Francesco Corti

Janus Bifrons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus)

EnterpriseContentManagement

Business Intelligence

http://fcorti.com

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Please, interrupt me!http://fcorti.com

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The goal

• What Business Intelligence is

• What Business Intelligence is not

• Taking a look at Alfresco and ECM in general

• From a technical point of view

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Tools Theory

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Busi

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nsWe all use Alfresco and we would like to know…

• Who is using it? Which are the top users/offices/departments?

• How is the repository growing over time?

• Which are the most viewed contents last week? And in the last quarter? And in the last year?

• I would like to develop interactive analysis on metadata and types/aspects.

• Where are the bottlenecks in my processes and workflows?

• What happens to the duration of my processes if the document flows will increase 15% more than today?

• How can I analyze information like this as a spreadsheet?

• Everything should be shared with my Boss/Collaborators on his/her/their cellphones

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And even if we know everything…http://fcorti.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3QGwTcyRLQ

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BI specialist

When reality overtakes fantasyhttp://fcorti.com

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• Business questions cannot be easily satisfied and changes along with the organization and the processes

• Good news: Enterprise BI solutions and architectures is going to help us!

• Let’s see how…

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(Probably) everybody knows that BI is…

• Analytics

• Reports

• Dashboards

• Spreadsheets and pivot tables

• KPI

• …a lot of other (useful) tools for the end user!

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This is definitely true!

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Front-end tools are focused on data presentation

• Front-end tools:

• are cool and handsome

• are focused on data enquiry and presentation

• make the end user’s life easier

• could be integrated in other applications

• make the analysis process smarter!

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Is this a BI solution?

• Yes, it is a possible solution

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Is this a BI solution?

• Yes, it is a possible solution based on a single level

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Source level Front-end level

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Is this a BI solution?

• Yes, it is a possible solution based on a single level

• But we could get more than this for a real Enterprise approach

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Source level Front-end level

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Data Warehouse guarantees scalability

• A Data Warehouse is a storage developed specifically for data analysis

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• Data Warehouse guarantees scalability in terms of • Business questions • Quantity of data • Data quality • Reliability

Data Warehouse guarantees scalabilityhttp://fcorti.com

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• A Data Warehouse is a storage developed specifically for data analysis

Is this a BI solution?

• Yes, more complex to manage but more complete*

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Is this a BI solution?

• Yes, more complex to manage but more complete*

• This solution is based on a two levels approach

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Source level DWH level Front-end level

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A.A.A.R. solution

• A.A.A.R. develops the three levels architecture (DWH is composed by Operational level and Warehouse level)

• A.A.A.R. is, today, based on a pure Open Source stack

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Source level DWH level Front-end level

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• Sources, data, business elements, front-end, …

Scalability of …http://fcorti.com

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DWH level Front-end level

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Source level

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Q&Ahttp://fcorti.com

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Source level

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BI is not magichttp://fcorti.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_bQDruxOAI

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