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When manufacturing leaders evaluate Industrial IoT platforms, the conversation usually starts with license cost. "What's it per device? Per user? Per data point?" These are the wrong first questions. License fees typically represent only 20-40% of your total IIoT investment over three years. The rest hides in implementation, infrastructure, engineering time, change management, and ongoing operations.

Choosing an Industrial IoT platform is one of the most consequential technology decisions a manufacturing organization can make. Get it right, and you unlock real-time visibility, predictive maintenance, and measurable OEE improvements within weeks. Get it wrong, and you're looking at a 12-18 month implementation that never reaches production — a scenario that plays out in roughly 75% of IIoT projects, according to Cisco's widely cited research.