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**Key Insight**: The OT/IT skills gap is our primary competitive advantage. **Key Insight**: The OT/IT skills gap is our primary competitive advantage.
## Competitor Categories ---
### 1. Enterprise Industrial IoT Platforms ## Competitor Categories - MSP Service Model Framework
**Market Segmentation by Service Model:**
- **Tier 1**: Major Platform Players (Equipment OEMs) - Enterprise focus, hardware-locked
- **Tier 2**: System Integrators & Consultants - Project-based, not recurring MSP
- **Tier 3**: Software Platform Vendors - Tools only, no managed services
- **Tier 4**: Digital Twin Specialists - High-end visualization, enterprise only
- **Tier 5**: OT Security Specialists - Cybersecurity focus, not production optimization
### The MSP Market Gap:
**Current State**: Market dominated by:
1. Equipment OEMs (Rockwell, Siemens) selling support for their own gear - expensive, enterprise-only
2. System Integrators (NFT, ITS) doing project work - not recurring MSP model
3. Software platforms (Ignition, IXON) selling tools but not managed services
**The Opportunity**: True MSP model (subscription-based, full-stack managed service) for mid-market manufacturers ($500-5k/month segment).
---
## TIER 1: Major Platform Players (Equipment Manufacturers)
### Rockwell Automation (Allen-Bradley)
**Services:**
- 24/7 remote monitoring
- Application Support services
- FactoryTalk Remote Access platform
- TechConnect support program
- Drive monitoring via Netbiter gateways
- Secure remote access platform
**Positioning:**
- Dominant in Allen-Bradley ecosystem
- Established support infrastructure
- Enterprise contracts with per-incident or annual pricing with limits
**Target Market:**
- Large manufacturers
- Oil/gas, mining, CPG
- Existing Rockwell install base
**Strengths:**
- Market leader in North America manufacturing
- Integrated architecture
- Strong brand in discrete manufacturing
- Deep OT expertise
- Existing customer relationships
**Weaknesses:**
- Very expensive (enterprise-only pricing)
- Rockwell hardware lock-in required
- Enterprise-only focus (ignores SMBs)
- Long implementation times (6-18 months)
- Per-incident pricing unpredictable
**Market Position**: Enterprise, Allen-Bradley installed base
**Our Advantage**:
- Hardware-agnostic (no vendor lock-in)
- 10x cheaper
- 10x faster deployment
- SMB-focused pricing ($500-5k/month vs their enterprise contracts)
- Subscription model vs per-incident fees
---
### Siemens (Insights Hub, formerly MindSphere)
**Services:**
- Industrial IoT-as-a-Service platform
- Asset performance management
- Predictive maintenance
- Digital twins
- Industrial Edge computing
- Remote SCADA solutions
**Positioning:**
- Cloud-based IIoT platform (AWS/Azure backbone)
- Open APIs and ecosystem
- Comprehensive IoT suite
- SIMATIC S7-1500V virtual PLC (launched April 2023)
- Tecnomatix / Xcelerator digital twin platform
**Target Market:**
- Large enterprises
- Smart manufacturing initiatives
- Industry 4.0 deployments
- Existing Siemens customers
**Strengths:**
- Global scale and presence
- Complete hardware + software integration
- 30+ years in industrial automation
- Strong in European markets
- Real-time performance
- Docker container-based deployment
**Weaknesses:**
- Massive complexity (requires huge IT investment)
- Very expensive ($50k-500k+ projects)
- Not suitable for SMBs
- Tied to Siemens hardware preferred
- Slow sales cycles (6-18 months)
