The presentation supported the webinar on SpagoBI Suite, delivered by Chiara Chiarelli (SpagoBI Developer) through SpagoWorld Webinar Center, on 13th December 2010. http://www.spagoworld.org/

1. SpagoBI Suite

2. Agenda
SpagoBI Suite Webinar
 SpagoBI – definition and approach
 SpagoBI main modules:
Server; Studio; Meta; SDK
 Focus on SpagoBI Server
 Focus on SpagoBI Studio
 Focus on SpagoBI Meta
 Focus on SpagoBI SDK
Site & Forge
 Q&A

3. SpagoBI

4. For those who doesn’t know SpagoBI
SpagoBI is the only Business Intelligence
integration Suite for enterprise BI
solutions, entirely developed according to
FOSS philosophy.

5. What is SpagoBI?
SpagoBI is the only Business Intelligence integration Suite for enterprise BI
solutions, entirely developed according to FOSS philosophy.
 SUITE:
 It covers and satisfies all the BI analytical areas: Reporting,
Multidimensional Analysis (OLAP), Dashboards and Charts,
Cockpits, Geographical analysis, Free Inquiry (QbE), KPIs, Office
automation and collaboration, Data Mining, ETL, Real Time BI
 Data Management, Profiling and security
 Administrator support (versioning, scheduling, approval iter,
import/export, etc)

6. What is SpagoBI?
SpagoBI is the only Business Intelligence integration Suite for enterprise BI
solutions, entirely developed according to FOSS philosophy.
 Integration suite:
 Not a product solution, with a predefined set of tools
 Open to many products for the same/different analytical area,
both open source and proprietary
 It allows the best composition of one’s own platform every time
 No binding dependences on products and tools
 Open standards adoption
 It allows to give the right answers to analytical questions by
means of different products

7. What is SpagoBI?
SpagoBI is the only Business Intelligence integration Suite for enterprise BI
solutions, entirely developed according to FOSS philosophy.
 Enterprise platform
 Distributed architecture (scalability)
 Security (Internal profiling system)
 Adaptive behaviour of the analysis based on the end users’ roles
 Adaptable to existing environments
 Entirely Open Source
 One single stable versione released under LGPL licence
 Open to contributions
 Support to its community
 Granted over time by an independent no-profit organization

8. Integration Suite

9. SpagoBI Suite – Main Modules
SpagoBI Applications
SpagoBI Meta
SpagoBI Studio
SpagoBI SDK
SpagoBI SERVER

10. SpagoBI Suite – Main Modules
5 Modules SpagoBI Server
Server  16 Analytical Areas (21 Engines)
 Report (3 engines)
Studio  OLAP (3 engines)
 Chart
Meta  Data Mining
 GEO-referenced analysis (2 Engines)
 Free Inquiry (QbE)
SDK  Smart Filter
 RT dashboards
Applications  RT console
 Accesible reporting
 Interactive cockpits
 KPI (modeler and navigator)
 Analytical Dossier
 Office
 External processing
 ETL
 General Features
 Subscriptions
 Personal folders
 Rich client
 Data sources configuration
 Alert and Notification
 Save Import/export settings
 Scheduler
 ….

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

12. SpagoBI Server

13. Analytical document types
 Report
 Olap
 Chart
 Dashboard
 Data Mining
These are all available
 ETL Analytical AREAS.
 Office documents
Let's see them one by one
 GEO with all the available engines
 KPI for each Type.
 Free Inquiry (Qbe)
 Smart Filter
 Analytical dossier
 Interactive Cockpits
 RT console

14. Analytical document types - Reporting
Basic users

15. Analytical document types – Reporting - Engines
 The Reporting Analytical
Engines available in SpagoBI
are:
 Jasper Report: one of leader
open source reporting tools
 BIRT: Eclipse-based open
source reporting system for
web applications
 Accessible Reporting
Engine: tabular reports which
are accessible according to
the international law WCAG
2.0

16. Analytical document types - Olap
Skilled users for data navigation

17. Analytical document types - Olap
OLAP Systems
Olap Server
Olap Client
Com. API
Com. API
DWH
Data
Com. Protocol Storage

18. Analytical document types – Olap - Engines
Olap Client: JPalo

19. Analytical document types – Olap - Engines
Olap Client: JPivot
 The principal components are the toolbar and the pivot table:

20. Analytical document types – Charts/Dashboards
Basic users

21. Analytical document types – Charts/Dashboards
Bar Charts

22. Analytical document types – Charts/Dashboards
Dial Charts

23. Analytical document types – Charts/Dashboards
Pie Charts
XY Charts

24. Analytical document types – Charts/Dashboards
Scatter and
Bubble Charts

25. Analytical document types – Charts/Dashboards
Dashboards

26. Analytical document types – Geo
Simple/Skilled users

27. Analytical document types – Geo
GEO Analysis is ...
... a visual representation of
some spatial data (typically a
geographic map) which elements,
are enriched with some graphical
information (typically colours)
based on the value of some KPI
related to the spatial element.

