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SAP IoT Application Enablement

Score9 out of 10

2 Reviews and Ratings

What is SAP IoT Application Enablement?

SAP IoT Application Enablement supports the development of Internet of things applications basically by linking UI elements to IoT data to create a digital representation, and provides extensibility to the SAP Cloud Platform.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • IoT Device Management

    Software for provisioning configuring, troubleshooting and managing IoT devices and gateways remotely.

    Category average: 8.5

  • IoT Analytics

    Rich analytics to transform large quantities of sensor data into actionable insights.

    Category average: 7.8

  • IoT Integration

    Software integration and APIs to support business processes and applications.

    Category average: 8

Areas for Improvement

  • Device Security

    Security to prevent connected devices from being hacked or compromised.

    Category average: 8.3

  • IoT Data Management

    Support for ingesting edge data and storing it to enterprise platforms, providing data accessibility, and managing data flows.

    Category average: 8.4

Enabling the future of IoT applications

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • I believe SAP is currently combining IoT Application Enablement into SAP Leonardo IoT. It will be worth seeing what extra features are available then.

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Other Software Used

Slack, SAP HANA, Amazon WorkSpaces (VDI), Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, Cisco AnyConnect