This set of slides is part of the course Data Visualization GE, available on FIWARE platform, whose SpagoBI is the reference implementation. This course depicts the global vision over the SpagoBI suite, the policy it carries out, its usage and its main features.

1. Data Visualization GEri - SpagoBI
Davide Zerbetto, Nunzia Marotta
Engineering
Data Visualization GE Manager, Data Visualization GE Course Creator - FIWARE
davide.zerbetto@eng.it ,nunzia.marotta@eng.it

2. Introduction to the
SpagoBI Suite
TOPIC OF THE COURSE: to
depict the global vision of
the SpagoBI Suite, the
policy it carries out, its
usage and its main
features.

3. SpagoBI is a Business Intelligence
(BI) suite for integrated
enterprise BI solutions, entirely
developed according to FOSS
philosophy
SpagoBI is a Business Intelligence
(BI) suite for integrated
enterprise BI solutions, entirely
developed according to FOSS
philosophy
We start from a definition:

4.  Suite, because it covers and satisfies all the BI requirements:
 Analysis (Report, OLAP, Dashboard, KPI, Chart, Data
Mining, GEO-referenced analysis, Free Inquiry,
Collaboration, etc.)
 ETL
 Data Management
 Metadata management
 Profiling and Security
 Development environment
 Administrator support (versioning, scheduling, approval
iter, import/export, etc)
SpagoBI is a Business Intelligence (BI) suite for integrated enterprise BI
solutions, entirely developed according to FOSS philosophy
SpagoBI is a Business Intelligence (BI) suite for integrated enterprise BI
solutions, entirely developed according to FOSS philosophy

5. SpagoBI is a Business Intelligence (BI) suite for integrated enterprise BI
solutions, entirely developed according to FOSS philosophy
SpagoBI is a Business Intelligence (BI) suite for integrated enterprise BI
solutions, entirely developed according to FOSS philosophy
 Integration :
 Not a product platform, with a predefined set of tools
 Open to many products for the same/different analytical
area
 It allows the best composition of one’s own platform
every time
 No binding dependences on products and tools
 Open standards adoption
 It allows to give the right answers to analytical questions
by means of different products

6. SpagoBI is a Business Intelligence (BI) suite for integrated enterprise BI
solutions, entirely developed according to FOSS philosophy
SpagoBI is a Business Intelligence (BI) suite for integrated enterprise BI
solutions, entirely developed according to FOSS philosophy
 Enterprise level
 Integration platform (not a closed product)
 Multi engine (each kind of analysis can be perfomed by
means of different engines)
 Scalability
 Security and visibility

7. SpagoBI is a Business Intelligence (BI) suite for integrated enterprise BI
solutions, entirely developed according to FOSS philosophy
SpagoBI is a Business Intelligence (BI) suite for integrated enterprise BI
solutions, entirely developed according to FOSS philosophy
 Entirely Open Source
 FOSS stands for Free and Open Source Software:
➔
it is about free access, customization and shareability,
➔
the level of freedom is regulated by licences (GPL, LGPL,
BSD,…)
➔
it is first of all a software distribution model, which have
also an impact on the development model.
It is not the light OS version of an enterprise commercial version.

8. The suite is made up of 5 modules:
5
MODULES TO COVER
THE ENTIRE LIFE
CYCLE PROJECT

9. The Server
Core of the suite, where all
analytical functionalities are
provided.
Works with private
repository hosted on
DBMS (MySQL, Oracle,
…)
Web application deployed into
a J2EE application server
(Tomcat, Jboss, etc.)

10. The Studio and the Meta:
where the solution becomes
concrete.
Meta
business and techincal
metadata
Meta
business and techincal
metadata
Studio
the integrated environment,
to develop, test and deploy
documents into one or more
SpagoBI Server
Studio
the integrated environment,
to develop, test and deploy
documents into one or more
SpagoBI Server

11. The SDK: a standard program interface to interact
with external tools
SDK
to use SpagoBI from
external applications
(Tag Lib, API,
Web Services, ...)
SDK
to use SpagoBI from
external applications
(Tag Lib, API,
Web Services, ...)

12. The applications: vertical analytical models ready to use
Example:
Auditing & Monitoring
Example:
Auditing & Monitoring

13. We suggest to refer to the other SpagoBI dedicated courses, available
on the FIWARE platform
https://edu.fiware.org/course/view.php?id=141&sesskey=o60GM8yDam
, to learn how to perfom simple analysis ( “Starting with SpagoBI”) or
more complex investigations over data (“My first Report”).

14. Thanks!Thanks!