04 — Product · PR-530
Kepware
Industrial connectivity software that talks to controllers, devices and systems in their own protocols and presents the data in standard forms for SCADA, MES, historians and cloud platforms, on Windows or as a Linux container, with a SaaS console to manage many installations. Formerly PTC's; now part of Velotic.
// FIG. 04 · Capability coverage
Each tile is an L1; the bar is how many of this product's capabilities realize something beneath it. Our judgment, not a vendor claim.
Direct & Govern
Finance
People & Workplace
Customer & Market
Products & Services
Operations & Supply
Technology & Data
Resilience & Responsibility
Industry L1s
- Plant Operations1
- Production Planning & Scheduling0
- Manufacturing Quality & Compliance0
- Industrial Engineering & Continuous Improvement0
- Plant & Process Safety0
- Dealer & Distributor Network0
- Aftermarket & Service Parts0
- Platform Engineering0
- Software Product Release0
- Site Reliability0
- Developer Experience & API Ecosystem0
- Subscription & Tenant Operations0
- Product Analytics & Experimentation0
- Trust & Compliance Assurance0
- Open Source & Community0
- Merchandising & Assortment0
- Store Operations0
- E-commerce & Omnichannel0
- Category & Trade Promotion0
- Loss Prevention0
- Consumer Insights0
- Store Network & Real Estate0
- Returns & Reverse Logistics0
- Network Planning & Engineering0
- Network Build & Field Operations0
- Network Operations & Assurance0
- Subscriber Order & Activation0
- Usage Charging & Subscriber Billing0
- Content & Programming0
- Advertising Sales & Operations0
- Communications Regulatory Obligations0
- Network Planning & Investment0
- Network Construction & Field Work0
- Network Operations & Control0
- Generation & Treatment Operations0
- Metering & Meter Data0
- Utility Customer Service & Billing0
- Energy Supply, Markets & Flexibility0
- Utility Regulation & Resilience0
Product capabilities · 4
How to read maturity and confidence
Maturity · how much it covers
- core
- What the product is built around; the capability is covered end to end.
- strong
- Covered well, with a few gaps a buyer would notice.
- partial
- Covers part of the capability; expect to pair it with something else.
- emerging
- New or thin; on the roadmap more than in the product.
Confidence · how well it is evidenced
- Evidence confidence: high
- The vendor's own documentation describes this module doing it.
- Evidence confidence: medium
- Documented, but how far it reaches into the capability is our reading.
- Evidence confidence: low
- Our judgment; we found no public page that confirms it.
- PC-530.10
Kepware Server
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: coreConnectivity server for Windows that reads controllers and devices in their native protocols and serves the data to SCADA, MES and analytics systems.
Vendor page: velotic.com/products/kepware/kepware-server ↗ - PC-530.20
Kepware Edge
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: strongThe same connectivity packaged as a container for Linux, for collecting device data on gateways and edge servers.
Vendor page: velotic.com/products/kepware/kepware-edge ↗ - PC-530.30
Kepware+ Manager
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: strongA SaaS console for viewing, configuring and managing many Kepware installations from one place.
Vendor page: velotic.com/products/kepware/kepware--manager ↗ - PC-530.40
Device Drivers
Evidence confidence: mediumMaturity: coreA library of protocol drivers for controllers and devices from many manufacturers, exposed through one interface.
Sources · checked
The public vendor documentation this mapping is based on. Maturity and confidence are our judgment, not the vendor's claim.
- Kepware | Velotic www.velotic.com/products/kepware
- Kepware Server | Velotic www.velotic.com/products/kepware/kepware-server
- PTC completes divestiture of Kepware and ThingWorx businesses | PTC www.ptc.com/en/news/2026/ptc-completes-divestiture-of-kepware-and-thingworx-businesses