OData Endpoints and Rich Support

OData Endpoints for Analytic Model Results

As a REST API, RASON accepts analytic models in JSON and returns results of solving these models in JSON; in RASON V2020 this was extended to multi-stage workflows of analytic models. RASON Decision Services goes further by offering an automatically created OData endpoint for the results from solving an analytic model. While it's easy for a newly-written Web or mobile application to consume RASON results in JSON, OData can be even better – since many popular Microsoft tools already consume OData feeds "out of the box". By surfacing analytic model results as data this way, RASON enables many integration tasks to be done with no code at all. For example, a POWER BI user can simply "point" to a RASON OData endpoint URL, then visualize, "slice and dice" analytic model results in a wide range of tables, charts and dashboards.

Rich Support for Power Platform, Office 365 and Azure

RASON aims to be the best decision management solution for companies with applications built on the "Microsoft technology stack, " by greatly simplifying model creation, data access and model deployment. If you have used Analytic Solver for optimization, simulation, or data science – itself a modern, cloud-based "Office addin" -- you'll find that it's easy to translate Excel analytic models into RASON notation with just a two mouse clicks! Your knowledge of Excel formulas and functions is immediately usable, but you'll find that RASON models can be more flexibly "bound" to data from a variety of sources. Business analysts and developers can sign up for free trial accounts to evaluate RASON Decision services at http://rason.com which will provide access to tools to compose RASON models, exercise the REST API, try out dozens of example models illustrating use of decision tables, predictive models and machine learning, optimization and simulation and download the RASON User Guide and Reference Guide in PDF form.

RASON.com makes it easy to get started with RASON Decision Services. But Frontline Systems can offer help, through the firm's consulting partners, to companies who need a solution, but may have limited experience with advance analytics, decision tables or REST APIs. For information, please contact sales@solver.com.