CitectSCADA Reports V4.1 released

Citect today releases CitectSCADA Reports V4.1, a powerful plant-wide reporting tool that collects, historizes and distributes reporting data, now offering better integration and superior reporting, while alleviating installation and configuration complexities.

Citect was pleased to announce the release at its Global Partner Conference, Collaborate 2008, in Hungary yesterday.

The release introduces out-of-the-box alarm management reports, sample reports giving users instant access to historical data. It also focuses on connectivity with the introduction of multi-cluster support and industry standard connectivity via the OPC HDA Server.

David Humphrey, Director of Research, Europe, ARC Advisory Group says, "Today's business objectives are about driving change and determining real-time enterprise needs. By utilising an integrated solution for reporting and decision analysis such as CitectSCADA Reports V4.1, businesses can analyse performance and more effectively manage changing demands. Government regulations, audit and compliance issues also become easier to manage and business risk is reduced as a result."

"As the industry's 'most open' historian, CitectSCADA Reports V4.1 builds on our platform with a powerful standard reporting package designed to help you improve alarm management in your plant" added Stephen Flannigan, Global Director CitectSCADA.

CitectSCADA Reports V4.1 includes a range of pre-configured alarm management reports based on the EEMUA 191 Alarm Management guidelines that are the de-facto standard for the industry. By utilising these reports, improved alarm management, alarm rationalisation and prioritisation become possible and plant monitoring and control become a continuing process rather than a milestone.

In addition, with CitectSCADA Reports V4.1 valuable implementation time is reduced with a powerful integrated reporting and analysis solution available out-of-the-box, enabling timely and strategic decision-making across the entire enterprise.

Unlike other historians, CitectSCADA Reports V4.1 utilises 100% Microsoft SQL Server 2005 as its embedded historical data store, providing a combination of powerful data and storage performance. The result is an accessible, easy-to-use, secure reporting tool that reduces the total cost of ownership, while bridging the gap between plant and business systems.