GE
Intelligent Platforms

Proficy Historian 5.5

The foundation of enterprise operations data management,
delivering insight through information
Features
•t Enhanced SCADA integration with new
SCADA buffer
–t True thin-client administration
–t Support for virtualization

•t Enterprise Performance

–t Simple, intuitive configuration
–t 64-bit architecture
–t Scales to 20 million data points and over 2000
collectors per server
–t Sub-second sampling

•t Open & Layered Compatibility

–t Full 32-bit compatibility
–t Wide range of collectors, including OPC A&E
– Wide range of data types including digital/
enumerated, arrays, multi-field data
–t Embedded applications support via Microsoft®
Windows® XPe
–t Highly compatible with third-party solutions

•t Standard Interfaces for Data Access

–t Open access for ERP and MES applications
–t Rich library of application integration options
including a full featured SDK, APIs for .net, C/
C++ and Linux, OLE DB for linked queries, and
OPC HDA
– Powerful new Collector Toolkit for dedicated
interfacing

•t Rich systems diagnostics with new
Windows Perf Mon Collector
–t Fault tolerant architecture
–t Support for Microsoft Cluster Server
–t Redundant data collectors
–t Enhanced data security

•t Advanced Data Management

–t Powerful data management and systems
optimization with industry-leading Data Stores
–t Designed to help customers comply with FDA’s t
21 CFR Part 11
–t Calculation & server-to-server collection

At the core of GE’s Proficy* software suite,
Proficy Historian provides a high-performance
foundation for enterprise-class solutions.
Proficy Historian from GE Intelligent Platforms
is a powerful enterprise-wide data historian
that collects, archives, and distributes tremendous volumes of production information at
extremely high speeds.
Increase Your Process Visibility
Built specifically for the acquisition, storage
and retrieval of industrial process information,
Proficy Historian improves visibility, provides
context to raw data, and aggregates islands
of information–resulting in better and faster
decisions, increased productivity and reduced
costs across your enterprise.
Proficy Historian offers unique capabilities
and benefits for a sustainable competitive
advantage:
•tBuilt-in Data Collection
•tFast Read/Write Performance Speeds
•tHigh Data Compression
•tQuick Time to Value
•tEnhanced Data Security
•tRobust Redundancy for High Availability
•tOpen & Layered Integration

Improve Processes Across Your Business
Proficy Historian ties together islands of automation information without compromising
data resolution. It enables an integrated
view of your entire operations with accurate,
real-time information and instant access to
historical data.
With Proficy Historian, you can compare past
production runs, analyze the data prior to a
downtime event, and plot ideal production
runs against in-process runs. You can easily
generate reports and share information
across your enterprise using standard web
browser tools.
Seamless Integration With the
Proficy Software Suite
Proficy Historian is part of GE’s award-winning
Proficy software suite, the world standard in
high-performance industrial software solutions. The tightly integrated, comprehensive
suite of world-class products and services
includes HMI/SCADA, advanced analytics,
MES, work process management solutions built on the Proficy SOA platform, and
more—addressing a wide range of operations
challenges across various industries.

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.