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IMO the biggest advantages with the way Matlab Production Server (MPS) integration was implemented were the self-serve user experience of working in PI System Explorer and being able to leverage the existing PI Analysis Service scheduler. Further the use of function calls greatly simplifies the calculation logic as contextual info /metadata doesn't need to be handled in the calculation. For example the context of the calculation is the element whose analysis called the function. The output of the calculation is the output attribute. There is no need to recursively discover or hard code the paths of the inputs and outputs. There are no shortage of ways to extract PI data, run calculations, and write the results back to PI but most of them do not address the above considerations.
It looked like we had plans to support other generic extensibility points in a similar fashion to the MPS integration and I think it was a very elegant approach that would have provided a true successor to PI ACE.
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IMO the biggest advantages with the way Matlab Production Server (MPS) integration was implemented were the self-serve user experience of working in PI System Explorer and being able to leverage the existing PI Analysis Service scheduler. Further the use of function calls greatly simplifies the calculation logic as contextual info /metadata doesn't need to be handled in the calculation. For example the context of the calculation is the element whose analysis called the function. The output of the calculation is the output attribute. There is no need to recursively discover or hard code the paths of the inputs and outputs. There is no shortage of ways to extract PI data, run calculations, and write the results back to PI but most of them do not address the above considerations.
It looked like we had plans to support other generic extensibility points in a similar fashion to the MPS integration and I think it was a very elegant approach that would have provided a true successor to PI ACE.