OmniSci Use Cases

Map Billions of Data Points. Billions, with a B.

OmniSci is a radical geospatial analytics breakthrough, enabling you to visualize up to billions of data points on maps, with zero latency interactivity. Chart and map many layers of data from multiple sources.

See Geospatial Data in Context

OmniSci geo charts cross-filter by any non-geo factors that make mapped data meaningful. See important information in its location, and when you move to a new location see how the data changes.

Explore Data Across Time and Space

OmniSci gives you the unparalleled power to filter big geolocation datasets across time. By brushing across a time-series graph, watch how a location changed over days, months or years. It only takes you a second.

Challenge

Telecommunication networks transmit data from multiple towers to handsets that then report signal strength back to towers. Network operations centers (NOCs) monitor this interchange to identify instances of poor signal strength. Legacy network analysis software cannot query and visualize call detail records (CDRs) or network logs quickly enough for NOCs to fix issues before customers notice.

OmniSci Solution

Network signal strength constantly fluctuates by location, over time. OmniSci lets NOC teams query and explore CDRs and telecommunication network data on geo charts to understand where anomalies occur and then resolve them. Those responsive geospatial analytics help telcos and network analysts dispatch service teams to where they’re needed most, keeping customers happy.

Challenge

Logistics is the single greatest determinant of operational readiness. Defense and Intelligence departments continually plan and execute port activities, establish distribution networks, and initiate military operations. Yet these operations are often performed in legacy, stove-pipe systems that don’t provide a true view of situational awareness. Because of these stovepipes, analysis is inefficient without trends to optimize placement of resources, and they are ineffective without predictive analytics to prevent equipment, and mission, failure.

OmniSci Solution

OmniSci gives leaders the ability to exploit and analyze global logistics operations data through rapid crossfiltering of large and disparate datasets. This provides tactical decision making to guide troops and supplies, optimize networks, assess infrastructure, predict maintenance needs, and meet strict timelines. These logistics analytics are layered over geographic datasets, to support real-time big data analytics forlogistics operations regardless of the mission.

Challenge

The impact of blizzards, wildfires and hurricanes are difficult to predict or track at a local level. Mainstream analytics cannot query or visualize weather disasters quickly enough for precise evacuation alerts that can save lives. This pre-aggregated view of weather forces citizens and first responders to react after people are already at risk.

OmniSci Solution

OmniSci renders new forms of sensor and IoT data along with traditional sources on interactive weather dashboards. Microclimate mapping refreshes by the minute and gives government officials and first responders geolocation insight to keep people safe. Dynamic weather maps also show airlines, construction businesses and insurance companies how to assess property risk posed by extreme weather.

Challenge

Today’s information environment poses a unique challenge to the warfighter. An avalanche of intelligence collect, across every discipline, contains actionable data intelligence critical to mission success. Yet traditional analytics tools are too slow, bulky, and costly to glean these insights, or to quickly and accurately visualize it all For real-time situational awareness.

OmniSci Solution

Only OmniSci provides the SQL engine capable of exploiting this trove of data collected, and visualizing it all at the speed of thought. OmniSci gives public sector analysts and leaders an interactive dashboard capable of ingesting and visualizing vast amounts of data from multiple sources. They can toggle layers of data across a single geochart, to derive actionable intelligence and insights for mission success.

Challenge

As the world’s population continues to grow and more people move to megacities, urban planners face the strain of accommodating more residents in the same urban area. This is arguably the most critical issue facing governments, as growing populations increase strain on utilities, energy, transportation, housing and health resources. City planning departments need a new form of location intelligence to meet this challenge.

OmniSci Solution

Only the OmniSci platform gives city leaders the ability to query and visualize their large geospatial datasets at the speed and scale necessary to keep pace with urbanization. OmniSci provides the ability to ingest massive location datasets from disparate sources, and cross-filter that to see how crime, public health, homelessness and education outcomes vary by location.

Challenge

Geospatial information drives every phase of upstream exploration and production (E&P) in the oil and gas industry. The mapping, leasing, site preparation and drilling phases all have the potential to generate huge volumes of data that geologists and project managers can use to reduce costs and improve yields. Yet the wealth of data flowing from sensor-enabled machinery, geologic models, and seismic software overwhelms standard oil and gas analytics software designed for an earlier era when all data was less abundant and location data was particularly difficult to integrate into operations.

