Released on: October 15, 2008, 2:35 pm

Press Release Author: ICONICS

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: Speed Increase One of Many Additional Benefits to Hyper
Historian V10.5

Press Release Body: FOXBOROUGH, MA - October 15, 2008 - Today, ICONICS, a 2008
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner of the Year and provider of Web-enabled, OPC-based,
HMI/SCADA Visualization and Manufacturing Intelligence software for Microsoft
Windows(r) operating systems, announced the latest version of it Hyper Historian(tm)
plant historian, Version 10.5.

ICONICS Hyper Historian is a 64-bit, robust, reliable, high-speed plant historian.
Designed from the ground up for mission-critical applications demanding the highest
level of availability, Hyper Historian delivers unparalleled performance while
consuming only a small amount of resources. Hyper Historian is also the first plant
historian to be certified for both Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista(tm).
In addition, BizViz(tm) Manufacturing Intelligence customers can leverage the Hyper
Historian's SQL Query Interface to generate insightful reports and intelligent
workflows based on their historical data.

A new Statistical Process Control (SPC) capability, enhanced redundancy and tight
integration with SQL Server 2008 make this a "best-in-class" historian for the most
demanding applications. With data logging rates now up to 100,000 data events per
second, Hyper Historian V10.5 uses a robust, 64-bit, swinging door algorithm for
high data compression, to go along with its extreme high-speed data collection for
real-time, enterprise-wide information.

Additional benefits to ICONICS' plant historian software include:
# Statistical Process Control (SPC) Capability
# Enhanced Redundancy, Data Logging, Monitoring & Management
# Audit Trail Capability for Regulated Industries
# 3D Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)/XAML Trend Chart Control
# Web Configuration - allows for exporting data to an Excel/CSV file
# Integration with SQL Query Language
# Performance Calculations
# Improved Use of Multi-core CPUs by the Hyper Historian Logger
# Support for E-Signature (force signature and comment before accepting changes)

"Hyper Historian continues to set the bar for plant historian software," said Dave
Oravetz, Vice President of Engineering at ICONICS. "The inclusion of Statistical
Process Control capability and multiple performance enhancements helps meet our most
demanding customers' needs."

"The plant historian is an important tool for operational excellence", said Craig
Resnick, Research Director at ARC Advisory Group. "It is used to historize and trend
current operations, correlate current performance to "Best Day" performance for
benchmarking and, through correlation, identify leading indicators for maintenance,
environmental and safety events. However, for a historian to achieve a claim of
�100,000 data tags per second' would only be possible if the software can
seamlessly integrate with today's 64-bit computing machinery, a capability that
Hyper Historian V10.5 appears to be able to achieve. In the future, all plant
historians will require this functionality to be able to perform deep historization
with slices of contextual data in order to recreate situations."

ICONICS solutions are widely recognized in the industrial automation software
marketplace. Used in a wide variety of applications worldwide, ICONICS' GENESIS64,
GENESIS32 and BizViz products are recognized for their graphical capabilities and
seamless integration with Microsoft operating systems and applications, bridging
information from "the shop floor to the top floor."

ICONICS has provided award-winning industrial automation and Manufacturing
Intelligence software for over 22 years, successfully deploying more than 225,000
solutions worldwide.

ICONICS Background Information
Founded in 1986, ICONICS is a leader in the development of Web-enabled industrial
automation and manufacturing intelligence software for Microsoft(r) Windows(r) operating
systems. Offering the industry's only suite of fully-integrated OPC-based components
and products, GENESIS32(tm) Enterprise Edition is available for Windows XP, XP
Professional x64, Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server
2003 x64. Pocket GENESIS(tm) for Windows CE and Pocket PC was built from the ground up
based on ICONICS' OPC-To-The-Core(tm) framework. BizViz(tm) is a suite of manufacturing
and business intelligence products, which bridge the gap between manufacturing and
corporate business information systems. BizViz is designed around Microsoft .NET
technology and Microsoft SharePoint Services.. ICONICS also offers a complete set of
Plug and Play automation components, including best-in-class OPC ActiveX(r) Controls,
OPC Toolkit, Human Machine Interface (HMI), Microsoft SQL Server(r)-based data
logging, Multimedia Alarming, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
products. ICONICS is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner represented in over 60
countries, and has more than 225,000 product installations worldwide.

(c) 2008 ICONICS, Inc. All rights reserved. Specifications are subject to change
without notice. GENESIS64, GENESIS32, Pocket GENESIS, BizViz and their respective
modules, OPC-To-The-Core, and Visualize Your Enterprise are trademarks of ICONICS
Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their
respective owners.



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Contact Details: Tim Donaldson
Director of Marketing
ICONICS
100 Foxborough Blvd.
Foxborough, MA 02035
phone: 508-543-8600
fax: 508-543-1503
timd@iconics.com