[1] Introduction
Altair® Panopticon™ is a product for data visualization, data analysis, data monitoring, and reporting. Users create dashboards, alerts, and reports by working in a browser-based environment with a point-and-click, drag-and-drop experience. A multitude of different data connectors are included in the product, enabling connectivity to local files, web URLs, databases, and streaming data sources. Panopticon supports blending data from separate data sources on-the-fly, in-memory. Tens of thousands of individual data points can be graphically visualized at once. The dashboard applications developed by users in a Designer role can subsequently benefit a larger group of users in Viewer role.
The product has access control settings for collections of dashboards, called workbooks, and data tables. Allow and Deny settings are available for capabilities Read, Write, and Modify, for individual users and for groups of users. In addition, Data Policies can be applied to data tables, which controls what parts of the data are accessible to different users, provided that the user is Allowed to Read the data table at all.
A Panopticon server will act as an automated data monitoring server when users create Alerts, which is a collection of data evaluation rules for a specific dashboard and data table. An alert that is triggered as a result of detecting data that matches the criteria, can send out a notification on screen, via email and as collaboration platform webhook message to for example Teams or Slack.
Panopticon has built-in task scheduling capabilities, which can be used for automatically distributing PDF report versions of dashboards via email, or sending data exports via email, or refreshing Data Store cached data tables.
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