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Real Time BI is Open & Anywherewith SpagoBI

Alessandra Toninelli

SpagoBI Consultant – Research & Innovation Division

Engineering Group

alessandra.toninelli@eng.it

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Agenda

� What is Real Time BI ?

� How To Achieve Real Time BI ?

� Open Source Real Time BI

with SpagoBI

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What is Real Time BIAnd Why We Need It

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A Crucial Need for Enterprises

Access relevant information on time

Relevant � focus on selected information

On time � when needed

Why ?

• Detect inefficiencies, loss of performance

• Support prompt reaction & decision making

• Identify issues and new business opportunities

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What is Real Time BI ?

Analysis and reaction to business events

as soon as they occur

– Generate events by selecting data on-the-fly

• Vs. offline analysis of stored data

– Allow users to act in response to events

• Vs. mono-directional interaction data-to-user

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Application Areas

– Monitoring

• E.g., telco infrastructures

• SLA

– Operations

• E.g., logistics

– Business level

• E.g., Monitoring of business processes

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Real Time… Fixed Place ?

Business events should be delivered on time

• Proactive interaction

• Events are pushed towards the user

This requires to deal with users’ mobility

� Real Time Anywhere BI

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Real Time Anywhere BITechnological Challenges

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Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

A BAM system detects events and makes them

meaningful to business users

Complex Event Processing (CEP)

Data Source(s)

Data

DWH STORAGE

Console & Dashboards

Events

Alarms &

Notifications

RT & Historical

AnalysisEVENT DETECTION

EVENT VISUALIZATION

EVENT NOTIFICATION

BUSINESS USERS

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Anywhere Access to BI Tools

• Requirements

– Access to BI documents/tools from different mobile

devices

• Approaches

– Device-specific implementation (native)

– Web standard-based implementation (HTML5, CSS3)

• Interoperability across time & environments

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Solutions for Real Time BI

Better a RT BI suite than a single tool

• Commercial vendors

– IBM, Oracle/SAP, Tibco

• Open Source? � SpagoBI !

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Real Time Anywhere BIWith SpagoBI

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SpagoBI – Open Source BI Suite

• SpagoBI supports advanced BI functionalities• Reporting, charts, interactive dashboards

• OLAP, Data mining

• Ad-hoc reporting, query by example

• Real time

• 100% Free & Open Source

• Business approach– BI projects, vertical applications (by product, market, area)

• Multiple deployment solutions– Server, as-a-Service, cloud

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Real Time Anywhere BI with SpagoBI

SpagoBI combines:

1. A Business Activity Monitoring platform

• Integration with the eBAM tool

2. A BI suite with advanced data analysis & presentation capabilities

• Historical/statistical analyses

3. Mobile access to BI documents

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The eBAM System

Core components

– CEP Engine

– Data source adaptors

Open source tool for Business Activity Monitoring– Implemented within the SOA Eclipse Project

– Standard technologies (OSGi)

www.eclipse.org/ebam/

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SpagoBI RT BI at a Glance

Event Manager

(CEP, Alerts)

Data Source

Selected

Data

DB

Real Time Console & Dashboards

Other SpagoBIEngines

REAL TIME

HISTORICAL ANALYSIS

Adaptor

DASHBOARDS, CHARTS, REPORTS, OLAP,

KPI, DATA MINING, QBE…

3. MOBILE

VISUALIZATION1. BAM TOOL

2. FULL BI SUITE

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Mobile SpagoBI

Access to SpagoBI documents on mobile devices

• SpagoBI server manages authentication & profiling

• Device-specific interaction pattern

• Multi-device & Multi-platform (web standards)

Web App

HTML5 + CSS3

Usage on

mobile deviceDevelopment on

SpagoBI Server

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Summary

SpagoBI

Real Time Anywhere BI for real business

– Business Activity Monitoring platform

– Advanced visualization capabilities

– Mobile access to BI documents

100% Free & Open Source

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Questions & Answers

Thanks for your attention

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