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Features• EnhancedSCADAintegrationwithnewSCADAbuffer– Truethin-clientadministration– Supportforvirtualization

• EnterprisePerformance– Simple,intuitiveconfiguration– 64-bitarchitecture– Scalesto20milliondatapointsandover2000collectorsperserver

– Sub-secondsampling

• Open&LayeredCompatibility– Full32-bitcompatibility–Widerangeofcollectors,includingOPCA&E–Widerangeofdatatypesincludingdigital/enumerated,arrays,multi-fielddata

– EmbeddedapplicationssupportviaMicrosoft® Windows® XPe

– Highlycompatiblewiththird-partysolutions

• StandardInterfacesforDataAccess– OpenaccessforERPandMESapplications– RichlibraryofapplicationintegrationoptionsincludingafullfeaturedSDK,APIsfor.net,C/C++andLinux,OLEDBforlinkedqueries,andOPCHDA

–PowerfulnewCollectorToolkitfordedicatedinterfacing

• RichsystemsdiagnosticswithnewWindowsPerfMonCollector– Faulttolerantarchitecture– SupportforMicrosoftClusterServer– Redundantdatacollectors– Enhanceddatasecurity

• AdvancedDataManagement– Powerfuldatamanagementandsystemsoptimizationwithindustry-leadingDataStores

– DesignedtohelpcustomerscomplywithFDA’s21CFRPart11

– Calculation&server-to-servercollection

AtthecoreofGE’sProficy*softwaresuite,ProficyHistorianprovidesahigh-performancefoundationforenterprise-classsolutions.

ProficyHistorianfromGEIntelligentPlatformsisapowerfulenterprise-widedatahistorianthatcollects,archives,anddistributestremen-dousvolumesofproductioninformationatextremelyhighspeeds.

Increase Your Process Visibility

Builtspecificallyfortheacquisition,storageandretrievalofindustrialprocessinformation,ProficyHistorianimprovesvisibility,providescontexttorawdata,andaggregatesislandsofinformation–resultinginbetterandfasterdecisions,increasedproductivityandreducedcostsacrossyourenterprise.

ProficyHistorianoffersuniquecapabilitiesandbenefitsforasustainablecompetitiveadvantage:•Built-inDataCollection•FastRead/WritePerformanceSpeeds•HighDataCompression•QuickTimetoValue•EnhancedDataSecurity•RobustRedundancyforHighAvailability•Open&LayeredIntegration

ProficyHistorian5.5Thefoundationofenterpriseoperationsdatamanagement, deliveringinsightthroughinformation

Improve Processes Across Your Business

ProficyHistoriantiestogetherislandsofauto-mationinformationwithoutcompromisingdataresolution.Itenablesanintegratedviewofyourentireoperationswithaccurate,real-timeinformationandinstantaccesstohistoricaldata.

WithProficyHistorian,youcancomparepastproductionruns,analyzethedatapriortoadowntimeevent,andplotidealproductionrunsagainstin-processruns.Youcaneasilygeneratereportsandshareinformationacrossyourenterpriseusingstandardwebbrowsertools.

Seamless Integration With the Proficy Software Suite

ProficyHistorianispartofGE’saward-winningProficysoftwaresuite,theworldstandardinhigh-performanceindustrialsoftwaresolu-tions.Thetightlyintegrated,comprehensivesuiteofworld-classproductsandservicesincludesHMI/SCADA,advancedanalytics,MES,workprocessmanagementsolu-tionsbuiltontheProficySOAplatform,andmore—addressingawiderangeofoperationschallengesacrossvariousindustries.

FOCUS FEATURES

1 In an industry-leading breakthrough, Proficy Historian 5.5

preconditions its data to be consumed by Big Data technologies like Hadoop®. This allows customers to apply some of the same powerful analytical tools used by Google®, Facebook®, etc to run queries on extremely large datasets and answer questions that are simply impossible with yesterday’s process historian technologies.

2 Data stores are a powerful new concept in Time Series

data management, allowing for the partitioning and fit-for-purpose optimization of Proficy Historian. Never before have customers had so much control over how their archiver performs, how data gets managed, and how system resources are allocated to reduce overall cost of ownership, improve performance, and enable compliance.

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Built-in Data Collection That Leverages OPC and Specific Built-In Drivers to Legacy or Non-Standard Equipment

ProficyHistorianincludesbuilt-indatacollectioncapabilitiesandcancapturedatafrommultiplesensorsandsystems.ItusesmanufacturingstandardssuchasObjectLinkingandEmbeddingforProcessControl(OPC),whichfacilitatescommunicationsbyprovidingaconsistentmethodofaccessingdataacrossdevices.

Insteadofhavingtobuildcustomsoftwareforeverytypeofdatasourceasrequiredforothersolutions,ProficyHistoriandoesnotneedtoknowanyofthedetailsregardingtheproprietydatasources.ItcaninstantlyconnecttoanyOPC-enabledsolutiontocollectdata,providingflexibility,timesavingsandreducedcosts.

Faster Speeds

Incontrasttothemodestperformanceofrelationaldatabasesforlargedatasetsorassociatedperiodsoftime,ProficyHistorianprovidesmuchfasterread/write

performanceand“downtothemillisecond”resolutionfortruereal-timedata.

ProficyHistorianisbuilttostore,andmoreimportantly,retrieveproduction/processdatainthewayyouneedit.Itsaggregationandretrievalmethodswouldbedifficultinotherdatabasetechnologies.Thiscapabilityenablesbetterresponsivenessbyquicklyprovidingthegranularityofdataneededtoanalyzeandsolveintenseprocessapplica-tions.

High Data Compression

ProficyHistoriancomprisespowerfulcompressionalgorithms,whichenableyoutostoreyearsofdataeasilyandsecurelyonline—enhancingperformance,reducingmaintenanceandloweringcosts.Forexample,youcanconfigureProficyHisto-rianwithouttheactivemaintenanceandback-uproutinesthatarelationaldatabaserequires.Archivescanbeautomaticallycreated,backedup,andpurged—enablingextendedusewithouttheneedforadata-baseadministrator.

Quick Time to Value

WheninstallingProficyHistorian,youcan“normalize”theimplementation,usingstan-dardinterfacestodecreaseimplementationtimebyapproximately50%.Youdon’tneedtomanageorcreatedata“schemas,”trig-gers,storedproceduresorviews—resultinginquickinstallationandconfigurationwithoutcustomcodingorscripting.ProficyHistorianhasapre-builtinterfacetotheautomationlayer,providingasingleenvironmentwherebyyouonlyhavetoconfiguretagsonce,andyoucanstoreprocessdataseamlesslyinasecure,centrallocation.Throughanintuitiveinterfaceandaccesstopowerfulconfigurationandarchivemanagementcapabilities,youcanstreamlinesystemadministrationactivities,reducingoverallcostofownership.Impor-tantly,yoursystemcangrowefficientlyandeffectivelyasyoursolutionscalesacrosstheenterprise,allowingforexpectedchangeswithoutlossofinformationorcomplexandcostlyre-mappingofdata.

With no compression at all, Proficy Historian offers much higher disk space efficiency than an RDB. When using a 1% dead band compression, it delivers even greater efficiency for enhanced performance and reduced maintenance.

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Robust Redundancy for High Availability

ProficyHistorianoffersclusteringatthedatastoremuchlikearelationaldatabase,aswellasanotherlevelofredundancyatthecollectorfunction.Iftherearemission-criticaldatacollectionpoints,thecollectorsthemselvescanbeconfiguredinaredun-dantfashion.

Thesolutionalsoaddressesnetworkandserverdisruptionsthrougha“storeandforward”capability,whichbuffersdataatthecollectorshouldadisruptionoccur.Thebuffersareeventuallyuploadedwhentheservercomesbackonlinewithautomaticreconnection—ensuringnodataloss.

Open & Layered Philosophy

Werecognizethesignificantinvestmentsthatmanufacturingcompanieshavemadeinautomation,information,andsupervisorycontrolsystems.

That’swhyProficy’sopenandlayeredapproachprovidesanadvantage—enablinginteroperabilitywiththird-partysolutionsforfastertimetovalue.There’snoneedforexpensiveinterfacesandcustomizedcode.

