What's New in Proficy Historian for Cloud 2023

Proficy Historian is a best-in-class historian software solution that collects industrial time series data. It is secure, fast, and highly efficient.

Proficy Historian for Cloud allows you to deploy the Historian server and its components on cloud destinations. It supports all the components/tools in the on-premises counterpart of Proficy Historian (such as collectors, Excel Addin). And it offers all the advantages of cloud technologies.

Proficy Historian for Cloud offers plenty of new features and enhancements to help you connect your data with other analysis tools, migrate your data from Proficy Historian on-premises, scale up Data Archiver, and many more:
  • Scheduled Export to Amazon S3: You can export tag data from Data Archiver to Amazon S3. This data is stored as CSV and/or Parquet files. The Parquet file format is highly efficient, compatible with plenty of analysis tools, and consumes very little space compared to other formats. You can specify the list of tags whose data you want to export, along with the schedule and the file format (CSV and/or Parquet).
  • Smart Pricing: The price for scheduled export is considerably less compared to the price for fetching data (regular read operation) from Data Archiver. To facilitate this enhancement, a new dimension named Bulk_Export has been added so that the data consumption of scheduled export is captured separately.
  • Data Migration from Proficy Historian (on-premises): You can now migrate data seamlessly from Proficy Historian (on-premises) to Proficy Historian for Cloud. This helps you benefit from the features offered by Proficy Historian for Cloud.
  • Support for Additional Collectors: You can now collect data using the following additional collectors:
    • The Calculation collector
    • The ODBC collector
    • The Server-to-Server distributor
    • The Wonderware collector
    For information on these collectors, refer to Choosing a Collector.
  • MQTT Collector Enhancements:
    • Enhanced Security: To enhance security while connecting an MQTT broker and an MQTT collector, you can now use authentication based on any of the following options:
      • Username and password
      • Certificate
      You must first set these parameters in the MQTT broker, and then provide the same values while creating an MQTT collector.
    • Data Collection from AWS IOT Core: You can collect data from AWS IOT Core and send it to Proficy Historian for Cloud.
    • MQTT 5 Support: In addition to MQTT 3.1.1, Historian is now supported on MQTT 5, which provides additional features such as session/message expiry interval and reason code.
    • Sparkplug B V1.0 Support: In addition to the KairosDB format, you can now collect data in the Sparkplug B v1.0 format.
    • Quality of Service (QoS) Levels: You can choose among the QoS levels 0, 1, and 2 that you want to use while collecting data from an MQTT broker.
    • Data Loss Prevention: When an MQTT broker and an MQTT collector are reconnected, you can specify whether you want to use the old session instead of creating a new one. This will ensure that there is no loss of data.
    • Session Expiry Timeout: You can specify the timeout interval for connection between an MQTT broker and an MQTT collector. When you do so, data collected before reconnecting is stored by the MQTT broker. If the MQTT broker and the collector are reconnected before the session timeout, the data is collected; otherwise, it is discarded.
  • Support for REST APIs: Instead of the REST Query service, you can now use REST APIs to send and retrieve data from Data Archiver. For more information, refer to Overview of the Historian REST APIs. The REST Query service is no longer supported.