A platform, which is utilized to capture and store the data of background processes running in a computer system, is known as “Data Historian”. This platform is widely used by the organizations to gather information related to the operations of programs to analyze failures. Since, data historian has its own criteria, the data which is fed-in, should be time-stamped, structured and in machine-readable format.
Significantly, data historians are customary in data centers and industrial control systems. Organizations use these data historians efficiently to analyze various aspects of their work such as comparing day vs. night shifts, heterogeneous work groups and much more.
Data historian serves the required toolkit to organize existing data in a plant. This is helpful in making informed and empirical (practical) decisions on certain and variety of issues. Data historian is capable to read and extract the data from various sources. It acts as a data hub from where the data can be read and organized as per the requirement in the predefined format by other applications.