AVEVA™ Historian

(formerly Wonderware Historian)

AVEVA Historian is a high performance real-time database for historical information. It combines the power and flexibility of a standard SQL relational database with the speed and compression of a true process Historian, integrating the office and enterprise with the factory floor or any industrial operation.

Big Data - Collection, Storage and Analysis

AVEVA Historian is designed to collect a wide variety of plant data at full resolution and very high data rates, without any real limit to data volume

High performance industrial database

Empowers people with high-fidelity historical data from operations, enabling them to solve problems faster, make better data-based decisions and increase productivity.

  • Able to capture high speed data
  • Store value, timestamp and quality information
  • Handle time series data
  • Use SQL Server for client access
  • Store and Forward capability for data protection
  • Enable process analysis anywhere, at any time

Historized Data

Capture High Speed Data

Data Storage Compression

Analytics and Reporting

SQL Server client access

Data Collection & Storage

High-Speed Data Collection

Capable of capturing hundreds of thousands of data points (tags) per second from sensors, PLCs, and DCS systems.

History Block Technology

Stores data in specialized blocks rather than traditional SQL tables, removing the need for routine database purging.

Store-and-Forward

Automatically buffers data locally during network outages/distruptions to prevent data loss, ensuring high availability. And forwards it to the main server upon reconnection

Advanced Data Compression

Uses a patented "swinging door" compression algorithm that drastically reduces storage requirements while retaining essential data features

Access & Integration

SQL & Standard Interfaces

Provides transparent access to time-series data using standard SQL queries alongside custom retrieval modes.

Operations Control Integration

Native collection from InTouch HMI, System Platform, DAServers, and standard industrial protocols.

Client Tools

Includes Excel add-ins, trending tools, and web-based dashboards for rapid visualization.

Cloud Connectivity

Data can be sent to AVEVA Insight or CONNECT data services to leverage cloud-native analytics, self-service dashboards, and AI-infused operations control.

Enterprise Architecture

Tiered Architecture

Supports multi-tier deployments (Tier 1/Tier 2) to aggregate local plant data up to corporate enterprise levels.

Redundancy

Two independent AVEVA Historian servers run in parallel, configured with system parameters pointing to each other as partners. Applications like AVEVA Application Server simultaneously push identical data streams to both primary and partner servers.

Cloud Replication

Replicates data safely to AVEVA Insight, AVEVA PI System, or AVEVA Data Hub.

Client Tools and Visualization

Historian Client Web

A lightweight, browser-based interface for accessing trends, alarms, and tables from any remote device on the network.

Excel Add-In

Enables users to run periodic numeric retrievals and directly calculate KPIs in Microsoft Excel.

Query Tools

Supports complex data retrieval scenarios like value-state analysis, event slicing, and scaled totalizations.

Trending Tools

powerful desktop and embedded analysis tool used to query tags, plot real-time and historical process data, and troubleshoot industrial operations.

Historian Server

Collect and Store

High Speed Data

Data Compression

Historian Client

Trend Application

MS Excel Add-in

Web Support

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Advanced data storage and compression

Advanced data storage and compression combined with industry-standard query language provides easy, open access to all process, alarm and event data. This enables faster, more informed decisions while keeping everyone informed on operational performance.

Optimized data storage

AVEVA Historian combines front-end, high-speed data collection with time-series extensions to an embedded Microsoft SQL Server relational database. Additionally, our patented “swinging door” data storage algorithm greatly reduces data storage requirements while preserving data integrity

Advance data retrieval modes

Built-in advanced data retrieval modes make your data report queries easier to build, more efficient, and more powerful. Eliminating multiple versions of plant operating data in this way increases productivity, reduces errors, and lowers operating costs Modes include: time-in-state, slope, counter, cyclic and delta, interpolated, value state, and more.

Analytics and Reporting

Everything from statistical summaries to cycle time analysis for improved decision making

Powerful Web-based Solution

AVEVA Historian content can be consumed with AVEVA Historian Client Web, or through external applications such as Microsoft Office, AVEVA InTouch HMI or even custom software clients. Trends, reports and workbooks can be published on the intranet, aggregating plant and business data into a powerful web-based production and performance management solution.

Complete picture of opertaional history

Unlike conventional relational databases that are not well-suited to production environments, AVEVA Historian handles time-series data, as well as alarm and event data. Unique “block technology" captures plant data hundreds of times faster than a standard database system and utilizes a fraction of conventional storage space.

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Data analysis and reporting with AVEVA™️ Historian Client

AVEVA Historian Client makes plant and process data accessible through easy-to-use
interfaces to facilitate troubleshooting, identify inefficiencies, and eliminate the time-consuming process of locating data.

Trend Application

A powerful desktop data graphing tool that provides a range of charting and formatting capabilities. It is designed to allow users to create highly informative data analysis charts through trend charts, X-Y scatter plots, and batch trend charts, including ‘golden batch’ comparison.

MS Excel Add-in

This Microsoft Excel add-in is designed to simplify the creation of rich data reports using AVEVA Historian data.

Web Client

Reports and data trends can be viewed, analyzed and consumed through our web browser with AVEVA Historian Client Web.