Microsoft Azure IoT Edge vs. SAP IoT Application Enablement

Deployment of mission critical business support solutions particularly those that support virtual learning and video conferencing environments. This is because they help organisations such as the university to effectively transition to a digitally compliant organisation.

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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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• It works even if there is no internet at client location. It will record all the generated data and only send them to cloud storage when there is internet connection.
• It allows you to bring cloud functionality down to Edge location in the form of docker container.
• It also supports two way communication from device to cloud and vice-versa.

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• 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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• For some reason, the containerized architecture was also making this very hard
• Had some issues when debugging edge modules, needs a professional grade remote debugging
• Industrial automation still requires attention. OPC-UA was good but Modbus or custom PLCs etc was painful to set up

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• 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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Most of the time it works perfectly, does not require any attention, but when there is a problem, it's really hard to diagnose it. I think the documentation for the positive scenarios are good on the Microsoft side, but for negative scenarios, I don't think there is enough community help out there, in my opinion.

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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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The reason Behind this is the cost, as Microsoft provides solutions and integrations of services cheaper than AWS.

• Very valuable return on investment for IT capex committed to the deployment
• Improvements in overall organisational efficiency and agility
• Repositioning the organisation to become digitally transformed

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• 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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