ALTERYX RELEASES 2018.3

Once a workflow is built, users want to share, secure, schedule, and monitor the assets that have been built. Alteryx Server allows users to publish their workflows to a central location where the workflows can be stored, shared, and controlled in a safe and “enterprise-grade” solution.

Challenge

• The IT infrastructure of MyWhoosh where the Alteryx Server platform was hosted was in an on-premise datacenter which was designed to be scalable and robust with multi node physical clusters including the server, storage and network components. However, most of the physical hardware was quite old and not equipped with the latest generation of physical servers.
• Frequent hardware crashes and portal downtime kept troubling the availability of the Alteryx Server application. Assigning a touch hand support person to power on the hardware that was down seemed quite impossible due the restrictions during covid period. Hence, MyWhoosh wanted to look for another viable solution.
• Though the hardware setup at MyWhoosh was well equipped to meet the occasional spikes in the traffic, it was observed that over a course of 6-month time, most of the IT infra was underutilized than predicted. It was realized that spending huge amount of money on an old hardware plus software maintenance, license costs, internet bandwidth, datacenter cooling and maintenance, touch support personnel and electricity costs – were keeping the business operations challenging.
• There was an attempt by MyWhoosh to select a cost-effective solution that can host Alteryx Server application servers, web servers and archival data. This way IT infra can be re-provisioned to host sensitive data on-premise and the rest on the cloud, thereby reducing the overall physical hardware costs spent on a yearly basis.

Why AWS

• MyWhoosh decided to migrate Alteryx Server, database servers and archival data to AWS.
• The Alteryx Server’s AWS architecture includes Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), that provides complete control of its computing resources, updates to tables in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and AWS Elastic Load Balancer was used to distribute the traffic to the underlying EC2 instances based on the load.

Benefits

• MyWhoosh uses AWS services to provision infrastructure and deploy the Alteryx Server platform to other departments within it. In addition, the Alteryx Server resources that are no longer required to be run all the time are made to auto shutdown thus saving cost. MyWhoosh reported a 30% cost reduction after implementation of AWS for the Alteryx Server platform.
• The implementation of Alteryx Server on AWS made MyWhoosh confident in the security of its data, and its accreditation team is enthusiastic about the monitoring and auditing capabilities provided by AWS tools. With the implementation of IAM roles, MyWhoosh IT team was able to isolate systems and tightly control user accesses. These capabilities were harder to achieve within the existing infra but were available out of the box with AWS
• By adopting AWS to host the Alteryx Server platform, MyWhoosh has been able to innovate and experiment to a degree previously impossible. For example, MyWhoosh compared the performance and cost-effectiveness of three different cloud solutions. Without moving to the AWS, the costs associated with running an outdated on-premise hardware would have creeped up and the alternative way of upgrading the existing on-prem infrastructure to the latest hardware models and then hosting the Alteryx Server application on top of it would have taken months.

Enterprises worldwide have perceived the potential benefits of AI for their operations. AI gives humans the freedom to make insightful decisions while allowing a computer to perform other preset tasks that necessitates the development of such technologies in the first place. These tools assist you in developing, but they also aid in optimising networks and workflows.

1. Scikit Learn
2. Tensorflow
3. Theano
4. Caffe
5. MxNet
6. Keras
7. PyTorch
8. CNTK

SCIKIT Learn

Known to be the most wanted tool in the library of Machine Learning for the python programming language, Scikit learn offers a wide range of tools for statistical modelling, Predictive analytics and very many other machine learning tasks. It underpins many administered and unsupervised learning calculations. It is a perfect tool for fledgling, and it incorporates direct and calculated relapses, choice trees, bunching, k-implies, etc.

Tensorflow

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open-source platform with a flexible ecosystem of tools for creating Machine Learning applications. It allows Google's voice-recognition tool to spot queries in photos and understand audibly stated phrases.

Theano

Theano was created to simplify and speed up the creation of sophisticated learning models so that they might be used in creative projects. It's written in Python and can run on both GPUs and CPUs. It generates elevated information counts that are often higher than when it runs solely on the CPU. Theano's speed makes it highly cost-effective to perform any complex calculations.

Caffe

The Berkeley Vision and Learning Center (BVLC) and network donors collaborated to construct Caffe, a deep learning structure that prioritises articulation, speed, and assessed quality. Google's Deep Dream uses Caffe Framework. CAFFE is a Python-interfaced BSD-authorized C++ library.

