Forsyth. Analytical Platform (formerly Prognoz Platform)

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"Forsyth. Analytical Platform "is a universal Russian IT toolkit for solving the diverse problems of the digital economy. It belongs to the class of products "digital platform for working with data" and fully provides modern enterprises and organizations with all tools for collecting, processing, storing, analyzing data. Due to its high performance, scalability, universal functionality and wide integration capabilities, it can be considered as a platform for digital transformation of enterprises, organizations, government agencies.

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"Forsyth. Analytical Platform "is a powerful modern solution that opens up new prospects for customers to maintain and develop competitive advantages in a dynamic modern market. The capabilities of the platform correspond to the tasks noted in the State Program "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation."

Based on the platform, software products have been developed to automate business processes - Forsyth. Budgeting, "" Forsyth. Investment Management, "" Forsyth. Summary Reporting, "" Forsyth. Credit Pipeline. " In addition, the Forsyth. Analytical platform "includes the mobile application" Forsyth. Mobile BI, "which provides tablet owners on iOS and Android platforms with the ability to work with analytical panels and routine reports online.

Universal solution: works in any industry, with any tasks

Versatility "Forsyth. The analytical platform "is laid down at the level of functionality: the product allows solving tasks of various levels - from data collection and monitoring to the construction of optimization models taking into account a large number of conditions. It includes a wide range of tools for creating industrial analytical systems with the ability to design reporting, deep data analysis, modeling and forecasting, and optimize business processes.

The platform supports a variety of data types and their sources - no special costs are required for preparing data or connecting to sources. At the same time, the platform developer, Forsyth, when creating software tools, develops its functionality in accordance with the tasks of large Russian companies from various areas of business and government agencies.

In addition, the product is based on the use of advanced approaches and current business analysis technologies, which makes it convenient, powerful and modern. Projects based on the platform are effectively used in all industries, including power, metallurgy, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, and the public sector. Among the projects implemented are high-performance analytical systems of the scale of the country, region, large holding.

(data current as of June 2020)

Advanced methods of analysis and prediction

The use of advanced analytics is still one of the main trends in the field of digitalization. Advanced analytics provides the organization with the necessary data to choose the optimal path of development, taking into account the maximum number of factors.

Functionality "Forsyth. Analytics Platform "includes advanced predictive analytics capabilities that meet high global requirements. Advanced Analytics Block "Forsyth. Analytical Platform "provides the ability to visually design models and algorithms of any complexity for econometric, optimization and predictive calculations, supports the solution of the problems relevant for forecasting" What will happen if...? "and" What is necessary for...?. " Analysts can use the multivariable scenario modeling tool, using well-known libraries of mathematical and statistical algorithms.

More than 300 model building methods are available within the platform, integration with R and Python libraries is implemented. This means that the platform user can use any statistical function implemented in the world today in his calculations. Within the framework of the "Time Series" module, a huge number of algorithms are implemented that allow you to build predictive models for time series. Data Mining and Machine Learning tools are also available within the platform, it is possible to connect to Big Data sources and process them using the In-Memory mechanism.

(data current as of June 2020)

Import Substitution Opportunities

"Forsyth. Analytical Platform "opens up ample opportunities for state corporations and state customers for import substitution. The product is included in the Register of Domestic Software, and also has a number of advantages that allow it to act as the "tip of the iceberg" of import substitution, which is analytical software.

First of all, the Russian platform provides a high degree of information security, including through the implementation of a modern approach to access control ABAC (Attribute-based access control). In ABAC, access differentiation is very flexible - based on calculating policies and rules. As a result, access to information is clearly regulated.

It is important that the platform quickly and efficiently integrates with third-party systems, and also provides support for Russian OS and DBMS, for example, it is compatible with Russian DBMS PostgreSQL and Arenadata DB, it can be supplied with a specialized version of the DBMS Postgres Pro Enterprise, supports the domestic Alt operating system. This allows organizations to spend less effort integrating Russian software, resulting in a comprehensive solution with a high degree of compatibility of the various types of software included in it.

(data current as of June 2020)

2024

Compatibility with Proxima DB

Forsyth and Orion soft confirmed the joint work of the Forsyth solution based on the test results. Analytical platform "with industrial DBMSroxima DB. Orion soft announced this on October 29, 2024.

Both solutions are included in the register of domestic software, have a large set of tools for optimizing the operation of systems depending on the customer's needs, which allows you to make working with these flexible and solve infrastructure problems with minimal labor.

Large companies are increasingly migrating to domestic software as part of the modernization of their IT landscapes, and they need, among other things, tools for collecting, processing and analyzing data, business planning and budgeting, and investment management. "Forsyth. The analytical platform "in conjunction with Proxima DB allows you to create modern information systems of any industry orientation that meet the high requirements of reliability and information security," said Alexander Sturov, Head of the Forsyth Partner Department.

Proxima DB can handle hundreds of TB of data while delivering extremely high performance. To achieve it, we have developed solutions that remove the architectural limitations of the PostgreSQL kernel. These are, for example, multithreaded connection manager, read request load balancing, 64-bit transaction counter. Proxima DB is optimized for Russian OS and work with specific application systems, including BI platforms. Sharing "Forsyth. Analytical platform "with Proxima DB will also ensure high fault tolerance and stability of systems, close the tasks of reducing labor costs for working with IT products, - said Liubov Rodionova, product leader of Proxima DB Orion soft.

