SpagoBI Open Source BI Tool Neha Prajapati

What's SpagoBI? The only 100% open source, complete and flexible BI suite. a complete, robust, secure, scalable, industry-grade OS BI suite 16 analytical areas, more than 30 analytical engines unique solutions, not only usual reporting and charting tools: Geo, QbE, Dossier, KPIs, Interactive Dashboards, Real-time BI.

Ways To Use

As a Server SpagoBI is usually used as a Server. You can choose among 16 analytical areas and more than twenty engines, providing various solutions for each analytical area. Benefits: 100% open source forever! The business intelligence comprehensive suite: all BI capabilities, many analytical areas, various engines unique solutions, not only usual reporting and charting tools: Geo, QbE, Dossier, KPIs, Interactive Dashboards, Real-time BI an industry-grade, complete, robust, secure and scalable BI suite supported by a large company, an open community and an ever-growing partner network pay the support when you need it, how long you need it!

On demand On-demand SpagoBI provides you with dedicated hardware and software resources through which SpagoBI team will put at your disposal your BI project, realized in a quick and secure way. You get back immediate results and avoid the initial setup and configuration effort. Benefits: no initial setup and configuration effort quick results affordable price. results guaranteed by SpagoBI core team suitable both for evaluation and production activities.

Cloud Cloud SpagoBI allows you to avoid deploying SpagoBI on your servers or to buy the licenses of the related software solutions. You use an instance of SpagoBI Server through a remote connection, against the payment of a monthly fee. Benefits: no more management of infrastructural hardware and software resources (purchase, installation, maintenance and giving up) choose your own configuration pay per use (on a monthly-fee base) maintenance included.

Mobile Mobile SpagoBI allows you to display and analyze your data anywhere, at any time. Through SpagoBI real-time functionalities, you are kept up to date in real-time with possible critical events, reported by the operational systems, allowing you to react promptly. Benefits: your data anytime, anywhere your business constantly under control prompt reaction to events requiring quick decision making connection to SpagoBI Server for data security, on-demand updating of data, alarms and notifications.

What we can do by using SpagoBI? Areas of functionality include : Reporting Multidimensional analysis Charts KPI Interactive Cockpits Ad-Hoc Reporting Location Intelligence Free Inquiry (Query by Example) Data Mining Real Time Dashboards and Console ETL Mobile Master Data Management N/w Analysis

Why SpagoBI? a complete open source BI suite many ways to use it . many organizations have chosen it . you pay the services when you need it, how long you need them!. supported by a large company, an open community and an ever-growing partner network. get in touch with the community, asking or sending information, giving new ideas or suggestions. offer his/her collaboration in the development of the documentation and/or in its translation into different languages find and fix bugs, suggest new requirements, implement or develop new features develop new projects demo for a specific business sector.

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SpagoBI offers a wide range of analytical tools, as follows: REPORTING SpagoBI allows to realize structured reports, using structured information views (e.g. lists, tables, crosstabs, reports) and to export them using several formats (HTML, PDF, XLS, XML, TXT, CSV, RTF). MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS (OLAP) SpagoBI allows the multidimensional analysis through flexible and user-friendly OLAP engines. Users can analyse data on different detail levels and from different perspectives, through drill-down, drill-across, slice-and-dice, drill-through processes. KPI SpagoBI offers all necessary tools to create, manage, view and browse KPI hierarchy models, through different methods, calculation rules, thresholds and alarm rules.

Cont.. CHARTS SpagoBI offers a specific analytical engine based on JFreeChart for the development of single ready-to-use chart widgets (such as histograms, pie charts, bar charts, area charts, scatter diagrams, line charts, bubble charts, dispersion charts) and interactive ones (temporal sliders, add/delete series), to be used separately or to be aggregated into a report for a richer data analysis. INTERACTIVE COCKPITS SpagoBI allows users to aggregate several documents into a single view and to interact with them in a dynamic and intuitive way. AD-HOC REPORTING SpagoBI allows end-users to freely create their own multi-sheet reports, including simple tables, cross-tables and charts in the document template.

