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TrendMiner

Score9.3 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is TrendMiner?

TrendMiner, a Software AG company and part of the IoT & Analytics division, delivers self-service data analytics to optimize process performance in industries such as chemical, petrochemical, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, metals & mining and other process manufacturing industries.

TrendMiner software is based on a high-performance analytics engine for time-series data that allows users to question data directly, without the support of data scientists. The vendor states this plug-and-play software adds value upon deployment, eliminating the need for infrastructure investment and long implementation projects. Search, diagnostic and predictive capabilities enable users to speed up root cause analysis, define optimal processes and configure early warnings to monitor production. TrendMiner software also helps team members to capture feedback and leverage knowledge across teams and sites. In addition, TrendMiner offers standard integrations with a wide range of historians such as OSIsoft PI, Yokogawa Exaquantum, AspenTech IP.21, Honeywell PHD, GE Proficy Historian and Wonderware InSQL.

Founded in 2008 and now part of Software AG, TrendMiner’s global headquarters is located in Belgium, and has offices in the U.S., Germany, Spain and the Netherlands.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • IoT Analytics

    Rich analytics to transform large quantities of sensor data into actionable insights.

    Category average: 7.7

  • IoT Device Management

    Software for provisioning configuring, troubleshooting and managing IoT devices and gateways remotely.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Device Security

    Security to prevent connected devices from being hacked or compromised.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • IoT Data Management

    Support for ingesting edge data and storing it to enterprise platforms, providing data accessibility, and managing data flows.

    Category average: 8.3

  • IoT Integration

    Software integration and APIs to support business processes and applications.

    Category average: 8

TrendMiner Experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use TrendMiner as a process monitoring and troubleshooting tool for all of our refineries. We have TrendMiner dashboards to provide overviews of our operations with drill-downs for additional details. Our TrendMiner implementation includes connections to several data historians and SQL Server databased. Consequently, TrendMiner is well suited to be the primary data analysis and trending tool those with licenses use

Pros

  • Trending
  • Event searches and data filtering
  • Event Analytics
  • Scatter plotting with regressions

Cons

  • Dashboarding (better use of space)
  • Shared folder / shared applications management
  • Handling of data with bad status

Return on Investment

  • Reduces data gathering time from our Subject Matter Experts
  • Reduces the use of Excel for data extraction and analysis
  • Improves our ability to easily filter data based on searches
  • Provides us with corporate-wide dashboards

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Seeq

Other Software Used

OSIsoft PI System, from AVEVA, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI