Presentation supporting the webinar delivered by Grazia Cazzin, SpagoBI project leader, on 21st June 2010 within SpagoWorld Webinar Center.

1. Real time
Business Intelligence

2. Agenda
Real-time Business Intelligence
Some misunderstandings
Some definitions
Relevant topics
Technologies
Open source and RT Business Intelligence
Conclusions
Q&A

3. Some misunderstandings
Real-time = operational data
on operational data source
Real-time = exactly when
things happen
Real-time = always when
things happen
Real-time doesn’t make
DWH outdated

4. Some misunderstandings
OUT - OUT

5. What means ‘now’ ?

6. Some definitions
Right-time BI:
“The biggest advance I have seen over the past year is that
companies are beginning to understand that there are many
different types of real-time processing, each with its own uses,
benefits and issues. IT staff are also realizing that right time is a
better term to use than real time. Right time implies that different
business situations and events require different response or
action times. When planning a right-time processing environment,
it is important to match technology requirements to the actual action
times required by the business - some situations require close to a
real-time action, whereas with others, a delay of a few minutes or
hours is acceptable.”
Colin White, Now is the Right Time for Real-Time BI, Information Management Magazine,
September, 2004.

7. Some definitions
Operational BI
“There is now a need to use BI to help drive and optimize business
operations on a daily basis, and, in some cases, even for
intraday decision making. This type of BI is usually called
operational business intelligence.”
Colin White, The next generation of Business Intelligence: Operational BI, DM Review, May,
2005

8. Some definitions
Event-Driven BI / BAM
“Rather than depending on batch extraction, loading into a data
warehouse/data Mart and running reports to check operational
status, pure-play BAM systems are automatically triggered and
update by events that are important to the business. Analytics
are run on the events as they are generated and actions are taken
immediately”
Diaz Nesamoney, BAM: Event-Driven Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprise,
Information Management Magazine, March, 2004

9. Towards a definition

10. From wikipedia
Real-time business intelligence is the process of delivering
information about business operations as they occur.
In this context, real-time means a range from milliseconds to a
few seconds after the business event has occurred. While
traditional business intelligence presents historical data for
manual analysis, real-time business intelligence compares
current business events with historical patterns to detect
problems or opportunities automatically. This automated
analysis capability enables corrective actions to be initiated
and or business rules to be adjusted to optimize business
processes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_business_intelligence

11. Relevant topics
Historical data (DWH) up to yesterday (as closed as possible to today)
Right-time data for today
Selective real-time
Rules for relevant events detection
Think to EII/EAI instead of read data from operational rdbms
Many technologies work together
Combined logic for data latency

12. Technologies
Technologies for a real-time Business Intelligence solution:
EII/EAI, to get data from applications without the ETL delay
SOA, for an open, flexible, and bidirectional relation between analytical and
operational world
CEP, to detect complex events over data
BAM, to monitor technical and business activities
Alert, to immediatly notify alarms
KPI, for a synthetic and meaningful view of your business
Analytics, to relate current data with historical ones
Devices, for a ready detection and reaction
Collaboration, to share information and collaborate for actions

13. Technologies and OS
Technologies and Open Source
products
EII/EAI: Spagic
SOA: Spagic
CEP: eBAM
BAM: eBAM, SpagoBI
Alert: eBAM, SpagoBI
KPI: SpagoBI
Analytics: SpagoBI
Devices: SpagoBI
Collaboration: SpagoBI

14. EII/EAI/SOA - Spagic
http://www.spagic.org

15. EII/EAI/SOA - Spagic
http://www.spagic.org

16. CEP/BAM - eBAM
http://www.eclipse.org/ebam/

17. KPI, Alert, Analytics, Monitoring: SpagoBI
http://www.spagobi.org

18. SpagoBI for BAM
Integration with the CEP engine provided by eBAM (real-
time events)‫‏‬
Advanced Web Console, RT refresh
KPI
Alarms and notify
Static graphs for the historical analysis of processes
Analytical tools (reports, charts, OLAP, QbE, interactive
cockpits) for historical and aggregated analysis
Collaboration

19. Devices: SpagoBI

20. Collaboration:SpagoBI

21. Conclusions
Technology is ready
Products are ready
Open Source is ready !
Are companies ready ?
Operative decision makers
Shared information
Trasparency
Widespread responsability

22. http://www.spagoworld.org/blog/category/os-business-intelligence/
Open
Discussion

23. Questions
&
Answers