SCADA Systems

Last update: December 27, 2024

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems (also called SCADA software) monitors the transfer of data between software and industrial machinery. +Show More

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems (also called SCADA software) monitors the transfer of data between software and industrial machinery. It is mostly used for manufacturing, utility management, and facility management processes to control industrial equipment across multiple locations.

If you’d like to learn about the ecosystem consisting of SCADA Systems and others, feel free to check AIMultiple Manufacturing Analytics Software.
How relevant, verifiable metrics drive AIMultiple’s rankings

AIMultiple uses relevant & verifiable metrics to evaluate vendors.

Metrics are selected based on typical enterprise procurement processes ensuring that market leaders, fast-growing challengers, feature-complete solutions and cost-effective solutions are ranked highly so they can be shortlisted.
Data regarding these metrics are collected from public sources as outlined in the “What are AIMultiple’s data sources?” section of this page.


There are 2 ways in which vendor metrics are processed to help prioritization:
1- Vendors are grouped within 4 metrics (customer satisfaction, market presence, growth and features) according to their performance in that metric.
2- Vendors that perform high in these metrics are ranked higher in the list.


The data used in each vendor’s ranking can be accessed by expanding the vendor’s row in the below list.
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Products Position Supported OS
SIMATIC WinCC logo

SIMATIC WinCC

Leader
Windows
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.50 / 5 based on ~70 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100k-1m employees
Company's social media followers
7m-8m followers
Features
Supported OS
Windows
AVEVA Edge logo

AVEVA Edge

Leader
Windows, Linux
Formerly known as InduSoft Web Studio.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.50 / 5 based on ~50 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
1-5 employees
Company's social media followers
50-100 followers
Features
Supported OS
Windows
Linux
iFix logo

iFix

Leader
Windows
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.10 / 5 based on ~10 reviews
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
CIMPLICITY logo

CIMPLICITY

Leader
Windows
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.00 / 5 based on ~30 reviews
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
Ignition SCADA logo

Ignition SCADA

Leader
Windows, MacOS, Linux, Thin Client
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.70 / 5 based on ~10 reviews
Market presence
Company's social media followers
4k-5k followers
Features
Supported OS
Windows
MacOS
Linux
Thin Client
iX HMI logo

iX HMI

Challenger
Windows
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.40 / 5 based on 4 reviews
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
Aveva InTouch logo

Aveva InTouch

Challenger
Windows
Formerly known as Wonderware InTouch.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.70 / 5 based on 3 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
5k-10k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Features
Supported OS
Windows
Softpro logo

Softpro

Challenger
Windows
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.00 / 5 based on 3 reviews
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
IoTView logo

IoTView

Niche Player
-
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.80 / 5 based on 2 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
1-5 employees
Company's social media followers
50-100 followers
CODESYS Visualization logo

CODESYS Visualization

Niche Player
-
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
3.50 / 5 based on 2 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
1-5 employees
Company's social media followers
100-200 followers

“-”: 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:


44 vendor web domains
156 case studies
28 funding announcements
85 social media profiles
67 profiles on review platforms
54 search engine queries

SCADA Leaders

According to the weighted combination of 4 metrics

SIMATIC WinCC logo
AVEVA Edge logo
iFix logo
CIMPLICITY logo
Ignition SCADA logo

What are SCADA
customer satisfaction leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current SCADA customer satisfaction leaders:

SIMATIC WinCC logo
AVEVA Edge logo
CIMPLICITY logo
Ignition SCADA logo
iFix logo

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:

SIMATIC WinCC logo
AVEVA Edge logo
iFix logo
CIMPLICITY logo
Ignition SCADA logo

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
Out of these, number of reviews information is available for all products and is summarized in the graph:

SIMATIC WinCC
AVEVA Edge
CIMPLICITY
iFix
Ignition SCADA

What are SCADA feature leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current rpa software feature leaders.

Ignition SCADA logo
AVEVA Edge logo
SIMATIC WinCC logo
Aveva InTouch logo
CIMPLICITY logo

Which one offers the most features?

Ignition SCADA, AVEVA Edge, SIMATIC WinCC offer the most feature complete products.

See how features are counted.

Ignition SCADA
4 features
AVEVA Edge
2 features
SIMATIC WinCC
1 feature
Aveva InTouch
1 feature
CIMPLICITY
1 feature

What are the most mature SCADA systems?

Which one has the most employees?

Siemens Medical Solutions logo
GE logo
Saia PCD Supervisor logo
Honeywell logo
Emerson Electric logo

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

Siemens Medical Solutions
GE
Saia PCD Supervisor
Honeywell
Emerson Electric

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".

Overall
Customer Service
Ease of Use
Likelihood to Recommend
Value For Money

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?

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.