- Siemens-centric ecosystem
**Pricing**: $50k-150k+ projects, enterprise licensing
**Market Position**: Enterprise, Siemens ecosyst em, Industry 4.0 leaders
**Our Advantage**:
- 10x cheaper
- 10x faster
- Hardware-agnostic (not tied to Siemens)
- SMB-focused
- Simpler deployment
- Edge-first vs cloud-first
---
### Schneider Electric (EcoStruxure)
**Services:**
- Remote SCADA solutions
- Telemetry and asset monitoring
- End-to-end remote infrastructure management
- Energy management expertise
- Machine Expert Twin (digital twin for OEMs)
**Positioning:**
- Modular approach to industrial IoT
- Strong in energy management
- Focus on sustainability and efficiency
**Target Market:**
- Critical infrastructure
- Oil/gas upstream operations
- Utilities
- Manufacturing OEMs
- Energy-focused enterprises
**Strengths:**
- Global presence
- Energy management expertise
- Modular, flexible architecture
- Hardware + software integration
**Weaknesses:**
- Still expensive for SMB
- Complex product lineup
- Enterprise-scale only
- Inflexible for small manufacturers
**Pricing**: Enterprise project-based
**Market Position**: Enterprise, energy-focused, critical infrastructure
**Our Advantage**:
- Simpler solutions
- Cheaper (SMB-accessible)
- Manufacturing-focused vs energy-focused
- Faster deployment
---
## TIER 2: System Integrators & Consultants
### Atlas OT (Atlas Operational Technology)
**Services:**
- Managed SCADA hosting (subscription-based)
- Remote monitoring and support
- PLC/HMI/DCS system modernization
- Legacy system upgrades
- Secure remote access
- Real-time monitoring
**Positioning:**
- Platform-agnostic approach
- Subscription-based hosted SCADA
- Focus on water/wastewater, building automation, industrial facilities
**Target Market:**
- Water/wastewater utilities
- Building automation
- Industrial facilities
- Mid-size organizations
**Strengths:**
- True MSP model (closest to our approach)
- Subscription pricing
- Platform-agnostic
- Legacy system expertise
- Full-stack managed service
**Weaknesses:**
- Regional/limited scale
- Limited to specific verticals (water/wastewater focus)
- Not focused on manufacturing
- Smaller team/resources
**Market Position**: Regional MSP, water/wastewater focus
**Our Advantage**:
- Manufacturing-specific expertise (vs their utility focus)
- OT/IT hybrid skills (PLC programming + cloud)
- Broader industry targeting
- Virtual PLC capabilities
- Edge-first architecture
---
### New Frontier Technologies (NFT)
**Services:**
- SCADA design and implementation
- Remote monitoring solutions
- Control room management
- IIoT integration
**Positioning:**
- Oil & Gas specialist (upstream/midstream/downstream)
- Water/Wastewater expertise
- Deep SCADA technical knowledge
**Target Market:**
- Oil & gas operations
- Water/wastewater facilities
- Process industries
**Strengths:**
- Deep SCADA expertise
- Vertical specialization (oil/gas)
- IIoT integration experience
- Strong technical capabilities
**Weaknesses:**
- Project-based work (not managed services/subscription)
- No recurring MSP model
- Limited to specific verticals
- Traditional consulting approach
**Market Position**: Project-based integrator, oil/gas specialist
**Our Advantage**:
- Recurring MSP/subscription model (vs their project-based)
- Manufacturing focus (broader than their oil/gas niche)
- Managed services (we handle ongoing support)
- Faster, more affordable
---
### ITS (Intelligent Technical Solutions)
**Services:**
- PLC/HMI programming
