TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE

Designed for the most complex decisioning implementations

  • Cloud-native, flexible deployment, and open standards
  • Built-in security, governance, and audit/system monitoring
  • High performance, high availability, and scalability
SMARTS™ Technical Architecture

See SMARTS™ Technical Architecture in Action

CLOUD-NATIVE, FLEXIBLE DEPLOYMENT, AND OPEN STANDARDS

Technical architecture built from the ground-up for the cloud

  • Install on AWS, GCP, Azure, Aliyun or on-prem
  • Redeploy in a different environment without needing to recode
  • Use all modern enterprise application standards for decision management
    • Decision Model and Notation (DMN) for decision modeling
    • PMML for predictive modeling
    • .NET or Java for deployment in both real-time and batch modes
    • Other standards include OpenAPI, OpenMetrics, CloudEvents, JSON-RPC, OAuth, and OpenID
SMARTS™ technical architecture allows you easily integrate data, models, and operations into your business process

Integrate SMARTS™ into your business process through an API call

OpenMetrics dashboard example

Example Technical Monitoring through OpenMetrics

BUILT-IN SECURITY, GOVERNANCE, AND AUDIT/SYSTEM MONITORING

Manage users, changes, and system health at multiple levels

AUTHENTICATION

  • Use our authentication system or integrate with your own
  • Includes Microsoft AD LDS, Microsoft and Google accounts, LDAP, WS-Federation, and OAuth2 protocols

ACCESS CONTROL

  • Assign roles for each user that has been authenticated
  • Control what users can access and what tasks they can perform

CHANGE CONTROL

  • Track changes through versioning and alerts
  • Easily identify when a change is made, what was changed, and by whom

RELEASE MANAGEMENT

  • Create read-only releases that can be published in your staging and production environments for testing and deployment
  • Quickly rollback a release when necessary

SECURITY MONITORING

  • Protect against malicious interactions
  • Monitor data and programmatic calls in real-time

TECHNICAL MONITORING

  • Manage SMARTS™ like the rest of your IT system
  • Use your system monitoring tool of choice (ex. Docker Logging, Prometheus, and OpenMetrics)

HIGH PERFORMANCE, HIGH AVAILABILITY, AND SCALABILITY

Execute high-volume, complex decisions fast

  • Bytecode-level (AOT / JIT) expressions, indexing, and algorithms
  • Manage thousands of complex data sets, rules and models
  • Process millions of transactions a day
  • Adapt to your evolving enterprise architecture and governance model

Ensure your application is always up and running

REPLICATION

  • Create multiple instances of the same application
  • Replicate specific code, data, and user repositories

LOAD BALANCER

  • Distribute the work of your application through our built-in load balancer
  • Meet your desired uptime and response time requirements
Diagram shows how the technical architecture supports auto-scaling in production

Replication and load balancing ensure that there is no single point of failure. Achieve high availability in development and auto-scaling in production.

FEATURED BLOG POSTS

SMARTS as regulatory compliance technology

SMARTS as regulatory compliance technology

So far, we've covered how to use SMARTS for decision management, micro-calculation, and data transformation. In this blog post, we show how you can use it to implement regulatory technology (regtech). Regtech Regulations, from Basel rules on bank capital requirement...

Decision Management Systems:  What Are They and When to Use Them?

Decision Management Systems: What Are They and When to Use Them?

The purpose of this blog post is to succinctly introduce decision management systems for those who are new to the field. First, I present what decision management is, then the technologies that make it up. I also present where they are used and what they bring to the...

SMARTS for data marketplaces

SMARTS for data marketplaces

In my earlier blog post, I explained how decision management and business rules were suitable for micro-calculations, the type of computations that businesses often codify into large spreadsheets and use to score, rate, or price items. In this post, I explain how they...