Setting up the Environment

Prerequisites

Operations Hub and Microsoft Excel are required to use Excel Add-in for Operations Hub. For a list of supported versions of Operations Hub, refer to Compatibility with Other GE Products. The following versions of Microsoft Excel are supported:
  • Microsoft Excel 2016 (32-Bit & 64-Bit)
  • Microsoft Excel 2019 (32-Bit & 64-Bit)
Note: Historian REST APIs are required to integrate between Historian and Operations Hub. Historian REST APIs are installed automatically when you install Historian Web-based Clients.

Operations Hub License

If you have purchased the standard or enterprise license of Historian, you receive a no-cost license for Operations Hub, which enables you to:
  • Access to the Historian Analysis run-time application, which is an in-built HTML5 application in Operations Hub.
  • Perform advanced trend analysis, including inserting annotations.
  • Define an asset model including tag mapping.