1. Real Time BI is Open & Anywhere
with SpagoBI
Alessandra Toninelli
SpagoBI Consultant – Research & Innovation Division
Engineering Group
alessandra.toninelli@eng.it
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2. Agenda
What is Real Time BI ?
How To Achieve Real Time BI ?
Open Source Real Time BI
with SpagoBI
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3. What is Real Time BI
And Why We Need It
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4. 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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5. 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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6. Application Areas
– Monitoring
• E.g., telco infrastructures
• SLA
– Operations
• E.g., logistics
– Business level
• E.g., Monitoring of business processes
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7. 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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8. Real Time Anywhere BI
Technological Challenges
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9. Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
A BAM system detects events and makes them
meaningful to business users
Data Source(s) Console & BUSINESS USERS
Dashboards
Data
EVENT VISUALIZATION
Alarms &
Notifications
Complex Event
Events EVENT NOTIFICATION
Processing (CEP)
EVENT DETECTION RT & Historical
Analysis
DWH STORAGE
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10. 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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11. 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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12. Real Time Anywhere BI
With SpagoBI
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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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
www.eclipse.org/ebam/
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16. SpagoBI RT BI at a Glance
1. BAM TOOL 3. MOBILE
VISUALIZATION
Data Source
REAL TIME Real Time Console Other SpagoBI
Adaptor
& Dashboards Engines
Selected
Data
2. FULL BI SUITE
DASHBOARDS, CHARTS,
REPORTS, OLAP,
Event Manager KPI, DATA MINING, QBE…
HISTORICAL
(CEP, Alerts)
ANALYSIS
DB
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17. Mobile SpagoBI
Access to SpagoBI documents on mobile devices
• SpagoBI server manages authentication & profiling
• Device-specific interaction pattern
• Multi-device & Multi-platform (web standards)
Usage on Development on
mobile device SpagoBI Server
Web App
HTML5 + CSS3
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18. 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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19. Questions & Answers
Thanks for your attention
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