Cont.. LOCATION INTELLIGENCE SpagoBI offers two geographical engines allowing to set run-time connections between geographical data and business data stored in the data warehouse: a GEO engine, which uses a static catalogue in order to display data, allowing users to dynamically re-aggregate information, according to geographical hierarchies (e.g. state, country, city) a GIS engine, which interacts with real spatial systems, according to the WFS/WMS scheme.   FREE INQUIRY (Driven Data Selection) SpagoBI offers a QbE (Query by Example) engine, which is suitable for those cases in which free inquiry and extraction of data is more relevant than data graphical representation and layout. Users can build queries through an entirely graphical and web-based interface. They can also execute queries, check the results, export them, save them for future use and generate templates. DATA MINING SpagoBI allows advanced data analysis, thanks to Data Mining processes aiming to find out hidden information patterns given a large amount of data. REAL TIME DASHBOARDS AND CONSOLE SpagoBI offers a specific engine allowing the development of real-time monitoring consoles, to be used in Business, operational and BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) processes.

Cont.. COLLABORATION SpagoBI offers a specific engine allowing to automatically create structured report dossiers, enriched with notes and comments posted by users. A collaborative workflow supports the management of the report dossiers in order to allow users to receive the related notes. OFFICE AUTOMATION SpagoBI offers a specific engine for the publication of personal documents in BI environments, realized through common Office tools (Open Office or MS Office). ETL SpagoBI includes a tool for loading data into the data warehouse and managing it. SpagoBI ETL engine integrates the open source product TOS (Talend Open Studio).

Cont.. MOBILE SpagoBI offers specialized components based on the common touch-screen interaction paradigm, to efficiently combine BI with mobility.  MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT SpagoBI offers the facility to write back to the database. Users can modify table data through an intuitive user interface, whose behavior can be set by means of simple configuration parameters, using pre-defined models.

Comparison between Open Source BI Factors Jaspersoft SpagoBI Pentaho Platform Web-based, thin-client, end-user interfaces that leverage modern interactive Web 2.0 technology such as Ajax and DHTML Web based

Comparison between Open Source BI cont. Factors Jaspersoft SpagoBI Pentaho Edition Have paid one, integrated with jasper database server. Another one is Jaspersoft Community Projects, Jaspersoft Community Projects provide basic business intelligence functionality for open source developers who want to add standalone or integrated BI capabilities to their applications and operational processes. It's a free open source project: no enterprise or professional edition! It’s a POSS project (Post open source software) that try to bridge between pure open source and proprietary BI tools.

Comparison between Open Source BI cont. Factors Jaspersoft SpagoBI Pentaho Open source Full access to modifiable source code and customizable UIs SpagoBI goes further than other open source projects, because it provides a unified view or, in other words, a higher level of abstraction, both for data access and for user interaction A process-centric, solution-oriented platform with BI components that enable companies to develop complete solutions to BI problems.

Comparison between Commercial BI Tool Business Criteria QlikView Tableau MSBI Best Feature Visual Drilldown Easy visualization PowerPivot+SSAS Server License /User >$1000 $1000,min 10 users Sql Server+Excel Support Fees 20% $1199 Long Term Viability 1 Product Company Excellent Data Interactivity Very Good Excel or 3rd Party Visaul Drilldown Offilne Viewer Free Personal Edition Best,Free Reader Excel,.net Visual Controls Good

Comparison of commercial BI Tools Overall, the commercial BI tools have better security, and more interactive dashboard and reporting, faster search and exploration features. They can synchronise to Microsoft Office applications. Actually, the open source BI tools have complete features too as the commercial ones, but the less flexible, because they will have difficult synchronisation with Microsoft Office applications. They have less security too.

References http://www.spagoworld.org/xwiki/bin/view/SpagoBI/BIComponents

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