- SCADA installation and maintenance
- Onsite/offsite calibration
- Multi-brand support (Allen-Bradley, GE, Siemens, Modicon)
**Positioning:**
- One-stop automation shop
- Platform-agnostic
- Traditional systems integrator
**Target Market:**
- General industrial
- Manufacturing facilities
- Discrete and process industries
**Strengths:**
- Multi-brand support
- Comprehensive automation services
- Experienced technical team
- Established relationships
**Weaknesses:**
- Traditional project-based model (not MSP)
- No subscription services
- No virtual PLC or cloud offerings
- Reactive service model
**Market Position**: Traditional integrator, general manufacturing
**Our Advantage**:
- MSP/subscription model (recurring revenue)
- Virtual PLC and cloud expertise
- Proactive monitoring (vs their reactive service)
- Modern edge/cloud architecture
---
## TIER 3: Software Platform Vendors
### Ignition SCADA (Inductive Automation)
**Services:**
- Unlimited licensing model
- Web-based SCADA platform
- Mobile access
- Built on open standards (Python, SQL, OPC-UA)
**Positioning:**
- Disruptor in SCADA licensing (unlimited tags)
- Popular with system integrators
- Strong community
**Target Market:**
- System integrators
- DIY industrial companies
- Manufacturing facilities wanting to self-manage
**Strengths:**
- Affordable licensing ($7.5k-15k perpetual)
- Unlimited tags (vs traditional per-tag pricing)
- Web-based, modern UI
- Active community
- Flexible and extensible
**Weaknesses:**
- No managed services (software only)
- Requires technical expertise to deploy
- Customer must self-manage
- No OT consultation included
- DIY approach
**Market Position**: Software platform, DIY crowd
**Our Opportunity**:
- We can USE Ignition as our SCADA platform
- Provide managed service on top (turnkey deployment + support)
- OT expertise and integration services
- Ongoing management and optimization
---
### IXON Cloud
**Services:**
- Remote access to industrial equipment
- VPN-less secure connectivity
- Data logging and visualization
- Industrial IoT platform
**Positioning:**
- Cloud-first remote access
- OEM and machine builder focus
- Subscription-based platform
**Target Market:**
- OEMs needing remote machine access
- Machine builders
- Equipment manufacturers
- Service technicians
**Strengths:**
- Easy remote access
- No VPN complexity
- Good for distributed assets
- Subscription model
- Secure connectivity
**Weaknesses:**
- Software platform only (no managed services)
- Limited to remote access and data logging
- No virtual PLC capabilities
- No comprehensive monitoring/analytics
- Customer must configure and manage
**Market Position**: Remote access platform, OEM focus
**Our Advantage**:
- Full managed service (vs just software)
- Comprehensive monitoring + analytics
- Virtual PLC capabilities
- OT expertise and consulting
- Edge computing architecture
---
### Kepware (PTC)
**Services:**
- OPC servers and connectivity
- Protocol translation
- Industrial data acquisition
- Edge connectivity
**Positioning:**
- Industry standard for industrial connectivity
- Supports 150+ protocols
- Focus on data acquisition
**Target Market:**
- System integrators
- Manufacturing facilities
- Anyone needing protocol conversion
**Strengths:**
- Industry standard
- Massive protocol support
- Reliable and proven
- Well-documented
**Weaknesses:**
- Just connectivity software (no services)
- Requires expertise to configure
- Perpetual licensing (not subscription)
