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Ignition SCADA by Inductive Automation® combines an unlimited licensing model, with instant web-based deployment, and the industry-leading toolset for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) — all on one open and scalable universal platform. Ignition is The New SCADA because it solves all the major pain points of old SCADA . Ignition empowers your business to easily control your processes, and track, display, and analyze all your data, without limits. Ignition SCADA software comes standard with a comprehensive set of data acquisition tools which includes built-in OPC UA to connect to practically any PLC, and the ability to seamlessly connect to any SQL database. Ignition can also turn any SQL database into a high-performance industrial historian and connects to IIoT devices through MQTT.

ICONICS’ Hyper Historian™ is an advanced 64-bit high-speed, reliable, and robust historian. Designed for the most mission-critical applications, Hyper Historian's advanced high compression algorithm delivers unparalleled performance with very efficient use of resources. Hyper Historian integrates with our ISA-95-compliant asset database and the latest big data technologies, including Azure SQL, Microsoft Data Lakes, Kafka, and Hadoop. This makes Hyper Historian the most efficient and secure real-time plant historian for any Microsoft operating system. Hyper Historian includes a module for automatic or manual insertion of data, empowering users to import historical or log data from databases, other historians, or intermittently connected field devices and equipment. This also provides for greatly increased reliability in capturing all data, even when network disruptions occur. Leverage rapid collection for enterprise-wide storage.