# How to justify Ignition to decision makers who are not familiar with the SCADA space **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [April 24, 2023, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-justify-ignition-to-decision-makers-who-are-not-familiar-with-the-scada-space/72845 "2023-04-24T20:17:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 40
**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-justify-ignition-to-decision-makers-who-are-not-familiar-with-the-scada-space/72845/40 "2023-05-10T20:16:00Z")
> [@cbanzet](#): > > Am I the only who thinks that Rockwell's current solutions are ridiculously complex? My original 2012 post, for posterity. > [@Make the case for Ignition](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/make-the-case-for-ignition/4792/5): > > Real-world application. Granted, this was from the FSQL days, but Ignition has made things even better! We have a customer requirement for a traceability on the door modules we produce. The powers the be decreed that we would use a system by Rockwell Automation, as they were our “preferred solution provider”, rather than FSQL. So we spent approximately $65,000 on software and another approximately $40,000 in engineering costs to try to integrate an OMRON platform into their stuff (I censored my… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-justify-ignition-to-decision-makers-who-are-not-familiar-with-the-scada-space/72845)._