MxNET

MxNET uses a 'forgetful back prop' to barter computation time for memory, which is highly useful for recurrent nets on very long sequences. As it is an easy-to-use support for multi-GPU and multi-machine training, scalability is a priority during the design process. There are a lot of intriguing features, such as the ability to write custom layers in high-level languages. Unlike almost all other significant frameworks, it is not explicitly regulated by a vast corporation, which is suitable for an open-source, community-developed framework.

Keras

Keras is what you need if you like Python and how it works. It is a high-end library that tackles neural networks highly effectively for recurrent nets on very long sequences, which it achieves by utilising Theano and TensorFlow in the backend. It recognises the architecture that relates to specific issues. It aids in the detection of problems by using photos with weights. It optimises the results of a network by configuring it. Keras provides an abstract structure that can be transformed into any other framework for compatibility or performance.

Pytorch

The code for Pytorch, a Facebook-created artificial system, is easily accessible on Github. There are over 22000 stars on it. The framework has been in high demand in recent years, and it is still being developed. PyTorch uses reverse-mode auto-differentiation to modify network behaviour arbitrarily with zero lag or overhead, speeding up research iterations. Its deep learning framework is optimised for achieving state-of-the-art results in research.

CNTK

The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) is an open-source, unified toolkit that describes neural networks as computational steps via a directed graph. Users utilise CNTK to release and merge popular types of models, such as DNNs, CNNs, RNNs, and LSTMs. It employs stochastic gradient descent (SGD), which learns through parallelisation and automatic differentiation across multiple servers and GPUs. Because of its open-source licenses, anyone can try out CNTK

Machine Learning Tools

Machine learning tools are algorithmic applications of artificial intelligence that allow systems to learn and develop without human input; data mining and predictive modelling are similar concepts. They will enable the software to improve its accuracy in anticipating outcomes without programming it directly. Some top Machine Learning Tools are enlisted below:

1. Microsoft Azure Machine Learning
2. IBM Watson
3. Google TensorFlow
4. Amazon Machine Learning
5. OpenNMS
6. Google Colab
7. Apache Mahout
8. Shogun

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning is a cloud platform for building, training, and deploying AI models. Microsoft is constantly updating and improving its machine learning tools, and it just announced changes to Azure Machine Learning, including the retirement of the Azure Machine Learning Workbench.

IBM Watson

Watson Machine Learning is a cloud service from IBM that leverages data to deploy machine learning and deep learning models. Users can use this machine learning application to execute two basic machine learning operations: training and scoring. Remember that IBM Watson is best suited for developing machine learning applications via API connections.

Google TensorFlow

TensorFlow is an open-source software library for dataflow programming that Google uses for research and production. TensorFlow is, at its core, a machine learning framework. This machine learning tool is new to the market and is rapidly evolving. The ease with which TensorFlow allows developers to visualise neural networks is perhaps the most appealing feature.

Amazon Machine Learning

Amazon Machine Learning is used for creating and predicting Machine Learning models. Amazon Machine Learning comes with an automatic data transformation tool, which makes the machine learning tool even more user-friendly. Amazon also offers other machine learning tools, such as Amazon SageMaker, a fully-managed platform that makes using machine learning models simple for developers and data scientists.

OpenNMS

Open Neural Networks Package is a neural network implementation software library. OpenNMS, written in the C++ programming language, allows you to download its whole library from GitHub or SourceForge.

Google Colab

Google Colab is a cloud service supported by Python. It will assist in developing machine learning applications using PyTorch, Keras, TensorFlow, and OpenCV libraries. It facilitates machine learning and is accessible through Google Drive.

Apache Mahout

Apache Mahout is an Apache Software Foundation project that employs the MapReduce paradigm and is built on top of Apache Hadoop. It's also utilised to construct scalable, distributed machine learning algorithms for clustering, collaborative filtering, and classification. Mahout includes Java libraries for popular math algorithms and operations and foundational Java collections, concentrating on statistics and linear algebra.

Shogun

Shogun is an open-source ML platform, an open-source machine learning software library built in C++. It employs a diverse set of unified and efficient machine learning techniques. Shogun provides a well-organised implementation of all standard machine learning methods and is a critical player in ML education and development.

Robotic Process Automation Tools

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tools are commonly used for task automation configuration. These tools are essential for automating repetitive back-office activities. With RPA Tools, we acquire a virtual employee who can execute repetitive tasks efficiently and, at less cost, than humans.

1. Keysight's Eggplant
2. Inflectra Rapise
3. Blue Prism
4. UiPath
5. Automation Anywhere
6. Pega
7. Contextor
8. Nice Systems

Keysight's Eggplant

Eggplant RPA is a solution designed for process experts to automate the execution of repetitive tasks. It is compatible with apps such as SAP, Oracle, etc. and provides increased productivity and reduces errors.

