This document discusses how Encanvas can help businesses leverage IoT and big data. Encanvas manages IoT assets and aggregates their performance data with other sources to generate new insights. It gathers, analyzes, and interprets diverse data in new ways to produce value and new business approaches. Encanvas provides a platform to build scalable applications that connect to various data sources, perform extract-transform-load processes, and automate tasks using robotic functionality.

1. APPLICATION DATA SHEET
IoT AND BIG DATA
MAKE DIGITAL INNOVATION YOUR
BUSINESS ADVANTAGE
Two innovations that are jointly connected are the Internet of Things (IoT)
describing the proliferation of sensor‐based devices, and Big Data, describing the
enormous volume of data that exists and continues to grow exponentially due to
the pervasive use of digital images and content. Encanvas manages the health of
IoT assets and reports on their performance and activities. This data can be
aggregated with other sources of ‘big’ data to produce new insights. Encanvas
gathers, harvests, analyses and interprets data in whole new ways, producing new
sources of value ‐ new ways of doing business.
Making sense of big data
What does IoT and BIG DATA mean to your
business? Do you see big data as a potential way
to drive your digital transformation perhaps?
McKinsey&Co. neatly describe the business
potential of digital transformation in its document
'What it takes to build your Digital Quotient'. They
state that, to leverage big data to drive digital
transformation in your business, it’s more about
something you do, not something you buy. So says
McKinsey, to turn big data into power, there are
three things you should think about:
1. Getting the strategy right
Before thinking about IoT and big data,
organizations need to consider 'what digital
transformation means to them' as it could mean a
new way of doing something better ‐ or a
completely new business approach.
2. Capabilities at scale
For digital success (says McKinsey) certain
capabilities are more important than others.
Foremost among them are modular IT platforms
and agile technology‐delivery skills needed to keep
pace with customers. Encanvas equips businesses
to keep their IT in‐tune with changing needs as
digital strategies evolve.
3. A fast, agile culture
Finally, (says McKinsey) while strong skills are
crucial, companies can, to some degree, compensate
for missing ones by infusing their traditional
cultures with velocity, flexibility, and external
orientation, and the ability to learn. Encanvas
supports the transformation of organizations
towards more agile tendencies by removing the
barriers between 'IT and the business'.
Use cases
Typical use cases include:
Asset performance and management ‐
Harvesting insights from assets, analysing them
and reporting on their performance.
Developing insights in asset serviceability and
component performance to optimize
preventative maintenance programmes and
spares stock inventories etc.
Smart systems ‐ Using Encanvas to manage IoT
devices as part of a smart system that reduces
human intervention in events and processes.
Industry applications ‐ Transform how processes
work within specific industries by re‐modelling
supply‐chains, customer engagement processes,
user interfaces and business models.
The role of geo­data visualizations – Maps are an
important tool in IoT and big data apps because
they bring clarity to large volumes of data by
offering a geo‐location context. Encanvas offers a
unique built‐in mapping capability based on data
management best practise. Unlike legacy GIS
systems, Encanvas does not compose composite
map files but presents data and vectors as layers
on a canvas. This approach is essential for data
mashup applications.
Why Use Encanvas as your
management system for IoT and Big
Data projects?
Add
Federated robot/IoT device
control system
Access to services 24x7 via a
comprehensive control panel
Cloud‐based scaling and control
Federated map views
Robotic functionality to
automate manual tasks
The ability to anticipate threats,
emergencies, bottlenecks, asset
failures etc.
Grow
Control and governance of
federated assets
Understanding of cross‐discipline
events and activities
Data security and integrity checks
over IoT feeds
Data accuracy by exposing short‐
falls in data quality
Meta‐data capture
Governance over activities –
Systematic rules are applied
consistently
Best‐practise innovation
Reduce
IT project risk, spend, overheads
on IT teams
Manual data processing tasks
Time‐to‐value of new solutions
Time to deploy on desktop and
mobile browser platforms
Remove
Manual data capture, input,
aggregation, cleansing, analysis,
reporting and publishing tasks
IT complexity
Support overheads

2. Feature Benefit
Code­less No coding, no errors, smaller IT, better apps
Federate views Powerful, federated map and data visualisations,
aggregating IoT and big data sources
Integrated robotics Automate manual operations
Data mashup and ETL tooling Encanvas has won awards for its multi‐threaded, multi
sourcing and multi‐linking technologies which means
you can pretty much connect to any data source and
harvest data. Use our ETL tooling to cleaning,
normalize, de‐dupe, transform and upload data
Served pages Maximize data security with Encanvas served‐pages,
ensuring that no web pages exist to be hacked
24­hour operation Higher uptime
Scalable cloud architecture Affordably build hundreds of applications, scale data
to ‘cloud dimensions’, monitor millions of assets and
devices on a single platform
An integrated component of
the Encanvas DX platform
For class‐leading user identity management, group
and website administration, business analytics, data
security and applications customization capabilities
For more information
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Data security provisioning
Encanvas is secure by design as a platform. We use
features like served web pages to make it difficult to
hack. We also do what we can to encourage
designers to produce safe environments for data.
Unrivalled data mashup and ETL
Encanvas is architected to author applications that
‘mashup’ data from different sources and present
holistic views. It offers a broad portfolio of ready‐
to‐use data connectors. It also includes powerful
extract, transform and load capabilities.
Robotics built­in
Encanvas includes technology components that can
mimic human actions such as key‐filling screens,
harvesting and sorting data, producing
spreadsheets, presentations, reports, documents
(etc.) and publishing.
Future­proofed applications
Encanvas is now in its third generation. When we
had success with the first generation, we realised
how difficult it was to maintain existing apps while
innovating the platform. So we invented Version‐
Rollback™ technology. It’s integral to our platform
and means your apps never go out of date.
Cloud scalability and replication
We created a cloud container ecosystem called
Remote[Spaces] almost a decade ago to make it
easier to create, replicate, maintain and update
private cloud spaces. It makes it easy to scale
applications and protect the data they hold.
Unrivalled performance
Encanvas is a code‐less platform with unrivalled
performance, security and dexterity. It has an
extensive library of data connectors to third party
sources. And it offers both desktop and server
based robotics to align IT solutions to business
needs – producing affordable, best‐fit‐outcomes.
Scalability that knows no bounds
Encanvas is used for some of the most demanding
RPA applications. Support millions of robots and
still experience blistering response speeds.
Encanvas is a cloud­deployed
application fabric. No client
installation is required. Private
cloud and host platform options are
available for in­house deployments
Host platform
Microsoft® Windows Small Business
Server 2003 through to Windows
Server 2016. Requires Microsoft® SQL
Server or Microsoft® SQL Server
Express (not supplied).
Supported formats
Encanvas acquires and presents data
sourced from front‐office files (like
.CSV and .XLS), back‐office systems
(like relational databases), big data
systems and Shapefiles (composite
ESRI® format), TAB, MIF (composites
used by MapInfo®), GML files
(composite used by MasterMap™)
Other applications
Live Wire‐Frame
Dashboards
Maps
Digital Transformation
Robotic Process Automation
Digital City
Business Intelligence
Life‐Cycle Dashboards