A robust platform with innovative drag and drop dashboard capabilities
November 25, 2019

A robust platform with innovative drag and drop dashboard capabilities

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence

We started using SAP MII as an integration tool between SAP ERP and IoT in conjunction with SAP Plant Connectivity. It was only used by our development department and used to investigate the feasibility of creating dashboards for shop floor users. The objective was to have IoT devices in a warehouse send tag value with MQTT to an interactive dashboard developed in SAP MII.

Pros

  • Dashboard creation was made easy through the use of the integrated drag-and-drop SSCE (Self Service Composition Environment).
  • The sample SVG files help with creating custom animated SVG objects.
  • A wide range of KPIs can be integrated to trigger alerts and alarms.

Cons

  • Using the plant connector and setting up a proper stable connection proved challenging.
  • Defining the tags and subscription aliases in the workbench took a lot of time.
  • Documentation is somewhat outdated and difficult to come by.
  • Provided a tool to visualize data points on the interactive dashboards.
  • Provided a platform to integrate IoT through MQTT with SAP ERP.
  • Provided valuable feedback through the use of KPIs.
SAP MII is a robust platform for data visualization and data integration. It isn't very intuitive and has the shortcomings explained throughout the review. It still uses old Java versions which is incompatible with updated versions. The SAP ME and SAP CP provide cloud-based solutions that seem to provide a more innovative approach.
Documentation on some of our implementations was lacking. As an example, creating the query that reads the tag is explained through the documentation but this only explains very specific data models. Other models are not explained and take time to debug. Customer support was willing to help and an official note was created after we found some issues with the integration tools.

Do you think SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence's feature set?

Yes

Did SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence again?

Yes

SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence as a stand-alone platform seems to be quite powerful with a wide range of capabilities and integration options. The integration itself proved to be challenging which was mentioned before. We also had some issues with delays in data queries which resulted in delays of the visual representation on the SSCE dashboards.

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