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News Release from: SolutionsPT | Subject: Information Server 3.0
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 March 2007
New Wonderware performance management
software
New Wonderware software applications are designed to make the collaboration of plant-production and performance information faster and easier than ever before
Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, whose products are sold and supported by Cheshire based Wonderware United Kingdom, has announced the release of three new software offerings that work together seamlessly with the latest Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server reporting services These software applications are designed to make the collaboration of plant-production and performance information faster and easier than ever before
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 17 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Wonderware offers a wide range of functional capabilities and price scalability to suit the smallest to the largest customer operations".
The Wonderware Information Server 3.0, formerly known as SuiteVoyager software, is a web-content server for all Wonderware graphics, reporting and analysis applications.
Offering integration with Microsoft Office 2007, the Wonderware Information Server 3.0 provides a broad set of collaboration capabilities and the ability to use virtually any integrated real-time data source or SQL database.
The application works as a stand-alone server or in conjunction with customers existing IT portal environments, such as a Microsoft Office or SharePoint server, or a MySAP portal.
The Wonderware Information Server software is built on top of Microsoft SharePoint services and Microsoft SQL Server reporting services technologies.
This new Wonderware software offering provides greatly simplified report building, user-specified web parts and information collaboration across multiple knowledge workers -- without the need for IT or SQL skills.
Basic and advanced client-access licenses are available for concurrent users, named users and named devices to best suit the information-sharing needs of a wide range of network-connected and mobile users.
The new Wonderware Historian 9.0 software license bundle combines the power and flexibility of one of the world's most popular plant historians, Wonderware IndustrialSQL Server 9.0 historian, and is bundled with the new Wonderware Information Server capabilities for web-based collaboration.
The Wonderware Historian software includes advanced data storage, filtering or compression, and multiple retrieval modes.
It also offers on-the-fly data aggregations that are highly performance-optimised for the most demanding real-time applications in addition to ease of administration and low cost of ownership.
The Wonderware Historian software uses patented, high-speed data storage and retrieval mechanisms, while simultaneously providing information access using standard Microsoft SQL Server information tools and access mechanisms.
Wonderware ActiveFactory 9.2 software provides comprehensive trending, analysis and integration with Microsoft Office information.
Version 9.2 adds advanced X-Y regions and plots to aid in uncovering cause-and-effect relationships across manufacturing processes and performance metrics.
ActiveFactory 9.2 software also supports Microsoft Office 2007 and provides a powerful toolset for integration with XML and Microsoft Word, Excel spreadsheet software and InfoPath information-gathering programme.
This integration results in fast, familiar approaches to delivering manufacturing intelligence.
"People with different roles in the organisation need to rapidly collaborate using different views of information," said Chris Colyer, Microsoft global industry director for manufacturing operation strategy.
"As one of the original ISV partners of Microsoft in the manufacturing space, Wonderware has built its business on leveraging Microsoft technologies to continually raise the bar for 'ease of use' in real-time decision-making".
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