Compatibility with Tantor DBMS and Astra Linux OS

Russian BI-vendor "" and Forsythe, "Astra Group" the developer of the system and, infrastructure software on August 15, 2024, announced the completion of a set of compatibility checks of their solutions - the current version of "Forsyth. Analytical Platform "s and. DBMS Tantor All OS Astra Linux these products are included in, register of domestic software provide a high level of protection, and are universal solutions that can be used by customers from any industry.

"Forsyth. Analytical Platform "is a Russian software product of the Enterprise BI class. The platform includes a wide range of tools for working with data - from loading and validation of data to solving modeling, forecasting and optimization problems.

During testing, experts were convinced that the import-independent software stack works correctly and stably. The technology compatibility factor plays an important role in solving import substitution problems. The stable operation of Russian software products opens up wide opportunities for customers in the field of creating corporate BI systems, budgeting and reporting systems, investment management. Compatibility with the Tantor DBMS provides platform users with new capabilities for data processing and analysis, and support for Astra Linux provides a secure environment for working with confidential information.

"Today, large customers need Russian Big Data tools to work effectively with corporate data. Compatibility of Astra Linux OS, Tantor DBMS and Forsyth product. Analytical Platform "is a serious guarantee of the safety of high-load analytical systems created on the Russian stack. Our technological partnership with Astra Group is aimed at reducing dependence on Western software developers, ensuring reliable data protection and the performance of corporate systems, "said Alexander Sturov, head of the Forsyth partner program.

Compatibility with Postgres Pro Enterprise and Standard DBMS

Postgres Professional and Forsyth announced compatibility of their products on February 12, 2024.

The certificate issued by Postgres Professional confirmed the correct operation of the software products "Forsyth. Analytical Platform, "" Forsyth. Investment Management "and" Forsyth. Budgeting "with Postgres Pro Enterprise and Standard DBMS (version 13,14,15, as well as the latest 16 - Standard edition).

The presence of Forsyth products with certificates of compatibility with Russian industrial DBMS is a guarantee of the correct operation of highly loaded information systems, fully implemented on the basis of domestic software.

Our cooperation is the unification of the experience of market representatives to accelerate import substitution in the corporate segment. Companies recognize that a proven, technologically independent domestic stack is required to create sanctions-resistant solutions. And we offer the market just such an option - as of February 2024, a number of large projects have already been implemented in which our software products have proven their compatibility and high performance when working on large volumes of data, as well as provided a high level of reliability and information protection, "said Alexander Sturov, head of the Forsyth partner program.

2023

Integration with Neosintez Engineering Data Management System

System Integrator SAPRAN NEOLANT GROUP OF NEOLANT and, the company-developer and supplier - and IT engineering solutions for, atomic extracting, fuel power complexes, Russia announced on October 4, 2023 the beginning of cooperation. The partnership started with the development and inference of market integration solutions that provide interaction NEOSINTEZ Engineering Data Management System and product "Forsyth. Analytical platform. " More. here

Exit "Forsyth. Analytical Platform "version 10.0

Forsyth, a Russian developer of BI systems and mobile business solutions, announced on May 10, 2023, the release of the next version of its flagship product, Forsyth. Analytical Platform "10.0. The Ten fully provides user experience in the web interface and provides an updated set of import-independent BI tools for project implementation.

"Forsyth. The analytical platform "combines a number of tools for collecting, analyzing, visualizing data, solving modeling and forecasting problems, automating business processes. Starting with the 10th version, all user components of the platform are translated into a web interface - this makes working with data easier, ensures the comfort and convenience of business users and, as a result, increases the level of data use in companies. Users will be able to perform all stages of working with data on the web - connect to data, process it, generate reports, run complex calculations or solve modeling and optimization problems, which is possible thanks to a convenient workspace. Also in the top ten, it will be easier to create business applications using web components. In addition to basic user tools, the development environment is also gradually transferred to the web.

It is important that all components of the updated version are import-independent. This will allow you to use the product in projects import substitution - the platform works on various types, operating systems Linux unfolds on the Russian DBMS and can connect to various, accounting systems including Russian ones.

The main task is to provide business with a Russian BI tool for solving complex analytical problems. To do this, the company relies on experience and uses current technologies, plus adds the possibility of close integration with other Russian products and hardware. The release of this version shows that the company is ready to move on and solve serious problems in the development of technologies. In close communication with partners and customers, the company jointly creates the product necessary for the market, noted the director of the product management department of Forsyth Konstantin Shimanovsky.

Forsyth, a Russian developer of BI systems that has long been on the market and has formed a clear development strategy, has expertise in working with data in various industries. Forsyth is ready for major implementations in the corporate and public sectors, thanks to a strong team, a high-quality product and a developed partner ecosystem. Product "Forsyth. The analytical platform "already has a significant number of implementations for Russian companies, the platform has gone a long way of development and will continue to develop in accordance with global and Russian market demands. Russian BI technologies have a great future, and the company will do everything possible so that the business can quickly switch to Russian software for building analytical applications, emphasized Yulia Kudryavtseva, Director of Strategic Development of Forsyth.

2022

FSTEC certificate for compliance with level 4 of trust, class 5 of protection and technical specifications

Forsythe«. Analytical platform "passed certification FSTEC for compliance with the 4th level of trust (according to the 76th order of the FSTEC), the 5th class (protection according to the RD SVT) and the Technical Specifications. This certificate confirms that the platform meets all the requirements of the regulator and is a reliable means of technical information protection and support. This was safety information technology announced by Forsyth on January 30, 2023.

The FSTEC certificate allows you to use Forsyth. Analytical platform " means of protecting information (not constituting a state secret) from unauthorized access as in systems of all classes, securities including state information in systems (GIS), at facilities, as well critical information infrastructure (CII) as for building systems for working with sources of information of limited access, personal data service, commercial and other types of confidential information.

