Managed Analytics Portal

Improve Operation, Increase Adoption, Facilitate Action

Agenda

Define MAP

Key Drivers

Features

Architecture

Product Specifications

Value add and User cases

Demonstration

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Comprehensive portal for your BICC team

MAP is a solution from NEC that provides you a “Single pane of Glass” into health, adoption and performance of your Business Intelligence program. It enables you to make smarter decisions faster for your organization’s BI/ Analytics teams.

MAP currently supports IBM Cognos, SAP BO and Qlikview platforms. It is a framework built for converging Silos by gathering the needed metadata about each of your BI landscape using custom made ETL connectors.

Data collected from sources like BI servers, BI application and audit databases, ticketing system, and directory service providers is integrated into a single repository and accessible from the customizable MAP portal.

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Key Drivers

▌Managing large multiple BI platforms

▌Providing single interface for data from varied sources

▌Monitoring and Managing availability of BI platforms proactively

▌Improve efficiency of support teams

▌Evangelize and improve the overall adoption

▌Improve License management, Maintenance Renewals, Upgrades, Sizing

▌Assist audit teams by providing single source of information for BI inventory and statistics

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Proactive monitoring

MAP enables “near-time” monitoring for any of the below Business Analytics (BA) components. Moreover, when an issue arises, MAP instantly notifies the state of affected environment on it intuitive dashboard

▌BI Service and Portal availability

▌Server health in terms on CPU, Memory and Disk utilizations

▌Platform related tickets (SRs, Incidents, CRs)

▌Scheduled report distributions and failures

▌Ad-hoc user interactivity monitoring

▌Current logged in Users

▌Package and/or report-related errors

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Captures data from 6 varied sources

Operational Information

Infrastructure & Platform

Application/Content

Entitlements

Ticketing System

Usage/Audit

Managed Analytics Portal

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Underlying Architecture of MAP

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Data Management Routines

PC, Mac, Tablets

Reporting Analytics Dashboards Presentation Tier

Middle Tier

Source Adapters ETL / Stored Procedures / Server Routines

Local Staging

Database(s)

Application SDK Data Mart

JAVA/JQuery/

Spring/Hibernate

LDAP / AD Data Meta Data Store

Any

format Oracle

Data Service

Report Service

Utility Service

Audit Data Ticketing Data

License/Custom

Converging Silos

Standardization across

Tool BI Servers

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Product Specifications and Facts

PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS

▌MAP is currently available for the IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects and Qlikview BI Platforms.

▌MAP requires a Microsoft Windows 2008 or 2012 server but can inspect any of the supported operating systems like Microsoft Windows, Unix, or Linux.

▌MAP requires a relational database (Oracle or mySQL)

FACTS

▌MAP is currently deployed and used at a major financial services client for their entire BICC landscape

▌Currently deployment of MAP stores over 2000 MB of data in 100+ operational and datamart tables

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What kind of questions can MAP provide answers to?

▌Are there any outages on my platform?

▌What is the current health of my BI servers and any errors/warnings exist?

▌Who are my top BA users, and am I properly utilizing my licenses?

▌What are my most-used packages and reports?

▌What are the commonly occurring errors and what report/packages are causing these errors?

▌Where are my most slowly running reports, and what are their average run-times?

▌Where are the reports that are not used by business users and are candidates for content clean-up?

▌Do I have any wasted license seats?

▌What is my success ratio for scheduled report distribution?

▌Are there any critical incidents raised against by platform and its details?

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What are some use cases for MAP?

The most common and recommended deployment of MAP is for day-to-day monitoring and maintenance of your BICC platforms. The monitoring capabilities and admin utilities of MAP will inherently reduce the system administration and system support burden while empowering business users to focus on their day-to-day analytical work.

MAP can also be effectively used by:

▌Platform managers

▌System Administrators

▌BI Developers

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MAP Overview Demo

MAP Overview

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