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News Release from: SolutionsPT | Subject: Industrial Application Server
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 28 March 2006
VARs and OEMs benefit from single-node
licence
Improved version of industrial application server for single-node environments for VARs and OEMs can be installed on a single PC.
Wonderware, part of Invensys Systems that has products sold and supported in the UK and Ireland by Stockport based Pantek, has released an improved version of its Industrial Application Server for single-node environments The version is for VARs and OEMs
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 8 Jul 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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With the Industrial Application Server's runtime licence for single-node implementation, the Archestra software architecture can now be installed together with Wonderware's Intouch visualisation software and Industrial SQL Server historian on a single PC.
This lets smaller application environments that use a single PC (rather than a network) to leverage the benefits offered by the Archestra architecture.
The architecture facilitates the re-use of engineering, standardisation, peer-to-peer connectivity, remote diagnostics and administration, source code control and role-based data security.
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These features let VARs and OEMs more easily provide support for the global distribution, localisation, internationalisation, development and maintenance of software applications.
"The underlying Archestra architecture provides software cost relief for OEMs and VARs, because they can combine best-of-breed application modules just by plugging them into the framework", said Nancy Venable, Wonderware's VAR/OEM Program Manager.
"The runtime licence for single-node implementation enables Wonderware's VAR and OEM customers to install functionally complete Wonderware applications on a single PC using single-node operating environments such as the Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Microsoft SQL Server Personal Edition".
"The Industrial Application Server enables significant cost reductions in the areas 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 re-use and deploy best engineering practices".
"The ability to harness the power of the Archestra architecture on a single computer gives machine builders opportunities to create impressively robust products in the same price range as traditional HMI-based methods".
Customers implementing the single-node version can also enhance their Industrial Application Server applications by purchasing additional nodes that can be adapted to a multiple-node configuration.
The single-node version is built on open technologies such as Microsoft Net and SQL Server.
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