ProficyHistoriancanlayeronmanydifferentmanufacturers’controlsandHMI/SCADAplatforms,andcanevensupportembeddedapplications—unlockingvalueandprovidingthefoundationtowardafulloperationsmanagementsolution.

WithProficyHistorian,youhaveaccesstoanextensiveportfolioofperformanceandexecutionapplications:•Advancedvisualizationandpowerfulanalyticaltools

•Broadrangeofindustry-andapplication-specificsolutions

•SeamlessintegrationwiththefullProficyplatformtotrulyempowertheenterprise

Proficy Historian is the foundation for optimized production and process operations. It offers seamless in-tegration with a wide range of performance and execution applications within the Proficy software suite.

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Specifications

Historian Servers• AnIntelCore2.4GHzorequivalentAMDCPUwithminimum2GBRAMfora32-bitHistorianServerand4GBRAMfora64-bitHistorianServer

• ADVD-ROMdrive• 100MBitTCP/IP-compatiblenetworkinterfaceadapter• 80GBfreeharddrivespace,forthedataarchives,messagefiles,bufferfiles,andlogfilesusedbythesystem

Data Collector nodes• AnIntelCore2.0GHzorbettercomputerwith1GBRAM• 40GBoffreeharddrivespacetostorebuffereddata• ADVD-ROMdrive• TCP/IP-compatiblenetworkinterfaceadapterfornetworkcommunicationandcertainI/Odrivers

Microsoft Cluster service• AnIntelCoreorXeon3GHz(or2GHzCoreDuo)orequalAMDCPUwithminimum4GBRAM

• 80GBoflocalfreeharddrivespace• 40GBsharedstorage-SCSIharddrivewithRAIDpreferred

• Two100MbitTCP/IP-compatiblenetworkinterfaceadaptersfornetworkcommunicationandcertainI/Odrivers(oneforpublicnetwork,anotherforclusterheartbeatnetwork)

NOTE:Theconfigurationofeachserveraddedtotheclustermustbeidenticaltotheotherserversinthecluster.FormoreinformationrefertoMicrosoft® Windows®Clusterdocumentation.

Software Requirements• Oneofthefollowingoperatingsystems,withlatestservicepacksorrevisions:– WindowsServer2012,Windows8– WindowsServer2008R2– WindowsServer2008(32-bitor64-bit)– WindowsServer2003(32-bitor64-bit)– WindowsServer2003R2– Windows7Professional(32-bitor64-bit)– WindowsVistaProfessional(32-bitor64-bit)– WindowsXPProfessionalSP3(32-bitor64-bit)– WindowsXPEmbedded(32-bit)

IMPORTANT:Historian32-bitcomponentssuchasCollectors,ExcelAdd-in32-bit,InteractiveSQL32-bit,APIs,andNon-WebAdministrator,workas32-bit

applicationson64-bitWindowsoperatingsystemsusingWoW64emulationmode(Windows-onWindows64-bit).However,youcanreadandwritedatafroma64-bitHistorianServer.

• Networkinterfacesoftwarefornetworkcommunica-tion.TheTCP/IPnetworkprotocolrequired.

• Oneofthefollowing32bitor64bitSQLServersystemstoconfigurealarmandeventarchiving:– MicrosoftSQLServer2012Standardedition– MicrosoftSQLServer2008Standard,Professional,orEnterpriseEdition

– MicrosoftSQLServer2005StandardSP2,Profes-sionalSP2,orEnterpriseEditionSP2

– MicrosoftSQLServerExpress• Oneofthefollowing32bitversionsofSQLServertouseHistorianasalinkedserver:– MicrosoftSQLServer2012Standardedition– MicrosoftSQLServer2008Standard,Professional,orEnterpriseEdition

– MicrosoftSQLServer2005StandardSP2,Profes-sionalSP2,orEnterpriseEditionSP2

– MicrosoftSQLServerExpress• TheHistorianExcelAdd-InrequiresinstallationofMicrosoftOfficeXP,MicrosoftOffice2003,orMicrosoftOffice2007orMicrosoftOffice2010(32-bit/64-bit).

Formoreinformation,visitwww.ge-ip.com/historian