For federal and municipal executive bodies, state corporations and companies with state participation, large commercial enterprises, including the banking sector, the issue of using Russian protected certified software is especially relevant. Software certification is a laborious matter, the requirements imposed by the requirements impose restrictions, especially in 2022 and 2023, on the use of technologies that are mostly foreign and do not meet the requirements of the regulator. Now we can say that the product is ready for use in large-scale projects to create intelligent solutions and automate business processes, where there are high requirements for information protection, told the commercial director of Forsyth Anton Tataurov.

Release 9.7

In June 2022, version 9.7 of the Forsyth product was released. Analytical Platform. "

Among the changes and updates in release 9.7:

• Development of platform tools: display of object addresses in the development environment.
• Development of platform extensions:
  • calculation algorithms;
  • Business Application Designer.

• Administration and System Capabilities:
  • uploading comments from Fore-code;
  • support for current versions of Redis;
  • stabilization of work with the service user.

• Optimizing and improving performance:
  • Faster loading of tables
  • Speed up opening of input forms.

• Updated platform API.

Forsyth acquired exclusive rights to the Prognoz Platform software platform from the copyright holder - DSS Lab

Prognoz Platform - Russian software toolkit for creating corporate systems, BI developed by the company Forecast"." The first release of the platform was introduced in 1992. More than 200 projects were implemented on the basis of the platform, including for such customers as,, Administration of the President of the Russian Federation,, Central Bank of the Russian Federation,, etc World Wildlife Fund Asian Development Bank State Electric Power Corporation of China. Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan From 2012 to 2015, Prognoz Platform was part quadrant business analysts of the agencies. Gartner

The software product Prognoz Platform and a number of other software solutions of the Prognoz line are registered by the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks in the Register of Computer Programs. This was announced by the Forsyth company on April 27, 2022.

Forsyth acquired the exclusive rights to the Prognoz Platform, as well as the rights to a number of other programs in the Prognoz line. In addition, trademark rights have been acquired. At the end of April 2022, there is a procedure for state registration of the transition to Forsight LLC of exclusive rights to these programs of the Prognoz line at the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (FIPS). The rights to programs unregistered in FIPS have already passed to Forsyth, said Vladimir Komov, CEO of Forsyth.

In 2016, Forsyth entered into a license agreement with Forecast, on the basis of which it received an exclusive extended license for the Prognoz Platform and a number of other programs of the Prognoz line. This license gave the company the exclusive right to sublicense, modify (modify) and provide technical support for Prognoz software products.

In 2018, DSS Lab became the copyright holder of the Prognoz Platform and the products of the Prognoz line. The license agreement previously concluded between Forsyth and Forecast was preserved, the terms of its operation were approved by the agreement between DSS Lab and Forsyth. Despite the change of copyright holder, Forsyth continued to fulfill its obligations to end users to support Prognoz software products under the extended license of 2016, and also actively worked to develop its own solutions based on the Prognoz Platform - Forsyth products. Analytical Platform, Forsyth Budgeting, Forsyth. Investment Management, "" Forsyth. Summary Reporting "and" Forsyth. Credit Pipeline. "

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2019

Issue "Forsyth. Mobile BI "

Main article: Forsyth. Mobile BI

Forsyth on July 11, 2019 announced the release of the Forsyth mobile application. Mobile BI. " Mobile service is part of the Forsyth software product. Analytical Platform "and provides tablet owners on iOS and Android platforms with the ability to work with analytical panels and routine reports online. Read more here.

Inclusion in the Unified Register of Russian Programs

On May 13, 2019, Forsyth announced the inclusion of a number of its software products in the Unified Register of Russian Programs for Electronic Computers and Databases^[1]

The registry of Russian software includes the Forsyth. Analytical platform, "toolkit for the development of mobile applications" Forsyth. Mobile platform, "as well as products for automating business processes" Forsyth. Budgeting "and " Forsyth. Investment Management. " Also, the register was replenished with the development of "Forsyth. Business Application Designer, "which is designed to quickly visually design business applications according to a typical set of steps.

The decision was made in accordance with Order Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Russia No. 168 of 24.04.2019 and suggests that Forsyth's developments are recognized as domestic software and can be used for procurement state by municipal institutions as modern solutions for automation. business processes

The creation of the register is provided for by the law on the provision of advantages for Russian software in public procurement, which entered into force on January 1, 2016. The law is aimed at expanding the use of domestic computer programs and databases. To be added to the register, software products must comply with the requirements of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of Russia and receive approval from the Expert Council on Russian software.

PostgreSQL compatibility

On January 23, 2019, Forsyth announced that it continues to develop a technological partnership with Postgres Professional. The companies ensured the compatibility of their solutions by combining the capabilities of the Forsyth software complex. Analytical Platform "and Postgres Pro DBMS. Integration of products of domestic vendors allows you to offer users a comprehensive solution that includes the domestic business analytics toolkit Forsyth. Analytical Platform "and a specialized version of the Postgres Pro Enterprise DBMS.

Thanks to the comprehensive solution on the market, which includes the functionality of two domestic developments, enterprises and state structures will be able to implement advanced analytical tools with simultaneous migration to a reliable, modern DBMS within the framework of the import substitution policy.

Forsyth. Analytical Platform Architecture

2018

Capabilities of the Forsyth Analytical Platform

The platform was created on the basis of the Russian software complex Prognoz Platform 8 and, as of December 2018, includes tools that correspond to modern market trends and the wishes of customers and partners.

The platform can be successfully used for projects where a high-performance, scalable solution is needed.

Toolkit and Capabilities:

• Classic Analytics: Analytical Queries, Analytical Panels, Complex Formatting Reporting
• Predictive Analytics: Business Process Modeling, Multivariable Forecasting
• Time Series Analysis: Time-Varying Data Study
• Intelligent Visualization - Automated Chart Type Matching with Analytic Task
• BI Self-Service - Business User Load and Analyze Required Information
• In-Memory - High-performance in-memory computing to reduce processing time
• Business Process Management - Visual Modeling, Monitoring, and Execution of Business Processes
• Interactive Input Forms: End User Data Entry, Input Control, and Metrics Calculation
• Importing, exporting and converting data: extracting data from external sources, converting it and loading it into data receivers

Prognoz Platform Description

Prognoz Platform is a high-performance platform for creating industrial analytical systems using machine learning methods, ready to solve complex and diverse problems of the digital economy. The innovativeness of the Prognoz Platform in the Russian business analytics market lies in the fact that for the first time in the framework of the analytical platform, a whole range of advanced tools is combined, each of which is advanced for its development class and is relevant to the tasks of the Digital Economy program.

Prognoz Platform acquires special relevance in the context of the import substitution policy, since it is able to offer Russian organizations tools that are not inferior to the functionality of products of foreign vendors. The developer of Prognoz Platform is the Russian vendor Forsyth [1] (part of the ITG IT holding, INLINE Technologies Group). In March 2018, Prognoz Platform was recognized as the winner of the competition "Best Information and Analytical Tools" of the Analytical Center under the Government of the Russian Federation in the technological nomination "Best Information and Analytical Solution for Structured Data Processing."

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Tested by practice

To date, more than 1,500 projects have been implemented using the platform in 70 countries of the world, including for such customers as the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, the Government Apparatus of the Russian Federation, the Bank of Russia, as well as for the largest Russian enterprises such as Transneft, Gazprom, Basic Element, Rosneft, Mineral Fertilizers, Uralchem. On the basis of the Prognoz Platform, information systems of federal authorities, various administrations and local governments were built.

Universal complex

The developer of the Prognoz Platform, Forsyth, relies on the versatility of the product: the platform combines classical and advanced analytics tools, as well as business process management tools BPM (). The business analytics platforms presented on the Russian market do not differ in such a breadth of functionality.

The platform can be used to develop multifunctional solutions with wide capabilities, including reporting design, deep data analysis, modeling and forecasting, business process optimization, setting up open algorithms for calculating indicators, and reconciliation tools.

Business Application Builder is a unique component of the Prognoz Platform that allows you to configure a new application and configure related business processes in a graphical interface without programming. It contains a typical sequence of steps and approaches and provides developers with a clear interface for step-by-step design of software products. The use of the "Business Application Designer" makes it possible to significantly accelerate the development of modern information and analytical systems for Russian enterprises of any industry.

Meets the challenges of the modern economy

The analytical toolkit of the Prognoz Platform is developing within the framework of the Analytics 3.0 concept: the platform includes advanced approaches and new technologies that ensure the generation of sound management decisions in real time based on the current data flow. The new version of the platform provides integration tools with machine-generated data, Data Mining and Machine Learning tools - thus, the platform is able to act as a technological basis for building information control systems of any complexity in modern organizations.

The functionality of the Prognoz Platform, gradually developed over 25 years, includes tools for collecting and storing data, compiling reports, forecasting (tasks relevant within the framework of the Analytics 1.0 and Analytics 2.0 concepts), which do not lose their relevance for Russian business.

In addition, the platform provides integration with industrial Internet sensors and real-time analysis of other machine-generated data, provides the ability to connect to Big Data sources and process them using the In-Memory mechanism, which is especially relevant in the era of the fourth technological revolution.

The Prognoz Platform meets the challenges of our time, relevant in the field of business intelligence:

• Data diversity and source diversity
• Predictive analytics
• Integration with most business processes
• Principles, Self-service democratization of business intelligence tools
• Advanced analytics for each employee
• Safety
• Import substitution

Prognoz Platform supports a variety of data sources

The Prognoz Platform tool allows you to easily connect different data sources for analysis (with different volumes and structures) and immediately start analyzing. For example, within the framework of the system developed for a large international organization based on the Prognoz Platform, economic data is collected in various formats, from various external sources. The system effectively automates the process of preparing information for reviews of the global economy and allows employees of the organization to conduct in-depth analysis of information without wasting time on long-term processing and transformation of heterogeneous data.

Advanced Analytics

The Advanced Analytics Block of the Prognoz Platform provides the ability to visually design models and algorithms of any complexity for econometric, optimization and predictive calculations, supports the solution of such predictive problems "What will happen if...?" and "What is needed for...?," as well as a lot of other possibilities relevant to modern enterprises.

For example, analysts can use a multivariable scenario modeling tool using well-known libraries of mathematical and statistical algorithms. More than 300 model building methods are available in the Prognoz Platform, while the new version of the platform implements integration with R and Python libraries. This means that the platform user can use any statistical function implemented in the world today in his calculations.

The Prognoz Platform has a Time Series Prediction module and implements a huge number of algorithms that allow you to build predictive models for time series. Today, in terms of the number of methods for predicting time series, the platform is the undisputed leader in the market, with a good margin, ahead of even recognized Western vendors in this class of algorithms.