Inflectra Rapise

Rapise by Inflectraina, a test automation solution, is in its seventh iteration and specialises in complicated applications like MS Dynamics, Salesforce, and SAP. Rapise now can automate Web, Desktop, and Mobile apps and supports hybrid business settings.

Blue Prism

Blue Prism RPA supports all core capabilities and is used with any application on any platform. You will need programming abilities to utilise this application, but it is user-friendly for developers. Blue Prism is ideal for medium and large businesses.

UiPath

UiPath is a user-friendly system that delivers security by handling credentials, encrypting data, and controlling access based on role. It is an open platform, adaptable for any business size and capable of handling complex procedures.

Automation Anywhere

Automation Anywhere provides core functions and security through authentication, encryption, and credentials. It is an easy-to-use solution ideal for medium and big businesses that offers both on-premise and cloud-based services.

Pega

Pega is a business process management platform that is hosted in the cloud. This is ideal for medium and large organisations and solely delivers cloud-based solutions or services. Pega is compatible with Windows, Linux, and Mac and can be installed on desktop servers.

Contextor

Contextor is an excellent fit for any size front office and works with all workstation applications. It supports Citrix and RDP hybrid virtualisation environments and provides on-premise and cloud services. Contextor can interface with both active and minimised programmes.

Nice Systems

The friendly RPA tool named NEVA-Nice Employee Virtual Attendant is an intelligent tool that assists in automating mundane tasks, compliance adherence, and Upsell. It provides cloud-based and on-premise solutions and attended and unattended server automation.

The trio, AI, ML and RPA, are separate entities, closely interconnected. As it can solve most real-world issues in a blink, they have become an inseparable helping hand in all the major businesses.

Challenge

1. The IT infrastructure of Nissan Middle East FZE where the PowerBI Report Server platform was hosted was in an on-premise datacenter which was designed to be scalable and robust with multi node physical clusters including the server, storage and network components. However, most of the physical hardware was quite old and not equipped with the latest generation of physical servers.
2. Frequent hardware crashes and portal downtime kept troubling the availability of the PowerBI Report Server application. Assigning a touch hand support person to power on the hardware that was down seemed quite impossible due the restrictions during covid period. Hence, Nissan Middle East FZE wanted to look for another viable solution.
3. Though the hardware setup at Nissan Middle East FZE was well equipped to meet the occasional spikes in the traffic, it was observed that over a course of 6-month time, most of the IT infra was underutilized than predicted. It was realized that spending huge amount of money on an old hardware plus software maintenance, license costs, internet bandwidth, datacenter cooling and maintenance, touch support personnel and electricity costs – were keeping the business operations challenging.
4. There was an attempt by Nissan Middle East FZE to select a cost-effective solution that can host PowerBI Report Server application servers, web servers and archival data. This way IT infra can be re-provisioned to host sensitive data on-premise and the rest on the cloud, thereby reducing the overall physical hardware costs spent on a yearly basis.

Why AWS

1. Nissan Middle East FZE decided to migrate PowerBI Report Server, database servers and archival data to AWS.
2. The PowerBI Report Server’s AWS architecture includes Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), that provides complete control of its computing resources, updates to tables in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and AWS Elastic Load Balancer was used to distribute the traffic to the underlying EC2 instances based on the load.

Benefits

AWS Systems Manager seamlessly operates with both Windows and Linux OS and integrates with CloudWatch metrics, CloudWatch Dashboard, and AWS Config. Moreover, it enables the creation of resource groups spanning various AWS services, allowing for aggregated operational data viewing and facilitating monitoring, troubleshooting, and resource group-specific actions.

Common use cases and best practices for AWS Systems Manager capabilities are listed below:

Inventory

Maintenance Windows

Parameter Store

Patch Manager

Run Command

Session Manager

State Manager

Managed Nodes

Case Study: A Global Cloud Solutions and Services Company Enhances Scalability and Efficiency with AWS Systems Manager

Client: A Global Cloud Solutions and Services Company

A technology services company that specialises in helping organisations across 120 countries adopt modern technologies and manage them efficiently. They focus on creating solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Requirement: Finding Scalability on AWS Systems Manager

The client faced a significant challenge in managing multi-cloud environments at scale reliably and cost-effectively. Manually handling activities across hundreds of thousands of different compute instances was resource-intensive and delayed issue resolution. They needed a solution that could run both on-premises and on the cloud and wanted a single tool for managing their suite of solutions.>
Challenges

Process: Supporting Automation, Staff Productivity, and Transparency on AWS

The client began using AWS Systems Manager in 2015 for various products and extended its use to other cloud environments in 2019. Since 2019, the client has utilised AWS Systems Manager to power patching activities across all major cloud providers they support. They perform mass patching at scale, covering over 62,000 VMs across all their managed services. VM Management automates traditionally manual tasks like patching, agent distribution, server diagnostics, and issue remediation. It significantly reduces labour, costs, and errors associated with manual tasks, enhancing security and efficiency.

