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Wonderware Releases New Industrial Application Server to Increase Productivity and Lower Lifecycle Costs

Posted on: Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 15:00 CST

Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys Systems Inc., today announced the release of version 2.1 of its popular Industrial Application Server plant information and automation platform, further expanding the capabilities of the underlying ArchestrA technology.

Industrial Application Server 2.1 provides new features that enable application developers, system integrators and IT professionals to build powerful supervisory HMI, SCADA, and production and performance management solutions that offer savings of up to 70 percent in total lifecycle costs. It also includes multiple engineering productivity enhancements including a new user-defined object template, advanced alarm filtering capabilities and an intuitive history-browsing environment.

Wonderware has reported broad global adoption of the Industrial Application Server in more than 700 customer projects across dozens of industries worldwide.

The Industrial Application Server enables significant reductions in the cost of designing, building, deploying and maintaining industrial software applications. The embedded ArchestrA software architecture reduces total cost of ownership by providing a single, comprehensive toolkit for the entire range of plant automation and information application requirements along with the ability to rapidly reuse and deploy best engineering practices.

"The Industrial Application Server's new user-defined object enables developers to continue to use Wonderware's default application object templates and to easily create their own company standards -- containing the necessary balance of sophistication and ease of use," said Steve Garbrecht, product marketing manager for Wonderware infrastructure and platforms. "This release further extends the engineering savings provided by ArchestrA technology and improves the usability of the software's integrated development environment."

In addition to supporting English-language Microsoft platforms, Industrial Application Server 2.1 now supports Japanese, Chinese, French and German versions of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server database software.

Version 2.1 of Wonderware's Industrial Application Server also provides capabilities for managing groups of InTouch visualization nodes, both in development and in run-time. The consolidation of alarm definitions and alarm detection further simplifies the development and maintenance of systemwide alarms and operator notifications.

Industrial Application Server 2.1 combines the flexibility and power of a peer-to-peer architecture with the ability to make global changes behind the scenes. Benefits include powerful reuse of application engineering from plant to plant, the freedom to develop distributed applications without redesign, and the ability to easily manage expansion, system changes and ongoing maintenance.

About Invensys and Its Wonderware and ArchestrA Business Units

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Source: Business Wire

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