1. Open Source
Business Intelligence

2. Who am I
Stefano Scamuzzo
Senior Technical Manager
Architecture & Consulting
Research & Innovation Division
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica

3. The SpagoBI Core Team
Antonella Giachino
Stefano Modroni Davide Zerbetto
Andrea Gioia
Angelo Bernabei
Grazia Cazzin – Project Leader
Chiara Chiarelli Giulio Gavardi

4. BI and Open Source

5. The Open Source question
In many cases, the question is "when" to
focus on open-source alternatives to
traditional closed-source solutions, not "if"
you should focus on them.
Gartner
Hype Cycle for Open-Source Software, 2005

6. Gartner - 2008

7. Why FOSS in Business Intelligence ?
 The project is more important than the product, but the
products costs more than the project
 BI products do not avoid project costs
 BI products are often under-used
 Slow cultural progress due to costs for research and
experiments

8. Opportunity and ROI with FOSS BI
 Focus and investment on projects
 Targeted investments, right measure (product and usage)
 Investments protection
 Experiments, R&I
 Avoid constraints Strategic BI
 Low TCO
 No Lock-in
Tactical BI
 Low cost extensibility
 Low cost scalability Operational BI
 On time evolution
 Increase of users, not of costs

9. SpagoBI

10. Who is Engineering
 Leader Company
 More than 40 premises
 More than employees
 More than 800 Customers
 More than 400 Consultants
 Activity Domain
 System Integration
 Technologies and Products
 Consultance
 Services and Software development
 Training
 Market segments
 Banking and Insurances
 Industry, Telecom et Services
 Public administration (central and local)
 Healthcare
 Utilities
 Research and Innovation

11. History of SpagoBI
 2004: first version of the Spago Java
framework
 2005: first version of SpagoBI
 2006: SpagoWorld web site
2009
2007
 2007: SpagoWorld services offer
 2007: SpagoBI 1.9.4
2004
2005
2006
 2007: Spago4Q: first vertical on SpagoBI
 2009: SpagoBI 2.0, SpagoBI 2.1

12. SpagoBI: a definition
SpagoBI is an integration platform for
enterprise BI solutions, entirely
developed in FOSS philosophy

13. What SpagoBI is ?
SpagoBI is an integration platform for enterprise BI solutions, entirely
developed in FOSS philosophy (Free and Open Source Software)‫‏‬
 Platform:
 It covers and satisfies all the BI requirements: KPIs, Reporting,
OLAP, Dashboard and charts, Data Mining, Free Inquiring (QbE),
Dossier, Geo-referenced analysis, Collaboration
 Data Management, Profiling and security
 Administrator support (versioning, scheduling, approval iter,
import/export, etc)

14. What SpagoBI is ?
SpagoBI is an integration platform for enterprise BI solutions, entirely
developed in FOSS philosophy (Free and Open Source Software)‫‏‬
 Integration platform:
 Not a product platform, with a predefined set of tools
 Open to many products for the same/different analytical area, both open
source and proprietary
 It allows the composition of one’s own platform time for time in the best
way
 No binding dependences from products and tools
 Open standards adoption
 It allows to give the right answers to analytical questions by means of
different products

15. What SpagoBI is ?
SpagoBI is an integration platform for enterprise BI solutions, entirely
developed in FOSS philosophy (Free and Open Source Software)‫‏‬
 Enterprise platform
 Distributed architecture (scalability)
 Adaptive behaviour of the documents based on the end users’
roles
 Entirely Open Source
 It is not the lite OS version of an enterprise commercial version

16. What SpagoBI is ?
 BI platform:  Enterprise level
 Report
 Integration platform (not a closed product)
 OLAP
 Multi engine (also mixing OS and proprietary)
 Dashboard
 Scalability
 KPIs
 Charts  Security and visibility
 Data Mining
 GEO-referenced analysis
 Free Inquiry (QbE)
 Collaboration
 ETL

17. SpagoBI in a DWH/BI project
DWH Data Collaborative BI Portal
ETL Marts
Data
Sources
DWH
Extract Transform Model Analyse View Decide

18. SpagoBI architecture
SpagoBI 2.1
Architecture

19. Integration Platform
Analytical Engines
Management Tools
Analytical Model

20. From SpagoBI 1.9.x to SpagoBI 2.x
 All the SpagoBI components are now into the SpagoBI Server
 But in the new 2.x Release, some other main modules are coming …
SpagoBI Applications
SpagoBI Meta
SpagoBI SDK
SpagoBI
SpagoBI SERVER
Studio

21. SpagoBI 2.x – Main Modules
 5 Modules SpagoBI Server
(the already known platform, with many
 Server  6 NEW Engines news) :
 GEO engine
 Studio  New QbE (multi-schema)
 Interactive dashboard (Composed Document)‫‏‬
 Meta  KPI modeller and navigator
 JPalo for OLAP
 SDK  Chart engine
 Applications  Architectural review
 WebApplication and JSR 168
 SSO with CAS
 SOA
 SSL
 Security assessment (OWASP Compliant)‫‏‬
 General Features
 Subscriptions
 Personal folders
 Rich client
 Data sources configuration
 Alert and Notification
 Save Import/export settings
 ….

22. SpagoBI 2.x – Main Modules
 5 Modules
SpagoBI Studio : the integrated
 Server environment, to develop, test
 Studio and deploy documents into one
or more SpagoBI Server
 Meta
 Applications
SpagoBI Meta : Business and
 SDK technical metadata
SpagoBI SDK, to use SpagoBI SpagoBI Applications:
from external application: - BAM
- Tag Lib - Audit & Monitoring
- Integration API - ….
- Web Services

23. SpagoBI technological architecture
 Technological architecture
 SpagoBI can be deployed in:
 Tomcat 6.x
 Jboss 4.x
 WebSphere 6.x
 SpagoBI can be installed as a simple WebApplication
 SpagoBI can be installed in a Portal environment:
 eXo Platform 2.x
 Liferay 5.1
 WebSphere Portal
 Open Standards
 JSR 168, JSR 170, JDBC, JDK, Hibernate

24. References
 SpagoBI Web Site
 http://spagobi.eng.it
 SpagoBI Online Demo
 http://spagobi.eng.it/SpagoBI
 SpagoBI Donwload Forge
 http://forge.ow2.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=204
 SpagoBI Forum
 http://forge.ow2.org/forum/?group_id=204
 SpagoBI Commercial Mailing List
 spagobi.international@eng.it