The software package developed on the basis of the Prognoz Platform allowed one of the largest Russian dairy producers to reduce the cost of purchasing and distributing dairy raw materials. The company aimed to avoid loss of raw materials during procurement and transportation between different production sites. The problem was complicated by the fact that the need for raw materials depends on many factors: the number of available stocks, free storage space, changes in the demand for finished products, seasonality, the cost of raw materials, shelf life, the emergence of new recipes at production, etc. The model created on the basis of the Prognoz Platform takes into account the necessary restrictions and allows the company to form optimal plans for the purchase of raw materials, its processing and distribution. The implementation paid off in just a few months: the use of the software complex reduced the cost of buying dairy raw materials by 1.5% per year.

Workflow and Reconciliation Support

Prognoz Platform 9.0 provides every opportunity to ensure that the management information system functions in accordance with the configured business processes for coordinating documents and plans integrated with the role model, security settings and all the necessary information entities to work with them within the framework of the processes being performed. All this allows us to implement a more efficient and efficient business management system and, accordingly, increase efficiency indicators. For example, Transneft, the world's largest pipeline company, uses a system based on the Prognoz Platform to solve the problem of technical development. The platform capabilities made it possible to launch a clear mechanism for the formation, coordination and control of the implementation of plans for timely technical re-equipment, ensured end-to-end automation of all business processes as part of pipeline modernization.

The next version of Prognoz Platform 9.1 plans to fully support BPMN notation.

Democratization of Business Intelligence and Self-Service Tools in the Prognoz Platform

Self-service functionality makes available to high-level experts in the field of business analysis the independent use of BI tools, which was traditionally available only to IT specialists. In the Prognoz Platform, Self-service principles are implemented, for example, in ETL processes: users can prepare data for analysis and upload files to the system, which saves time and resources. The reporting toolkit is also easy to use and does not require the involvement of employees of IT departments: users can generate routine reports of any degree of complexity, create analytical notes.

In addition, for the convenience of analysts, Prognoz Platform 9.0 implements comprehensive support for calculation algorithms in a single workspace. Now platform users can holistically place and configure all input and output data sources of the model, its calculation methods, as well as indicate the movements of the converted information between all blocks by arrows on a common graph.

The democratization of business analytics tools is another important trend of today. Within the framework of the platform, analytical tools can be used in the work of a maximum number of corporate users: reporting, forecasting and in-depth analysis tools in the Prognoz Platform are available to sales and purchasing managers, financial specialists, business analysts and other functional users. For example, the application system "Corporate Program Management System" of Transneft (developed on the basis of the Prognoz Platform) provides one-time work of several thousand employees from 53 Transneft organizations: using the Prognoz Platform tools, system users download and process data, build reports, agree plans, analyze information.

Simplicity

The platform includes the "Business Application Designer," designed for simple, understandable and fast development of systems based on the Prognoz Platform. It contains a typical sequence of steps and approaches and provides developers with a clear interface for step-by-step design of software products. The key task of the Business Application Designer is to make the platform toolkit available to organizations in various industries to solve the problems of optimizing business processes and increasing the efficiency of management solutions.

Expansion of import substitution capabilities

According to the software import substitution plan approved by the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of Russia in April 2015, the share of domestic business applications by 2025 should be 75%. To implement this plan, there is an effective tool on the market - Prognoz Platform: with the help of the platform, you can develop domestic information systems with a high level of performance and wide functionality in a short time.

The new version of the Prognoz Platform is compatible with the Russian PostgreSQL DBMS, can be supplied with a specialized version of the Postgres Pro Enterprise DBMS, and supports the domestic Alt operating system. Compatibility of software products of Russian vendors allows us to talk about the appearance on the Russian market of an analytical software complex based on domestic DBMS, compatible with the Russian-made operating system, as well as functional capabilities that allow solving problems of any complexity in organizations of various industries. The capabilities of the Prognoz Platform overcome the difficulties of integration into the corporate information system.

Availability of the Prognoz Platform 9.0 Demo

On May 3, 2018, Forsyth announced the availability of a demo version of the Prognoz Platform 9.0 analytical complex and spoke about the capabilities of the system.

According to the developers, Forsyth's strategy is aimed at developing the Prognoz Platform as a universal industrial platform with classical and advanced analytics tools, as well as creating business applications. The extensive functionality of Prognoz Platform 9.0 is designed to help companies solve analytical problems in various industries.

The platform combines a number of tools, including: visual design of analytical panels (DashBoards), report designers with intelligent selection of visualizers, and advanced analytics tools. The performance of Prognoz Platform 9.0 has been improved by using in-memory cash technology, which significantly reduces the time for preparing requests and reports, complex calculations, and speeds up the work of advanced analytics algorithms, Forsyth noted.

At the same time, Prognoz Platform 9.0 takes a step towards greater openness to the use of external development tools - integration with R, Python development languages ​ ​ is implemented. The platform has such components as: interactive input forms, business process management, business application designer, platform administration web interface.

Prognoz Platform 9.0 can now be supplied with a specially developed version of the Russian DBMS from Postgres Professional.

Forsyth CEO Vladimir Komov stressed that Prognoz Platform 9.0 will allow the Russian IT market to get a stack of technologies based on domestic developments.

Partners can safely use the platform and products in those areas where Russian software is a priority. Forsyth Consulting is ready to provide expert support to partners in the implementation of projects, - said Vladimir Komov.

Partnership with Jet Infosystems

Jet Infosystems entered into a partnership agreement with Forsyth, the developer of Prognoz Platform. Based on the Prognoz Platform, the integrator will create systems for supporting management decisions for customers, taking into account the widest possible range of factors.

By joining forces, the partners intend to demonstrate to the market the significant potential and competitiveness of the Russian analytical platform. The Prognoz Platform allows you to solve the full range of business intelligence tasks - from data collection and reporting to the creation of comprehensive decision support systems for situation centers. On its basis, solutions can be created for large structures of any area of ​ ​ activity, including state, fuel and energy, banking.

