Overview
Alluvial is a secure, web-based platform developed by Jacobs to support the delivery and sharing of data visualizations across internal teams and external clients.
It provides a centralized location for managing project-related content such as dashboards, reports, static pages, and custom applications.
How Alluvial Is Organized
Alluvial is structured around projects. Each project contains its own content, users, permissions, and administrative settings.
Within a project, administrative features are organized into modules. These modules allow project owners and project administrators to manage content, configure navigation, control access, and monitor usage.
Project users then access approved content through the project menu, dashboard tiles, and other configured navigation elements.
Content and Integrations
Visualizations from tools such as Power BI, containerized applications (e.g., Streamlit, RShiny), and BIM model viewers can be embedded directly into Alluvial.
Content is accessed through a clean, role-based interface organized by modules.
How Alluvial Fits with Other Tools
Alluvial is the delivery and management layer for project content. It does not replace tools such as Power BI, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Streamlit, or RShiny. Instead, it helps teams publish, organize, secure, and share content created in those systems.
This allows project teams to manage internal and external access from one platform while continuing to use the authoring tools that best fit their workflows.
Administration and Access Control
Alluvial is designed with access control and project-level administration in mind.
Project administrators can:
- Manage users and assign roles
- Control visibility of pages and applications
- Monitor usage through user validation and report statistics
Who Uses Alluvial
- Project Owners and Project Administrators - Configure modules, manage users, assign roles, and maintain project content.
- Internal Users - Access project content using their organization credentials.
- External Users - Access approved content through the authentication and permissions model defined for the project.
Examples of Specialized Modules
- Translations – Support for multilingual workflows
- SIFT (Software for Intelligent Filtering and Transformation) – For processing and viewing BIM models
- Containerized Applications – For hosting custom tools such as Streamlit or RShiny applications inside Alluvial
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Summary
Alluvial simplifies the secure distribution of interactive content without requiring additional licensing for viewers.