CognitOps Align vs. SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence

SAP MII is great at what it's meant to do. It provides insight into the industrial IoT data being generated by a plant/factory and can even provide intelligent analysis as well. However, it is a bit niche and really only needs to be implemented if your use case requires those specific services.

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• 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.

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• SAP MII is contained within SAP ME and that can complicate the landscape.
• As with other SAP technologies, the documentation is stored in disparate systems (support, help, notes etc).

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If a proper UI5-based implementation is done, the system works at best if a proper application server and database exist. However, from a customization perspective and an easy-to-implement application-from-scratch perspective, MII is top-notch compared to the other mentioned systems. SAP ME sits on top of SAP MII as a foundation.

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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.

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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.

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• MII is one of the highly successful products in manufacturing space from SAP
• Operations always got benefit out of it from a single system
• Customizations to Meet unique requirements are always possible

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