- No managed services
- No monitoring or analytics
**Market Position**: Connectivity middleware, integrator tool
**Our Opportunity**:
- Use Kepware as part of our stack
- Provide managed configuration and support
- Build monitoring/analytics on top
- Offer as managed service
---
## TIER 4: Digital Twin / Virtual Commissioning Market
**Market Size**: $21.14B (2025) → $149.81B (2030)
**CAGR**: 47.9% (!!!)
**Adoption**: 75% of manufacturers have implemented or planning digital twin initiatives
### NVIDIA Omniverse
**Services:**
- Advanced 3D simulation platform
- Real-time physics-based digital twins
- Collaborative virtual environments
- Universal Scene Description (USD) format
**Positioning:**
- Cutting-edge visualization and AI
- Real-time collaboration
- High-fidelity physics simulation
**Target Market:**
- Large enterprises
- Advanced visualization needs
- Collaborative design teams
- GPU-intensive applications
**Strengths:**
- State-of-the-art 3D/AI capabilities
- Real-time collaboration
- Universal standards
- NVIDIA GPU ecosystem
**Weaknesses:**
- Requires massive GPU resources
- Very expensive (enterprise pricing)
- Overkill for most SMBs
- Complex to implement and manage
- Steep learning curve
**Pricing**: Enterprise (high)
**Focus**: Advanced visualization, large enterprises
**Our Approach**: Phase 3 opportunity (not Phase 1 priority)
---
### Siemens Tecnomatix / Xcelerator
**Services:**
- Comprehensive digital twin platform
- Virtual commissioning
- Production simulation
- Plant design and optimization
**Positioning:**
- End-to-end digital manufacturing
- Integration with Siemens automation
- PLM and manufacturing operations convergence
**Target Market:**
- Large enterprises
- Automotive, aerospace, high-tech manufacturing
- OEMs with complex products
**Strengths:**
- Comprehensive feature set
- Integration with Siemens ecosystem
- Mature product
- Strong in automotive/aerospace
**Weaknesses:**
- Very expensive ($50k-150k+ projects)
- Siemens-centric
- Enterprise-only focus
- Long implementation cycles
- Complex to deploy
**Pricing**: $50k-150k+ projects
**Focus**: Enterprise manufacturers, OEMs
**Our Opportunity**:
- Virtual commissioning as a SERVICE
- $2k-10k/month subscription model (vs their $50k+ projects)
- Affordable for SMBs
- Faster deployment
---
### Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE
**Services:**
- Digital twin platform
- Product lifecycle management
- Simulation and modeling
- Collaborative design
**Positioning:**
- Comprehensive PLM + digital twin
- Focus on product development
- Strong in aerospace, automotive
**Target Market:**
- Large manufacturers
- Aerospace, automotive, defense
- Complex product development
**Strengths:**
- Comprehensive platform
- Strong in design/engineering
- Mature ecosystem
- Global presence
**Weaknesses:**
- Extremely expensive (enterprise only)
- Complex and heavyweight
- Long implementation times
- Overkill for production monitoring
**Pricing**: Enterprise
**Focus**: Aerospace, automotive, large manufacturers
**Our Advantage**:
- SMB-focused
- Practical production monitoring (vs comprehensive PLM)
- Affordable subscription model
---
### Ansys Twin Builder
**Services:**
- Physics-based simulation
- System-level digital twins
- Predictive maintenance modeling
**Positioning:**
- Simulation-first approach
- Focus on physics and accuracy
- Engineering analysis tool
**Target Market:**
- Engineering teams
- Battery systems, powertrains
- Physics-intensive applications
**Strengths:**
- Industry-leading simulation
- Physics accuracy
- Engineering focus
- Well-respected brand
**Weaknesses:**
- Simulation tool, not production platform
- Expensive
- Requires simulation expertise
- Not real-time production monitoring
**Pricing**: Enterprise licensing
**Focus**: Simulation and analysis, engineering teams
**Our Advantage**:
- Production-focused (vs simulation-focused)
- Real-time monitoring
- Affordable for SMBs
---