OmniSci Solution

OmniSci visual analytics help oil and gas analytics companies and other decision makers slice through the largest spatiotemporal telematics datasets, accelerating geospatial analytics and data science. It provides oil and gas companies the ability to visualize all of their big data analytics for oil and gas, to improve efficiencies around exploration and field operations. It provides these companies an oil and gas data analytics dashboard to reduce costs, mitigate risks, and optimize production.

Challenge

Battlespace awareness is critical to shortening decision cycles and to making better decisions than one’s adversaries. Intelligence teams must rapidly sense, collect, process, analyze, evaluate, and exploit streaming data. Yet today’s information-intensive operating environments overwhelm mainstream geospatial tools, slowing time to analysis and intelligence cycles during mission-critical moments.

OmniSci Solution

OmniSci is the GPU-accelerated analytics platform that enables intelligence analysts and commanders to query, visualize, and interact with big geolocation datasets with zero perceptible latency. This gives intelligence analysts visual exploration at the speed of thought, through an intuitive, easy-to-use dashboard, powered by the most advanced analytics engine on the market. Dominate your information environment by speeding your time to insight and decision-making.

Accelerate the Feature Engineering Process

Data scientists must pick data features to train their algorithms. Because OmniSci makes it easier and faster to explore big tables, data scientists train models more quickly, with better outcomes.

Shed Light on Black-box Models

Explaining why AI models make the predictions they make is a notorious challenge. Now, with OmniSci, data science and data visualization are integrated and explaining models to decision-makers, engenders greater trust and adoption of AI.

Visualize Predictions and Outcomes Together

ML models make predictions, but actual outcomes will vary and models can become less predictive over time. Data science using OmniSci visually shows the difference between expected and actual, so you know when to retrain the model.

Challenge

Artificial intelligence can outperform traditional techniques for predicting market movements, but greater AI adoption has a cost. Without interactive, visual ways to do feature engineering, data scientists spend too much time manually exploring hundreds of market variables, searching for the most predictive features to train their models and delaying the date when that model goes into production.

OmniSci Solution

The OmniSci platform gives data scientists at hedge funds and Investment Management firms a far faster method to generate their AI models resulting in smarter investment analysis. When visual exploration of billion-row data sets becomes 100x faster than before, asset managers and brokers can capture more opportunities, avoid more risks, and create a compounding competitive advantage through predictive analytics in Investment Management.

Challenge

Artificial intelligence is increasingly used to predict machine failure, to minimize downtime and maintenance costs for automobiles, ships or aircraft. Yet engineers have trouble explaining an AI model’s black-box recommendations, so leaders fall back on human experience and "gut" guesses in favor of predictive analytics in logistics industry to keep field equipment running as intended.

OmniSci Solution

OmniSci visual analytics makes AI models more accessible to the scientists who create them and to the broader audiences of logistics leaders, military commanders or regulators who must understand those models. With immediate visual exploration of the same underlying elements that trained AI models, anyone can trust their predictions.

Challenge

Hospitals around the world look to optimize their operational efficiency by predicting optimal staffing levels without putting lives are at risk during periods of peak demand. Healthcare administrators lack a common visualization platform to track results and extend their machine learning models for precise staffing predictions.

OmniSci Solution

The OmniSci platform lets hospital staffing analysts visualize a model’s predictions and compare them to actual staffing outcomes. Every click on a chart generates SQL queries that complete in milliseconds, then all visual elements instantly refresh, giving you the best clinical pathway for your patients. Likewise, the number one goal of a hospital is to keep readmission rates low. Imagine using all of this data to create ML models that guide staffing decisions and predict readmission and recommend preventative treatment.

Research Big Data, Without the Latency

Big Data storage platforms have slow query speeds and limited visualization options. Use Sqoop to pull data from Hadoop into OmniSci for millisecond queries and big data research visualization. It's still Big. Now it's Fast.

Visualize the Unknown Unknowns

Important realizations come from answers to thousands of small questions that arise during the research. With OmniSci, iterative exploration moves quickly, so you can find answers to big data research questions you weren’t seeking.

Flex Your Curiosity with Intuitive Analytics

Analytic platforms favored by statisticians or Python engineers can keep insights separated from front-line data workers. OmniSci intuitive dashboards make big data research and analytics easy for anyone with a web browser.

