In the rapidly evolving technical landscape businesses struggle to deliver differentiated customer experiences due to time-consuming feature deployment and modernization of legacy systems, leading to a need for enhanced productivity across the engineering value stream.

Ascendion accelerates the entire software development lifecycle using an indigenously developed Generative AI based platform Ascendion AVA+. This innovative platform dramatically enhances developer productivity, enabling faster product releases and accelerated time to market. By intelligent workflow optimization, Ascendion AVA+ empowers engineering teams to achieve unprecedented efficiency and competitiveness.

Ascendion AVA+ Overview:

Ascendion AVA+ is a Generative AI driven Agentic AI platform designed to assist in software engineering. This serves as an Engineering companion for all personas involved as part of Software Development lifecycle.

The AVA+ Studio Suite emerges as a groundbreaking solution, offering specialized studios that cater to different roles and critical aspects of product development, design, and management thereby transforming enterprise Innovation and Efficiency

Features

The platform includes various features categorized into Studio Features consumed by user and Core Platform Features for administration of Agents.

AVA+ Product Studio: Empowering Product Strategy

Designed specifically for Product Owners, AVA+ Product Studio revolutionizes the product conceptualization process through a robust design thinking workshop approach. The studio provides comprehensive tools to transform ideas into actionable strategies:

  • Lean Business Canvas Creation: Develop a strategic overview of your product’s value proposition, infrastructure, customers, and finances.
  • Persona Generation: Create detailed, data-driven user personas to guide product development.
  • Feature Generation: Systematically ideate and prioritize product features.
  • Competitor Analysis: Gain insights into market positioning and differentiation opportunities.
  • SWOT Analysis: Conduct in-depth evaluations of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
  • Feature Roadmap: Translate insights into a clear, strategic product development path.

The studio seamlessly converts generated features into user stories, ensuring a smooth transition from concept to implementation.

AVA+ Experience Studio: Designing with Precision

Tailored for UI/UX Designers and Engineers, the Experience Studio bridges the gap between conceptualization and implementation:

  • Figma Design Conversion: Transform user stories directly into comprehensive Figma designs.
  • Code Generation: Automatically convert Figma designs into production-ready Angular or React code.
  • Enterprise Design Standards: Ensure consistent, high-quality design implementation across all projects.

AVA+ Developer Studio: Accelerating Development Workflows

Developers gain a powerful ally with the Developer Studio, which offers:

  • Code Generation: Rapidly create foundational code structures.
  • Code Optimization: Improve performance and efficiency.
  • Unit Test Case Generation: Ensure comprehensive code coverage.
  • Code Conversion: Seamlessly migrate between different programming languages.
  • Code Documentation: Automatically generate clear, comprehensive documentation.
  • Reverse Engineering: Analyze and understand existing code bases.

AVA+ Data Studio: Modernizing Data Infrastructure

Data Engineers can leverage this studio to:

  • Data Onboarding: Streamline the integration of new data sources.
  • Data Quality Assurance: Implement rigorous data validation and cleaning processes.
  • Tech Stack Modernization: Migrate and transform data to cutting-edge technologies.
  • Legacy System Migration: Seamlessly transition from outdated data infrastructures.

AVA+ QE Studio: Elevating Quality Engineering

Quality Engineers benefit from:

  • Automated Test Scenario Generation: Create comprehensive test coverage.
  • Automation Script Development: Reduce manual testing efforts.

AVA+ FinOps Studio: Optimizing Cloud Economics

Infrastructure teams gain insights through:

  • Cloud Unit Economics Analysis: Understand and optimize cloud spending.
  • Tag Management: Implement robust resource tracking and allocation.

AVA+ AIPO Studio: Intelligent Support Solutions

Support Engineers can utilize:

  • Ticket Classification: Automate and streamline ticket routing.
  • Resolution Recommendations: Leverage AI to suggest optimal problem-solving approaches.
  • Predictive Alerts: Proactively identify and address potential issues.
  • Related Ticket Correlation: Improve issue resolution efficiency.

AVA+ OneView Studio: Achieving Radical Transparency

Designed for leadership and management, this studio:

  • Connects Multiple Tools: Integrate data from various engineering and management platforms.
  • Correlates Complex Data: Generate a comprehensive Engineering Quotient.
  • Provides Holistic Insights: Enable data-driven decision-making across the entire engineering lifecycle.

