Schneider Electric Wonderware Online

Schneider Electric has announced updates to Wonderware Online, its cloud platform capable of collecting, visualising and managing operational data across industrial operations. End users, solution builders and OEMs can benefit from new real-time data and analytics capabilities when using Wonderware Online as a complete information management and decision support solution.

Wonderware Online, built on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, is designed to offer users a secure, easy-to-use solution that offers seamless convergence of operational and information technology (OT/IT) with security, discoverability and extensibility all being native to the platform.

Wonderware Online includes the Wonderware Online InSight Connector, a productivity tool that allows users to link time-series data stored in Wonderware Online into Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Excel Online. This enables users to run custom formulas, perform ad hoc analysis and create Excel-based reports and charts. The Wonderware Online InSight Connector is available from the Microsoft Office 365 store.

Customers currently use Wonderware Online to consolidate distributed data sources, contextualise that data through the use of advanced applications and provide enterprise-wide access from anywhere on any device. The intuitive interface allows users to easily access intelligence to support smarter, faster business decisions.

With the amount of data from low-cost sensors and smart devices increasing exponentially, industrial organisations are searching for solutions to take full advantage of the industrial IoT. Both end users and OEMs demand a highly secure software infrastructure with broad connectivity, including the MQTT protocol.