Challenge

Those who plan public infrastructure or environmental policy study how weather affects a place over time. The Military needs to understand how hills, roads, and rivers will impact troop movements. Legacy BI and GIS solutions may draw maps for those scenarios, but they were designed before geolocation data was Big. They can’t cross-filter geo charts with time-series data at scale.

OmniSci Solution

The OmniSci platform is a new type of “time machine” for researchers and planners who need to display data on a map, with the ability to quickly filter by different time periods. With OmniSci, researchers can quickly see how decades of floods, wildfires, or wars have moved across the land and affected a place of interest.

Challenge

Smart meters have given public utilities at least 1,000 times more data on how electricity is generated, distributed and consumed. Yet the volume and speed of that new smart meter data swamps their legacy analytics platforms. Slow, incomplete insight stymies industry innovations like time-of-use pricing and net metering.

OmniSci Solution

Households use different amounts of electricity every hour, and demand fluctuates. Changes to weather, demographics, pricing schedules and many more factors drive the difference between electricity production and consumption. OmniSci helps utilities research past consumption and make operational decision to balance the grid.

Challenge

A human genome is equivalent to about 1.5 gigabytes. About three genomes fit on a DVD. Genomic medicine attempts to build individualized strategies for diagnoses or therapies that utilize genomic information, but legacy analytics aren’t suited to iterative trials at scale. Legacy tools aren't suited to visual exploration of the genomic data for hundreds of individuals.

OmniSci Solution

OmniSci offers researchers a platform to discover genetic opportunities for trials of new life-saving treatments using genomic data science. When scientists can visualize and cross-filter data with such transformative efficiency, they uncover hidden patterns and cryptic correlations between our genetics and our risks for cancer, heart disease or inherited disorders.

Develop New Custom Analytics Apps on Open-Source

Developers want to create tomorrow’s accelerated analytics applications. We open-sourced our OmniSciDB SQL engine to make its hyper-speed processing available to that community of innovators.

Boost the Performance of Existing Apps

Most enterprise applications were architected during an earlier era, before GPUs were an option. “Lift and shift” those onto the OmniSciDB SQL engine and dramatically improve their performance.

Embed OmniSci Immerse Visual Analytics

OmniSci displays data for real-time interaction. Companies can increase customer engagement by offering embedded OmniSci to valuable customers wanting to explore their own data within immersive custom data visualization.

Challenge

Tutela, crowdsourced data for the mobile industry, set out to build a crowd-sourced solution for visualizing mobile data on network quality. Once its data reached extreme volumes, it became too much for traditional telecom data visualization tools. It took days of labor to gain minor insights from an inherently valuable data set. Tutela chose to embed OmniSci visual analytics, offering its customers an interactive portal to explore network performance data on their own.

OmniSci Solution

Now Tutela's software is installed and runs on over 200 million cell phones globally to measure mobile network signal quality. Tutela’s mobile telecom clients view the health of their networks using OmniSci Immerse. This helps those telcos with operational analytics to improve their coverage and provide a better subscriber experience.

Challenge

Second Measure, analytics platform for company performance and consumer behavior, built its business analyzing credit card transactions at a volume that amounted to about 1% of all U.S. consumer spending. Company aimed to provide those Investment Management analytics to financial analysts and equities researchers seeking insight into public and private companies. Second Measure wanted to accelerate performance to provide a better experience to its time-conscious clients.

OmniSci Solution

Second Measure uses OmniSci to accelerate its queries that analyze each transaction from each customer for a given company. Now it delivers business and financial market analytics so fast that its clients can: spot inflections in businesses as they happen, identify every week's fastest-growing companies, and see the latest company performance before it's announced.

Challenge

Pactriglo, real estate intelligence service, was founded on the premise that maximizing developer utilization of existing zoning could circumvent the lengthy political process and help solve LA’s housing crisis. Existing platforms, such as ZIMAS, NavigateLA, and LADBS, were unable to dive into millions of data points simultaneously, or to interactively explore the data by zone, down to the street level. Pactriglo's custom real estate application could only meet that objective by harnessing OmniSci power to query and visually explore regional housing data much faster than existing tools for geospatial analytics.

OmniSci Solution

Pactriglo empowers its building developer customers by giving them OmniSci visual analytics and SQL engine so they can slice and dice the dataset in its entirety. This eliminates the need for pre-aggregation, and Pactriglo users see results in milliseconds. They can easily cross-filter the data by the features that matter: zoning, sub-zoning, utilization, or construction activity.