 Jul 2023 | FIXED | Now attributed and dated; figures are as of 2023. |
| Identity providers: Microsoft Entra ID and Amazon Cognito | L1 · 7.3, L2 · 8 | Access management docs | FIXED | Auth0/Keycloak removed — not in current docs. |
| Capability ACL and scope names (assetsAcl … workflowOrchestrationAcl; datasetScope, spaceIdScope, tableScope, idScope, assetRootIdScope, all) | L2 · 8, L3 · 3 | Docs + SDK cognite.client.data_classes.capabilities | VERIFIED | All 14 ACL names and 6 scopes match the SDK constants. |
Open Industrial Data: projects publicdata / publicdatacdm, tenant and client IDs, compressor 23-KA-9101, UI URL | L1 · 5.5 | Hub: OIDC on OID; Hub: deep dives | VERIFIED | publicdata.fusion.cognite.com returned HTTP 200. |
| OID licence: free, non-commercial; no redistribution | L1 · 5.5 | Hub: licensing thread | FIXED | Academic-publication use was unresolved on the thread as of Dec 2025. |
| No self-service trial project (developer.cognite.com/signup redirects to docs) | L1 · 5.5 | HTTP 301 observed on 15 Sep 2026 | VERIFIED | |
| Academy: CDF Fundamentals path = 2 courses + assessment, ~6 h, 25-min assessment, badge + certificate; 75% pass mark | L1 · 8.2, Home | Path page; Assessment page | VERIFIED | |
| Academy course titles, levels and durations (Resources page, Academy roadmap) | Resources, Home | Academy catalog (read 15 Sep 2026) | FIXED | "Architecture & Implementation Fundamentals" now returns 404 — replaced by the Fundamentals path on all pages. |
| Power BI: OData connector deprecated for new reports; use the REST API connector; OData URL pattern | L2 · 7.1 | Docs: OData connector; Microsoft: REST API connector | FIXED | Portal previously described both as current options. |
Transformation SQL: cdf_raw, _cdf.*, cdf_nodes, is_new, to_metadata, node_reference, dataset_id; destination columns | L2 · 2.1 | SQL syntax and functions | VERIFIED | |
GraphQL DML: @view, @import, implements, @relation; CDM types imported as interfaces; fields repeated | L2 · 3.3 | DML reference; Extending the CDM | VERIFIED | Sample rewritten to match the guide during Level 2 validation. |
Data workflows: task types (function, transformation, cdf, dynamic, subworkflow), retries, timeout, onFailure, triggers | L2 · 2.3, L3 · 5.1 | Docs + SDK workflow classes | VERIFIED | SDK task-type keys: cdf, dynamic, function, subworkflow, transformation ("simulation" per docs). |
Cognite Functions: handle(client, data, secrets, function_call_info) | L2 · 2.4 | Docs | VERIFIED | |
| Records & streams: mutable vs. immutable; containers/spaces; log-scale volumes | L3 · 1.3, 2.4 | Docs | VERIFIED | |
| Atlas AI: agent concepts and the built-in tool list | L3 · 6 | Concepts; Tools library | VERIFIED | |
| Simulator integrations: connector/model/routine/run; PROSPER, GAP, Petro-SIM, Symmetry, DWSIM; .NET utils | L3 · 7.1 | Docs | VERIFIED | |
| Cognite Flows: AI-native app platform, templates, Vite, OAuth relay, 5-stage lifecycle incl. Builder and Application certification | L3 · 8.1 | Docs; Product page | VERIFIED |
Code & configuration samples
| Sample | Where | Verified against | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Python SDK calls: auth (default_oauth_interactive / default_oauth_client_credentials), datapoints, assets, events, files, RAW, data-model instances (NodeApply, EdgeApply, apply, list, sync, inspect), GraphQL, entity matching, diagram detect, iam.token.inspect, functions, 3D, workflows classes, capabilities | L1 · 5.5, L2 · 2–5, L3 · 2 | Introspection of cognite-sdk 7.94.2: 56/56 checks passed | VERIFIED | Column naming of retrieve_dataframe differs between SDK 7 and 8; samples handle both. |
Agents API: AgentUpsert, tool classes, client.agents.upsert/chat, AgentChatResponse.text/.action_calls | L3 · 6.4 | cognite-sdk 7.94.2 and 8.16.1 | FIXED | runtime_version exists only in SDK 8.x — sample now says so. |
