With Panorama Suite 2025 (PS2025), PostgreSQL joins the Panorama ecosystem. In addition to the databases historically supported—Oracle and SQL Server—users now have another option. This integration raises an important question: how can SCADA/MES architectures evolve while bringing OT requirements closer to IT standards?
The role of databases in Panorama: a functional foundation
In Panorama, a database provides applications with read and write access to database tables. This bidirectional access makes it possible not only to consult information, but also to record events, statuses, comments, instructions, parameters, results and traceability data.
To make this data accessible in the field, Panorama includes a table-view tool. Operators can consult information visually, directly in their working environment.
When the main database is hosted on a remote computer, Panorama can manage a local backup database. Databases also support Recipe management, making it possible to structure production parameters and variants consistently and traceably.
Until PS2025, these uses mainly relied on SQL Server and Oracle. With PostgreSQL, Panorama expands the available options and makes it easier to integrate with a wider range of IT architectures.
PostgreSQL joins the Panorama ecosystem
This integration preserves Panorama’s full range of features, with a level of performance and responsiveness equivalent to that of the established connectors. Users can adopt PostgreSQL while retaining the Panorama capabilities they are familiar with: reading and writing database tables, viewing data, managing Recipes and using a local backup database.
Adding PostgreSQL also strengthens architectural flexibility. Organisations gain another option when designing or evolving their SCADA/MES architecture, based on their existing environments and technology choices.
PostgreSQL’s compatibility with Panorama also helps bring OT environments—those associated with operations and production systems—closer to IT environments, which encompass an organisation’s information systems and practices. It encourages collaboration between teams and helps integrate OT projects into the organisation’s broader architecture.
A more open SCADA/MES foundation
Supervision and production projects increasingly exchange data with information systems, including manufacturing data, equipment status, traceability information and performance indicators. In this context, integrating PostgreSQL helps create a more open SCADA/MES foundation, suited to data acquisition, supervision and data use.
The compatibility also aligns with the Essentials Web Unlimited offer, designed for more compact projects. As a reminder, it includes:
- up to 25,000 variables;
- unlimited Web clients;
- up to two communication protocols;
- a development environment.
PostgreSQL complements this approach: its use in Panorama is not based on a token or CAL system, so usage is not limited by these units. This aligns with the Essentials Web Unlimited approach, which also offers unlimited Web clients.
Greater flexibility for Panorama architectures
With PostgreSQL, Panorama Suite 2025 extends its compatibility beyond Oracle and SQL Server. This integration preserves Panorama’s features while providing a level of performance and responsiveness equivalent to that of the established connectors.
It strengthens architectural flexibility and helps OT and IT teams work more closely together around shared technologies and data. Panorama therefore offers a more open SCADA/MES foundation, ready to integrate into a variety of IT environments.
