Real Time BI is Open and Anywhere

SpagoBI Webinar March 30, 2012

Real Time BI is Open and Anywherewith SpagoBI

Alessandra ToninelliSpagoBI Consultant

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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with SpagoBI

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

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• Detect inefficiencies, loss of performance

• Support prompt reaction & decision making

• Identify issues and new business opportunities

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

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

Application Areas

– Monitoring

• E.g., telco infrastructures

• SLA

– Operations

• E.g., logistics

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– Business level

• E.g., Monitoring of business processes

Real Time… Fixed Place ?

Business events should be delivered on time

• Proactive interaction• 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 BI

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

Console &

Dashboards

Events

Alarms &

Notifications

EVENT VISUALIZATION

EVENT NOTIFICATION

BUSINESS USERS

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DWH STORAGE

RT & Historical

AnalysisEVENT DETECTION

Anywhere Access to BI Tools

• Requirements

– Access to BI documents/tools– Access to BI documents/tools

from different mobile devices

• Approaches

– Device-specific implementation (native)

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– Web standard-based implementation (HTML5, CSS3)

• Interoperability across time & environments

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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• Open Source? � SpagoBI !

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• Ad-hoc reporting, query by example

• Real time

• 100% Free & Open Source

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

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

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

Real Time Anywhere BI with SpagoBI

SpagoBI combines:

1. A Business Activity Monitoring platform1. A Business Activity Monitoring platform

• Integration with the eBAM tool

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

• Historical/statistical analyses

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• Historical/statistical analyses

3. Mobile access to BI documents

The eBAM System

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

– Standard technologies (OSGi)

Core components

– CEP Engine

– Data source adaptors

– Standard technologies (OSGi)

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www.eclipse.org/ebam/

SpagoBI RT BI at a Glance

3. MOBILE

VISUALIZATION1. BAM TOOL

Data Source

Selected

Data

Real Time Console & Dashboards

Other SpagoBIEngines

REAL TIMEAdaptor

2. FULL BI SUITE

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Event Manager(CEP, Alerts)

Selected

Data

DB

HISTORICAL ANALYSIS

DASHBOARDS, CHARTS, REPORTS, OLAP,

KPI, DATA MINING, QBE…

Mobile SpagoBI

Access to SpagoBI documents on mobile devices

• SpagoBI server manages authentication & profiling

• Device-specific interaction pattern• Device-specific interaction pattern

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

Web App

Usage on

mobile deviceDevelopment on

SpagoBI Server

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Web App

HTML5 + CSS3

Summary

SpagoBI

Real Time Anywhere BI for real businessReal Time Anywhere BI for real business

– Business Activity Monitoring platform

– Advanced visualization capabilities

– Mobile access to BI documents

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100% Free & Open Source

Questions & Answers

Thanks for your attention

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