Compatibility with Alt 8 SP OS

Russian IT developers Forsyth and BASEALT announced in February 2018 the compatibility of the latest versions of products - the Prognoz Platform 9.0 analytical complex and the Alt 8 SP operating system. As part of the testing, the correctness of the joint work of software solutions was confirmed. This means that users of the Alt 8 SP operating system can fully use the analytical functionality of the Prognoz Platform 9.0 platform in their work, which will enter the market in the near future.

Specialized version of Postgres Pro

Forsyth, the developer of the business analytics platform Prognoz Platform, and Postgres Professional, the Russian vendor of the Postgres Pro database management system, announced the conclusion of a strategic partnership agreement on March 1, 2018. The result of cooperation between the companies was the appearance on the Russian market of the Prognoz Platform analytical complex with a specialized version of DBMSostgres Pro Enterprise. Read more here.

2017

Prognoz Platform: Fresh start. The ninth version of the legendary platform will be released by Forsyth

The new release of the Prognoz Platform analytical complex will be released on the market in the first half of 2018. Platform 9.0 will be the next stage in the development of the Russian analytical complex. The Prognoz Platform 9.0 meets current trends in the global business intelligence market and is ready to solve a wide range of analytical problems.

The new platform will be versatile. Prognoz Platform 9.0 is a software package that combines the toolkit of "classical" and "advanced" analytics. Business analysis platforms presented on the Russian market often include only BI-tools (Business Intelligence), and for BA-tools (Business Analytics), which provide opportunities for modeling, forecasting, data mining, machine learning, there are separate products. Prognoz Platform 9.0 combines the listed areas in the form of modules.

This allows it to act as the basis for a general corporate IT platform for creating application complexes for current tasks, as well as tasks that may arise in the future. According to the IDC FutureScape report, by 2020, in the face of digital transformation, 60% of all organizations in the world will be involved in the creation of their technological infrastructure. Prognoz Platform 9.0, which has a universal business analysis tool, is ready to become a platform for upgrading the company's intelligent core.

Prognoz Platform will act as an alternative to foreign software as part of the import substitution course. The extensive functionality of the ninth version of the platform will allow users of foreign BI systems to switch to the Russian software complex with the replacement of the western system with an equivalent Russian one, and in some cases this will be a step forward in technological terms. For state customers, Forsyth will provide a solution on PostgreSQL DBMS, which will solve the problem of turnkey import substitution.

In the new version of Prognoz Platform 9.0, organizations will have access to visual design tools for analytical panels (DashBoards), routine designers (Pixel Perfect Reports) and OLAP reports (Visual Data Discovery). The Forsyth platform will present advanced functionality of advanced analytics, including time series forecasting, new modeling tools (for building Data Mining - models), seamless integration with libraries of R, Python languages ​ ​ (for implementing modules using machine learning), visual wizards of the most popular algorithms (for customizing the model without writing code). The ninth platform will expand the library of optimization methods and support for the most famous external libraries (for example, Gurobi, LpSolve).

Forsyth is developing the Prognoz Platform toolkit towards the emergence of integration components with machine-generated data and advanced data accumulation capabilities from static and dynamic IoT devices. New caching and in-memory mechanisms will significantly increase platform performance and allow organizations to cope with highly loaded tasks. The Prognoz Platform 9.0 will contain connectors for the most popular high-performance DBMS (including firmware), as well as open-source (Hadoop) solutions.

Creating application solutions based on Prognoz Platform 9.0 will be very quick. The universal designer of business applications, the own development of Forsyth, will reduce the time and cost of creating application solutions, as well as provide ease of maintenance and updating the system to new versions of the Prognoz Platform. Solutions based on the Prognoz Platform can be deployed both in the cloud and on the local capacity of the client. The business application designer will increase the number of OEM solutions based on the Prognoz Platform, as well as the number of application software complexes based on the platform for solving the problems of organizations in various industries.

New releases and versions of the Prognoz Platform will be released more often. At Forsyth , the process of developing software products (including the Prognoz Platform) is built using the Agile methodology . This allows you to quickly respond to the technological requests of users, timely providing platform updates that enable customers to implement the necessary functionality as soon as possible. Thanks to the advanced capabilities and functionality that is trending for the global business analytics market, Prognoz Platform 9.0 is able to develop the domestic BI market, forming new user needs.

Testing work in the Alt environment

September 11, 2017 companies Forsyth BaseALT and announced the testing of the compatibility of their solutions. The test results confirmed the stable operation of the Prognoz Platform in the Alt environment: compatibility with the products "," Alt Workstation"" and Alt Server the certified FSTEC distribution 7.0 Alt Linux SPT. Testing of products was carried out as part of a technological partnership of companies.

In the context of the import substitution course, ensuring information security becomes one of the priority areas for the development of software products for state authorities. The developments of BASEALT and Forsyth - the Alt Linux SPT 7.0 and Prognoz Platform operating system, respectively - meet this requirement, and product compatibility allows us to talk about the possibility of introducing business intelligence systems in Russian government bodies based on a domestic operating system that meets all information security requirements.

Prognoz Platform Version 8.2

Forecast, a Russian developer of BI systems, and Forsyth, part of the ITG holding (INLINE Technologies Group), announced in January the release of a new version of the Prognoz Platform product.

This version of the platform has improved the user interface, updated visualization, preparation and data processing tools, administrative, security and integration tools, and implemented mechanisms to speed up computing operations.

