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Feature Set Ratings
- ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 1 feature set: Customization
- ABB Ability Solution Suite and Expandable are tied in 4 feature sets: Security, Inventory Management, Order Management, Supply Chain
Customization
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%
8.0
Expandable
80%
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 2/2 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 2/2 features
API for custom integration
10.0
100%
1 Rating
8.0
80%
1 Rating
Plug-ins
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Security
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%
10.0
Expandable
100%
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 2/2 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 2/2 features
Single sign-on capability
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Role-based user permissions
10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Inventory Management
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%
10.0
Expandable
100%
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 3/3 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 3/3 features
Inventory tracking
10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Location management
10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Manufacturing module
10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Order Management
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%
10.0
Expandable
100%
Expandable ranks higher in 6/6 features
Expandable ranks higher in 6/6 features
Pricing
10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Order entry
10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Cost of goods sold
10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating
End-to-end order visibility
10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Order exception Resolution
10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Order Orchestration
N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Project Execution Management
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%
Expandable
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 15/15 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 15/15 features
Project Planning and Scheduling
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Project Manager Dashboard
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Resource Manager Dashboard
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Project Manager Mobile Functionality
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Team Member Task Collaboration
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Team Member Mobile Functionality
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Project Candidate Search
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Project Candidate Comparison and Analysis
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Defineable Resource Pools
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Defineable Resource Pools
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Talent Profiles
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Real-Time Project Reporting
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Absence Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Manufacturing
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%
Expandable
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 9/9 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 9/9 features
Production Process Design
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Supply Chain Business Flows
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Production Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Contracted Manufacturing Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Configuration Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Work Definition
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Work Execution
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Advanced Fulfillment
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Supply Chain
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%
10.0
Expandable
100%
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 4/4 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 4/4 features
Forecasting
10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Inventory Planning
10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Multi-tier Supply Chain Planning
10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Performance Monitoring
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%
Expandable
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 7/7 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 7/7 features
Ideation Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Requirements Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Proposal Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Innovation Portfolio Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Product Master Data Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Vendor Portal
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Project Portfolio Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
ABB Ability Solution Suite
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
8.7
Expandable
87%
Expandable ranks higher in 3/3 features
Expandable ranks higher in 3/3 features
Dashboards
N/A
0 Ratings
7.0
70%
1 Rating
Standard reports
N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
90%
1 Rating
Custom reports
N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
ABB Ability Solution Suite
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
9.0
Expandable
90%
Expandable ranks higher in 2/2 features
Expandable ranks higher in 2/2 features
Accounts payable
N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
90%
1 Rating
Accounts receivable
N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
90%
1 Rating
Subledger and Financial Process
ABB Ability Solution Suite
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
10.0
Expandable
100%
Expandable ranks higher in 1/1 features
Expandable ranks higher in 1/1 features
Period Close
N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Grants Management
ABB Ability Solution Suite
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
10.0
Expandable
100%
Expandable ranks higher in 2/2 features
Expandable ranks higher in 2/2 features
Award Lifecycle Management
N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Indirect Cost Management
N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Attribute Ratings
- ABB Ability Solution Suite is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%
1 Rating
7.0
Expandable
70%
1 Rating
Usability
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%
1 Rating
Expandable
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%
1 Rating
Expandable
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
ABB Ability Solution Suite
Of course this is the one of the best solution available in the market at present. When you have Multiple system in a plant then you need a powerful tool for Computation which Ability does it smoothly.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesExpandable
Expandable fits our companies needs quite well to manage inventory, sales orders, and purchasing. We recently started to also use Expandable to track ECN changes. The ECN functionality is a little limited in the fact it is difficult to add descriptions or parts affected after it has been implemented. I would recommend having an additional program for managing ECN history

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employeesPros
ABB Ability Solution Suite
- Computation of data.
- Presentation to right person.
- Ability to perform critical task and sending to users.
- Multiple control system connectivity.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesExpandable
- Great way for everyone on the team to see the same information - sales orders, inventory, purchase orders etc
- The support team is always very responsive!!
- Very customizable to create links between screens

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employeesCons
ABB Ability Solution Suite
- May be for smaller PLCs this can't be implemented.
- Cost may an area ABB can look in to.
- Improvement in GUI

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesExpandable
- Data entry on certain tasks can be very tedious (for example effected parts on an ECN)
- Sometimes data connections for upload are very slow or just flat out fail multiple times. The problem is intermittent so difficult for support to track and fix
- Certain fields cannot be pulled on a report and require engineering time to create a process to add functionality. It would be nice to have unfiltered access to all fields

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employeesPricing Details
ABB Ability Solution Suite
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Expandable
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Usability
ABB Ability Solution Suite
ABB Ability Solution Suite 10.0
Based on 1 answer
One of the best solutions in the market with a user-friendly system. This is very useful when the ABB system (Like we had 800xA) is there, new or existing; all the ABB systems can be integrated using this rather than going to a 3rd party vendor, which may have interface problems.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesExpandable
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
ABB Ability Solution Suite
ABB Ability Solution Suite 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Good support in terms of quality and promptness. When we had problems with some of the commands not getting executed, their online support also provided a good solution to solve the problem. Even mission-critical task we were able to solve during this Pandemic time. The suggestion is to go for the online support 1st in the future, followed by a visit.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesExpandable
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
ABB Ability Solution Suite
Better suited for the ABB System as Microsoft is a third party for ABB Control System.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesExpandable
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
ABB Ability Solution Suite
- Positive is definitely ROI since manual intervention is minimized and the process is automated.
- Cost wise, ABB has been looked upon considering the small industry.
- Overall, a good solution for a large companies.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesExpandable
- Helps to provide accurate lead times to customers.
- Accurate revision recording for customer support

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees