FactoryTalk VantagePoint (FTVP) and FactoryTalk Historian SE (FTHSE) used to be two separately sold packages. Some years back Rockwell included FTVP into FTHSE with one "Named User" license. This was handy as those two products really did go hand in hand.
Perhaps they have gone back to not including FTVP, which would be a shame. FTVP is much more than just Excel reports, though it does that too.
FTVP includes a web server so all the reports can be served up as standard web pages with all of the content viewable in a browser. That includes trends and Excel reports. Anyone on the business or production side can have access to those reports.
The catch there is with licenses. They give you one "Named User" license. That license is generally used by whoever is administering the system. You need floating licenses for your users. I think they were called "concurrent". So, if you have five of those licenses, any five people could be accessing reports at one time. Those licenses are freed up as people come and go. With the named license, it gets assigned to a specific user. That user always has a license. Your CEO, or Plant Manager would get a named license so they would always have access.
Ok, I just realized it sounds like I'm selling it now so I will stop. I really liked it and if you are in the Rockwell ecosystem with FTVSE, then Historian and VantagePoint made a lot of sense. And yes, Historian is built upon OSI PI and they have the PI Builder tool cardosocea mentioned above.
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