SCADA Systems
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems (also called SCADA software) monitors the transfer of data between software and industrial machinery. +Show More
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SIMATIC WinCC |
Leader
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Windows
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Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100k-1m employees
Company's social media followers
7m-8m followers
Features
Supported OS
Windows
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AVEVA Edge |
Leader
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Windows, Linux
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Formerly known as InduSoft Web Studio.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
1-5 employees
Company's social media followers
50-100 followers
Features
Supported OS
Windows
Linux |
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iFix |
Leader
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Windows
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Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100k-1m employees
Company's social media followers
5m-6m followers
Features
Supported OS
Windows
Company
Type of company
private
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CIMPLICITY |
Leader
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Windows
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Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100k-1m employees
Company's social media followers
5m-6m followers
Features
Supported OS
Windows
Company
Type of company
private
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Ignition SCADA |
Leader
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Windows, MacOS, Linux, Thin Client
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Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's social media followers
4k-5k followers
Features
Supported OS
Windows
MacOS Linux Thin Client |
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iX HMI |
Challenger
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Windows
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Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
400-1k employees
Company's social media followers
10k-20k followers
Features
Supported OS
Windows
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
1981
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Aveva InTouch |
Challenger
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Windows
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Formerly known as Wonderware InTouch.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
5k-10k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Features
Supported OS
Windows
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Softpro |
Challenger
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Windows
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Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's social media followers
50-100 followers
# of funding rounds
2
Latest funding date
May 1, 2021
Features
Supported OS
Windows
Company
Type of company
public
Founding year
1999
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IoTView |
Niche Player
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Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
1-5 employees
Company's social media followers
50-100 followers
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CODESYS Visualization |
Niche Player
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-
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Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
1-5 employees
Company's social media followers
100-200 followers
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“-”: AIMultiple team has not yet verified that vendor provides the specified feature. AIMultiple team focuses on feature verification for top 10 vendors.
Sources
AIMultiple uses these data sources for ranking solutions and awarding badges in SCADA systems:
SCADA Leaders
According to the weighted combination of 4 metrics
What are SCADA
customer satisfaction leaders?
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current SCADA customer satisfaction leaders:
Which SCADA solution provides the most customer satisfaction?
AIMultiple uses product and service reviews from multiple review platforms in determining customer satisfaction.
While deciding a product's level of customer satisfaction, AIMultiple takes into account its number of reviews, how reviewers rate it and the recency of reviews.
- Number of reviews is important because it is easier to get a small number of high ratings than a high number of them.
- Recency is important as products are always evolving.
- Reviews older than 5 years are not taken into consideration
- older than 12 months have reduced impact in average ratings in line with their date of publishing.
What are SCADA
market leaders?
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current SCADA market leaders:
Which SCADA products published the most case studies?
We analyzed 156 SCADA case studies and found that these products are the top contributors:
- ANSYS Discovery SpaceClaim
- Cogent DataHub
Which one has collected the most reviews?
AIMultiple uses multiple datapoints in identifying market leaders:
- Product line revenue (when available)
- Number of reviews
- Number of case studies
- Number and experience of employees
- Social media presence and engagement
What are SCADA feature leaders?
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current rpa software feature leaders.
Which one offers the most features?
Ignition SCADA, AVEVA Edge, SIMATIC WinCC offer the most feature complete products.
What are the most mature SCADA systems?
Which one has the most employees?
Which SCADA companies have the most employees?
279 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 256 more than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.
In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 24 companies with >10 employees are offering scada systems. Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 400k employees. The largest company in this domain is Siemens Medical Solutions with more than 200,000 employees. Siemens Medical Solutions provides the SCADA solution: SIMATIC WinCC
Insights
What are the most common words describing SCADA systems?
This data is collected from customer reviews for all SCADA companies. The most positive word describing SCADA systems is “Easy to use” that is used in 13% of the reviews. The most negative one is “Difficult” with which is used in 5% of all the SCADA reviews.
What is the average customer size?
According to customer reviews, most common company size for SCADA customers is 1-50 Employees. Customers with 1-50 Employees make up 38% of SCADA customers. For an average Manufacturing Analytics Software solution, customers with 1-50 Employees make up 37% of total customers.
Customer Evaluation
These scores are the average scores collected from customer reviews for all SCADA systems. SCADA Systems are most positively evaluated in terms of "Value For Money" but falls behind in "Ease of Use".
What are the benefits of SCADA?
The most commonly cited benefits of SCADA are:
- Cost saving
- Downtime reduction
- Improved data collection
- Increased security
- 24/7 availability
Discover all SCADA benefits
Where are SCADA vendors' HQs located?
Trends
What is the level of interest in SCADA systems?
This category was searched on average for 40.5k times per month on search engines in 2024. This number has decreased to 0 in 2025. If we compare with other manufacturing analytics software solutions, a typical solution was searched 0 times in 2024 and this is still to 0 in 2025.