Tim Levine: At IMVU, our leaders are increasingly leveraging data to inform decisions. In response to this we have embarked on leveraging an off-the-shelf business intelligence solution to enable ready access to data. Considering our needs, present and future, and the personality of the company, we have deployed a commercial version of Pentaho. Using this suite, we have been able to provide fresher data (daily refresh versus monthly), more interactive data (using ROLAP cubes), and newly processed data (30-day rolling of usage). http://engineering.imvu.com/2011/09/12/silicon-valley-open-source-business-intelligence-meetup-at-imvu/

1. Silicon Valley Open Source BI Meetup
IMVU.com
2011-09-15
http://www.meetup.com/OpensourceBI/events/20397811/

2. IMVU Data Insights
Integrity Availability Discovery Communications
People
Vendor Sources:
Omniture,
DecisionMgr,
DFP, etc.
Query
Customer Query
Hosts
Data Pentaho Dashboards
Interactions Query
Hosts
Warehouse Reporting Business
Hosts
Stakeholders
Production
Cluster Presentations
Decision Support
Classifiers
Analysis and
Predictive
Visualization:
Modeling
R, Excel, etc.
Recommenders
Internal API, crons, etc.
Modeling
Automation
Engineers,
Analysts

3. IMVU Data Insights
Query
Query
Hosts
MySQL
Hosts Upload Hive/Hadoop EMR
SSH tunnel
Shards HDFS Batch Jobs
nt
ou
rem
Customer Web Query
Interactions Web
Servers Query
Web
Servers Hosts
SimpleDB
Hosts
export
Servers +
EBS
Cron
Jobs
S3
Query
Pentaho BI Query
Hosts
DW RDS
Hosts
Instances
[production cluster AWS
Engineers, • R / RStudio
Analysts • Python
• Gephi
• spreadsheets