What is the Professional Edition

The Professional Edition of CGI Studio is designed to create easier and without compiling your HMI. The Enterprise Edition required to compile the player after you have defined your data binding items (e.g. a temperature sensor value, a physical switch button or just a simple web service data request). The Professional Edition is focus for less complex HMI projects, where the need of specific data bindings is not required and where the development team has less time or knowledge about embedded platform development.

The Professional Edition comes with a predefined list of predefined data binding items, already precompiled and a sample script in Python to easily be able to integrate your HMI on your desired target platform. 

The Professional Edition replaced the definition, compiling and data binding implementation in C++ with a fixed set of data bindings and a Python based script for the data binding implementation. 

Professional Edition Advantages and Disadvantages

The simplification for the development and the skipping of the compiling of the data bindings, comes with some advantages and disadvantages.

• Advantages
  • Simplified development process
  • Less specific embedded knowledge is required for Professional Edition projects
  • Faster development
  • Aims for less complex HMI projects
  • Simple Python scripting interface instead of C++ implementation
  • No need for compiling the player
• Disadvantages
  • fixed set of data binding items, but will be sufficient for most projects (is planned in future version to be flexible)