Modern Operational Historians/Data Platform Markets Are Transforming

New ARC Advisory Group research on the Operational Historians/Data Platforms market reveals that the amount and types of data available today is increasing, thanks to the introduction of new sensors and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices.  The availability of process data has led to increased demand for different types of databases and data historians (operational historians/process historians).  Today’s historian technologies must combine different types of databases and make those data easily accessible to the right people from anywhere at the right time and in the appropriate context.  

“We’re seeing increased interest in modern operational historians and data platforms because people realize that there's a lot of previously untapped value to be had in those data,” according to Janice Abel, Principal Consultant at ARC Advisory Group and key author of ARC’s Operational Historians/Data Platforms Global Market Research 2017-2022 report.

“As an integral technology within many production processes, historians have been evolving in step with the overall digital transformation of industry.  Today’s process historian is more than just a purpose-built industrial data storage solution; it has adapted to newer IT technology and evolved into an industrial data platform that has new capabilities and applications for managing data.  Some capabilities are specific to an industry and others are general-purpose applications, so companies must take care to select the correct solutions for their data requirements but they are all designed to manage the data quickly.  For example, most historians have production reports built in, but they are specialized for specific applications.  Some historians have specially built applications, algorithms that compress data, make data lossless, and can synchronize timestamps so that they align by the time the measurement was taken no matter where the data is stored - whether in a local server, remotely in a public or private Cloud, in an edge device, or in a data lake.  Asset models enable users to search by assets (equipment, reactor, etc.) rather than by tags,” added Abel.

About the Operational Historians/Data Platforms Research

Operational Historians/Data Platforms Market TrendsThis ARC research explores current and historical market performance and related technology and business trends, identifies leading technology suppliers, and provides five-year global forecasts for the operational historians/industrial data platforms market.  This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modeling techniques.  The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts by region, supplier, and industry segment. 

This new research is available in a variety of formats to meet the specific research and budgetary requirements of a wide variety of organizations.  These include a:

  • Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel) – personalized spreadsheet includes the current base year market data and five-year market forecast.  This workbook enables licensed users to freely manipulate the data to make it easier to analyze the latest data for business intelligence and generate custom reports.
  • Concise Market Analysis Report (PDF) – provides an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, market forecasts, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues.  The PDF is available with or without detailed charts.

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