### Schneider EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin
**Services:**
- Digital twin for machine builders
- Virtual machine development
- Testing and validation environment
**Positioning:**
- OEM and machine builder focus
- Schneider ecosystem integration
- Virtual commissioning tool
**Target Market:**
- Manufacturing OEMs
- Machine builders
- Equipment manufacturers
**Strengths:**
- OEM-specific features
- Schneider integration
- Virtual machine testing
**Weaknesses:**
- Project-based pricing (expensive)
- Schneider-centric
- Limited to machine builders
- Not for end-user facilities
**Pricing**: Project-based, expensive
**Focus**: Machine builders, OEMs
**Our Advantage**:
- Subscription model (vs project-based)
- Faster deployment
- End-user facility focus (not just OEMs)
---
## TIER 5: OT Security / Monitoring Specialists
### Armis Centrix
**Service**: OT/IoT security and asset visibility
**Pricing**: Enterprise (unlisted)
**Focus**: Cybersecurity, compliance, threat detection
**Our Advantage**: We do production monitoring and optimization, not just security
---
### Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity
**Service**: SCADA-specific security monitoring
**Pricing**: Enterprise (unlisted)
**Focus**: Endpoint protection, threat detection for industrial systems
**Our Advantage**: Production optimization vs security-only focus
---
## TIER 6: Virtual PLC / Soft PLC Market
**Market Size**: $1.68B (2024) → $3.6B (2032)
**CAGR**: 9.9-18%
**Key Insight**: Virtual PLCs still <5% of total PLC market (HUGE whitespace)
### CODESYS Virtual Control
**Strengths:**
- 30 years in soft PLC space
- Industry standard
- IEC 61131-3 compliant
- ISO 61508 SIL3 certified (June 2024)
- Container-based deployment
**Pricing**: $99-499/month per runtime instance
**Market Position**: Industrial standard, developer-focused
**Our Advantage**:
- Managed service (we handle deployment/support)
- We can USE CODESYS as our PLC runtime
- Provide turnkey solution vs DIY licensing
---
### Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500V
**Launched**: April 2023
**Technology**: Docker container-based
**Focus**: Siemens ecosystem integration
**Our Advantage**: Hardware-agnostic, not tied to Siemens
---
### Phoenix Contact PLCnext Control
**Launched**: November 2024
**Technology**: OCI container
**Focus**: Modular, flexible control
**Our Advantage**: Managed service vs DIY
---
### Beckhoff TwinCAT
**Strengths:**
- Complete virtualization environment
- Strong in Europe
- Real-time performance
**Weaknesses:**
- Beckhoff-centric
- Complex to deploy
**Our Advantage**: Hardware-agnostic, managed deployment
---
## 1. Enterprise Industrial IoT Platforms
### AWS IoT Core / SiteWise
#### AWS IoT Core / SiteWise
**Strengths:** **Strengths:**
- Massive scale and reliability - Massive scale and reliability
- Comprehensive feature set - Comprehensive feature set
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#### Azure IoT Hub / Digital Twins ### Azure IoT Hub / Digital Twins
**Strengths:** **Strengths:**
- Enterprise contracts - Enterprise contracts
- Hybrid cloud options (Azure Stack) - Hybrid cloud options (Azure Stack)
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--- ---
#### ThingsBoard (Open Source) ### ThingsBoard (Open Source)
**Strengths:** **Strengths:**
- Open source (no licensing costs) - Open source (no licensing costs)
- Self-hosted option - Self-hosted option
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### 2. Traditional Automation Vendors (Adding Cloud)
#### Siemens (MindSphere, Industrial Edge)
**Strengths:**
- Established PLC/SCADA vendor
- Existing customer relationships
- Hardware + software integration
- Deep OT expertise
**Weaknesses:**
- Expensive ($50k-500k+ projects)
- Slow (6-18 month sales cycles)
- Tied to Siemens hardware preferred
- Enterprise-focused (ignores SMB)
**Market Position**: Enterprise, existing Siemens customers
**Our Advantage**: 10x cheaper, 10x faster, hardware-agnostic, SMB-focused
**Key Stats:**
- SIMATIC S7-1500V virtual PLC launched April 2023