Toolkit commands: cdf repo init, cdf modules init/add/list/pull, cdf auth init/verify, cdf build --config-yaml, cdf deploy --dry-run, cdf clean | L3 · 3 | cognite-toolkit 0.8.66 --help output | FIXED | cdf build --env is deprecated (→ --config-yaml); cdf pull → cdf modules pull; deploy --drop → cdf clean. Samples updated. |
| Toolkit YAML shapes: Group, DataSet, Transformation + SQL + Schedule, Function + Schedule, Space/Container/View/DataModel, ExtractionPipeline + config, config.<env>.yaml | L3 · 3.2 | YAML resource library; Usage guide | VERIFIED | Illustrative; variable names are the course's own. |
Custom extractor on cognite-extractor-utils: Extractor(...), BaseConfig, StateStoreConfig, MetricsConfig, upload queues, state store | L3 · 4.1 | Introspection of cognite-extractor-utils 7.13.1 | FIXED | Config dataclass now declares state_store: StateStoreConfig and metrics: MetricsConfig (the framework searches for them); package requires cognite-sdk<8. |
| GitHub Actions CI/CD workflow | L3 · 3.3 | Toolkit CI/CD guides (structure), env-variable names from cdf auth init | ILLUSTRATIVE | Marked as a template to adapt from the official setup guide. |
| Extractor YAML configs (DB, vendor API), workflow JSON, group JSON, GraphQL queries | L2 · 1–3, 8; L3 · 4–5 | Docs and SDK data classes (key names) | ILLUSTRATIVE | Shapes follow the public docs; exact keys can vary by extractor/API version — each sample says so. |
Media & links
| Item | Check | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 53 YouTube videos across the portal | YouTube oEmbed lookup for every ID (title + channel recorded in research/yt_verified.tsv) | VERIFIED | Channel shown under each video; non-Cognite channels labelled (Fireship, IBM Technology, OktaDev, LEARNACON, TechWorld with Nana, Industry40tv, Data Analytics Talks, AWS Partner Network…). One Cognite Grafana video (2019) was dropped because it no longer exists. |
| External links on Levels 1–3 and Resources | HTTP request to every link (Levels 2 and 3: 94 links) | FIXED | All return 200 after replacing one retired Academy course link. |
| Official images: CDF architecture SVG, platform overview, Extractors page, two Canvas screenshots, AWS reference diagram | Downloaded unaltered from docs.cognite.com, cognite.com (Sanity CDN) and docs.aws.amazon.com; each captioned with its source | VERIFIED | © Cognite AS / AWS; used to identify and explain the product. |
| Course-drawn diagrams (Figures 1.1, 3.x, 4.1, 4.2 in L1; all SVG/flow figures in L2–L3) | Drawn for this course from the verified sources above; checked programmatically for label overflow | ORIGINAL | Free to reuse. |
Known limitations — read before relying on the material
- Vendor-reported outcomes. ROI and customer percentages come from Cognite-commissioned studies and Cognite's own pages; they are presented as such and should not be quoted as independent audits.
- Snapshot in time. Verified 15 Sep 2026. CDF, the SDK (8.x), the Toolkit and Atlas AI change monthly; the Schneider Electric acquisition (pending) may change names and packaging. Re-check the docs' "What's new" before quoting specifics to a client.
- Code samples are illustrative. They use real class, method and parameter names verified against the versions stated, but they have not been executed against a live CDF project. Treat them as starting points, not drop-in scripts.
- Open discrepancy. Cognite's founding is dated October 2016 (incorporation) by Aker and Wikipedia and "2017" by Cognite's own 2026 release; the portal states both.
- Open Industrial Data licence is explicitly non-commercial; its use for academic publication was unresolved on Cognite Hub as of December 2025.
💡 Found an error?
Note the page, section and the source you checked against, and it will be corrected in the next validation pass. The research log with every source URL lives alongside the site (research/01_sources_collected.md).