1 May 2011 Removing the Hay to find… iBi: IBM i Business Intelligence BI Datathe Needles

2 May 2011 BI Data iBi uses filters to process large quantities of transaction data Graphically isolates the "needle in the haystack“ when investigating: Security breaches System activities Irregular application-related activities iBi: IBM i Business Intelligence

iBi – Broadening Your Imagination Imagine working on your standard AS/400 application and selecting: And exporting your information as a Business Intelligence report or Excel iBi Icon from the application GUI Function key from your green screen OR

iBi is an application add-on that enables GUI or green-screen application users to view and analyze the information they deal with, in immediate extended views including: What is iBi? Excel spreadsheetGraphical summarized BI tools

How iBi is used? The data displayed by iBi (“View”) is limited to the subject that is being presently handled by each individual user Views can be kept for reuse iBi can also be used to create views which are later accessed by applications, DB maintenance personal, system administrators etc. No programming or preparation is required

iBi-Visualizer iBI is a comprehensive Business Intelligence tool that is intended to be integrated into user applications (green-screen or GUI) iBI graphically provides an in-depth understanding of the business item under consideration iBI requires no special data preparation – it runs on your current data IBI is affordable, server-based pricing as opposed to user-based

iBi-Visualizer User Scenario Select the filter values to define your BI investigation 1. Click on any of the dimension tabs to see more info 2. Drilldown is just a click away Select dimension-based conditions to add to the filter Click any dimension tab to summarize the related information in accordance with the filter conditions

iBi-Visualizer Restricts the user to the subject they are currently working on, e.g. Order, Customer, Account, iSecurity Audit and Firewall data… iBi enables users to create views based upon exactly what they are authorized to see. Users can effortlessly "slice and dice" data into graphical charts for Business Intelligence analysis.

What is iBi-Visualizer? iBi-Visualizer uses the advanced analysis and statistics capabilities of Visualizer to display the views created by iBi. This is an interactive process in which the views can be adjusted and tweaked as needed.

What is iBi-Visualizer? Working with iBi-Visualizer enables creating temporary views until satisfactory results are achieved and saved (you found the “needle in the haystack”)

The Value of iBI iBi makes investigations a snap iBi empowers your users, helping them make better customer facing real time decisions The user simply clicks on a dimension to Re-"VIEW“ an updated view of the data

The iBi Customer… iBi is intended for anyone who is authorized to view and analyze sensitive data for investigative purposes. Typical users are: Database administrators Data warehouse personnel Administrators Auditors

How iBi connects to user applications In this product tutorial we will demonstrate the use of iBi to create a restricted view of data for an end user, using a FileScope application and analyzing it using iBi-Visualizer As previously mentioned, iBi can be accessed either from a GUI environment or via the green-screen command line BI Data

File’s original field structure as viewed in FileScope

Default view of a logical file (statistical summary information) based on the original file

Defining which fields (dimensions) to display in iBi, and the order of the fields, in order to create a restricted view for the end user

Activating iBi directly from FileScope

Defining the field (dimension) name

Define a title and location for the new file

A view of a modified file with user friendly field (dimension) titles

Define a green-screen filter to create a restricted view of the file

Filter definitions are automatically passed to iBi

A filtered view of the file displaying the visits to the “Auditorium” only

AS400 application opening iBi-Visualizer

iBi-Visualizer Eliminates the need for time & resource consuming implementation of the full data warehouse Affordable licensing - unlike other BI tools Data can be exported directly to Excel, HTML, CSV,…

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