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TrendMiner
Search-driven time series analytics for process engineers, now owned by Proemion rather than Software AG
As of 1 September 2026, TrendMiner's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Lets a process engineer draw a shape on a trend and find every other time the plant did that, without writing a query or involving a data scientist. Softwr lists it under Manufacturing. TrendMiner is made by TrendMiner, a Proemion company, available on Web, Windows, Linux.
Overview
What TrendMiner does
TrendMiner is self-service analytics over process historian data. Its core interaction is pattern search: an engineer selects a section of a trend that represents a good batch, a fouling episode or a startup, and the software finds every similar occurrence across years of history. From there it supports overlaying occurrences, building monitors that fire when the pattern recurs, computing soft sensors from tag arithmetic, and publishing dashboards. It reads from AVEVA PI, Honeywell PHD, Aspen IP.21, Yokogawa Exaquantum, InfluxDB and OPC UA sources without copying the historian into a new store. The commercial context has changed and buyers should know it. TrendMiner was a Belgian startup, acquired by Software AG in 2018, and then sold in 2024 to Proemion, a German telematics and industrial analytics company backed by Battery Ventures, for 47 million euros. That was part of Silver Lake dismantling Software AG after taking it private, a process that also moved webMethods and StreamSets to IBM and Cumulocity elsewhere. The product survived the break-up intact, but it now sits with a much smaller owner whose other business is off-highway vehicle telematics, so the enterprise integration story that came with Software AG is gone. Buyers are process engineers and reliability teams in chemicals, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, food and metals, usually where an expensive historian already exists and nobody can get answers out of it quickly. The trade-off is scope. TrendMiner is genuinely good at continuous time series and genuinely poor at anything else: it will not do discrete manufacturing counts, it will not model relational quality data well, and it will not replace an MES. It is a tool for a specific person doing a specific job, and organisations that buy it as a general analytics platform end up with a small number of very happy engineers and a licence bill sized for a department.
What people use it for
- Finding every prior occurrence of a heat exchanger fouling signature to estimate cleaning frequency from history rather than from a rule of thumb
- Comparing golden batches against off-spec ones in a pharmaceutical process without exporting to a data science team
- Building a monitor that flags the early temperature signature that preceded the last three compressor trips
- Giving a process engineer a way to answer a question in an afternoon that previously required a historian export and a spreadsheet week
Related searches
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about TrendMiner.
- Ownership moved from Software AG to Proemion in a 47 million euro sale during the Silver Lake break-up, so the integration roadmap tied to webMethods and Cumulocity is gone and the new owner is far smaller.
- It is built for continuous time series and handles discrete manufacturing, relational quality data and event-driven production poorly, so plants that are not continuous process get limited value.
- Value depends entirely on historian data quality and tag naming; sites with inconsistent tag descriptions and missing asset context spend months on data preparation before the search features are usable.
- Licensing is by named analyst user, and the population who genuinely use pattern search is small, so organisations that buy broadly pay for seats that log in occasionally.
- It reads history but does not fix it: there is no data collection layer, so an existing historian is mandatory and TrendMiner is always an additional cost on top of it.
Cross-shopped
What people choose instead of TrendMiner
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- TrendMinervsSight Machine
Sight Machine: If the plant is discrete rather than continuous and you need production counts and quality modelling
- TrendMinervsIgnition
Ignition: If the requirement is real-time visualisation and alarming rather than retrospective pattern analysis
Pricing
What TrendMiner costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
TrendMiner
On request
- Annual subscription sized by named users and connected historian tag volume
- Separate licence tiers for full analyst users and view-only dashboard consumers
- Historian connectors quoted per source system
- On-premise and hosted deployment priced differently
- Implementation and engineer onboarding quoted as services
Capabilities
Features
Pattern search
Draw a shape on a trend and find every similar historical occurrence across tags and years
Value-based search
Locate periods matching numeric conditions across combinations of tags
Monitors
Alert when a saved pattern or condition recurs in live data
Soft sensors
Derive calculated tags from arithmetic and logic over existing tags
Context items
Annotate periods with batch, event or maintenance context and search on it
Dashboards
Publish saved analyses to a view non-engineers can read
Machine learning models
Fit and deploy regression and classification models on historian data without coding
ContextHub
Link process periods to external events such as work orders or lab samples
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Who owns TrendMiner now?
Proemion, a German industrial analytics company backed by Battery Ventures, which bought it from Software AG for 47 million euros in 2024.
Does it replace my historian?
No. It connects to PI, IP.21, PHD, Exaquantum and others and reads from them. The historian remains the system of record.
Do I need a data scientist to use it?
No, and that is the point. The pattern search and soft sensor tooling are aimed at process engineers with no coding background.
Is pricing per user?
Yes, largely, with tiers for analyst and view-only access plus charges for historian connectors and data volume.
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