To use Elara, developers can install the Elara Development Kit Command-Line Interface (EDK CLI) and Libraries (EDK Core). The EDK CLI and Core provide all of the tools necessary to manage the full life-cycle of solutions. In this lesson this high level steps for creating, deploying and reusing solutions will be defined to demonstrate how Elara is used.

In this learning topic, you will gain an understanding of what the Elara platform does, and how you can make solutions to solve business problems:

Following this module, you will understand what Elara is, why to use Elara, and a summary of how Elara is used:

Elara is a business insights platform that uses AI and advanced mathematics to unlock the full potential of business operations. With the Elara platform, Developers can create code-based prescriptive solutions which ingest data and automatically apply Machine Learning, Modelling and Simulation and Mathematical Optimization to prescribe business insights. Business users and/or systems interact with the Elara platform through a Web UI, or API, and embed business improvement by actioning insights in decision making.

Using the Elara platform provides advantages to both businesses and the developers delivering solutions for said businesses. In this lesson a use case business problem and solution will be defined for a fictitious small business, to demonstrate why a business might want to use Elara platform.