announcing sift’s $42M series b funding. read more.
A data historian is a software system specifically designed to collect, store, and retrieve time-series data from industrial equipment, sensors, and control systems. Historians were originally developed for process manufacturing industries and remain the dominant data infrastructure in energy, manufacturing, and utilities.
Legacy historians such as OSIsoft PI store operational data but provide limited support for high-frequency telemetry, cross-system analysis, and modern querying at scale. Sift is built for the next generation of mission-critical machines where sampling rates, data volumes, and the need for real-time root cause analysis have outgrown what traditional historians can support.
