Software Requirements

Operating systems:

  • Windows 10 or newer, 64bit (all Visplore versions)
  • Windows Server 2016 or newer (only Visplore Professional)

Visplore versions for Linux and Mac are planned for the future.

Admin rights:

  • are NOT necessary for installing Visplore Free.
  • are not required for Visplore Professional if it is installed per user and configured to use the cloud-based licensing system. All other ways to install Visplore Professional require admin rights for the setup.

Please see the FAQ below for more info on requirements of the data connectors, and info on possible deployment scenarios.

Hardware Recommendations

  • RAM: 4 GB or more.
  • CPU: The faster the better, especially for larger datasets.
    However, there is no strict minimum, most Visplore users have standard laptops.
  • Hard Disk: required space: ~1GB
  • Input: A mouse is *highly* recommended (though not strictly required).
  • Graphics card: is not required to run Visplore.

General recommendation: try Visplore Free, or ask for a trial of the paid versions as a benchmark for the performance you will have.

Frequently asked questions

  • Local, e.g. on a Windows laptop or desktop machine, or virtual Windows machine run locally or in local network. (applies to all Visplore versions.)
  • Windows server deployment of Visplore Professional, where clients connect via Terminal Server/RDP.
  • Windows VMs in the cloud, tested on Azure and AWS (applies to Visplore Free. For Professional, it is supported if the LicenseSpring licensing system is used)
  • Admin rights are NOT necessary for installing Visplore Free. The installation is performed in the user directory.
  • Admin rights are NOT necessary for per-User installations of Visplore Professional, when the cloud-based LicenseSpring licensing system is used. The installation is performed in the user directory.
  • Admin rights are necessary for any per-machine installations of Visplore (using separate installers you can request from us), and for all versions based on the Codemeter Licensing System. Such versions install to C:Program Files by default (which you may change).

VisplorePy (Python connector):

  • 64bit Windows
  • 64bit Python 3.6 (or higher) environment, such as Anaconda.

VisploreR (R connector)

  • 64bit Windows
  • 64bit R, Version 3.5 (or higher) environment, such as RGui, RStudio, etc.

VisploreMatlab (Matlab connector)

  • 64bit Windows
  • 64bit Matlab Version 2018a or newer

ODBC Connector

  • Database must support ODBC, and you must have odbc drivers installed.

OSISoft PI Connector (Visplore Professional only)

  • PI Data Archive 3.4.380 and later; PI Data Archive 2012 or later recommended
  • PI Web API 2017 R2 (To authenticate with the pi web API the “Kerberos”, “Basic”, or “Anonymous” authentication method should be enabled.)
    • PI Indexed Search
    • PI Indexed Search Crawler
  • Optional: AF Framework
    • PI AF Server 2018 (v2.10.0) and later

Visplore Free requires no licensing system.

Visplore Professional is available with two options:
– cloud-based licenses using LicenseSpring (see https://licensespring.com/). In this case, activation is done by entering a license key.
– using the Codemeter Licensing system by WiBu Systems. See https://www.wibu.com/
Both systems also support license servers for shared (=concurrent) licenses. With Codemeter, these are hosted on-premise by the client, with LicenseSpring they are hosted in the cloud.

Visplore Free: no. It checks for new versions at start-up (as many other programs do), but will still start, if it cannot connect to the server.

Visplore Professional: depends on the licensing system used: Versions based on Codemeter don’t need an internet connection. Versions based on LicenseSpring do: for concurrent licenses based on LicenseSpring, every start of Visplore requires internet. There is, however, the possibility to “borrow” a concurrent license for offline use.

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