Archived News

A selection of news that happened at SyTech.

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October
2019
XLReporter V14.0 is a finalist for the Control Engineering 2020 Engineers' Choice Award
XLReporter V14.0 is a finalist for the Control Engineering 2020 Engineers' Choice Award.
XLReporter V2.0 was a winner in 2001, XLReporter V12.0 was a winner in 2017 and with the votes of our users, we are looking forward to winning again.
Submission for the 2020 Engineers Choice Award
October
2019
XLReporter V14.0 Release
This version of XLReporter expands its capability to Web reporting, 21CFR Part 11 features and ISA 18.2 Alarm Management. Any device with a web browser can view automated reports on the server and produce custom reports on-demand. Reports are responsive to the device size to provide the best view of the report content.
Press Release

September
2019
SyTech signs Technology Agreement with Rockwell Automation
The agreement provides SyTech the technology to develop the FactoryTalk Application connector. The connector planned for XLReporter Version 14.1 will be a universal connector to FactoryTalk Live data, FactoryTalk Alarms and Events, FactoryTalk View SE Alarms and Events database and FactoryTalk Historian data.
February
2019
SyTech partners with HMS Networks for IoT reports and dashboard
A new connector to the HMS Talk2M cloud service, developed from a partnership between SyTech and HMS Networks, opens endless opportunities to reports and dashboards for data anywhere in the world.

Press Release

June
2018
SyTech presents ISA 88 Basic Batch reporting at the Emerson Global User Exchange
The benefits of Alarm Management cannot be understated, from increased uptime and production to incident prevention and regulatory compliance. At Rockwell Automation TechED in San Diego, CA. we presented a close look at Alarm Management and demonstrated our new Alarm Management module for XLReporter which will be part of V12.5.

June
2018
SyTech presents ISA 18.2 Alarm Management reporting at TechEd 2018
The benefits of Alarm Management cannot be understated, from increased uptime and production to incident prevention and regulatory compliance. At Rockwell Automation TechED in San Diego, CA. we presented a close look at Alarm Management and demonstrated our new Alarm Management module for XLReporter which will be part of V12.5.