In Prognoz Platform 8.2, in particular, the functions of data analysis and calculation are expanded and Data Mining methods are optimized, as well as new functions for fine-tuning the analytical representation of data and carrying out a variety of analytical transformations and calculations. At the same time, the system uses new mechanisms to speed up operations. Compared to the previous version, the calculation of modeling problems is accelerated up to 3 times, and the construction of high-frequency diagrams - up to 12 times. All this allows users to get new information faster and easier, detect non-trivial patterns in the data and present the findings accordingly.

Visualizer settings in Prognoz Platform 8.2 allow you to quickly get the necessary graphical representation of information and do not require writing code or additional calculations.

For the convenience of unprepared users, the Prognoz Platform 8.2 release has improved and improved the means of self-preparation of data. Thus, analysts were able to expand the range of analysis by loading their own data, for example, stored in Excel files.

In terms of administration, Prognoz Platform 8.2 provides new capabilities for monitoring and auditing system security - now the user can see the number of active parallel sessions for each account.

The release of the new version of the Prognoz Platform was the result of combining the competence of the Forecast company in the development and implementation of BI solutions and the expertise of Forsyth in the field of business consulting.

2016: "Forsyth" - Prognoz Platform Extended License Holder

Forsyth, part of the ITG (INLINE Technologies Group) multidisciplinary IT holding, holds an extended license for Forecast software, including the Prognoz Platform, with the right to sublicense, refine, maintain, support and modify it. In addition, Forsyth holds the right to use all registered trademarks of Forecast, as well as the right to conclude on its behalf cooperation agreements with existing and new partners of Forecast.

2015

Prognoz Platform 8.1 version

On December 15, 2015, Prognosis announced the release of Prognoz Platform version 8.1. The developers have made changes to the interface of the user tools, search and visualization.

Functions and Interface

Enhanced user capabilities in terms of data analysis and fine-tuning of reports, improving the convenience of working with the platform. Created tools for working with tabular and graphical display of information, expanded the possibilities for importing data. In this version, the user was able to independently form analytical content and prepare data without the help of IT specialists.

Visualizers

Optimized methods of data visualization: the presentation of chart elements in a convenient form, defined using a template, is implemented. In this case, instead of standard columns, there may be images of houses or stacks of coins.

BI search

The search engine has been upgraded, word form search, metadata search (by description or comments) and facet search (grouping of results by categories) have been added.

Safety

Increased platform security - the system security server is allocated as a separate component.

Optimization

According to the developers, the speed of working with large user directories and tools has increased.

Prognoz Platform 8.1 Release Candidate

The Russian developer of BI solutions, Forecast, released a release candidate for Prognoz Platform in September 2015. Updates have affected the most important areas of work of business users: the possibilities for creating analytical content, BI-search and data visualization have been expanded. In addition, the changes affected the administration and security tools, as well as a number of improvements were implemented to improve the speed of work.

Functions and User Tools Interface

The Prognoz Platform 8.1 version provides users with more leeway to generate interactive analytical content without the need to write code. The analyst himself can go through the entire chain of actions from importing data to primary analysis, up to the creation of a system of interconnected reports.

Visualizers

The visualization capabilities in Prognoz Platform 8.1 provide maximum visibility, which is the basis for a deeper understanding of the data. For greater convenience and efficiency of analytical work, the platform developers have expanded the possibilities for customizing visual components and ensured the development of visualization tools for the mobile version.

BI search

The version significantly expanded the functionality of the data search tool: it became possible to search taking into account word forms, as well as full-text (for example, by description or comments) and faceted search (grouping of results by categories). In general, the emergence of many new settings allows you to flexibly configure the system "for yourself," which makes working with the platform even more productive.

Safety

Special attention in the platform version is paid to the current direction - the development of security tools. In Prognoz Platform 8.1, a separate component is a security server that performs all administration functions and ensures platform information security.

Optimization

In version 8.1, a number of improvements have been implemented to speed up operations. This significantly increased the speed of processing large amounts of data and the work of user tools, which ultimately provided even more convenience for the user.

2014: Prognoz Platform 8

In October 2014, on October 17, Forecast first introduced a new version of its main product, Prognoz Platform 8.0. Among the main changes in the company are the use of self-service approaches in the platform and the development of data visualization tools, new methods and components for advanced users, and advanced integration capabilities.

In addition, according to the developers, the platform performance has significantly increased: from speeding up tools to optimizing memory consumption. The latter in the company is called the answer to the needs of users to work with "big data."

Opportunities

Implementing self-service approaches

In Prognoz Platform 8.0, the company relied on the development of mechanisms for easy data import, convenient search and analytical information processing in a single product, considering these tools to be one of the most important for the success of modern BI platforms.

Importing data is not only aimed at experienced developers: the system will automatically determine the parameters of the downloaded data. At the same time, the Prognoz Platform supports loading cross-tables, multi-level file headings, users will be able to apply additional settings for dimension attributes and data types. Thanks to this functionality, you can start analyzing the available data without first creating a model that Prognoz Platform 8.0 generates automatically.

Prognoz Platform 8.0 allows you to create interactive presentations and co-discuss reports, as well as exchange them, for example, by e-mail, including to mobile devices. In the new version of the platform, it has become more convenient to work with text search tools (by the content of data sources, their names and dimensions).

Data visualization development

Prognoz Platform 8.0 implements cross-platform visualizers available on Windows, iOS and Linux. In general, the list of interactive visualizers and geospatial analytics tools has expanded: from micrographs on the map to the simultaneous display of indicators of various territorial levels, the use of stepped, circular and other types of diagrams. The platform developers paid special attention to new visualization tools in the mobile version of the platform. In addition, users can register application components themselves for data visualization.

