Five criteria for evaluating industrial analytics software tools
Smart Energy International
Posted on: 3 September 2025
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In the Manufacturing 4.0 era, industrial organisations have more data at their fingertips than ever before, offering the promise of higher production rates, greater quality consistency, and reduced costs through data-driven strategies.
Many businesses are standing between this promise of process optimisation and questions surrounding the right tools to harness this data effectively—a choice complicated by the shifting status of longtime standards OSIsoft’s ProcessBook and PI Vision applications.
What you will learn:
- Replacing ProcessBook
- Criteria for evaluating ProcessBook & PI Vision alternatives
- Integrating with PI Server
- Diagnostic analytics capabilities
- Operations management capabilities
- Advanced analytics capabilities
- Cost/pricing breakdowns
- Top choices for ProcessBook & PI Server alternatives
