GE Digital Announced Proficy Historian for Cloud is Available in AWS Marketplace 

GE Digital announced the availability of a cloud-native operational data historian available in the AWS Marketplace, Proficy Historian for Cloud. This cloud-based industrial data management software is designed to help facilitate a more simplified and reliable movement of OT data to the cloud spanning from the  device level to the enterprise. Proficy Historian for Cloud helps companies to leverage their existing IT cloud investments and combine OT and enterprise data. Proficy Historian for Cloud is now available in the AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog that makes it easier to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). 

Proficy Historian is a software solution that is designed to collect industrial time-series and alarms and events (A&E) data at high speeds. It stores the data by prioritizing efficiency and security and then distributes it, enabling faster retrieval and analysis that helps companies drive greater business value.  Proficy Historian helps to make data available for asset and process performance analysis at the equipment, line, plant, and enterprise levels.

This operational historian provides secure encrypted OT data streaming to the cloud, designed to reach up to 150,000 values per second per interface, and also provides store and forward capabilities to help protect against data loss if the cloud or network is unavailable. Advanced compression, combined with proprietary file-based storage, makes it more cost effective to use in a cloud infrastructure. Because it is designed for the cloud, Proficy Historian for Cloud provides the benefits of cloud-based technologies, which include zero downtime upgrades, data replication, and high availability.  Native interfaces to data lakes and other cloud-based analytics platforms, combined with being deployed in the company’s virtual private cloud (VPC), enable more simplified data integration that can shrink the time to value and reduce implementation costs.

Proficy Historian is designed to compress industrial data at the source, which helps to reduce data transport, compute, and storage resources. Its design helps to increase the ability for plant floor users to query data via tools, such as Excel, and provides the ability to retrieve data ranging from, for example, last month or 10 years ago at speed.  Operational historians help to simplify the task of creating value on the plant floor by performing aggregations, such as returning the average value over a time period without building a complex query. They are designed to handle large volumes of streaming process/time series data and provide built in, more reliable data collection tools designed for industrial use cases that include hundreds of industrial protocols, store, and forward to handle network instability.