An introductory part of the GoodData presentation prepared for CZJUG (Czech Java Users Group). The purpose of this presentation was to introduce GoodData Platform to technical audience. The main Java-related part of the presentation was conducted by Roman Pichlik.

1. BI Platform as a Service
A case for Java in the Cloud – Part I
CZJUG, Prague, March 28 2011
Jaroslav Gergic
jaroslav.gergic@gooddata.com @gooddata

2. • founded by Roman Stanek (NetBeans, Systinet) in 2007
• running on Amazon AWS cloud
• public beta in July 2008, commercial launch in 2009
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3. Business Intelligence and Analytics
live customizable
dashboards
ad-hoc analytics
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4. Speaking of Platform as a Service...
developer portal
all tooling on GitHub
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5. Developer Friendly
live REST API inspector
(“gray pages”)
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6. GoodData Cloud BI Platform – Core Concepts
• Project = data mart
– a unit of management and distribution
– deployment: as easy as “New File”
• User Information
– security boundary – a “walled garden”
• Project Data
– raw data: numbers and classifcations
• Project Metadata
– metrics, flters, reports, dashboards
– LDM, PDM, operational state
– event trace, audit log
• Cached Data
– pre-aggregated data
– materialized slices and dices
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7. GoodData Cloud BI Platform – Multi Tenant
• Multi-Tenant Platform
– born on Amazon Web services
– stateless web application layer
– session-less processing layer
– redundant storage
• Horizontal Scaling
– a pre-confgured node type for each role
– shared-nothing architecture between
nodes of the same type
– nodes of each type can be provisioned
on demand independently of others
• Horizontal Partitioning
– frst-level driven by project separation
– with columnar storage second-level
partitioning not needed ~100M rows
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9. Operating Cloud BI Platform = Continuous Innovation
www.gooddata.com/trust
Statistics as of March 2011:
• 13,800+ platform users
– over 2000 users active on daily basis
• 3,280+ data marts
– a.k.a. “projects”
• 35K+ reports run per business day
– report calculations, incl. dashboards
While continuously innovating:
• production release ~ 2 weeks
– 5 releases so far in 2011
• without adverse impacts on uptime
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10. Thank You
http://www.gooddata.com/
https://secure.gooddata.com/
http://developer.gooddata.com/
http://support.gooddata.com/
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