Built-in features

• Sophisticated algorithms out-of-box
• Flexibility to explore data and manage custom algorithms

Manthan provides a business use-case layer on top of an advanced modeling platform. The user provides the business assumptions, like the type of segmentation that needs to be built or the products for which sales needs to be forecasted. The system does the heavy lifting and creates the best fit model taking into consideration the type of data available.

The platform also provides a scalable on-demand infrastructure that is initiated based on the requirements of the algorithms.

Various algorithm types are supported by the platform including clustering, classification, regression, association mining, recommendation systems, etc.

Custom models

• Tools needed to build custom models
• Capability to productionize

The platform provides a source of clean customer data and makes it easy for the data scientist to explore data exploration, test hypothesis and prepare data. A finalized model can be imported into the system, integrated with business applications through API interfaces and run in real-time.

Analytics As A Service

• Simple, modular integration
• Analytics As A Service
• Model imports as Java / Python/ Spark R scripts
• Enables on-demand clusters with sizing as per analytical need
• Optimized for various Hadoop distributions and databases

Conversational interface

Rich, conversational NLP-based interface (supports both voice and text) can answer all types of questions across the analytics spectrum - descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive. Platform allows the NLP interface layer to activate all underlying Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning models to answer sophisticated business questions via a conversational interface.

Devices supported

• Smart speakers – Amazon Echo/Dot/Show
• Google Home
• Microsoft Cortana
• Smartphones and Tablets
• Text agent that can be integrated into any thirdparty application

Data visualization, advanced exploration, reports and collaboration

• Information is shared differently (dashboards, detailed reports, maps, charts and graphs) based on the type of the analysis and decision points.
• Analysis explored further to understand causal factors and root cause analysis to make effective decisions and then shared with the others for actions.
• Manthan supports all the above in the Analyze-Decide-Do continuum under the common framework and single user interface with consistent definitions across the layers.

Managed,self-service and governed usage models

• Designed to democratize data and put insights in the hands of the decision maker.
• Prebuilt analytics for various decision scenarios and structure for rolling out the same to users through role based mapping.
• With centralized definitions and templates, every user will have analysis in a consistent manner. All definitions are built using the common metadata which provides the business definitions to the users.
• Users can create their own analysis and visualizations using the common metadata guaranteeing consistency of definitions.

Expand for any use case

• With common metadata framework and GUI-driven development tools, definitions and analysis can be aligned to the changing business needs or extended to the new business scenarios.
• Most analyses can be done by business users themselves using the self-serve capabilities.
• Customers have extended Manthan models to other areas using development tools.

Seamless Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive

• Predictions and prescriptive recommendations with descriptive reporting for users to compare the business understanding with the recommendations and immediately roll out actions.
• Descriptive analysis to understand how the business is doing, what is working and what’s not, identify opportunities through reporting, dashboarding, proactive alerts functionality.
• Learns from data, makes predictions on data to identify business objectives and makes recommendation based on the objective.

Security

• State-of-the-art data centers with multi-level security perimeters, fire, water, climate, temperature protection fault-tolerant design. Highest degrees of business continuity assured through advanced technology partnerships with leading cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
• Secure Network Architecture, firewall and boundary devices control access.
• Isolated dedicated Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with IPsec Virtual Private Network (VPN) provides an encrypted private on premise to cloud integrations.
• Application firewalls, secure application design and deployment verified by third party assessments that include structured review processes based on best-inclass practices influenced by standards such as ISECOM Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM), Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), US National Security Agency (NSA), ISO 2700 Information Security Standard.
• Supports best-in-class multi-factor authentication integrations, integration to Enterprise Class Identity management systems on the Cloud and on premises.
• Data secured within private subnets within VPC and Data at Rest stored on encrypted block and object storages.
• Data transfers are encrypted (256 bit) before being transmitted through secured private VPN tunnel or SSL over HTTP based service endpoints
• Data is stored on encrypted block storage and encrypted object stores. Data on volumes, snapshots are encrypted with AES 256 cryptographic algorithms.
• Sensitive and confidential data is encrypted through strong cryptographic algorithms.
• Data is accessible only via the application through SSL over HTTP.

Scale and performance

• Thousands of interactive users
• Hundreds of Service APIs supported
• Hundreds of terabytes of business systems data
• Petabytes of unstructured data including web, social, IoT, etc
• Hundreds of nodes in clusters supporting machine learning and data management workloads

Switch On

Switch On is Manthan’s proprietary infrastructure provisioning capability with connectors to all major business and consumer systems. Manthan’s ready-to-deploy data model, process and functional use-case enabled robust analytics are delivered in a matter of days.

• The data onboarding phase connects the source systems and process into the Manthan
• Data onboarding can be enabled in staged manner to support the usage of the system with integrated data.
• Data onboarding process packs in retail scenarios of data behavior like late polls, corrections, audit corrections and calendars that help in achieving greater accuracy, faster.
• Users are onboarded with business scenarios during the functional onboarding phase.

Data Lake

Manthan enables connecting data from disparate sources and managing it for longer periods of time and applying it across machine learning, business intelligence and applications.

• Manthan data lake is built over latest development using the object store, encrypted and compressed format, considering data life cycle, end use and security needs.
• Batch and real-time pipes build the data at common place. Transformed and central data store can be managed through a simple click and drag interface.
• • AI/ML routines help in connecting data points like single customer view by linking activity, predicting missing values, text analysis – to recognize entities and sentiment applied during central data management to create uniform cleaned data for all consumer applications.
• Manthan WLM//heuristics help in scaling the computing power to the work demand – to manage the terabytes of data in and efficient manner for the incoming use cases.

Connectors

• Manthan has connectors to more than 400 systems covering enterprise systems, public databases, SAAS applications, files and databases.
• Enterprise connectors have an understanding of the entity model of the systems and readily process data into the analytics framework, reducing the time required for enabling applications.
• Manthan connectors can source data from enterpriser sources like SAP, Oracle, Navision, JDA MMS, JDA PMM, Retalix, EPICOR etc.
• Loyalty sources like SalesForce, Dynamics, Sugar CRM and campaign management systems link into the Manthan platform.
• Apart from enterprise systems, Manthan has connectors to process data from social, syndicated sources such as Nielsen, Google Analytics, weather, etc.