Presented at Activate 2018

1. Content Analytics Studio,
The visualization, machine learning and application
workflow tool which kicks Kibana’s Butt – For Solr!
Andres Aguilar-Umana
Search and Analytics Consultant, Accenture
@twitterhandle
#Activate18 #ActivateSearch

2. Agenda
• Search, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
• Applied Intelligence Platform (AIP)
• AIP Design Studio
• AIP Design Studio & Solr
• Visualization demo

3. Search, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
Business
data
Business
user
Analytics
Data
Scientist
Search

4. Search, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
Business
data
End user
Machine
Learning
Analytics
Data
Scientist
Search

5. Search, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
Business
data
Business
users
Machine
Learning
Analytics
Data
Scientists
Search

6. Applied Intelligence Platform (AIP)
• Analytics-as-a-service platform
• Cloud based
• Ingest, store and apply data to
generate real-time, actionable
intelligence

7. AIP STACK
APP-CELERATE
Rapid application
development and
runtime
environment
Democratize
Analytics and
integrate 3rd
parties
Advanced
Analytics
Applications
Formula Editor Page Editor Business Process
Direct engine access (Data Scientist)Visual modelling (Part-time analyst)Model library (Business User)
OPERATIONALIZE MODEL
HUMAN WORKFLOW
Visual
Analytics
Storage
Data
Cloud
Analytics
Applications
AIPExecutionEngineAIPDesignStudio

8. What is AIP Design Studio?
• Flexible application development
tool on top of AIP
• Integrates advanced analytics into
the business process
• Personalized views for specific
business needs

9. What is AIP Design Studio?
• Drag and drop customizable
widgets
• Supported statistical engines:
• Spark
• R
• Revolution Analytics®
• IBM SPSS® Statistics
• IBM SPSS® Modeler
• SAS®
• Python™
• LINDO™
• Big Data integration
• No front-end knowledge required

10. What is AIP Design Studio?
• Application Layer
• Human workflow orchestration
• Actionability Layer
• From analytical outcomes into
business actions
• Modeling Layer
• Data science models
• Machine Learning
• Application Config Layer
• App development

11. Application Config - AIP Design Studio
• Page Editor
• Large widget library
• WYSIWYG approach
• Code Editor
• Makes event handling easy
• Python based
• User roles management
• Design the human interaction

12. Modeling layer – AIP Design Studio

13. Modeling layer – AIP Design Studio

14. Actionability Layer - AIP Design Studio
• Business Rules
• Categorize business data
• Business Models
• Gives a score to a business rule
• Risk Matrix
• Group entities by their score on several
business models
• Action Matrix
• Take action on a group of entities

15. Application Layer - AIP Design Studio
• Operationalize Models
• Hiding complexity under a button
• Human Workflow
• Combine different user skills into the
business decision making

16. AIP Design Studio + Solr
• Leverage faceting and complex query building
• Easy to use Python and Java API
• Data mining and preparation for big data analytics on
top of a Solr index
• Streaming expressions
• Analytics expressions
• Search-centric application development
• Link search results to analytics outcomes
• HDFS indexes!
• Old-school search applications
• With minimal to none frontend development knowledge

17. Final thoughts…
1
7
END TO END
PROCESS
From Analytics outcome to
business actions
LAST MILE
SOLUTION
There is no real value
on having the best
models if they can’t be
translated into
business actionsBIG DATA
Increasing number of
use cases involving big
data, streaming data
and real-time data
ANALYTICAL
DEMOCRATIZATION
Enable business users
and part-time analysts
access to models
APP-IFICATION
Reduce time-to-market
by reusing standard
procedures and
components

18. Thank you!
Andres Aguilar Umana
Search and Analytics Consultant, Accenture
@twitterhandle
#Activate18 #ActivateSearch