PI and old Wonderware Historian?

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What are the plans with OSI PI and the traditional Wonderware Historian? Will an upgrade path exist to go to PI? Scripting to convert? Or will the 2 remain separetly offerings? I still remember the very first release of the Wonderware Historian that had an option to import Citect as it was picked up from a 3rd party Australia and the Data Works purchase of the client tools?

Elliott Middleton · Accepted Answer

AVEVA continues to actively develop and support both AVEVA Historian (formerly branded as "Wonderware Historian") and AVEVA PI. AVEVA Historian is better suited as a supervisory historian that is closely aligned with HMI/SCADA applications since it includes integrated alarm/event history and is well-integrated with AVEVA's HMI/SCADA solutions. AVEVA PI is better suited as an enterprise platform, especially because of the ability that Asset Framework and Asset Analytics give to normalize and contextualize time-series data. Starting in Historian 2012 we've had the ability to "replicate" data from one Historian to another to give a consolidated view from across multiple source systems. Over time, we've expanded that to also support replicating to AVEVA Insight and, in the Historian 2023 release, the option to replicate to AVEVA Data Hub and to AVEVA PI.

PI and old Wonderware Historian?

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