Cloud-Edge AI Software SolutionsHigh Level Overview

Cloud-Edge Introduction

These are our Software Modules• Used together, they provide end-to-end data

analytics and data processing capability• Used separately, they provide a targeted solution

for specific projects (e.g. data migration and transformation, legacy code transformation, advanced analytics, and BI)

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Cloud-Edge is a High Performance Engine with end-to-end data processing and analytics capability. Our software facilitates a complete transformation of data into a compressed yet useable format, ready for advanced analytics and other functions.

It has flexible deployment into a Cloud environment or directly onto the client server and is installed just like any other software application. The ability to ingest data agnostic to format (structured, semi-structured or unstructured), source or industry, is one of Cloud-Edge’s unique and differentiating USPs.

The Cloud-Edge technology facilitates machine learning / AI.

There is no requirement for the client to have a dedicated server to run the Cloud-Edge software and the entire system can be run off commodity, intel, mid-range, server hardware.

The Cloud-Edge software solution is a single platform comprising four modules.

1. Application Delivery - Business Intelligence (BI)2. Advance Analytics3. Active Storage4. Data Processing Engine

Cloud-Edge Consolidated Solution Framework

Application Delivery

Advanced Analytics

Active Storage Data Processing Engine

Cloud-Edge AI Software Solution

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For a client to achieve an AI based end-to-end data processing and data analytics platform, similar to what Cloud-Edge software can deliver, they would typically need to engage four separate software solutions.

These may include:

1. Business Intelligence Software: such as is supplied by SAP, Tableau or Thompson Reuters.

2. Advanced Analytics Software: such as is supplied by SAS, Oracle or SPSS.

3. Active Storage Software: such as is supplied by Vertica, IBM, Oracle, Teledata or SQL Server.

4. Data Process Engine (DPE) with ETL: such as Tibco, Informatica or Talend.

Cloud-Edge AI Software Solution vs. Four Separate Software Solutions

Business Intelligenc

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Storage ETLAdvancedAnalytics

Application Delivery

Advanced Analytics

Active Storage

Data Processing

Engine

We are application delivery Integrated BI solutions leveraging our data

service Reusable library of components for dashboard

panel construction MOLAP and complex data browsing Interfaces with third party BI solutions

No need for BI tools

We are advanced analytics Once ingested and compressed data is ready for

use via direct access or data virtualization Full advanced analytic capability regardless of

data volume Rapid development of algorithms and other

advanced analytic functions (i.e. Fuzzy logic, unified joins, and super data merge-SDM)

No need for an Analytics tools

We are the storage structure ETL & Database Functions – Work jointly to

ingest and store data Once ingested we:

• Compress for active usage• Monitor data flow and health• Track and distribute data rapidly

No need for an RDBMS

No need for an ETL toolWe are the acquisition tool

Data, any data, we are agnostic to platform, content, and industries

We like structured & unstructured data We can automate acquiring your data via APIs

or work with manual data feeds

No need for an ETL tool

One Software Application delivering Four Enterprise Class Functions

Versatility of Cloud-Edge

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Application Delivery

Advanced Analytics

Active Storage

Data Processing

Engine

Multi-Vendor

Traditional Analytics LayersMulti-Vendor / Multi-tenant

- Individual software licenses- Multi environments per SW- Multi integration points- Disparate repositories- Disparate locations

Single Vendor

Cloud-Edge Consolidated Single Software Solution

- Single software license- Single environment- Single integration point- Centralized repository- Centralized location

Cloud-Edge's Solution vs. Traditional Multi-vender Solutions *

Environments Licenses Servers Support

25% Less Cost 63% Less Cost 40% Less Cost 32% Less Cost

*Cost based on HPDL980 implementation for Cloud-Edge full platform software implementation as compared to traditional four layer environment for the segment leaders SW implementation.

How Cloud-Edge Software Provides Savings

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In an organization not utilizing Cloud-Edge software, the multi-vendor solutions often reside on different servers or even different networks.

This piecemeal architecture may give rise to significant performance bottlenecks.

The net result is that the client is burdened with multiple licenses, environments and integration points, as well as disparate locations and repositories, with minimal to no machine learning across the environment.

In direct comparison, the Cloud -Edge software delivers the four modules in a single solution, resulting in a single Software License, environment and integration point, at a centralized location and repository. Facilitating machine learning / AI.

This translates into improved performance, a smaller data center footprint and significantly reduced operational costs.

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Cloud-Edge Data Processing Engine (DPE)

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Central to Cloud-Edge is the raw processing power of the Cloud-Edge Data Processing Engine (DPE).

