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COPA-DATA wins Frost & Sullivan award for
product innovation
09.03.2007
Independent automation software provider
COPA DATA has been awarded a Frost & Sullivan Award for Product
Innovation, having demonstrated excellence in new products and
technologies through their zenOn SCADA/HMI software. The award
recognizes the Company’s commitment to the continuous development that
ensures the innovation, usability and openness of their product.
Managing Director Thomas Punzenberger commented on the award, “For me,
there has only ever been one vision, to deliver open and flexible
systems. It gives me great pleasure to receive this award from Frost and
Sullivan recognizing COPA-DATA’s position as a trailblazer in SCADA and
HMI software.”
zenOn was launched in 1990 to address a growing demand for open and
flexible SCADA software. zenOn was developed for Windows platforms,
making the software more open and usable than competing products. The
software is open and compatible for seamless integration with existing
infrastructure.
Analyst Karthikeyan Balasubramaniyam commented, “The speciality of zenOn
has been its inherent ease of operation. Apart from that, zenOn is an
extremely open and compatible system which makes it really easy to
integrate into existing infrastructure. Continuous upgrades to zenOn
software have maintained customer’s trust and demand for their software
in the competitive European market. The company has established itself
as a leading automation software provider with strong sales channels
throughout the world.”
The award highlighted the milestones of zenOn’s development. For
example, version 3.5 provided built-in redundancy that meant that data
was never lost. In 1999 version 5 broke new barriers, providing 100%
compatible SCADA for all Windows platforms from Windows CE PDAs and
terminals up to XP workstations. Shortly after, zenOn 5.2 added a
built-in web server which is always up to date and uses the same look &
feel as the zenOn program.
In recent years zenOn 6 improved distributed engineering, allowing
multiple users to work on a project in parallel and reduce engineering
time. Recognising the revolution in consumer software, version 6 also
marked further improvements in usability that are helping to bring
industrial software out of the dark ages and make it as intuitive to use
as leading consumer products. Improvements included new automatic
engineering features such as project wizards that eliminate errors and
save time by automating repetitive or complex tasks.
zenOn HMI/SCADA software has flexibility, reliable performance and
provides numerous features that provide added value, illustrating
COPA-DATA’s technical expertise and experience in automation.
Recognising its product innovations and the commitment to provide
complete solutions, COPA-DATA was presented with a 2007 Frost & Sullivan
Award for Product Innovation for automation and control solutions in the
European market.
Link to more information on zenOn
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