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1May 2011
Removing the Hay to find…
iBi: IBM i Business Intelligence
BI Datathe Needles
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BI Data
iBi uses filters to process large quantities of transaction data
Graphically isolates the "needle in the haystack“ when investigating:
Security breaches System activities Irregular application-related
activities
iBi: IBM i Business Intelligence
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iBi – Broadening Your Imagination
Imagine working on your standard AS/400 application and selecting:
And exporting your information as a
Business Intelligence report or Excel
iBiIcon
from the application GUI
Function key from your
green screen
OR
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iBi is an application add-on that enables GUI or green-screen application users to view and analyze the information they deal with, in immediate extended views including:
What is iBi?
Excel spreadsheet Graphical summarized BI tools
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How iBi is used?
The data displayed by iBi (“View”) is limited to the subject that is being presently handled by each individual user
Views can be kept for reuse
iBi can also be used to create views which are later accessed by applications, DB maintenance personal, system administrators etc.
No programming or preparation is required
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iBi-Visualizer
iBI is a comprehensive Business Intelligence tool that is intended to beintegrated into user applications (green-screen or GUI)
iBI graphically provides an in-depth understanding of the businessitem under consideration
iBI requires no special data preparation – it runs on your current data
IBI is affordable, server-based pricing as opposed to user-based
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iBi-Visualizer User Scenario
Select the filter values to define your BI investigation
1. Click on any of the dimension tabs to see more info
2. Drilldown is just a click away
Select dimension-based conditions to add to the filterClick any dimension tab to summarize the related information in accordance with the filter conditions
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iBi-Visualizer
Restricts the user to the subject they are currently working on, e.g. Order, Customer, Account, iSecurity Audit and Firewall data…
iBi enables users to create views based upon exactly what they are authorized to see.
Users can effortlessly "slice and dice" data into graphical charts for Business Intelligence analysis.
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What is iBi-Visualizer?
iBi-Visualizer uses the advanced analysis and statistics capabilities of Visualizer to display the views created by iBi.
This is an interactive process in which the views can be adjusted and tweaked as needed.
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What is iBi-Visualizer?
Working with iBi-Visualizer enables creating temporary views until satisfactory results are achieved and saved (you found the “needle in the haystack”)
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The Value of iBI
iBi makes investigations a snap
iBi empowers your users, helping them make better customer facing real time decisions
The user simply clicks on a dimension to
Re-"VIEW“ an updated view of the data
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The iBi Customer…
iBi is intended for anyone who is authorized to view and analyze sensitive data for investigative purposes.
Typical users are:
Database administrators
Data warehouse personnel
Administrators
Auditors
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How iBi connects to user applications
In this product tutorial we will demonstrate the use of iBi to create a restricted view of data for an end user, using a FileScope application and analyzing it using iBi-Visualizer
As previously mentioned, iBi can be accessed either from a GUI environment or via the green-screen command line
BI Data
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File’s original field structure as viewed in FileScope
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File’s original field structure as viewed in FileScope
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Default view of a logical file (statistical summary information) based on the original file
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Defining which fields (dimensions) to display in iBi, and the order of the fields, in order to create a restricted view for the end user
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Activating iBi directly from FileScope
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Defining the field (dimension) name
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Define a title and location for the new file
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A view of a modified file with user friendly field (dimension) titles
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Define a green-screen filter to create a restricted view of the file
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Filter definitions are automatically passed to iBi
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A filtered view of the file displaying the visits to the “Auditorium” only
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AS400 application opening iBi-Visualizer
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iBi-Visualizer
Eliminates the need for time & resource consuming implementation of the full data warehouse
Affordable licensing - unlike other BI tools
Data can be exported directly to Excel, HTML, CSV,…
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