VBI View Your one stop solution to manage multiple BI Platforms
- 1. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com VBI VIEW Your One Solution to Manage Multiple BI Platforms Ulises Hubbard Vice President – Products & Solutions www.visualbi.com Shankar Narayanan BI Solutions Specialist
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- 3. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 3 VBI View Webinar Agenda Visual BI Introduction1 Challenges With Using Multiple BI Platforms2 What is VBI View?4 Demo5 Why typical ‘Enterprise BI Portal’ Efforts have failed3 VBI View – Architecture and Administration6 Roadmap7 Q&A8
- 4. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 4 About Visual BI All-in-One Partner For End-to-End BI & Analytics Needs Visual BI Solutions is a leading All-in-One Business Intelligence (BI) enablement firm specializing in BI & Analytics services, solutions, trainings and products. We have proven expertise in enabling BI & Analytics for 100+ world’s leading brands. We can help you achieve competitive advantage by effectively managing the Plan - Build - Run spectrum for BI. Trusted by the largest companies world-wide Trusted by the industry Integration and Partnership with SAP and Microsoft is our forte CONSULTING SERVICES • Strategy • Architecture Implementation • Training • Managed Services • Visualization • Cloud Migrations ANALYTICS SOLUTIONS • Dashboards by LOB • Advanced Analytics • Big Data Solutions TRAINING • SAP Business Objects Training § SAP Lumira Discovery (2 Days) § SAP Lumira Designer (3 Days ) § SAP Web Intelligence (2 Days) § SAP Analysis for Office (2 Days) • SAP Analytics Cloud Training • Microsoft Power BI Training SOFTWARE PRODUCTS • VBI View – One Portal for All BI Content • Product Extensions for SAP Lumira / SAP Design Studio § Visual BI Extensions (VBX Suite) § Document Management and Change Control • Value Driver Tree (VDT) for Planning and Simulations
- 5. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 5 About Visual BI Customer Portfolio (Software, Services, Training)
- 6. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 6 Our History of Software Products & Innovation Desired by Enterprises; Delivered by Visual BI VBI View One Gateway for ALL BI Content Value Driver Tree For Dynamic Planning & Simulation Visual BI Extensions For SAP Lumira Designer (VBX) DYNAMIC PLANNING, FORECASTING, MODELING AND SIMULATIONS • Sensitivity Analysis • Periodic Reforecasting & Variance Reporting • Executive KPI Dashboards • Business Modeling • Strategic Goal Setting • Budgeting & Planning CHARTS MAPS SELECTORS UTILITIES • Featuring Auto-Sync • Smart Search • Personalization • Meta Data Repository • Audit & Usage Reporting • M&A BI Tool Consolidation • SSO Integration • Easy Setup & Maintenance • Fully Secure
- 7. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 7 55% OF COMPANIES USE TWO OR MORE BI PLATFORMS ( Trustradius, 2015 ) Source: https://www.trustradius.com/articles/business-intelligence-survey-results
- 8. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 8 VBI View Having Multiple BI Platforms Introduces A New Set of Challenges
- 9. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 9 VBI View Challenges Introduced By Multiple BI Platforms § Insights scattered across platforms, with access limited to sets of users § Lack of centralized metadata for searching business content Creation of BI Silos § Limited awareness on what is already available § Duplicated efforts in creating similar reports from scratch § Wasted time in reconciling multiple versions of truth Limited Reuse § Manage multiple credentials, URLs & mobile apps § Frustrations with learning curve & resistance to learn new tools User Challenges
- 10. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 10 VBI View Why ‘Enterprise BI Portal’ Efforts Failed § Crude & manual methods such as URL mapping § Provisioning changes made in the BI platforms not reflected automatically Lack of Automation § Adding reports or users to the enterprise portal is a multi-step process § Delivers only single point of access; the three major issues still remain - BI silos, limited reuse & content replication Complexity in Administration
- 11. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 11 The One Solution You Need
- 12. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 12 VBI View We listen to our customers These are some features we have added by request from customers: • Page with dashboard or reports on the screen (not just thumbnails) • Report Comments • User-defined Tags • SME (contact person for help and questions for each report) • Add files with documentation for each report • Certification levels for each report • In Progress: • Notifications on comments (collaboration tool) • Persona-based recommendations • COGNOS Agent
- 13. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 13 VBI View Simple Pricing One Agent FREE Unlimited users, basic support Flat File Agent FREE Unlimited users, basic support Each additional Agent $1,000/month/Agent Unlimited users, premium support More than 5 agents Contact us for custom pricing Unlimited users, premium support We offer demos and free no-commitment trials. Contact us!
