In Software AG’s TrendMiner 2023.R4 release, the integration of data sources is simplified to accelerate IT/OT convergence. This builds on improvements that extended support for cloud-based solutions and added the ability to visualize event and batch process data from AspenTech APRM. This 2023.R4 release simplifies connections to ODBC and JDBC data sources. Admins can specify details about time-series data and assign a source a tag. For contextual data, they can add queries to extract the desired information from the data source. The update also includes a new schedule manager which allows admins to configure settings to provide schedules that account for regional, seasonal, or geographical differences.