SIs need to strike a balance between offering unique, differentiated solutions and leveraging the advantages of off-the-shelf products to ensure profitability and customer satisfaction.
To be profitable, SIs must originate deals that involve differentiated solutions that provide them a competitive advantage. Off the shelf products do not provide them the required differentiation and offer limited flexibility to customize.
However, they also need the benefits of implementing off the shelf products! They require low skill threshold for implementation, accelerated time to value, reusable and scalable solutions across multiple clients, minimized implementation risks, and reduced effort in managing the application lifecycle while ensuring continuous improvement.
Twinit enables SIs to swiftly compose custom digital twin applications on Twinit through scripting, leveraging its low-code environment to reduce the skill barrier. These applications can be easily recomposed and scaled for deployment across multiple clients. Twinit’s platform services are continually updated to enhance performance, integrate new capabilities, adapt to technological changes, and meet evolving cybersecurity standards, minimizing the maintenance effort for the applications.
Twinit is available as a “Hosted and Managed Instance” or Twinit HMI. Twinit HMI is currently deployed on AWS within the Western Europe (Ireland) region and on OCI in KSA, and can be deployed in other regions as needed. Twinit may also be available on other hyperscale infrastructures in the future.
Twinit is multi tenanted in three levels.
(a) It supports any number of organizations who use Twinit
(b) It supports any number of discrete Apps that each organization may build, test, deploy and manage using Twinit
(c) It supports any number of workspaces (or projects) for each of the Apps.
Yes, Twinit is available as a “Self-Managed Instance” or Twinit SMI which involves a Sandbox and Production environment of Twinit within the customer’s own AWS or OCI account. Other infrastructure options may be available in the future.
Option 1 involves building bespoke software from first principles. This takes time and is more expensive to build and maintain over its lifecycle. This is the right approach for an enterprise that has very strong in-house software development capabilities, and the digital twin is inherent to its product. A good example is Tesla. Their vehicles incorporate digital twins in a very fundamental way and does not exist separate from their product.
Option 2 involves developing bespoke software, but using multiple distinct categories of platforms that provide packaged capabilities needed to build applications. It is faster than option 1, but comes at the cost of accepting compromises when stitching together capabilities from different platforms that were not necessarily designed to work with each other. Such applications will be less flexible and will pose significant challenges in lifecycle management due to changes to the underlying platform services. This approach will also require the application data to be persisted across many different software platforms posing challenges to data governance and data sovereignty. They will also cost more – incurring many platform subscriptions. It will also inherit some of the challenges inherent to bespoke software.
- Contact us to arrange a demo and scoping call. (contact@twinit.com)
- Sign up to digitaltwin-factory, a curated open source program created and maintained by Invicara – the services arm of Twinit.
- Sign up to guided training at the Twinit Academy, focussing on the scope of your first App.
- Access developer documentation at Twinit.dev.
- Sign up for a co-creation partnership to get access to a free dedicated sandbox on Twinit for your proof of concept development.
- Purchase a commercial subscription to use Twinit for your projects.