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What’s new in Insights Hub – October 2021

By Michael Boland

Connecting the things that run the world

Insights Hub releases deliver advanced industrial IoT capabilities that bring the physical and digital worlds closer together.  

The past few releases have brought exciting updates to Insights Hub core applications that enhance out-of-the-box value along with some powerful enterprise capabilities.

This update includes many of the newest and most exciting capabilities from the most recent Insights Hub releases:

  • Unleash advanced analytics with Insights Hub Monitor Analytics
  • Leverage your existing authorization management workflows in Insights Hub with Identity Provider Federation
  • Service and maintain assets remotely with Insights Hub Remote Service
  • Develop apps even faster with new starter templates for IIoT for Makers
  • Try Insights Hub Monitor in Insights Hub Start for free
  • Access Insights Hub from the web

Unleash advanced analytics with Insights Hub Monitor Analytics

First up to highlight is Insights Hub Monitor Analytics. By building around the core functionality of Insights Hub Monitor, Insights Hub Monitor Analytics enables you to build advanced KPIs and drill-down into your data to unlock new insights about your products and production performance. Easily upgrade your IIoT journey further to discover advanced insights about your operations and business with field and machine data.

Leverage your existing authorization management workflows with Identity Provider Federation

Next up is Identity Provider Federation. You can now bring your own identity provider and integrate it into your Insights Hub environment using SAML or OpenID connect protocol. Identity Provider Federation reduces the burden on your IT administration through easy integration and user management by unifying your identity management IT system with your Insights Hub environment. Features such as single sign-on and simplified interfaces make configuring users as easy as ever.

Service and maintain assets remotely with Insights Hub Remote Service

Additionally, Insights Hub recently unveiled the Insights Hub Remote Service application. This versatile toolset allows service providers and OEMs to remotely service and maintain their customers’ assets. Asset operators can collaborate with different service providers to enable Remote Login, File Transfer, Remote Engineering and more. Through tunnel technology, Insights Hub Remote Service offers an additional level of security for meeting regulatory or market constraints for remote connectivity and data transfer. Dynamic Transparent Tunnel connections can now route native Virtual Network Computing (VNC) and Secure Shell (SSH) connections, if configured accordingly.

Develop apps even faster with new starter templates for IIoT for Makers

You can now utilize new starter templates to aid Mendix Mobile Native app development for Insights Hub. Starter templates come with Insights Hub Web Components to make them easy to use. Interested in learning more about Insights Hub Web Components? Check out our previous blog about the Web Component release to learn more.

Try Insights Hub Monitor in Insights Hub Start for free

Ready to see the advanced analytic capabilities of Insights Hub Monitor in action? Insights Hub Monitor is now available in Insights Hub Start for free. Insights Hub Start for free is a free Insights Hub environment where you can begin your IoT journey and expand to a full tenant without losing any of your progress.

Get the full Insights Hub Monitor experience through dashboarding, asset views, asset comparison, rules, (simple) KPI and (maintenance) work orders. There are no limitations in functionality and sufficient quota is provided to enable the full suite of features in Insights Hub Monitor. Try Insights Hub Start for free.

Access Insights Hub login online

Finally, accessing Insights Hub is easier than ever. Take advantage of the direct login feature to Insights Hub from our developer documentation hub. Simplify building IoT solutions with all the tools and features that Insights Hub offers.

Log in directly to Insights Hub from our documentation hub

For complete details and availability on the new features of Insights Hub and its supporting releases, please refer to the Releases NotesRegion Table and new features presentations offered for all.

Want to try Insights Hub for free? Start today with Insights Hub Start for Free.

And, as always, hop on over to the public community and website for all things Insights Hub.

Want to see how companies leverage IoT for energy optimization? Check out our latest blog post.

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This article first appeared on the Siemens Digital Industries Software blog at https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/insights-hub/2023/04/17/whats-new-in-insights-hub-october-2021/