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Software AG has launched Apama Analytics Builder, saying it radically reduces the time taken to design, develop and deploy analytics for IoT application, and claiming it to be “a huge advance in self-service analytics for IoT.”
According to Software AG, Apama Analytics Builder “gives engineers and other domain experts working on the IoT edge a web-based capability to develop analytic applications on streamed data, test them with simulated or live data and deploy them immediately with a single click for real time processing of machine data and events.”
Apama Analytics Builder, it said: “Has a graphical user interface for non-coders to take advantage of streaming analytics. It allows operators to quickly build and deploy analytical models using a comprehensive library of pre-built analytic blocks.
“With a drag-and-drop, free-form, web-based editor and the capability to manage deployment and simulation, real-time analytical applications can be developed when and where needed. Analytics Builder models can also be easily exported for use throughout the organisation.”
Software AG’s chief product officer, Dr Stefan Sigg said Apama Analytics Builder would take pressure off the IT department and empower decentralised teams to accelerate their delivery schedules.
“Also, bringing operational expertise directly to application development significantly reduces the risk of misunderstandings and enables operators to immediately address unexpected events and situations,” he said.
Apama Analytics Builder will be available in April 2019 through Software AG’s Cumulocity IoT Edge, and preliminary version at Software AG’s booth at the Hannover Fair, starting on April 1.
Product of Adamos alliance
The product has emerged from Adamos, (ADAptive Manufacturing Open Solutions) an alliance between DMG Mori, Dürr, Software AG and Zeiss established to develop an open, manufacturer-independent IIoT platform to support the efficient processing of data and the creation of digital applications.
Software AG said the market requirement for it had been identified by Dürr, and it had been developed by Software AG and Dürr and rolled out over the Adamos IoT platform in less than 12 months.
Nico Koch, manager digital factory at Dürr, said Apama would accelerate the digitalisation on the shop floor tremendously.
“We have put extremely powerful analytical tools into the hands of those that understand the production process the best, opening a new era of streamlining and improvement.”
