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Microsoft Azure IoT Central vs. SAP IoT Application Enablement

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure IoT Central

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Azure IoT Central allows users to connect IoT devices to the cloud and offers centralized management to configure and updated connected devices.N/A

    SAP IoT Application Enablement

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASAP IoT Application Enablement supports the development of Internet of things applications basically by linking UI elements to IoT data to create a digital representation, and provides extensibility to the SAP Cloud Platform.N/A
    Pricing
    Azure IoT CentralSAP IoT Application Enablement
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Azure IoT CentralSAP IoT Application Enablement
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Azure IoT CentralSAP IoT Application Enablement
    Internet of Things
    Comparison of Internet of Things features of Microsoft Azure IoT Central and SAP IoT Application Enablement
    Feature
    Microsoft Azure IoT Central
    -
    Ratings
    SAP IoT Application Enablement
    7.6
    1 Ratings
    5% below category average
    IoT Device Management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Device Security00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    IoT Data Management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    IoT Analytics00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    IoT Integration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Azure IoT CentralSAP IoT Application Enablement
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    AWS IoT Core
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Enterprises
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    AWS IoT Core
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure IoT CentralSAP IoT Application Enablement
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure IoT CentralSAP IoT Application Enablement
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Azure IoT Central has native integrations with Visual Studio (like pretty much all Microsoft products) making it pretty simple to publish apps to Azure App Service, where you can host all sorts of different applications. It does a really good job of storing large amounts of data (for instance, collected from IoT devices with various sensors) and it gets stored to multiple DBs. Azure IoT Central could improve by adding more customizations, as this would make troubleshooting the products easier and make future costs smaller and easier to predict.
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    SAP
    IoT Application Enablement is particularly useful when developing SAP UI5 applications that consume and use IoT data. There are many such examples in a number of business areas such as logistics, inventory management, process management, asset management, and others. IoT data is a key source of fuel for the intelligent enterprise.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Documentation
    • Support
    • Good and approachable GUI
    • Many types of subscription configurations
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    SAP
    • Thing modeling is a particularly useful aspect of IoT Application Enablement.
    • IoT Application Enablement supports a large number of IoT communication standards and protocols.
    • It is quite easy to expose the Thing and IoT data as OData or other RESTful services
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • central application
    • smartphone app
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    SAP
    • I believe SAP is currently combining IoT Application Enablement into SAP Leonardo IoT. It will be worth seeing what extra features are available then.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    While it is a good product, I feel like with SAP Leonardo IoT there will be a lack of support for this specific product. If it becomes part of the whole then this will be a much higher rating as their support is excellent. I'm just cautious while they combine several products into one. I have not used SAP Leonardo IoT yet.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Before deciding to go with Microsoft Azure IoT Central, we considered Google, Datadog, and AWS alternatives. The reason we went with Azure was that the client was heavily invested in Microsoft technologies and Azure plays really well with other Microsoft products. The competitive products might be a little bit easier to set up, with more flexible pricing, but, the integrations with other Microsoft services were the deciding factor for our use case.
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    SAP
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • positive: connected huge number of machines as IoT devices and passed them through entire IoT pipeline until storage in a fairly short time
    • negative: we spent some time figuring out some "less-used" services because they aren't documented well
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    SAP
    • Being able to incorporate IoT data directly into web applications is quite valuable, both to our customers and to our business as well.
    • IoT data has helped us take advantage of other intelligent technologies such as machine learning.
    • Many of our clients are looking to integrate their devices into their workflows, and this technology is part of that solution.
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