The data layer
you're missing.
Engineering data is the most expensive data you own – and the least reused. Squid Data Hub turns it into one connected, trusted, AI-ready source, without replacing the tools you already run.
Is this you?
Sound familiar?
Outgrowing the setup
- ✓Your projects in Eplan get too big
- ✓You keep splitting projects to cope
- ✓You wonder how other teams handle this scale
Excel is the database
- ✓Cables & devices tracked in spreadsheets
- ✓One person owns the "master list"
- ✓The same data gets re-typed into other systems
Tools don't talk
- ✓You need Eplan data inside ERP, PLM or MES
- ✓You need Eplan data linked to CAD or BIM
- ✓Departments keep duplicating asset data
The handover cliff
- ✓You want structured data, not PDFs
- ✓Audits hurt because the data is scattered
- ✓Retrofits mean hunting down old projects
Not ready for what's next
- ✓You're planning a digital twin or Industry 4.0 rollout
- ✓AI plans need clean data you don’t have yet
- ✓You're scaling past what today's setup can hold
Customer benefits
Data that keeps working after the project ends.
Squid Data Hub is the connected data layer for engineering – it takes what's already in Eplan P8 and turns it into one structured, always-current source that every team and system downstream can actually use. Live across the project lifecycle, through standard interfaces rather than one-off integrations, it reaches further than the project it was born in. Stored centrally and kept consistent, it keeps its value long after the drawing is finished.
Master complexity
Full transparency
Faster decisions
Trusted data
AI & twin ready
Audit confidence
How it works – the backbone
Eplan authors. Squid structures. Everything connects.
Three steps, one continuous flow – from the drawing to every system that needs to know what's in it.
Eplan authors
Engineers keep working in Eplan P8 exactly as they do today. No new authoring tool, no change to how a project gets designed.
Squid structures
Squid Data Hub imports that data and organizes it into projects, systems, locations, devices and cables – one consistent, validated structure, kept current as the project moves.
Everything connects
A growing set of connectors and open interfaces shares that structure with every downstream system.
Why it matters: Eplan describes the product type. Squid owns the real, as-built instance in its actual project – the gap between design and reality that nobody else fills.
Capabilities
What's inside.
A quick overview of what Squid Data Hub manages today, built electrical-first. Details and new features are published in the release notes.
- Projects, engineering systems and locations as hierarchies
- Devices, cables, terminals, wires and cores
- Cable trays and routing
- Instrumentation and control points for the process industry
- Electrical load balance (E-Balance) with operating scenariosRead more →
- Device and cable type catalogs
- Mechanical, piping and HVAC assembly modules alongside electrical
- Attachments and documents per item
- Complete change history on every entity
- Excel and JSON import/export with configurable mappings
- Customer-specific attributes, labels and features – no code required
- Cable lifecycle states, configurable per customer
- REST API (OpenAPI), with Azure Entra ID login
Flexibility for your business
Cloud or on-premise. Tailored to your requirements.
Cloud or on-premise
Flexible deployment, either in Microsoft Azure or on your own infrastructure. PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server are supported.
Configured, not customized
Enable the features you need, rename entities to your terminology and add custom attributes – per organization and per project, without code changes.
Continuously evolving
Always shipping.
See what shipped this month → Read the release notes
With the Squid Data Hub, Inspired Consulting provides a solution that simplifies data exchange and improves collaboration across different systems.
Vertical Market Manager Maritime at Eplan
It's not a static product but one we will keep enhancing together with our users, based on real project needs and feedback.
Managing Director, Inspired Consulting
Let's unlock your engineering data – together.
We'll show what's possible with your own data and map the fastest path to value.