SmartTickets, a component in VM Management, handled thousands of incidents and automated responses using AWS Systems Manager, saving time and reducing costs for the company. They also used Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring and observability and automated runbooks for real-time monitoring and alerts.

AWS Systems Manager provides a single-pane view of environments, improving customer visibility and decision-making.

Result: Taking Automation to the Next Level on AWS

The client plans to develop custom runbooks with customers and further automate responses and resolutions using AWS Systems Manager. They have successfully solved industry challenges by saving time, cutting costs, and reducing complexity for both their customers and themselves.

Key Takeaway

The client leveraged AWS Systems Manager to streamline and automate their operations, resulting in improved efficiency, cost reduction, and enhanced customer satisfaction. With automation, they can swiftly respond to and resolve issues, meeting customer expectations effectively.

How Beinex Can Help You

Beinex is an AWS consulting partner, and we empower customers to host their BI solutions and much more on the cloud. Our cloud migration experts bring in best-in-class stability and reliability by understanding your business strategy and working closely with you to deploy AWS infrastructure as a service.

Digital Twin Services in the UAE

The UAE digital twin market generated USD 558.3 million in revenue in 2024 and is projected to grow to USD 3.48 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 34%. Within the broader GCC region, the digital twin market achieved USD 1.52 billion in 2024, with the UAE positioned as the lead market.

Digital twin services have widely brought transformative changes in both government and private structures. Imagine testing modifications to a production line, monitoring energy usage across an entire facility, or simulating traffic patterns in a smart environment, all without impacting real-world operations. That’s the transformative power of digital twins, and Beinex is helping organizations harness it to drive smarter, data-backed decisions.

In the UAE, where innovation meets ambition, the digital twin services are rapidly gaining traction across key sectors:

• • Healthcare providers are using digital twins for patient-specific simulations, improving diagnostics and treatment planning.
• • Manufacturing & industrial operations, including oil & gas, petrochemicals, are employing digital twins for asset performance monitoring, failure prediction, and process optimization.
• • Automotive and transport industries are the largest and fastest-growing adopters of digital twin solutions, leveraging them for innovation, sustainability, and operational excellence.

Whether it's a high-tech manufacturing facility in Abu Dhabi or a cutting-edge urban development in Dubai, Beinex Digital Twin Solutions is empowering organizations to make smarter, faster, and more informed decisions, with fewer surprises along the way.

What is a Digital Twin?

A digital twin is a virtual replica of a physical asset, system, or process powered by real-time data and enhanced with artificial intelligence. It mirrors real-world behavior, performance, and status, enabling businesses to monitor, simulate, and optimize their operations. Whether it’s a jet engine, a wind turbine, or an entire smart city infrastructure, digital twins provide an insightful, data-driven window into how physical objects function in the real world.

Studies by Deloitte indicate that the global digital twin market size is projected to increase from nearly US$13 billion in 2023 to US$259 billion by 2032. Undoubtedly, in the coming years, we can anticipate a surge in the number of businesses adopting digital twin technology as part of their business strategy.

How Digital Twin Solutions are Transforming Businesses in the UAE

Digital Twin technology and its solutions allow businesses to track the performance of assets, detect potential faults, and make smarter decisions about maintenance and lifecycle management. Digital Twin Solutions in the UAE are rapidly growing, especially in sectors like construction, urban planning, and public services. Here's how Digital Twin Solutions are reshaping various industries in the UAE.

Energy Sector (Oil & Gas)

The energy industry is using digital twin technology in optimizing resource distribution, enhancing demand forecasting, and improving asset monitoring. This technology ensures a more resilient and efficient infrastructure as the UAE continues its transition to sustainable energy.

Healthcare Sector

Digital twins are used in the medical industry to simulate organs, personalize patient care, and streamline clinical procedures. It opens the door for precision medicine and more sophisticated patient care in the rapidly expanding healthcare industry in the United Arab Emirates.

