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Platform services

A secure workspace within the SDE will be implemented for each project. The standard package for a secure workspace includes a cloud-based VDI providing access to an instance of the platform, a suite of included tools, and support capabilities. 

 

Technical summary: 

  • Secure Windows (Azure) VDI   

  • Standard 4 v cores and 32GB of memory  

 

Included tools 

  • Office 365 (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote) 

  • Power BI desktop 

  • SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 

  • Azure Data Studio 

  • RStudio 

  • R Statistical Language 

  • Git based repository and Tortoise Git 

  • Nexus Repository Manager 

  • Python 

  • VDI - Windows (Azure supported) 

  • Visual Studio (VS) Code 

  • Pandoc 

  • Jupyter Notebook 

  • Conda 

  • Mamba 

  • OpenStreetMap tile server 

  • dbt core 

 

Optional Tools (may incur additional service charges) 

  • Azure Data Factory (ADF)  

  • Azure Machine Learning (ML) 

  • Stata  

 

Additional platform services 

  • Submit a request for a third-party tool that is not part of the secure workspace standard package 

  • Bring Your Own Code: Users can request to bring their own code to be used within the Secure Workspace. 

  • Computing Power Review / Increase: Increased compute power to suit your needs. 

 

All requests for additional services are subject to approval.  

 

Contact us to find out more.