December
2017
Tatsoft becomes a SyTech Strategic Partner
Tatsoft is the developer of FactoryStudio, the world’s first HMI-SCADA platform built with pure Microsoft .NET that supports native PC, Tablet, Web, iPad, iPhone, Android, Linux, Raspberry Pi and Cloud environments. With an easy-to-use interface that leaves the old client/server Win32 GUI far behind, FactoryStudio looks and navigates like a website. The Strategic Partner relationship ensures that customers are delivered a robust, cost-effective, “out-of-the-box” reporting solution.
Read the Press Release
November
2017
SyTech Presents Automated Regulatory and Compliance Reports at Rockwell Automation Fair
Automate compliance reports such as Thermal Uniformity Survery report, Clean/Steam in Place report, Water Treatment report, Statistical Process Analysis report, using XLReporter - Industrial Excel.
View the Presentation with Video
October
2017
XLReporter v12.4 Release
This version of XLReporter adds the new Excel 2016 features such as Icon Sets, Data Bars, Color Scales, Highlight Cells, Top n / Bottom n Rules. No limit to the number of rules per cell. Connector enhancements to GE Historian, FactoryTalk View SE Alarms and Events and the introduction of Tatsoft FactoryStudio.
Read about the new features in V12.4
September
2017
XLReporter for Water Wastewater
XLReporter is used in hundreds of water and wastewater facilities in the USA. Find out what XLReporter can do for your compliance, regulatory and performance reporting.
Read Why
March
2017
XLReporter V12.3 Release
This version of XLReporter introduces connectors to OPC UA, Inductive Automation Ignition, Wonderware InTouch ME, Indusoft Point of View, Schneider Electric ClearSCADA and more. It also includes powerful management functions that deliver functionality to solve the "impossible" reports.
Read about the new features in V12.3
February
2017
XLReporter wins the 2017 Engineers' Choice Award
Other software in our category were ARES Assest Management Platform from Emerson Process Management, Dream Report v4.72 from Ocean Data Systems and FactoryTalk AssetCentre Software v7.0 from Rockwell Automation.
Rockwell Automation was awarded the honorable mention.
Read the Press Release
October
2016
XLReporter V12.0 is a finalist for the 2017 Engineers' Choice Award
XLReporter V12.0 is a finalist for for the 2017 Engineers' Choice Award. XLReporter V2.0 was a winner in 2001 and with the votes of our users, will win again.
Submission for the 2017 Engineers Choice Award
August
2016
SyTech Reaches out to a Reseller at a time of need
On August 12, 2016 floods in Louisiana damaged 146,00 homes. A reseller of SyTech was not spared, 35 of their employees were flooded and 10 lost their homes. SyTech responded by sending each employee necessities and, more importantly, the knowledge that they were are not alone. We also assisted in fund raising.
Read the Wiki Article
April
2016
XLReporter V12.0 Released
XLReporter V12.0 is the next generation of reports, forms and dashboards for industry. It is the first reporting solution that offers "out-of-box" templates, design tools integrated in Microsoft Excel and a fast and powerful reporting engine that produces informative reports as workbooks, PDF and web pages. Completed reports are delivered automatically to a web portal, email, printers and more.
Read the Press Release
February
2016
SyTech Offers XLReporter to the City of Flint
The Flint water crisis is an ongoing drinking water contamination issue in Flint, Michigan, United States, that started in April 2014. SyTech offered XLReporter and engineering services at no charge to professor Marty Kaufman who was working closely with the City of Flint, to monitor water quality, produce reports automatically and distribute them by email.
Read the Wiki Article
Februaury
2016
Sys2Mote becomes XLReporter Reseller
Sys2Mote signs up to resell XLReporter in European market. The company offers training, migration and maintenance solution, and is experienced in intelligent-building deployments, energy efficiency programs, M2M and Business Intelligence.
Visit SysMote Web Site
January
2015
Canary Labs becomes a SyTech Strategic Partner
The Canary Enterprise Historian, AxiomTrend and InfoLink applications are used in complex environment and easily handle in excess of 1 million points per second while producing over 200 trends per chart, enabling organizations to quickly and effectively analyze data without delay. XLReporter is bundled in TrendReporter to manage raw data from the Enterprise Historian into meaningful information by applying powerful analysis routines.
Read the Press Release
December
2014
Kepware Technologies Becomes a SyTech Strategic Partner
With XLReporter's native Kepware Local Historian connector and intuitive point-and-click configuration, users can easily create informative drill-down, summary, utilization and regulatory reports from the Local Historian. Completed reports are distributed via web pages, networked printers, PDF files and email.
Read the Press Release
November
2014
Trihedral becomes a SyTech Strategic Partner
Trihedral's VTScada provides you with a intuitive platform for creating highly-customized industrial monitoring and control applications that end users can trust and use with ease. XLReporter's connector for VTscada delivers seamless integration between the XLReporter and VTScada HMI SCADA software product.
Read the Press Release
October
2014
Kepware Technologies selects XLReporter for the Local Historian
