Microsoft Azure IoT Edge vs. TrendMiner

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.

Incentivized

Well suited for: - Company/refinery-wide views/dashboards covering a range of data sources with drill-down ability - Event monitoring and event analysis with ContextHub views - Online monitors for notification of significant event with included links to get an overview of the supporting data with views and dashboards Expected improvements/enhancements: - Expansion of the list of supported functions for calculations - Expansion of the number of dependent levels for calculations - Auto-saving on applications - Documentation of work and Subject Matter Expert knowledge on what applications do and why

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Generally easy to use and intuitive and a very good self-service tool. Because of the wide range of data sources we have, it is a good tool for an easy access to lots of our refining data. Some improvements would be welcome relative to replicating similar applications or folders, bulk copying several items

Incentivized

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

Seeq was considered a superior tool, but the pricing structure is extremely ill suited for our needs. TrendMiner's overall support (previoulsy done using "Chat with me" and subsequently with the TrendMiner Community is second to none - outstanding TrendMiner engineers were the only one who seriously helped us implement a solid governance model with tag usage tracing

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized