Analyzing data brings insights, and insights help us make better decisions. But how do we share these insights with our clients in a seamless, timely and secure way? Enter Alluvial and its founder, Alex Mahrou, who leads a team that created this innovative tool to easily and securely share data insights with clients.

We sat down with Alex to talk about Alluvial, its benefits and applications, and the future of digital solutions.

Congratulations on the launch of Alluvial! Can you tell us about the product?

Alluvial was born out of the need to share insights with our customers. Our data analysts, as well as engineers and scientists, were starting to use more data & analytics tools like Power BI or RShiny but didn't have a way to share insights from those tools with customers. With Alluvial, our publishers don't have to worry about hosting a website, security, or identity management - they can just publish insights to Alluvial and share the dashboard with their clients. It's an easy, secure way to share data insights with customers.

What are some of the applications for the product? Can you give us an example?

Let's say you're working on an environmental remediation project and you want to track trends in contaminants of concern. Jacobs teams go to the field quarterly or semiannually and monitor for certain criteria in the soil, water or groundwater. Those results go into a massive time series database. Then we track the sites, much like a doctor would monitor a patient through bloodwork. Alluvial has an interface for dashboards that allows our clients to see that progress over time and gain insights. Ultimately, with reports from Alluvial, clients can make data-informed decisions to drive efficiencies on the ground.

Another application is simple project management and project controls. Alluvial integrates with some systems we use for project accounting with scope, schedule and budget. Blending this with operational data generated on a project provides a comprehensive canvas to measure project performance in ways that matter most to our clients.