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Tool Sprawl Risk Audit — Industrial IoT Platforms

Find out how much spreadsheet and SaaS sprawl is costing Industrial IoT Platforms — and where a purpose-built internal tool pays off.

Signs of tool sprawl in Industrial IoT Platforms

  • Legacy PLC and SCADA integration is the platform's largest hidden cost — every plant has a different mix of Rockwell, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Honeywell, and Yokogawa equipment with different protocols (Modbus, Profinet, Ethernet/IP, OPC UA), and the connector work is never done.
  • The OT/IT divide is real and political — plant operations teams own the equipment and don't trust IT-led cloud platforms, IT teams own the cloud and don't trust unsigned firmware on the floor, and the platform sits in the middle with neither team as a willing sponsor.
  • Industrial IoT has a credibility problem from the GE Predix era — every CIO who lived through a $50M Predix or Siemens MindSphere program that never produced operating value is suspicious of the next platform's promises, and the burden of proof is high.
  • Edge compute is hard — the customer's plant has marginal connectivity, intermittent latency, and physical constraints (heat, dust, vibration), and the platform's architecture has to run real ML at the edge, not just stream data to the cloud.
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Source of Truth

Whether your operational data lives in one place or is scattered across tools.

1.Where does your core operational data live?
2.How many tools/spreadsheets hold 'the truth' for one workflow?

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