TrendMiner SaaS quickstart guide
When choosing for a SaaS deployment, customers use a cloud environment managed and hosted by TrendMiner. TrendMiner SaaS brings several important benefits for organizations, such as server management, security, and scalability at a reduced total cost of ownership. Next to that, there are many operational benefits such as more frequent upgrades, faster support, provisioning of backups and so on.
General configuration
In all SaaS scenarios, the TrendMiner platform is managed by TrendMiner (security, updates, scaling, etc.). There are some design choices to be made when the TrendMiner SaaS platform is deployed, that can already be considered when preparing your analytics journey:
Desired hosting region for the SaaS environment – e.g. EU West, US South Central
Desired URL for users to access the platform – e.g. https://XYZ.trendminer.cloud
User management - in all TrendMiner SaaS deployments, the customer has full access to manage user management. High level, there are 2 options available for SaaS. These options can even be mixed for additional flexibility:
SAML 2.0 (strongly preferred)
Reference architectures
For the TrendMiner SaaS implementation, 3 reference architectures are illustrated, based on the data source location:
TrendMiner SaaS with on-premise data sources (typically historians)
TrendMiner SaaS with a cloud data source such as a data lake
TrendMiner SaaS with a hybrid mix of data sources (on-premise and cloud data sources).