SAP Leonardo IoT vs. Watson IoT Platform

I feel like in the production environment or on a manufacturing line, SAP Leonardo IoT is well suited,\ because it can provide your client with specific, real-time data that can add business value to your company. Either by knowing if machines are broken, or if you see improved efficiency, there are scenarios where SAP IoT can certainly help your business add automation and therefore increase your company's value proposition.

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As long as we have a clear understanding of the "real" pain points-- and that involves gathering both structured and unstructured data-drawing conclusions-- Watson IoT has a role to play. The area I am most keen on that a move the Watson can help achieve would be to go from preventative maintenance, to predictive maintenance, to eventually prescriptive maintenance.

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• Live insights
• Optimize processes
• Predictive analytics

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• The asset information is available in both static and dynamic format (from thermal images, to OEM data, to time series data). The ability to ingest all the information using a single platform has great value.
• Another benefit is a seamless integration with Maximo. This has been a challenge with other 3rd party systems available.
• The experience of IBM Maximo systems updates is positive.

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• It is sometimes confusing to navigate the portal where IoT resides. It is not super clear all of the time where to go to find certain tabs, like tenants, etc.
• It sometimes feels like there should be more within the platform, but it feels like things are missing (or just hard to find).

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• Some of the tutorials could use a little more improvement - While there is a considerable amount of documentation, most of the good documentation for Watson IoT we found to be from third-parties.
• Administration and billing tools could use a bit more improvement - The UI is a bit clunky and poorly-designed here.
• Be prepared to work with IBM support to get this going - Their turn-around support for inquiries can be lengthy, and setup time may also be quite lengthy because of this.

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SAP always equals excellent support. This is not an exception. We've used the SAP help portal to find an answer or to contact SAP Support.

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We considered AWS IoT but finally, we chose SAP Leonardo IoT because we have many other SAP products in our company.

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AWS offers an "IoT" product that similarly connects devices securely to centralize data exchange, predict downtime, and overall increase the efficiency of an IoT infrastructure. Like some of the other AWS products, the documentation is lacking and UI is quite hard to use, which is why we chose to use IBM Watson instead.

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• It manages data and in return it provide the summarized data of total investment.
• It is data hub of all assets that being being utilized with the organization.

• Positive - This tool greatly increases most company's manufacturing and production efficiency, and the use-cases are extensive. It was a great way of decreasing down-time for us.
• Negative - Took lots of work and energy to get up and running, we had to rely on IBM support and tutorials many times during this process.
• Positive - Quite cheap, most of the tiers of pricing cost very little, and it's possible to use Watson IoT for a few months for free to see if it is beneficial for your company.

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