This proprietary data engine, uses ‘low level’ heuristic algorithms, to drive Cloud-Edge’s end-to end data processing and data analytics solution in the most efficient and effective manner whilst using machine learning.

The heuristic algorithms control compression, sorting, scanning and indexing functionality. This is all part of the ETL process (without the need for any further programming requirements).

The compression algorithm has the ability to compress and decompress data in the ranges between 4:1 and 20:1. This improves overall machine workload output and results in significant storage savings.

The data can still be manipulated and analyzed in its compressed form, which is another of Cloud-Edge’s USPs.

All the data is assessed in its compressed state and is subjected to Cloud-Edges’ scanning, sorting and indexing algorithms to facilitate the significant performance advantages of Cloud-Edge Software.

In essence, Cloud-Edge DPE empowers clients to assess and manipulate their data at a cost point previously considered impossible.

Cloud-Edge DPE Benchmarks

• Benchmark conducted at HP Solution Center, the Cloud-Edge Sort DPE loaded 2.1 Tb of raw data from disk in 35 minutes and 39 seconds. An average load of 1.067 GB per second.

• Cloud-Edge Sort performed an all columns scan from disk, of 1 billion rows (100 bytes wide), doing complex calculations on every single row (all the columns), in 29 seconds. That is roughly 33 ½ million rows per second.

Cloud-Edge AI Analytics Functionality

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Cloud-Edge AI Software comes with a full suite of easy to use client and development tool sets, a comprehensive User Guide and training videos.

The client and development tool sets have a “Point and Click” functionality, similar to a Microsoft Windows application and no programming experience is required to operate the software.

Within the Development Studio, there is a set of Cloud-Edge “Seeds” for advanced analytic queries.

These “Seeds” do not require any further programming code or long textual commands and were originally developed for each Use Case (as detailed in our Comprehensive White Paper).

Cloud-Edge has a team of Data Scientists to scope requirements of the client’s desired outcomes in order to deliver a customized “big data” problem solving solution.

Output from Cloud-Edge is in a tabular format and numerous query tables can be viewed in separate ”browsable” panels to facilitate comparisons and summarize outcomes and conclusions. Should there be a requirement for any further graphical or detailed dashboard representation, this would necessitate an interface with specific external software platforms that cater to this need.

Cloud-Edge’s Data Scientists are also available to consult on any additional analytic queries, or training and to provide other assistance to users.

Each Seed can have multiple

processes

One Seed Process

Cloud-Edge Development Process

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Cloud-Edge is a unique resource that, with the assistance of a Cloud-Edge or in-housedata scientist, will produce a superior solution to any given business requirement.

The development process commences rapidly due to the ease and speed of loading massive volumes of data, regardless of whether it is structured, semi-structured or unstructured.

Cloud-Edge is a client-server architecture. The full functionality of the development process is ready “out-of-the-box” i.e. immediately after importing the data.

Cloud-Edge utilizes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) development to rapidly implement from the simplest to the most complex analytics, as compared with the timeline of other procedural languages.

Interim reports can be generated from commencement and thereafter throughout the agile development process, giving a high level of value to the user. Based on the outcome of those reports, the user can refine the requests and update them dynamically.

Another feature of the Cloud-Edge Development Process allows for an interactive experimentation of multiple solution alternatives, whereby most ideas can be expressed via the GUI within minutes, and then immediately tested against the entire database.

This agile development process enables users and stakeholders to discover importantpatterns and characteristics in the data, resulting in improvements in efficiency andeffectiveness of the final product.

Cloud-Edge is designed for extremely efficient remote operation, such that one feelslike you are working directly on the server. For example, you can remotely browse atable with billions of rows, with no delay in navigating that table.

Cloud-Edge requires minimal hardware resources for both development and deployment. The solution will therefore almost always be the most cost-effective implementation.

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Conclusion

In summary, with Cloud-Edge’s innovative single platform and approach, business solutions can be driven through software in a more time efficient and cost effective manner, rather than the traditional method of just adding hardware to increase processing speed and capabilities.

By comparison, the Cloud-Edge solution will regularly drive the most cost-effective implementation, whilst utilizing the minimum of resources to achieve the required functionality and performance, eventually resulting in a superior solution to the business challenge.

Furthermore, Cloud-Edge enables Companies to pro-actively make use of their most important asset (namely data) to awaken the potential value of dormant data within their data repository and unlock new insights from the information. This will ultimately empower organizations to focus, future-proof and re-engineer business strategies to drive their business forward.

For additional information please contact Cloud-Edge via email:

information@cloud-edge.com