VBI View Your one stop solution to manage multiple BI Platforms

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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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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

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

About Visual BI
Customer Portfolio (Software, Services, Training)

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

55% OF COMPANIES USE TWO OR MORE
BI PLATFORMS
( Trustradius, 2015 )
Source: https://www.trustradius.com/articles/business-intelligence-survey-results

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Having Multiple BI Platforms Introduces A New Set of Challenges

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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

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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

The One Solution You Need

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

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!

BI Platform
Agent
VBI View
Database
User
Metadata
Metadata
Metadata
URL
URL
URL
Report/Dashboard Execution Workflow

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

User Interface Demo

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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

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

Microsoft AD
Single-Sign-On
(SSO)
LDAP

Managing Multiple Credentials
Single Sign on (SSO) Integration and User ID Consolidation
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Admin Demo

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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.

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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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Getting Started
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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

Q&A

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Ulises Hubbard
ulises@visualbi.com
VP- Products & Solutions
Shankar Narayanan
shankarn@visualbi.com
BI Solutions Specialist

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