28. SpagoBI 2.1 – GEO Analysis – Engines
GEO Engine

29. SpagoBI 2.1 – GEO Analysis – Engines
GEO Report Engine

30. Analytical document types – Composite document
Simple/Skilled users depending on
documents relationship

31. Analytical document types – Composite document
Static Cockpit

32. Analytical document types – Composite document
Dynamic Cockpit

33. Analytical document types – Composite document
 The user clicks on Washington state and then each other document is
reloaded taking the new parameter as input:

34. Analytical document types – Composite document
 The same, if the user click on the table, the charts in the lower part will
be refreshed according to the new parameter :

35. Analytical document types – Composite document
 Also the last single chart can update other documents, in this case updates
the last chart on the right:

36. Analytical document types – KPI
Simple users

37. Analytical document types – KPI

38. Analytical document types – Query By Example
Skilled users

39. Analytical document types – Query By Example
The Query By Example aim is to
interrogate data without knowing SQL:
Data selection
Data filtering
Data grouping

40. Analytical document types – Query By Example

41. Analytical document types – Smart Filter
Simple users

42. Analytical document types – Smart Filter
The Smart Filter aim is to permit to the
user to interrogate data through easy
fill-in forms:
Data selection
Data filtering
Data grouping

43. Analytical document types – Smart Filter

44. Analytical document types – Ananlytical Dossier
Simple users (directional positions)

45. Analytical document types – Ananlytical Dossier
The Ananlytical Dossier permits
collaboration through the company
members:
Ananlysis shearing
Comments shearing
Planning

46. Analytical document types – Ananlytical Dossier

47. Analytical document types – Office Documents
Simple users (directional positions)

48. Analytical document types – Data Mining
Skilled users with high
analytical skills

49. Analytical document types – Data Mining - Engine
The output quality of a mining process
can be investigated using SpagoBI's
analytical engines such as reporting
engines

50. Analytical document types – ETL
Technical users

51. Analytical document types – ETL

52. Analytical document types – Monitoring Console
Skilled users with good analytical
skills

53. Analytical document types – Monitoring Console

54. Cross-Platform
Functionalities

55. Cross-platform functionalities
 Cross-navigation
 Exporters
 Send Mail
 Notes
 RememberMe (HotLinks)
 MyFolder
 Metadata
 Rank
 Viewpoints
 Save parameters setting
 ….

56. Cross Navigation

57. Cross Navigation

58. Exporters
Exporting Documents
Most of SpagoBI Analytical Documents can be
exported in different formats.

59. Send mail
Sending E-mails
Reports have the possibility to be sent by e-mail. The
following form will appear:

60. Notes

61. Remember me (Hot Links)
Remember Me!
Every Analytical Document has the possibility to be saved as
Hot Link.

62. HotLinks
 Once saved your
document will be
shown in the Hot
Links list!

63. MyFolder
Save in My Personal Folder!
The documents you save will be placed in your
personal folder.

64. Metadata
Documents Browser

65. Metadata
This is how the metadata window looks like!

66. Rank
Ranking
SpagoBI Analytical Documents can be voted by users.

67. SpagoBI Studio

68. SpagoBI’s perspective SpagoBI Studio

69. New Document/Download SpagoBI Studio

70. Design (Dash or Chart) SpagoBI Studio

71. Design Report SpagoBI Studio

72. Design Geo SpagoBI Studio

73. Design Composite Document SpagoBI Studio

74. Document deploy Document deploy

75. SpagoBI Studio
Future avaliable designers:
Olap designer
Kpi designer
Console designer
...

76. SpagoBI Meta

77. Technical metadata

78. Technical metadata
 Physical Model
Through a DB connection it is possible to extract its
metadata into a Physical Model
 Business Model
It is a sort of view over the Physical Model, that can
be modified by the user in order to create more
complex objects to interrogate
 Roadmap
Possibility to write business queries to be used in
SpagoBI documents, through the graphical
interrogation of the Business Model

79. SpagoBI SDK

80. SDK
 TAGS
 To execute SpagoBI documents from a different application,
relating a document to a custom menù with or without setting
parameters’ values
 Web Services
 To interact with SpagoBI Server and repository from an external
application

81. SpagoBI Applications

82. SpagoBI Applications
Audit & Monitor
Load information about the design and usage
of your SpagoBI environment
BAM
Example over the BAM (business activity
monitoring) domain

83. Monitor
A dashboard is composed by a speedometer for each engine showing the
average execution time of the documents associated to that particular engine.
For each engine, different thresholds are chosen.

84. Monitor

85. BAM

86. Web S ite and Forge

87. Site & Forge
www.spagoworld.org

88. Site & Forge
www.spagobi.org

89. Site & Forge

90. Site & Forge
https:/ wiki.s pagobi.org/
/ xwiki/ view/
bin/ Main/

91. Site & Forge
http:/ www.s pagoworld.org/
/ jforum/forums/list.page

92. Questions
&
Answers