Engineering Sector

In the engineering field, digital twins are used to simulate and analyze intricate machinery and infrastructure. It supports engineers to test scenarios, identify errors, and refine system designs before construction. In industries like infrastructure, aviation, and defence, it guarantees safer and more efficient development.

Automobile Manufacturing Industry

The UAE automotive industry is using digital twins to improve vehicle design, testing, and maintenance. Virtual prototypes save production costs, increase safety, and accelerate innovation. As a result, the UAE has begun making significant investments in electric vehicles and innovative mobility technologies.

Aviation Industry

Digital twins can be beneficial for modelling aircraft parts, tracking performance, and forecasting maintenance requirements in the UAE's booming aviation industry. It prolongs the aircraft's lifespan, improves performance, and safety.

Construction and Infrastructure Industry

Real-time models of buildings, bridges, and other infrastructure are produced using digital twin technology. In the thriving UAE construction industry, it enables contractors and developers to monitor developments, reduce errors, and create more intelligent, sustainable urban designs.

Manufacturing Sector

In the UAE, manufacturers are using digital twins to simulate production processes, monitor machinery, and manage supply networks. As the competitive global market demands more flexible operations, improved quality control, and reduced downtime, digital twins can provide significant support.

Real Estate and Property Development

UAE real estate developers are using digital twins to view buildings before construction, remotely manage homes, and simulate energy consumption. For today's tech-savvy purchasers and investors, these solutions facilitate more informed decision-making in design, leasing, and facility management.

Top 8 Benefits of the Digital Twin

Let’s discuss the top eight benefits of digital twins, but these are only the tip of the iceberg; the others are up and coming:

1. Enhance User Experience

Data is essential to comprehend the past, know the present, and anticipate the future. The foundation of any effective user experience program is effective data management. Digital twins use IoT to collect real-time data from the physical environment. The information gathered is continually analyzed, examined, and learned to provide valuable insights. With real-time analytics, businesses may successfully implement user-centric programs.

2. High-quality and Innovative Products

A competitive advantage that separates the leader from the followers is innovation. Physical asset innovation necessitates significant R&D expenditures. Design, testing, and operation require specialized knowledge due to the high cost of failures. These creative roadblocks can be solved with the help of digital twins. Enterprises can work with the user community to create high-quality offerings in a simulated environment that combines real-time information.

3. Enhance Business Processes

For consumers, broken processes and bureaucracy would be at the top of their list of annoyances. The orchestration, knowledge management, and technological architecture are fragmented and siloed due to the complexity of modern business operations. The numerous systems and processes are brought together under one roof using digital twins, which act as a meta-layer. Digital twins are essential for knowledge management, training, and process optimization in the complicated future. Additionally, simulations and visualizations support better process management and human learning.

4. Operative Flexibility

Operational agility will affect an organization's top and bottom lines in a highly competitive marketplace. Black-box algorithms, the enormous amounts of information gathered, and the need for quicker judgments all work against human operators. Digital twins allow a range of diagnostic and prognostic capabilities by utilizing enormous amounts of data, technology, and scenarios. The human operators can re-enter the process and find strategies for being competitive and flexible.

5. Information Security

Information security is a challenge that comes with all the data. Open source, collaborative learning, and knowledge sharing have never had a more compelling argument. We can't advance if data breaches are happening more frequently. Trusted stakeholders could collaborate on a platform provided by digital twins to share information and gain from it. Digital twins can also act as a layer of concealment to protect the confidentiality of the data.

6. Upgraded Research & Development

Utilising digital twins produces a wealth of data regarding expected performance results, facilitating more efficient product research and creation. The best thing is that before beginning production, businesses can use this data to gain insights that will help them make the necessary product improvements.

7. Greater Effectiveness

Digital twins can aid in monitoring and mirroring production systems even after a new product has entered production to reach and maintain peak efficiency throughout the manufacturing process.

8. Product Life Cycle

Digital twins can also assist producers in determining how to handle products that have reached the end of their useful lives and require final processing, such as recycling or other actions. They can decide which product materials can be gathered by utilising digital twins.

Beinex Digital Twin Solutions & Consulting Services

The steadily growing digital twins’ market is evidence that, although being widely used in many different industries, this technology is still far from attaining its full potential. The entire business lifecycle is undergoing a transformation due to digital twin solutions, encompassing product creation and design, marketing, sales, and post-purchase support.

For businesses seeking to advance their digital transformation agendas, digital twins are now more than just a tool; they are a strategic enabler. In the UAE, Beinex's digital twin consulting services are having a significant impact. Beinex is here to help you achieve the full potential of your digital twin journey. Connect with us to know more: https://beinex.com/digital-twin/