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Altair SmartWorks

Score8 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is Altair SmartWorks?

Altair SmartWorks, or SmartCore (formerly Carriots) offers an end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) platform. SmartWorks is available as Platform as a Service (PaaS) or on-premise, and designed for machine to machine (M2M) and digital twin projects. SmartWorks accelerates your IoT application development and provides simple scalability as your projects and devices grow. Altair SmartWorks lets users collect and store data from connected devices, build powerful applications, deploy and scale from prototypes to thousands of devices.

Altair is focused on the development of simulation technology to synthesize and optimize designs, processes, and decisions for improved business performance. Altair operates in 24 countries and serves more than 5,000 corporate clients across broad industry segments.

Top Performing Features

  • IoT Analytics

    Rich analytics to transform large quantities of sensor data into actionable insights.

    Category average: 7.8

  • IoT Integration

    Software integration and APIs to support business processes and applications.

    Category average: 8

  • IoT Device Management

    Software for provisioning configuring, troubleshooting and managing IoT devices and gateways remotely.

    Category average: 8.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Device Security

    Security to prevent connected devices from being hacked or compromised.

    Category average: 8.3

  • IoT Data Management

    Support for ingesting edge data and storing it to enterprise platforms, providing data accessibility, and managing data flows.

    Category average: 8.4

Altair Smartworks: application development for all types of scenarios

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

There are a lot of app development topics that can be covered in the different formats for projects proposed by Altair in a basic way, and we like its accessibility through the platform because it facilitates the operations of both group coordination and project planning at any time, without the need to make extra payments.

Pros

  • When we manage a project within the Altair Smartworks platform we can know exactly the outcome of the development work by taking into account the facilities we have both to access information from the activity panel and the ability to review workflows that the platform provides.

Cons

  • Since the service can be used to manage development in teams of various sizes, we can conclude that Altair Smartworks can be used in almost all kinds of areas that require code development for projects, and with this, we decide that there are no negative points about the platform that can affect our experience of use.

Most Important Features

  • Through Altair Smartworks we can create our own structures so that the work remains more personalized, so that each employee in the group handles his or her management in the way he or she wishes, only following a specific canon through which everyone is guided to find stable development processes.

Return on Investment

  • In view of the fact that profits have proven to be exemplary during the last quarter that we have been working with Altair to cover our operations, as our ROI has increased by 4.
  • In reality, results may vary depending on both how easy it is for employees to get used to the service and to deliver bottom-line profits, but overall the results are promising.