Development of development tools

In Prognoz Platform 8.0, more methods and components for development have become available, and customization capabilities have been expanded. Thus, it became possible to use not only the methods available within the platform for building and calculating models, but also to use a wider range of statistical and numerical methods supported by the R programming environment.

Development of the modeling and forecasting module

The new version of the platform has expanded the capabilities of modeling and forecasting within the framework of a web application: users who do not have special training, using a convenient graphical interface, will be able to easily solve problems of optimal and targeted management using various models.

The new functionality of the Prognoz Platform web application will allow not only to predict based on the available data ("What happens if...?"), But also to determine the measures that need to be taken to achieve the targets. Previously, this feature was only available to users of the desktop version of Prognoz Plarform.

The module also implements new methods for solving systems of linear equations, which increase the accuracy and correctness of calculations.

Development of integration tools

The development of the Prognoz Platform is carried out with the expectation of integration with various operating systems and databases, including opensource solutions. The server part of the platform operates on Linux, the platform supports work with PostgreSQL.

One of the key innovations was the expansion of the set of tools for working with "big data." Prognoz Platform is integrated with hardware and software complexes (Oracle Exadata, IBM Netezza, EMC Greenplum). The platform also supports Hadoop Hive, an infrastructure for distributed storage and processing of "big data." At the same time, language support is implemented to generate requests for data at the platform level HiveQL.​

The platform also supports work in the "cloud."

Optimization of work

The Prognoz Platform provides simultaneous analysis from heterogeneous data sources, which allows you to create solutions for various analytical tasks. "Forecast" also develops its own mechanisms for working with "big data," in particular - the built-in mechanism of the Prognoz Platform for performing quick queries to data and their processing in RAM (in-memory) without using SQL or MDX. Particular attention is paid to data quality and time characteristics. So, according to the developers, the speed of the eighth version for a number of tools and components has increased 2 times.

Availability and prices

According to the Forecast plans, the Russian Prognoz Platform 8.0 should go into commercial operation in the 4th quarter of 2014. The company told TAdviser that as of October, prices for the new version of the platform are still being discussed. According to the representative of "Forecast," the option of increasing them to 70% is being considered. The company notes that initially the cost of its products is significantly lower than the products of large foreign vendors.

2012: Prognoz Platform 7

Universality

The platform is a universal tool - both in the range of functional tasks and in the range of industries that use solutions based on it. Today, business analytics systems based on the Prognoz Platform are in demand in the corporate, financial and public sectors. Among the most pressing tasks that are solved with its help can be called reporting, planning and budgeting, risk management.

The Prognoz Platform includes both traditional BI tools for data collection and analysis, reporting and statistical analysis, and advanced modeling and forecasting tools. Platform tools enable the collection, verification, and consolidation of large volumes of data from heterogeneous sources, comprehensive monitoring and analysis of key metrics, customization of models, and predictive calculations.

The unity of metadata, modular architecture and modern integration tools make the Prognoz Platform a flexible and adaptive product that can be quickly and painlessly embedded into the existing IT infrastructure in a variety of configurations, subsequently increasing functionality as needed. At the same time, the license policy of the Forecast company allows the client to select only those functional blocks that he needs at a specific stage of the BI project implementation, thereby significantly reducing the cost and time of implementation.

Simplicity and Availability

The main tools of the Prognoz Platform, including advanced analytics modules, are intuitive, easy to learn and easy to use. The product implements the principle of Self-Service BI ("business analytics for self-service"), which allows end users to independently configure applications without involving IT specialists. The platform provides data downloads from both central storage and local user files.

Process level units

In addition to custom tools, the Prognoz Platform offers rich developer functionality, including technology-level units. These are development tools and integration components: data warehouse designer, NSI maintenance module, ETL, application development environment (SDK), business graphics components, integration tools with social networks. With their help, you can flexibly configure metadata repositories, download data from external sources, and work with regulatory reference information.

The basic level of the Prognoz Platform infrastructure includes an administration and information security module, an application server and web services.

Next Generation Platform

The Prognoz Platform implements the most recent achievements in the field of business intelligence, including In-Memory technologies (processing data in the device's RAM), Data Mining (data mining), Search-Based BI (building queries in text form), as well as Collaborative Decision Making (integrated tools for joint decision making).

OLAP tools in the Prognoz Platform

The platform includes advanced tools for modeling and building scenario ("What will happen if...?" and target ("What is needed for...?") forecasts. It includes an analytical panel designer, a scorecards designer, online analysis tools (OLAP) and time series analysis. Interactive 3D maps, bubble charts, and other modern tools are used to render data. It is worth noting that the Prognoz Platform "seamlessly" integrates with Microsoft Office applications: you can not only export the results of analytical work to Excel, but also work directly from Excel with the data store using the analytical capabilities of the platform.

Integration with geo-information services (, Google Maps Yandex.Maps, etc.), portal solutions (,,) is supported. MS SharePoint SAP NetWeaver IBM WebSphere Implemented the capabilities of using platform tools on the principle and in the " SaaS cloud." Mobile applications based on the Prognoz Platform support dynamic display of data in a variety of sections and views, as well as working with them both online and offline. Through the native client iOS , OLAP tools, analytical panels, and time series analysis tools are available for. One of the unique technologies implemented in the platform is modeling and forecasting through a web interface, in cloud computing mode.

1992-2005

The first version of the platform - the analytical complex "Forecast" - was presented in 1992. In 2002, a significant platform update was released - the Forecast-3 analytical complex, and in 2005 the Forecast-5 analytical complex appeared. In 2012, Prognoz Platform 7 was released.

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