- Xcelerator platform for digital twins
---
#### Rockwell Automation (FactoryTalk)
**Strengths:**
- Dominant in North America manufacturing
- Integrated architecture
- Strong brand in discrete manufacturing
**Weaknesses:**
- Very expensive
- Rockwell hardware lock-in
- Enterprise-only focus
- Long implementation times
**Market Position**: Enterprise, Allen-Bradley installed base
**Our Advantage**: Hardware-agnostic, affordable, agile
---
#### Schneider Electric (EcoStruxure)
**Strengths:**
- Global presence
- Energy management expertise
- Modular approach
**Weaknesses:**
- Still expensive for SMB
- Complex product lineup
**Market Position**: Enterprise, energy-focused
**Our Advantage**: Simpler, cheaper, manufacturing-focused
---
### 3. OT Security / Monitoring Specialists
#### Armis Centrix
**Service**: OT/IoT security and asset visibility
**Pricing**: Enterprise (unlisted)
**Focus**: Cybersecurity, compliance
**Our Advantage**: We do production monitoring, not just security
---
#### Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity
**Service**: SCADA-specific security monitoring
**Pricing**: Enterprise (unlisted)
**Focus**: Endpoint protection, threat detection
**Our Advantage**: Production optimization vs security focus
---
### 4. Virtual PLC / Soft PLC Market
**Market Size**: $1.68B (2024) → $3.6B (2032)
**CAGR**: 9.9-18%
**Key Insight**: Virtual PLCs still <5% of total PLC market (HUGE whitespace)
#### CODESYS Virtual Control
**Strengths:**
- 30 years in soft PLC space
- Industry standard
- ISO 61508 SIL3 certified (June 2024)
- Container-based deployment
**Pricing**: $99-499/month per runtime instance
**Market Position**: Industrial standard, developer-focused
**Our Advantage**: Managed service (we handle deployment/support)
---
#### Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500V
**Launched**: April 2023
**Technology**: Docker container-based
**Focus**: Siemens ecosystem integration
**Our Advantage**: Hardware-agnostic, not tied to Siemens
---
#### Phoenix Contact PLCnext Control
**Launched**: November 2024
**Technology**: OCI container
**Focus**: Modular, flexible control
**Our Advantage**: Managed service vs DIY
---
#### Beckhoff TwinCAT
**Strengths:**
- Complete virtualization environment
- Strong in Europe
- Real-time performance
**Weaknesses:**
- Beckhoff-centric
- Complex to deploy
**Our Advantage**: Hardware-agnostic, managed deployment
---
### 5. Digital Twin / Virtual Commissioning Market
**Market Size**: $21.14B (2025) → $149.81B (2030)
**CAGR**: 47.9% (!!!)
**Adoption**: 75% of manufacturers have implemented or planning digital twin initiatives
#### NVIDIA Omniverse
**Strengths:**
- Cutting-edge 3D/AI
- Real-time collaboration
- Universal Scene Description
**Pricing**: Enterprise (high)
**Focus**: Advanced visualization, large enterprises
**Our Approach**: Phase 3 opportunity, not Phase 1
---
#### Siemens Tecnomatix / Xcelerator
**Service**: Comprehensive digital twin platform
**Pricing**: $50k-150k+ projects
**Focus**: Enterprise manufacturers, OEMs
**Our Opportunity**: Virtual commissioning as service ($2k-10k/month subscription)
---
#### Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE
**Focus**: Aerospace, automotive, large manufacturers
**Pricing**: Enterprise
**Our Advantage**: SMB-focused, practical vs comprehensive
---
#### Ansys Twin Builder
**Focus**: Physics-based simulation
**Use Cases**: Battery systems, powertrains
**Our Advantage**: Production-focused vs simulation-focused
---
#### Schneider EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin
**Focus**: Manufacturing OEMs
**Use Case**: Virtual machine development
**Pricing**: Project-based, expensive
**Our Advantage**: Subscription model, faster deployment
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## Competitive Gaps & Opportunities ## Competitive Gaps & Opportunities