XLReporter and the Local Historian work together to improve process throughput, manage assets, and report to regulatory authorities. A Local Historian can supplement the existing Enterprise Historian model. Completed reports are distributed as workbooks, web pages and PDF to networked printers and email.
Read the Press Release
June
2014
SyTech and Emerson Process Management Team Up on Alarm Analytics
SyTech and Emerson Process Management team up to provide a broader understanding of control system alarm activity.
Read the Press Release
June
2014
SyTech and Emerson Process Management Team Up on Alarm Analytics
SyTech and Emerson Process Management team up to provide a broader understanding of control system alarm activity.
Read the Press Release
June
2012
Automation.com presents the data entry management of XLReporter
Read the Magazine Article
May
2012
AutomationWorld discusses automated report generation and data analysis of XLReporter.
Read the Magazine Article
April
2012
SyTech releases XLReporter v10.0
Version 10.0 provides two new components, data entry management and reporting from text files. The data entry component is well suited for facilities where data is collected manually by replacing the pen and paper with an electronic form. The text file component introduces the "stitch" technology where a set of files are treated as a single entity.
Read the Press Release
September
2010
SyTech introduces the Team Edition to the XLReporter Product family
The Team edition marries the most popular reporting product, Microsoft Excel, with the leading historians in the automation industry. The result is easy-to-grasp reports from anywhere in the organization, while maintaining individualized security.
Read the Press Release
July
2009
SyTech certifies XLReporter as an alternative reporting solution for CitectSCADA Reports
The CitectSCADA is a high performance system for any industrial automation monitoring and control application.
Read the Technical Article on CitectSCADA
April
2009
SyTech, a Rockwell Encompass Partner, announces automated reporting for Rockwell's FactoryTalk® Historian SE.
The FactoryTalk® Historian SE is a central component in the distributed historian strategy from Rockwell Software.
Read more about XLReporter with Rockwell Automation
June
2008
Canary Labs selects XLReporter for their Trend Historian Reporter Suite
Canary Labs agrees to deliver XLReporter as part of their Trend Report Suite package.
Read the Press Release
April
2008
SIEMENS certifies XLReporter as a reporting solution for PCS 7
XLReporter has been approved by SIEMENS Energy and Automation as a reporting option for use with the SIMATIC PCS 7 process control systems
Read the Press Release
January
2008
ELUTIONS partners with SyTech to release Excel Reporter for ControlMaestro
XLReporter provides the key layer of technology that enables automatic, background report generation using Microsoft Office Excel.
Read the Press Release
October
2007
SyTech releases XLReporter V8.0
Version 8.0 takes advantage of the new Office 2007 technology and provides Microsoft Vista compatibility.
Read the Press Release
September
2005
Use Microsoft Excel as a report writer
An article published in control engineering.
Read the Magazine Article
September
2005
Axeda partners with SyTech to release WizReport XL
Axeda partners with SyTech to OEM XLReporter as WizReport XL Professional.
Read the Press Release
January
2004
SyTech chooses Profimill to represent products in Finland
Profimill, an automation software providers, has standardized on SyTech reporting software for the Finnish marketplace.
September
2003
SyTech releases XLReporter V5.0
This version takes reporting beyond simply getting values into an Excel worksheet. With the Analysis functionality, raw data can be easily, and automatically, turned into meaningful information to make reports come alive. Report formatting, color coding “out of bounds”, filters, sorts are all included. More complex functions such as covariance, correlation, moving average and frequency distribution are provided.
November
2002
SyTech introduces XWeb Director
XWeb Director automates web based publishing and navigation without custom web development. With several web styles to choose from, a configurable set of user menus and flexible directory displays, automation engineers can easily meet the needs of their customers.
March
2002
SyTech presented with the Control Engineering Choice Award
XLReporter Version 2 wins the Control Engineering Award in late 2001 in the category of Human-Machine Interface. Other recipients were GE Fanuc Automation (GE Fanuc); Cimplicity Plant Edition and Wonderware (Invensys); DT Analyst module. Contestants were judged on technological advancement, service to the industry, and impact on the control market.
Read the Magazine Article
March
2002
SyTech chooses Fortétion to represent products in the UK marketplace
Fortétion Limited, one of the UK’s leading automation software providers, has standardized on SyTech reporting software for the UK marketplace.
January
2002
SyTech and Wimmer Systems to Collaborate on Reporting Solution for FDA-Regulated Industries
A cost-effective, easy-to-use Excel based reporting solution for companies concerned about 21CFRpart11 compliance issues.
November
2001
Rockwell Automation selects XLReporter for the Encompass Program
XLReporter is the "Preferred Third-Party Solution for RSView® and RSLinx® Automated Reporting."
Read the Press Release
July
