Marple announced new Marple Insights a cloud tool for visualizing, calculating, and extracting insights, purpose built for different applications such as Motorsport.

Building on Marple Cloud, an existing technology that provides time-series engineering data to users over the cloud, Marple Insight can now read databases, catering to much larger teams or infrastructures.

MarpleDB, another development, complements Marple Insights by vertically integrating into the cloud tool, offering to be the database should a transition from a file model to a database model occur.

The automotive industry is seeing a huge leap forward regarding data. Data is moving from local files to a database model, meaning an increasing demand for large, smart cloud data storage. However, a disconnect between IT and engineering is often an issue seen in the industry.

Most visualization and analysis tools are for Business Intelligence, thus making an engineer download the data to jump into a local script and reducing productivity by not having all data in a database, accessible to everyone, in real-time.

In response, MarpleDB, a high-performance database designed to store and query time-series data, and Marple Insights, a flexible cloud tool for visualizing, calculating, and extracting insights, purpose built for different applications such as Motorsport, aim to address these issues.

For example, MarpleDB can be the first stage in the data pipeline: ingesting real-time data efficiently. Then Marple Insights can be used to make a project, where many different visualizations (maps, FFTs, time-series, scatter plots) and KPIs (histograms, formatted labels, tables, ..) are presented to each team member independent of their location.

This data can be further enriched with Marple’s tooling, such as custom math channels, data overlays, live-data support & other industry specific items such as distance based plotting for Motorsport users.

Marple has been introduced to large Motorsport teams, such as recent participation in IMSA 24H Daytona, among other races.