Powerful

Implement a powerful SaaS solution to solve challenges with creative and advanced algorithmics. The platform is built to allow users to get scalable computation power and run fast (compiled) algorithms with key features:

  • My AvCap Quantitative Solutions can access CPU from private grids and public clouds (e.g. OVH Private cloud or EC2)
  • Possibility from the platform to launch dedicated Cloud instances (VM) to scale up CPU available for optimisation
  • Management & status analysis of the Cloud instances (VM) you have launched
  • Management of the working process (calculation, database interface…) on the Cloud instances launched
  • Cloud instances (VM) are dedicated by Client companies
  • Clustering of communication servers & database servers by groups of clients (Hubs) to prevent the platform from hardware disruption caused by volumes
  • C/C++ implementation (with an efficient python 2-way interface) of calculation algorithms targeting speed
  • Smart caching of information to speed up the algorithm
  • "n" tier application architecture
  • Computations are naturally distributed
  • The management of the computation servers is made directly from the platform
  • Task distribution is made through a combination of IPC: TCPIP sockets and Web Sockets for web communication
  • Automated flexible data collection from CSV, XML, JSON files, including the French official gas prices reports
  • API connection to collect geo-localisation and distances

Flexible

Fully customisable platform to make your specifics alive.

  • Dynamic generic environment with complete data modelling through flexible economic model & configuration:
    • Possibility to log in under any circumstance knowing that the user is a member of flexible groups & has ownership of objects and access rights
    • Exhaustive update/access rights definition, and versioning of objects, so that backward compatibility exists
    • User-process interaction
    • Flexible load (dimensions), capabilities & delivery time definitions by the company allow you to define your tasks properly whether you have a bus company, a freight delivery company, etc...
    • Bin-packing interactions & multi-planning
    • Dynamic mapping & context definitions allow multiple analysis and configuration optimisation
  • Plug & play features such as the traveling salesman problem algorithm, which allows soft model evolution and new algorithm testing in a specific context
  • Flexibility to define & tune the "utility" function optimised and weight the 10 different components
  • Possibility to allow the fragmentation & conversion of cargo loads

Interactive

Dynamic interactions between users and machines.

  • Intuitive and user-friendly solutions with a customised interface
  • Identification and collection of relevant data from the highest entry points
  • Real-time & man-process interactions:
    • Fast 2-way communication between the processing machines and the user's sessions allows interactions and real-time display of the optimisation status
    • Follow up the delivery process (real-time vehicle localisation, temperature of the goods, gas tank monitoring)
  • Cross users' interactions allows a deep and thorough Sales & Operations planning with stocks & prices real-time publication for specific partners and human roundtrips' corrections modeling (Deep Learning)
  • The use of an added component can be done on-flight and does not require a restart of the software
  • Cross activities will facilitate the fixing of daily issues:
    • Flexible economic model set-up
    • Flexible load dimensions
  • Plug & play implementation of the software's components (avcap, bin packing, etc.). This feature makes non-regression tests useless. The aim is to combine most of the quantitative approaches

Insightful

In-flight resource management & risks mitigation to process strategic analyses

  • Simplification and optimisation of complex processes solving data/constraints/mismatch algorithm daily
  • Prescriptive analytics to manage resources and reduce risks. The data collection process allows advanced BI* across the entire organisation with real-time monitoring of daily activities
  • Data analysis allowing strategic choices by resources sharing or/and new developments financing
  • Full sector modelling: multi-users resources pooling should imply carbon dioxide reduction
  • ESG global optimisation
  • Simulation of perturbation of the supply chain with supply chain stress test, enhanced stock management, and optimisation of the sales department using the supplier's real-time information
  • KEY product/algorithm: multi-agent simulations, deep learning, and bin packing
  • Full sector modelling:
    • Capacity to model and understand the sector's interactions
    • Multi-agent analysis of the sector's stability using the real production management tools (no simplification)
  • Strategic analysis: certifications, regulations, and ratings
  • A smart workflow* resulting from clean stored data** combined with clean algorithmics***. Moving from daily issues fixing to strategic thinking, pricing tuning, and model tuning.
*industrialisation, user empowerment, process control, and quality enhancement
**data model, data collection, proper control, versioning, and access rights
***flexible model integration, flexible mapping & parameterisation, and user-also interactions results in comparison

Collaborative

Thriving ecosystem focused on users cooperation to achieve long term sustainability

  • AvCap Quantitative Solutions is a collaborative environment enabling co-creation
  • A multi-institution platform that benefits our KEYs relevance over time
  • Community benefits:
    • ESG footprint
    • Policy ratings (securitisation, etc.)
    • Fundraising matching the ecosystem's principles
  • New models contributors: academics, regulators, and certifications. Contributors keep full ownership of the models they contribute and can sell, rent, or give free access to their publications to a list of targeted users
  • Algorithm & Treatments:
    • Subject to rights, quantitative models can be shared, combined, and exchanged. The target is to build a large user and contributor community
    • Users can market at any time their plug & play algorithms to the community while keeping full intellectual property of their contribution
    • Our platform can be seen as a gallery where quantitative desks expose their developments
    • AvCap Quantitative Solutions will contribute a sample list of models
    • The AvCap Quantitative Solutions models are provided open-source
  • On a strategic level, the strong interactions within the AvCap Quantitative Solutions community will offer diverse and dynamic marketplaces:
    • Algorithm
    • Vehicles
    • Drivers
    • Warehouse space
    • Financing