2001
SyTech introduces XLViewer, the best way to view Excel files
Viewing Excel Workbook information in a structured operator environment has never been possible. XLViewer is the product that makes it possible.
July
2001
Microsoft Comments on XLReporter Version 2.0
Significant new features include support for Advanced Historians, greater flexibility in formatting and calculations, and tools for Power Users.
Read Microsoft's comments on XLReporter
May
2001
CB chooses SyTech Products for Canadian Marketplace
CB Automation and CB Engineering, Canada’s largest automation software products channel has standardized on SyTech reporting software for the Canadian marketplace.
May
2001
SyTech becomes part of OMAC
May
2001
SyTech names Roy Kok as Vice President of Sales and Marketing
SyTech's growth spurs the need for greater focus on OEM and corporate level marketing and sales.
April
2001
SyTech acquires www.TheReportCompany.com
March
2001
SyTech joins the OPC Foundation
As part of the foundation opens the widespread use of Report Manager and XLReporter with virtually any OPC Server enabled product.
Article on SyTech and the OPC Foundation
Februaury
2001
SyTech adds Ci Technologies, Citect and National Instruments, Lookout interfaces
These interfaces are now included in the standard production test environments. SyTech already tests Report Manager and XLReporter with Intellution, Wonderware, General Electric, Fisher Rosemount, Mitsubishi and Eurotherm.
January
2001
XLReporter supports advanced history access and batch functions
XLReporter offers the ability to access data from Intellution’s FIX and iFIX historian files for inclusion in XLReporter automated reports. Additional batch functions enable the automatic batch identification and triggered history collections prior to report finalization.
October
2000
SyTech provides interfaces to Rockwell Automation’s RSLinx® and RSView32®
This new capability include full tag browsing via their direct access interface. Both Report Manager and XLReporter support RSLinx® and RSView®32 product lines.
July
2000
SyTech introduces eMailer
Emailer is the simplest way to disseminate completed reports to your organization via email. eMailer offers the ability to send reports to individuals or groups of individuals based on time of day or any other combination of process events.
June
2000
SyTech releases Real Vision
Real Vision is a powerful interface and diagnostic tool for viewing the operation of an Intellution iFIX/FIX process databases. Both end users and power users (OEMs and System Integrators) will enjoy a significant improvement in their ability to verify or diagnose database operations.
June
2000
SyTech releases OPC (OLE for Process Control) support
SyTech releases OPC (OLE for Process Control) support for both Report Manager and XLReporter. The addition of the OPC extends SyTech product applicability to virtually any product containing an OPC server.
April
2000
SyTech launches XLReporter, the worlds most powerful automated reporting solution
By encapsulating the Microsoft Workbook Engine in XLReporter, users can now enjoy new levels of automatic report generation including “Report as you Run”, the ability to see automated report progress at any time. Other unique features of XLReporter include the ability to integrate manual entries with full and automatic recalculation, and the ability to automatically generate new Worksheet templates. XLReporter is targeted to the traditional SyTech successes such as Water, Waste Water, Pharmaceutical, BioTech, Petrochemical and adds a number of discrete applications such as stamping, machining, printing and a host of CNC applications.
August
1999
Mitsubishi signs deal to package SyTech Report Manager
Mitsubishi signs deal to package SyTech Report Manager with MX32-MX2000 products.
October
1998
General Electric signs deal to licence Report Manager
General Electric signs deal to licence Report Manager technology with CIMPLICITY software product line. The product will continue to be known as Report Manager.
May
1998
SyTech becomes a Plug and Solve Intellution Partner
As one of 6 Plug and Solve partners, SyTech stands out in the industry as offering premium report generation solutions for Intellution FIX and iFIX technologies.
October
1997
Fisher Rosemount signs deal to resell Report Manager
Fisher Rosemount signs deal to resell Report Manager with Delta V product line.
September
1996
SyTech introduces support for OSI PI historian
This new capability enables Report Manager to combine both real-time and archived historical data sources as part of the report solution.
May
1996
SyTech partners with Wonderware in Wondertools program
As a program partner, Wonderware customers can depend on SyTech’s excellent support for reporting solutions.
March
1996
Eurotherm Controls signs deal to resell Report Manager
Eurotherm Controls signs deal to resell Report Manager with their PC based automation solutions.
July
1995
SyTech becomes an Intellution CAP (Cooperative Automation Partner)
Report Manager becomes the natural solution for sophisticated reporting needs with Intellution SCADA and HMI products.
May
1995
SyTech introduces Report Manager
Report Manager is the first third party solution to address all automated report generation needs. Report Manager fills an important market gap left between the HMI and SCADA market and the enterprise. Applications include Water and Waste Water, Pharmaceutical, Petrochemical, and all batch oriented markets.