JFrog Connect vs. ThingsBoard vs. ThingWorx

As a fast growing startup upswift has supported us from early prototyping through field testing and now scale-up of market ready products. It has allowed us to get to production at least a few months earlier had we tried to tackle these problems on our own.

Immediate installation on cloud VM

ThingWorx is great if you want to create an MES-like solution for your company, but have data coming not only from the plant floor, but also from databases, azure, and others. You can seamlessly integrate those data and create reports like visuals and mashups. It is also a great solution if you have multiple plants and need to monitor everyone simultaneously and even compare results between locations. ThingWorx is not recommended if all you need is a BI solution, it is not a reporting software and it should not be used as it.

Incentivized

• Accelerates remote management for iot devices
• Allows for remote upgrades and fleet management
• Alerts us when devices go offline allowing us to be more proactive with our customers

• API integration
• users management
• easy to use
• great UI
• Easy to upgrade
• Few configuration task

• Quick monitoring of extraordinary behaviour of a monitored component
• As the Kepware tools and libraries have become more integrated, the platform has an unrivalled set of interface solutions.
• Modelling is simple enough to explain to non-specialists but very powerful in its expression.

Incentivized

• Nothing at this stage

• MicroPython Library not yet available for downlink DATA

• The MQTT interface needs improvement, its crashed during development of new entities on a frequent basis.
• The standard time series and trend tools are very basic and dont compare well with Top-end historians but its possible with some relative easy interfacing to use 3rd party applications.
• Care, forethought and experience is required when building complex applications, it's difficult to delete entities once the network becomes large and complex. N+Maintaining synchronicity between multiple dev and productions systems has to be carefully managed.

Incentivized

We started more than a year ago and do not plan to replace it

Incentivized

Experienced and knowledgeable customer support executives, Thingworx is a very large product and contains a myriad of features which is not easy to remember without enough training or hands-on experience

Incentivized

near to Zero Conf

I haven't really found any other product or service which does the same as UpSwift, therefore I have not needed to look for alternative products

AWS -> too loud :)

Azure and Oracle IoT and Thingworx all provide very good support and very easy analytics when it comes to data streams. ThingWorx and Azure both have very good security and provide a robust set of capabilities. However, ThingWorx's main advantage is its built-in templates for custom apps that are industry-agnostic unlike many of its peers.

Incentivized

• Ability to scale our network

• TB CE is real production tool
• TB CE is quite the same as TB PE so move to PE is easier

• The use of ThingWorx as a near-complete, full-stack industry 4.0 solution has been at the forefront of recent and ongoing research.