AVEVA Historian

Formerly Wonderware Historian

Capture and store high-fidelity industrial big data and unlock unmined potential for operational improvements.

Collecting, Storing and Analysing Big Data

The capture and storing of high-fidelity industrial data has never been simpler. Historian is a high-performance process database that has the capacity to store huge volumes of data generated from present-day industrial facilities.

Historian efficiently combines advanced data-storage and compression techniques with an industry-standard query interface, so ensuring open access to your process, event and alarm data. It facilitates faster, more informed decisions while simultaneously keeping your team fully informed with regards to operational performance.

Managing Industrial Data

Historian is the first large-volume plant data historian to merge high-speed data acquisition and storage with traditional relational database management.

Million Tags

Data Storage Space Required

Compression

150

Tags/Second

Maintaining Business Continuity

High availability, full redundancy and disaster recovery options keep your business running without interruption.

A Complete Overview of Operational History

Conventional relational databases are often not ideally suited to production environments. Historian, however, handles time-series data, as well as alarm and event data, while unique “block technology” captures plant data hundreds of times faster than a standard database system. It also utilises only a fraction of conventional storage space.

Data Storage Optimisation

Historian combines high-speed front-end data collection with time-series extensions to an embedded Microsoft SQL Server relational database. Our patented “swinging door” data storage algorithm also greatly minimises data storage requirements, while preserving important data features.

Advanced Data Storage and Compression

Advanced data storage and compression – combined with industry-standard query language – offers easy, open access to all process, event and alarm data. This allows for faster, more-informed decisions, while ensuring all role players are informed on operational performance.

Uncompromising Data Integrity

Irrespective of the industry you are in, Historian will maintain the data integrity necessary for the most demanding requirements. Historian ensures that high-resolution data is captured accurately every time, through the management of low-bandwidth data communications, late-coming information and even data from systems with mismatched system clocks.

Understand Your Industrial Data

Combined with industry-standard query language, advanced data storage and compression provide easy, open access to all process, event and alarm data.This allows for faster, more-informed decisions, while ensuring all role players are informed on operational performance.

Save Money

Cut data storage costs by more than 80 per cent by utilising ultra-efficient data storage algorithms.

Scale Safely

Apply to a single process, or grow to a large, widely distributed information management solution that serves dozens of sites and hundreds of users globally.

Integrate

Interface via the industry-leading InTouch HMI to benefit from maximum return on your software investment.

Power Query

Extract maximum value from legacy systems at a faster rate, via proprietary, high-speed data acquisition and storage on a Microsoft SQL Server.

Millions of Data Tags

Historian’s capacity for handling millions of tags provides plenty of capability for collecting and storing your vital process, event and alarm data. Monitor a single process or an entire facility. Store data locally and aggregate at the enterprise level, so fulfilling the most demanding reporting and analysis requirements.

Collect, Validate and Archive

Capture data from basic, single-node sources or from highly distributed sources anywhere across the globe. Apply built-in data validation procedures, so ensuring data accuracy. Preserve everything from short-term diagnostics to long-term records required for supporting regulatory requirements.

Robust Data Analytics Software

Historian empowers you to leverage the actual value of your data, by employing powerful visualisation clients and analysis tools.

Advanced Data Retrieval Modes

Built-in advanced data retrieval modes make your data report queries simpler to build, more efficient and more powerful. Eliminating multiple versions of plant operating data in this way allows for increased productivity, reduced errors and lower operating costs. Easy self-service production and performance reporting results in improved planning and compliance. Modes include: Time-in-State, Cyclic and Delta, Counter, Slope, Interpolated, Value state and more.

Applications and Reporting

Generating real-time and historical data charts and reports is now easier than ever before. Historian Client encompasses multiple applications designed to maximise the value of data stored in Historian. Access to plant and process data through easy-to-use interfaces aids troubleshooting, flags inefficiencies and cuts out the time-consuming process of locating data. Applications include: Trending, Reporting, Query, Excel Add-In and WebReporting.

Reporting and Analysis Tools

The ability to use data is just as crucial as storing it. Historian offers the solution to all of your data analysis and reporting needs. Display Historian data via InTouch HMI or analyse the data with AVEVA Insight, Intelligence and Dream Report. Or, apply the desktop tools for viewing data trends and basic reports, so putting near real-time and historical production details in the hands of engineers, operators and operations managers.

Data in the Cloud

For customers who wish to host their Historian architecture in the cloud, we offer Insight – an industrial information management solution that allows data accessibility and analysis anytime, anywhere – and on any device. Whether you are exploring moving your industrial data storage to the cloud as a managed software-as-a-service (SaaS) application, or to extend and complement existing on-premises investments, Insight offers an affordable option.

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