The AVA+ Studio Suite represents a quantum leap in enterprise innovation tools. By providing specialized, AI-powered studios for different roles and functions, it enables organizations to streamline processes, enhance collaboration, and drive strategic efficiency.

AVA+ Core platform

AVA+ Core serves as a comprehensive platform that centralizes core business functionalities and administrative tools through an intuitive, low-code/no-code interface. This approach empowers users to configure, manage, and customize enterprise solutions with minimal technical expertise, streamlining operational complexity and enhancing accessibility.

  • API Key Management: This feature creates API keys to be used within any plugins. It has a web app interface and is intended for the admin persona.
  • Prompt Management: This feature allows prompt creation, editing, linking to use cases, and soft delete. It has a web app interface and is intended for the admin persona.
  • Model Management: This feature allows to link to any AI/ML/LLM models that are available in cloud providers or hosted in on-premises
  • Collections Management: This feature allows to create and maintain appropriate knowledge based needed for an agent to perform the task. This used Retrieval Augment generation technique
  • Guardrails: This feature is to ensure security and avoid hallucinations. The guardrails can be input guardrails which prevents in sending sensitive data to models or it can be an output guardrail which prevents from hallucinations.
  • Agents Management: This feature allows to create and maintain agents and link appropriate prompts, models, collections, guardrails and tools to perform the task
  • Agentic Workflows: This feature is for Autonomous workflow operation where multiple agents are linked as part of workflow to perform a set of operations
  • Config Management: This feature enables use case-model linking and configuring parameters for model performance (temperature, max tokens). It has a web app interface and is intended for the admin persona.
  • Analytics: Ascendion AVA+ comes with inbuilt analytics to track the usage of the requests grouped by use cases, lines of code processed, top use cases, top frameworks. In addition to the functional usage analytics, it also has model usage analytics which includes request traces, model costs, model usage and model latency related metrics.

What Ascendion AVA+ brings in?

  1. Ascendion’s AVA+ platform maximizes productivity gains throughout the software development lifecycle, addressing inefficiencies in feature engineering and legacy system modernization.
  2. Ascendion AVA+ comprehensively improves engineering workflows, ensuring faster deployment and modernization, backed by measurable productivity gains. Ascendion AVA+ addresses all the personas involved in SDLC beyond development.
  3. Ascendion AVA+ addresses market demands for quicker feature releases, boosting productivity and reducing time and resource burdens for engineering teams.

Unique Value Proposition:

The value propositions are categorized into six distinct areas:

  1. Content Moderation: This feature allows controlling and governing the content used in prompts and responses, ensuring appropriate and moderated content.
  2. Security: It enforces security through authentication and authorization mechanisms, ensuring data and access security.
  3. Model Federation: This capability enables dynamically selecting the right generative AI model for the right use case, providing flexibility and tailored model selection.
  4. Metrics & Analytics: It collects productivity and usage metrics, providing analytics and feedback to optimize performance and understand user behavior.
  5. Contextual Prompt Engineering: This feature allows creating prompts specific to a domain, technology, and client environments, enabling contextual and tailored prompt generation.
  6. Built-in Ethical AI: It emphasizes safeguarding privacy and promoting responsible data usage, ensuring ethical AI practices are embedded into the system.

Overall, Ascendion AVA+ focuses on content governance, security, model selection, analytics, contextual prompting, and ethical AI principles for generative AI models and related applications.

Deployment Options

Ascendion AVA+ comes with two different deployment options.

Option 1 is highly secured private hosted option where the studios and platform including the databases in the middleware layers are deployed in the client’s public cloud environment. The models that are native to the public cloud are leveraged by the platform agents.

Option 2is an Ascendion hosted SaaS environment where all the applications, databases and models are leveraged from Ascendion’s Azure environment.

Outcomes:nbsp;

Actual metrics Ascendion’s clients have achieved through implementing the AVA+ platform, are:

  1. 60% efficiency in time to market
  2. 90% automation for accelerated data modernization
  3. 40% improved cycle time and 30% reduction in UI development efforts
  4. 40% effort reduction in implementing and integrating diverse applications
  5. 20-30% savings on various operational costs
  6. 100% engineering transparency