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GE Proficy Smart Factory MES vs Gophish comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

GE Proficy Smart Factory MES
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
13th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Gophish
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the AWS Marketplace category, the mindshare of GE Proficy Smart Factory MES is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Gophish is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Gophish0.2%
GE Proficy Smart Factory MES0.2%
Other99.6%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

Yulianto Artawan - PeerSpot reviewer
Field Services Engineer at Tetrapak
Trend analysis has improved troubleshooting and program testing for accurate, reliable outputs
The features I appreciate most in GE Proficy Smart Factory MES are the ability to create trends when I troubleshoot during my daily work. I can also edit the program in GE Proficy Smart Factory MES, and before I download it to the PLC, I can test it first to ensure my program is working correctly. GE Proficy Smart Factory MES has been very useful in my daily work because it is user-friendly. I can also go online and change the IP address easily, which is simpler compared to other solutions. Troubleshooting with GE Proficy Smart Factory MES is easier than other options.
JC
Administrador de sistemas informaticos en red at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Phishing awareness campaigns have improved training impact but still need smarter automation
I think Gophish could be improved with more automation, for instance. It is great that you can create templates, schedule them, and do everything you want in Gophish, but it would be nice to have a small integrated AI model with which you could create email templates and phishing templates. It would be nice if Gophish implemented artificial intelligence. I wish Gophish could provide more support and be more advanced and that they continue developing it because it seems that Gophish does not get many updates, and I think they need to implement more features. It is great because it is free, but it needs more features. It would be cool if there was an artificial intelligence model that could create phishing campaigns or templates or email templates for you integrated within Gophish. I would rate it a seven. It is quite good and free software, but it needs more substance. It also depends on the number of clients a company has; it may be necessary to launch Gophish in a staggered way, which I also think is a drawback Gophish has. The issue is that if there are many people being targeted, for example, 5,000 employees in a company and you send 5,000, it may be that sending so many messages gets blocked by the security systems companies have. I think that Gophish could also improve the message sending flows. I gave it a seven because there are things to improve and it is not perfect. As I said before, it would be nice if templates could be created with AI, integrated into Gophish using an API with Gemini or ChatGPT or whichever, but the point is that it would be nice if the sending flows at large scale were better managed. When you send a phishing campaign to 5,000 people, you have to send it in sections in a staggered way, for example: to these 5,000 people it is going to be sent between eight in the morning and four in the afternoon. If you send them all at once, the phishing may get blocked and then the campaign has no effect. I would like it if Gophish implemented more improvements because they are needed, as it is kind of a bit stagnant. I hope that in the future they add more improvements including creating personalized templates with artificial intelligence and improving the message sending flows.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"GE Proficy Smart Factory MES facilitates improved data capture, processing, and reporting across organizational levels, from supervisory to managerial to business levels."
"I have seen a return on investment from using GE Proficy Smart Factory MES, as it enhanced productivity, leading to an increase in the number of parts manufactured, which resulted in good revenue generation for the business."
"The hardware of GE Proficy Smart Factory MES is very strong, and the software is very easy and useful for me."
"With GE Proficy Smart Factory MES, it has affected daily operations by making it a lot easier for them, taking a little bit of load off of their paperwork, but also allowing the customer to really see what is going on and see where they can make some improvements."
"GE Proficy Smart Factory MES positively impacts my organization by providing a tool for real-time production that utilizes our time in various ways, enabling us to gather all data on one page."
"GE Proficy Smart Factory MES has positively impacted my organization, as the production has gone up to 33% in the financial year that they introduced the MES system and we upgraded the systems."
"GE Proficy Smart Factory MES has positively impacted my organization in many ways, for example, what we used to accomplish in a day as production has increased quite a bit, and our performance and quality of products have also improved, leading to a noticeable increase in OEE."
"Gophish has impacted my organization positively in terms of security awareness, as I have noticed fewer phishing incidents and more responses towards reporting phishing emails as specific improvements."
"Gophish has positively impacted my organization by helping my team reach our goals."
"Gophish has positively impacted my organization by increasing awareness among my employees."
"Gophish, despite being a free tool, fits very well because it has all the features we need, from creating landing pages and creating the email to tracking the click traffic and the ingestion of information."
"Gophish is stable and very reliable, and it has never let us down."
"Gophish is a good structure and a good technological innovation that deserves to be studied and much better known by the world because not everyone knows Gophish."
"Overall, Gophish is dependable for phishing simulations and awareness assessments."
"Gophish has had a positive impact on my organization, as I noticed that since I used Gophish for the benefit of several clients, the maturity level of my clients was increasing."
 

Cons

"In terms of how GE Proficy Smart Factory MES can be improved, I believe one key area is the connectivity on the shop floor."
"I think you could add more password protection inside GE Proficy Smart Factory MES."
"What I wish was easier or better with GE Proficy Smart Factory MES are some custom extensions in regards to third-party code that integrates into it, making it more of a faceplate and something easier to populate with a single tag number."
"I think GE Proficy Smart Factory MES can be optimized better, specifically regarding the application right and the backup."
"GE Proficy Smart Factory MES should be a bit easier to customize."
"Improvements in GE Proficy Smart Factory MES should focus on enhancing the user interface for thick client displays."
"Customer support for GE Proficy Smart Factory MES gives quick results sometimes, but there are delays at times, so I would appreciate quicker responses from their end."
"Although the tool is very good, I think there could be some improvements, especially when it comes to leveraging AI for testing and also when it comes to the expansion beyond email phishing."
"The customer support needs improvement."
"The feature of actually taking the website's source code might be something which is not so ethical, because you're copying from the main website even though you're learning."
"I think Gophish could be improved because it is effective for its purpose, but there are certain features that can be enhanced."
"The improvement I want to be made to Gophish is at the DNS level."
"It does not handle lists well either, so when you have a big list of email addresses or users, it crashes, perhaps in the sending of the emails or somewhere else, but it crashes."
"I would rate it a seven. It is quite good and free software, but it needs more substance."
"Gophish can be improved by adding more languages and maybe a web version for it, a SaaS platform."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
30%
Manufacturing Company
21%
Healthcare Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
4%
Construction Company
26%
Manufacturing Company
10%
University
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GE Proficy Smart Factory MES?
As for my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for GE Proficy Smart Factory MES, I did not have to charge for that, so I was the integrator.
What needs improvement with GE Proficy Smart Factory MES?
As for how GE Proficy Smart Factory MES can be improved, I cannot speak to that at the moment with how I have implemented it on the field. What I wish was easier or better with GE Proficy Smart Fac...
What is your primary use case for GE Proficy Smart Factory MES?
My main use case for GE Proficy Smart Factory MES is for recipes and batch executions. When using GE Proficy Smart Factory MES for recipes and batch executions, it depends on the customer process, ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Gophish?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing shows that the setup cost is not very high; Gophish is completely free, as it is an open-source tool.
What needs improvement with Gophish?
I believe Gophish can be improved in a few areas. First, the user interface could be made more modern and beginner-friendly. The current setup is simple, but for a new user, campaign creation, land...
What is your primary use case for Gophish?
My main use case for Gophish is to run a phishing awareness campaign inside an organization in a safe and controlled way. For example, instead of waiting for a real attacker to send a fake email to...
 

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