### Gap #1: The Mid-Market Sweet Spot ### Gap #1: The Mid-Market Sweet Spot
**Problem**: Enterprise solutions cost $50k-500k+ **Problem**: Enterprise solutions cost $50k-500k+
**Gap**: $10-100M manufacturers priced out **Gap**: $10-100M manufacturers priced out
**Our Play**: $1k-5k/month solutions, $15k-40k projects **Our Play**: $1k-5k/month solutions, $15k-40k projects
### Gap #2: Non-Safety-Critical Niche ### Gap #2: Non-Safety-Critical Niche
**Problem**: Virtual PLCs lack safety certifications **Problem**: Virtual PLCs lack safety certifications
**Gap**: 80% of automation is non-safety-critical **Gap**: 80% of automation is non-safety-critical
**Our Play**: "Explicitly for monitoring and non-critical control" **Our Play**: "Explicitly for monitoring and non-critical control"
### Gap #3: Brownfield Retrofit Market ### Gap #3: Brownfield Retrofit Market
**Problem**: Most vendors focus on greenfield (new builds) **Problem**: Most vendors focus on greenfield (new builds)
**Gap**: Millions of existing machines need connectivity **Gap**: Millions of existing machines need connectivity
**Our Play**: Wireless retrofits, no rewiring required **Our Play**: Wireless retrofits, no rewiring required
### Gap #4: Virtual Commissioning Subscriptions ### Gap #4: Virtual Commissioning Subscriptions
**Problem**: Digital twins are $50k-150k one-time projects **Problem**: Digital twins are $50k-150k one-time projects
**Gap**: No subscription-based testing environments **Gap**: No subscription-based testing environments
**Our Play**: $2k-10k/month "digital twin sandbox" **Our Play**: $2k-10k/month "digital twin sandbox"
### Gap #5: The OT/IT Skills Gap ### Gap #5: The OT/IT Skills Gap
**Problem**: 60% of MSPs can't find OT/IT hybrid talent **Problem**: 60% of MSPs can't find OT/IT hybrid talent
**Gap**: IT MSPs scared of PLCs, OT integrators don't do cloud **Gap**: IT MSPs scared of PLCs, OT integrators don't do cloud
**Our Advantage**: We speak both languages fluently **Our Advantage**: We speak both languages fluently
### Gap #6: True MSP Model Scarcity
**Current State**: Rockwell charges per-incident or annual contracts with limits
**Current State**: Atlas OT has subscription but limited geographic reach
**Opportunity**: True MSP pricing ($/tag/month or $/location/month)
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## Pricing Intelligence ## Pricing Intelligence
@ -336,14 +864,14 @@ High │ Siemens NVIDIA
│ Rockwell Dassault │ Rockwell Dassault
│ AWS IoT │ AWS IoT
│ │
Mid │ Azure Mid │ Azure
│ │
Low │ ThingsBoard Low │ ThingsBoard
│ [US] <-- Edge-First, OT/IT Hybrid │ [US] <-- Edge-First, OT/IT Hybrid
│ │
└───────────────────────────────────── └────────────────────────────────────────
DIY Managed Enterprise DIY Managed Enterprise
Service Level Service Level
``` ```
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@ -378,6 +906,7 @@ Low │ ThingsBoard
- Early adoption stage (vPLCs <5% of market) - Early adoption stage (vPLCs <5% of market)
- Severe talent shortage (60% of MSPs can't find OT/IT hybrids) - Severe talent shortage (60% of MSPs can't find OT/IT hybrids)
- Mid-market underserved (too small for Siemens, too complex for cloud-only) - Mid-market underserved (too small for Siemens, too complex for cloud-only)
- TRUE MSP MODEL GAP - No one offering affordable subscription-based managed PLC services for SMBs
**The Reality Check:** **The Reality Check:**
- Big players moving fast (Siemens vPLC 2023, CODESYS SIL3 2024) - Big players moving fast (Siemens vPLC 2023, CODESYS SIL3 2024)
@ -390,6 +919,7 @@ Low │ ThingsBoard
- Leverage unique positioning (OT/IT hybrid, edge-first) - Leverage unique positioning (OT/IT hybrid, edge-first)
- Position smart (affordable alternative to $500k projects) - Position smart (affordable alternative to $500k projects)
- Move fast (bootstrap advantage over enterprise vendors) - Move fast (bootstrap advantage over enterprise vendors)
- Fill the MSP gap (recurring subscription model for mid-market)
--- ---