Eight Solutions Inc. announced the completion of a partnership with BID Group Technologies Ltd. to deliver a digital platform enabling the transformation of the Forest Products industry. The partnership created an operating entity, called Oper8 Partnership ("Oper8"), in which Eight Solutions and BID Group each own 50% and will share equally in Oper8's income. To date, Oper8 is already working to provide quick value to a series of customers, having generated committed revenues of over $3 million on all turnkey projects as well as several retrofit installations at existing sawmill facilities. In connection with the partnership formation, the Company granted Oper8 a worldwide exclusive license to use the Cumul8 platform in the Forest Products industry, which includes segments such as Forestry, Lumber Manufacturing, Biomass Plants, Panels Manufacturing, and Pulp and Paper. Oper8 combines the Cumul8 big data and live analytics platform driven by predictive AI with the engineering, operational, and sales expertise of BID. This tightly integrated hardware, software, and services solution can enable digital transformation. The Oper8 business model focuses on new BID solutions (from individual asset units through to complete turnkey mills) as well as helping customers integrate the Cumul8 predictive AI technology into their existing facilities. Cumul8 is embedded in all machines with each new BID engineered solution. Using the unique expertise of both BID and Cumul8 personnel, Oper8 provides fast installations for immediate, forestry-focused insights that do not yet exist within the industry. These can include a full spectrum of both pre-loaded and custom business performance-enhancing insights from machine and component health prediction to operational and supply chain optimization. With Oper8, vast amounts of streaming data generated by equipment and software from BID Group and other manufacturers can be connected and processed in a single, real-time analytics platform. Predictive insights are generated and visualized via data models and dashboards created within the platform, helping customers optimize mill operations and improve overall returns on invested capital.