Advanced OPC Data Logger - Compare features

Introduction

Advanced OPC Data Logger supplies three cut down versions called Advanced OPC Data Logger Lite, Standard and Professional. These versions omit some of the advanced features found in the enterprise edition and is ideal for users who either want a low cost solution or are not interested in more advanced features.

This page lists the principal features of Advanced OPC Data Logger and identifies those features that are not available in Advanced OPC Data Logger Lite, Advanced OPC Data Logger Standard and Advanced OPC Data Logger Professional.

Advanced OPC Data Logger Lite sells for 50% of the cost of the enterprise version. Users can upgrade to the standard, professional or enterprise version at any time, simply by paying the difference in price between the versions. The actual software is identical, since the software activation key is used to configure all editions. A code can be sent by email that allows the user to upgrade the software.

Feature set

The following table illustrates the main features in Advanced OPC Data Logger and shows which of these are eliminated from the corresponding edition:

Feature	Enterprise	Professional	Standard	Lite
General
Receiving binary, text and ASCII data	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Multiple OPC servers at the same time	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Support of DA1 and DA2 OPC interfaces	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Unlimited number of OPC servers	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Unlimited number of OPC tags	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Output received data without any changes to file	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Log rotation (depends on date or time, size etc.)	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Log deletion	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Log file access control	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Configurable log file access	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Auto program restart in showed time	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Auto serial port reinitialization in showed time	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Program message logging	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Simple, menu-driven step by step set-up	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Capability to run multiple instances simultaneously so that multiple ports can be logged	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Save settings to INI-file	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Save settings to Windows registry	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
On-line help	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista service mode
Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista service	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Starts as soon as the operating system starts and doesn't require a user to log in and run it	Yes!	Yes!	Yes!
Data export plugins
Data export to any ODBC-compatible database	Yes!	Yes!
DDE or OPC server	Yes!	Yes!
Direct connection (use OLE) to Microsoft Excel and write data directly to rows or columns	Yes!	Yes!
Write parsed data to file of Microsoft Excel, RTF, HTML, CSV , DIFF, SYLK, Plain text, Windows Clipboard, XML, DBF, PDF, Lotus 1-2-3 and Quttro formats	Yes!	Yes!
Events plugins
Sort of plugins that can handle internal events of Advanced OPC Data Logger software and put log files to a remote server for example.	Yes!	Yes!
Data filter plugins
Expressions plugin allows to use math,string and boolean expression on parsed variables.	Yes!
Deadband provides a method to exclude less significant data records from the final data export.	Yes!
Aggregator is an additional module that collecting data from several different parsed data records into one common data record.	Yes!
Price (EUR)	475	395	295	235

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