How Open Source BI Helps Organizations Do More with Less

Utah Division of Facilities and Construction Management

Utah Division of Facilities and Construction Management

Agenda

• Background Info

• Choosing the Right BI Platform

• Sample Reports

• Development Environment

• New Initiatives

• Resources

• Questions & Answers

State of Utah

• 2.8 million residents

• 1.9 million residents in Salt Lake Valley

• 3,406 buildings

• 52,290,978 square feet of space

• $9.2 billion in value

• #6 Budget in 2012

LEGISLATURE

Division of Administrative

Services

Other Divisions

Division of Technology

Services

Finance DFCM Risk Management

Other Departments

Energy / Environment

Development Real Estate Improvement Facilities

Maintenance

Owned Leased

Tenant Landlord

Renovations & Additions

New Construction

Utah!

Division of Facilities and Construction Management

Choosing the Right

BI Platform

BI Decision Criteria

• Independence from central IT

• Public access

• Interface to third-party applications

• Costs Acquisition Costs Development Costs Operational Costs

• Desktop / web / mobile accessibility

• Open Source ???

BIRT and ActuateOne

Data Sources

ONE deployment architecture for

all BI applications

ONE design that integrates multiple

data sources

ONE App Design

ONE App Server

ONE User Experience

ONE user environment that delivers

multiple apps

Data Sources

Documents

System Configurations

AiM Application

• Dedicated VM

• Windows 2008 Server

• Apache

• Tomcat 5.5

• BIRT 2.6.1/3.7.1

Oracle 11g

• Linux

• Shared Virtual Server

• HP Blade Server

Actuate/BIRT

• Windows 2008

• Apache

• Tomcat 5.5

• Actuate 10 (3.2.0)

Sample Reports

Actuate BIRT is the only

access point

Internal Customers • Project Managers

• Building Board

• Finance

• DAS

• Risk Management

Actuate BIRT is the only

access point

External Customers • Construction companies

• State Universities

• National Guard

• Tenants

• Local, city and county governments

• Homeland Security

• Building plans

• Emergency plans

• Shutoff locations

• Citizens

Development Environment

New Initiatives

Mobile Devices and Dashboards

Project Managers have iPhones, Android phones and iPads

• Starting to push reporting out to field users

• Plan to start dashboard effort using BIRT 360 ad hoc reporting

Resources

dfcm.utah.gov www.actuate.com www.birt-exchange.com www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix

Questions & Answers

Jerry Sheets

jerrys@raiconsulting.com