PI VISION 2025 REVIEW
What PI Vision 2025 Adds - and What Is Still Missing
PI Vision 2025 improves several daily administration and analysis tasks. The important question is what those changes solve, what they do not solve, and where teams still need a complete workflow around PI Vision.
PI Vision 2025 is a useful platform update, but it is not a complete replacement for every tool or process built around PI Vision. The release improves collections, trends, tables, and administration. It also adds a Recycle Bin, which makes it easier to recover a display that was deleted by mistake.
Those improvements are valuable. They also make the remaining boundaries easier to see: a deleted display can be recovered, but a saved change inside a display is not the same problem. A trend can be easier to inspect, but that does not automatically provide the symbol, reporting, data-entry, or version-history workflow an operations team may need.
What changed
Review the native improvements that affect administration, collections, trends, tables, and recovery.
What remains open
Separate a missing workflow capability from a feature that PI Vision 2025 already addresses.
How to respond
Use native features where they fit and add an extension only when it closes a real operational gap.
The native update
What PI Vision 2025 improves
The release focuses on practical changes rather than a complete redesign. For many teams, the biggest benefit is less friction in the work they already perform.
Collections
Sort collection items by attribute value so ranked views are easier to maintain.
Trends
Use grouped traces, shared scales, regression lines, and cursors for more repeatable analysis.
Tables
Transpose tables when comparing many attributes across a smaller set of assets.
Recovery
Recover displays that were fully deleted instead of losing them immediately.
Administration
Manage folders and calculation limits with more control over the shared environment.
Daily analysis
Make common displays easier to sort, inspect, and use during routine engineering work.
The administrator boundary
The Recycle Bin solves deletion, not change history
The Recycle Bin is useful when an entire display is deleted. It does not provide a version history for a display that still exists but was changed and saved. If a user removes a trend, overwrites a calculation, or changes the layout, the recovery problem is different: the display needs an earlier version, not a deleted copy.
The remaining workflow gaps
What is still missing depends on the job
PI Vision 2025 can be the right foundation while still leaving specific operational workflows incomplete. The gap is not that the platform has no value; it is that a native display, a custom symbol library, version control, and automated reporting solve different problems.
Native PI Vision 2025
- Improves collections, trends, tables, and administration.
- Recovers displays that were deleted.
- Keeps PI data and standard display analysis in the PI Vision environment.
- Still requires separate workflows when teams need richer symbols, editable Event Frames, saved version history, or automated report delivery.
Complete workflow around PI Vision
- Vision Library+ adds custom symbols and controls for specialized visualization and interaction.
- Vision Audit+ records display changes and supports version recovery when the display was not deleted.
- Vision Report+ adds scheduled, triggered, and on-demand report generation and delivery.
- The result is a workflow matched to the operating requirement instead of one large display trying to do everything.
| Requirement | What PI Vision 2025 provides | What may still be needed |
|---|---|---|
| Rank and compare assets | Collection sorting, trends, and table improvements. | Specialized symbols, richer interaction, and workflow-specific controls. |
| Recover deleted displays | Recycle Bin recovery. | Version history and rollback for saved changes to displays that still exist. |
| Capture operator context | Standard display and PI data context. | Editable Event Frame tables or purpose-built data-entry controls where operators need them. |
| Distribute a report | Build and inspect the display in PI Vision. | Scheduled, event-triggered, or on-demand PDF/image generation and delivery. |
Upgrade decision
Evaluate the release against real workflows
Do not evaluate PI Vision 2025 only by counting release-note features. Test the tasks that your administrators, engineers, and operators perform with the platform every week.
List the native improvements you will use
Identify the displays that benefit from collection sorting, trend changes, table orientation, recovery, or administrative controls.
Test recovery scenarios
Test both a deleted display and an incorrectly saved display. They are different scenarios and should not be treated as the same recovery capability.
Record remaining manual work
Note where users still export data, rebuild versions, enter context outside PI Vision, or create reports by hand.
Choose extensions by gap
Map each remaining workflow to the product or process that addresses it, and avoid adding a capability that the native release already covers.
FAQ
PI Vision 2025 questions
Is PI Vision 2025 a complete visualization redesign?
No. It is a practical update with improvements to administration, collections, trends, tables, recovery, and daily analysis.
Does the Recycle Bin replace version control?
No. It helps recover a display that was deleted. Version control is needed when a display still exists but its saved content has changed.
What is still missing from standard PI Vision?
That depends on the workflow. Teams may still need specialized symbols, editable Event Frame workflows, display version history, or automated reporting. Evaluate those as separate requirements.
Should every team add extensions after upgrading?
No. Use the native improvements first. Add an extension only when a specific workflow remains manual, difficult to govern, or unavailable in standard PI Vision.
Make the 2025 upgrade useful
Start with the native improvements, then close only the workflow gaps that matter to your PI System team. Explore the Vision Library+, Vision Audit+, and Vision Report+ capabilities when they match a real requirement.
