Aspen InfoPlus.21
Oil production software
Oil and gas software
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What is Aspen InfoPlus.21
Aspen InfoPlus.21 (IP.21) is a real-time process data infrastructure and historian used to collect, store, and serve time-series data from industrial control systems and related sources. In oil and gas operations, it supports monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance analysis across upstream, midstream, and downstream assets by providing a central repository for operational data. The product is commonly used by operations, process engineering, and reliability teams that need high-frequency data access and contextualization for reporting and analytics. It differentiates through tight integration with AspenTech’s operations and optimization applications and its focus on industrial data acquisition and historian functions.
Industrial time-series data historian
IP.21 is designed to capture and retain high-volume, high-frequency operational data from plant and field systems. It supports common historian use cases such as trend analysis, event investigation, and operational reporting. This makes it a foundational layer for oil and gas organizations that need consistent access to real-time and historical process data. It is typically deployed as shared infrastructure across multiple sites or business units.
Broad connectivity to OT sources
The product is built to interface with operational technology environments, including control systems and data acquisition layers. This helps teams consolidate data that would otherwise remain siloed across different assets and vendors. In practice, this reduces manual data collection for engineering and operations workflows. It also supports downstream consumption by analytics and optimization tools.
Ecosystem integration within AspenTech
IP.21 commonly serves as the data backbone for other AspenTech applications used for monitoring, control, and performance improvement. This can simplify architecture when an organization standardizes on AspenTech for operations and optimization. It also supports consistent data definitions and reuse across multiple applications. For users already using AspenTech tooling, this reduces integration effort compared with assembling separate components.
Not a production accounting system
Although it stores operational measurements, IP.21 is not primarily designed for production accounting, revenue allocation, or regulatory reporting workflows. Organizations typically need additional applications for allocation, custody transfer accounting, and financial reconciliation. Using a historian alone can leave gaps in audit trails and business-rule-driven calculations. This matters for upstream teams expecting end-to-end production management capabilities.
Implementation and administration overhead
Deploying and maintaining a real-time historian environment often requires specialized skills in OT integration, data modeling, and system administration. Data quality, tag governance, and performance tuning can become ongoing operational tasks. Larger multi-site rollouts can add complexity around standards and change control. This can increase total cost of ownership compared with lighter-weight data tools.
Analytics requires additional tooling
IP.21 primarily focuses on data capture, storage, and retrieval rather than advanced analytics and machine learning. Users typically pair it with separate visualization, reporting, or optimization products to deliver higher-level insights. As a result, organizations may need additional licensing and integration work to meet modern analytics expectations. This can lengthen time-to-value for data science or enterprise KPI initiatives.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise / Contact Sales | Contact sales (no public pricing listed) | Aspen InfoPlus.21 is sold as an enterprise-class, configurable historian. AspenTech does not publish public list prices on the product site; pricing depends on deployment, license model, number of data points/tags, required modules, support/maintenance and professional services. Contact AspenTech North American Sales at 1.855.882.7736 or info@aspentech.com for a quote. A web-based free trial is offered for evaluation (InfoPlus.21 appears on AspenTech's online trial product list). |
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Aspen Technology, Inc. (AspenTech), a subsidiary of Emerson Electric Co.
Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
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