Category
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Features
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Benefits
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Managing Connected Products and Systems
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Provisioning
• IoT application to load, individually or in bulk, asset and device-specific data such as serial number, nameplate, and other information
• Register and activate new devices in the system
• Create, read, update, and delete unique records associated with devices and assets
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• Efficiently defines the attributes associated with unique instances of new intelligent assets as they are created
• Ensures that remote products can be easily connected and remotely managed and supports lifecycle use cases of connected devices
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Alert Management
• View and manage active alerts, alert history, alert details
• Change thresholds on individual alerts and manage enabled/disabled alerts
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• Allows application developers to create connected solutions with embedded alert management capabilities into other applications
• Easy-to-use alert rule editor for business analysts to create rules that can perform actions such that trigger notifications or launch business processes
• Provides the ability to view and manage alerts at scale
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Asset Management
• Asset dashboard displaying current device status
• Search for and filter assets
• Display all relevant asset data at a glance
• View charts of current and historic data
• Asset visibility permissions administration
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• Easily view and manage assets
• Convenient access to current and historical asset data
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Remote Access and Control
• Remotely and securely access machines and devices
• Execute bi-directional file transfers
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• Easily and securely provides business analysts and line-of-business users with ready access to critical information about connected products and devices
• Allows users to remotely monitor and manage connected devices and perform actions to troubleshoot problems, provide operator assistance, perform training, and support other IoT product use cases
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Software Content Management
• Remotely create, schedule, and manage deployment of software packages to connected products
• Deployment dashboard to track progress and monitor results of software distribution
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• Enables efficient, secure, reliable, and cost-effective mass distribution of software modules, such as application and operating systems updates and upgrades, patches, and documentation
• Ability to easily create, manage, and audit a package of software files for securely pushing content to devices
• Ability to quickly identify a selected set of targeted assets to control software distribution
• Ability to enable and configure automatic retries for deployments
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Process Workflow
• Create, edit, and manage business processes associated with connected devices
• Supports processes composed of one or more steps including activities and decision points with branching
• Supports decision logic including human intervention, rules, web services, and analytics
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• Drag and drop interface allows non-developers to quickly create powerful business processes to manage connected devices, products, and systems
• Allows ready visibility to progress and status of business processes with ability search, filter, and audit
• Provides a notation readily understandable by business users – from the business analysts that create the initial drafts of the processes, to the technical developers responsible for implementing the technology that performs the processes, and finally, to the users who manage and monitor the processes
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Deployment Options
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Choose from:
• Cloud deployment
• On-premises
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Offers flexibility to best fit your deployment preferences and requirements.
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Integration Hub
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• Standard integration framework for creating and implementing reusable system connectors
• Out-of-the-box data model and related services for manufactured things with pre-defined thing shapes, thing templates, and things
• Abstraction layer between data sources and the consuming applications
• Extendable model so new elements and services can be easily added
• Out-of-the-box sample reference integration to Salesforce
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• Quickly integrate existing business systems with IoT applications using pre-built and reusable connectors
• Provides a foundation for developing solutions that requires data from multiple systems
• Allows rapid integration development
• Connects business processes and people with systems sharing consistent IoT-related information across the enterprise
• Makes the value of smart, connected products broadly available throughout the enterprise and allows companies to fully realize the benefit of their investment in IoT initiatives
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