- 14. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com BI Platform Agent VBI View Database User Metadata Metadata Metadata URL URL URL Report/Dashboard Execution Workflow
- 15. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 15 Managing Multiple BI Platforms With VBI VIEW Smart Search Explore entire repository from all BI platforms; Request access to reports that are unavailable to you. Automated Synchronization Capture changes to users, reports, folders and authorization updates in BI platforms automatically Audit & Usage Reporting Review comprehensive reports on content usage analysis, user activity, platform availability and more Personalization Reorganize & regroup content from various platforms in user-defined, personalized folders Easy Setup & Maintenance Easy to install, configure and maintain; no coding required Fully Secure Full integration with BI platform security – supports Microsoft AD, LDAP & Single-Sign-On (SSO) Meta Data Repository Build Meta Data Description, Mass Upload Meta Data Description for all Assets SSO Integration Use VBI View to get past your SSO challenges
- 16. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 16 User Interface Demo
- 17. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 17 VBI View Solution Architecture USER INTERFACE LAYER Users/Reports Manager Hub Configuration Manager APPLICATION LAYER Metadata Manager Log Manager Federated Identity Manager Agent Manager Smart Search AGENT LAYER BOBJ Agent Tableau Agent QlikSense Agent File agent Spotfire Agent Power BI Agent SSRS Agent MetadatarepositoryElasticSearch
- 18. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com Report A Report B Report C Report D Report E Report F User VBI View Platform Report A Report B Request Return Requesting Reports Overview
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- 20. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 20 Managing Multiple Credentials Single Sign on (SSO) Integration and User ID Consolidation fullerg gfuller fuller fullerg grahamf fullerg fullerg fullerg fullerg fullerg VBI View Graham Fuller fullerg
- 21. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 21 Admin Demo
- 22. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 22 VBI View Production Server Requirements Hardware • 16 GB RAM • Quad-core processor • 80 GB HDD Software • MS Windows Server 2008 or later with latest SP • MySQL v5.7 (or other DB like PostgreSQL/MS SQLServer etc.,) with permission to own objects in a schema and perform CRUD operations • Nginx 1.02 ( or other app server like IIS 6.2) No. of servers required to be determined depending on requirements All databases and required dependencies are bundled with the application and do not require any separate installation or maintenance.
- 23. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 23 VBI View Product Roadmap Recent Improvements Improvements to user interface “Main” page with dashboards for 2 or 3 columns Report comments with user tags Integration with Microstrategy Custom report properties Text, URL, Date Enable thumbnails upload Browser back-button support VBI View Folder Structure Q4 2018 Q1 2019 • New Agents – Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos, SAP Analytics Cloud • Cloud integration for flat files (OneDrive, Google Drive, DropBox, etc.) • 360-degree audit • PowerBI enhancements • Comment notifications • Persona-based recommendations • Power user admin rights by folder • Automatic thumbnail generator • Custom URL enhancements • VBI View in Azure cloud as SAAS Application • Integration with IBI Web Focus • Integration with Fiori applications • Improvements to “Home” dashboard screen • Report collaboration – comments, sharing, notifications, etc. Utilities • Bulk download and upload of reports metadata • Scheduled synchronization between BI platforms and VBI View • Custom URL Ease of Use • User defined folders to classify reports • Favorites; metadata based search • Highly appealing UI Notifications/Alerts to admin • Update/New reports and users Multi-instance VBI View • Reports metadata in buik User attributes - Picture, email address, division, dark/light themes Bookmarks in BOBJ environment
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- 26. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 26 VBI View RECAP OF BENEFITS § A centralized metadata repository with searchable tags/phrases § Content across BI platforms visible to users Removes BI Silos § Search & request access to reports using Smart Search § Move away from creating duplicate reports to identifying duplicate reports for removal Promotes Reuse § Generate usage audit reports (most used reports, most active users, etc.) § No coding required; Highly automated § Supports Single Sign On (SSO) & AD Integration Easy to setup & Administer Auto-sync ensures that VBI View automatically reflects any user/report provisioning changes in the BI platforms Fully Automated Eliminate shelf-ware & redundant licenses (e.g. A company has 1000 BOBJ users & 1000 Tableau users but only 600 active users across platforms) Business Benefits § Login once and launch all reports § No need to remember multiple credentials § Create personalized folders, mark favorites, search and reorganize reports Delivers User Delight
- 27. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 27 Q&A
- 28. © 2018 Visual BI Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. www.visualbi.com 28 www.visualbi.com THANK YOU! gopal@ visualbi. com www.visualbi.com Ulises Hubbard [email protected] VP- Products & Solutions Shankar Narayanan [email protected] BI Solutions Specialist