SAS Business Intelligence Portal Rob Owen & Don Hatcher
Agenda! Portal Approach! Portal Advantage! Portal Architecture! Portal Demo
Do you have...! Decentralized users?! Disparate information resources?! Geographically dispersed information?! A mix of data stores?! A mix of enterprise and legacy applications?! All this distributed across a variety of platforms?
Do you have... The SAS BI Portal is a platform providing the right information, to the right person, at the right time, thus giving people the power to make the right decision! The Power to Know tm
Key Differentiator Quality of BI surfaced due to integration with SAS solutions on the backend to provide industry leading aggregation and analytics.
Portal Approach: Provide a Virtual Workplace! Ubiquitous Web access! Browser-based interface! Near-zero desktop management! Centralized administration! content management! security policies
Portal Approach: Tailor the Virtual Workplace View! Corporate branding! Role-based templates! User personalization! content selection! workspace layout! task management Business Intelligence Balanced Scorecard App SAS BI Portal Senior Management Collaborative Synergies
Portal Approach: Aggregate Information Resources! Corporate announcements! Internet/intranet Web links! Managed-process reports! User-contributed content! Dynamic content! event-driven push! ad hoc pull
Portal Approach: Utilize Standard Java Technologies! Servlet and JavaServer Pages! JavaBeans/Enterprise JavaBeans! Multi-threaded JVM! Connectors! JNDI! JDBC! JavaIDL! JMS
Portal Approach: Utilize Standard Directory Technology! LDAP-enabled enterprise directories enjoy wide vendor support! Highly scalable access and search! Authentication mechanisms! User- and role-based access control! Single sign-on support! tiered security model! back-tier group identity mapping
Portal Approach: Utilize Standard Directory Technology! User personalization profiles! Data-driven content models! Lists, windows, and workspaces! Reports and applications! Publish/Subscribe channels! Data Warehouse resources
Portal Approach: Exploit Web Tier Deployment! HTTP/S firewall-friendly deployment! Session state management! Asynchronous request management! Caching services! enterprise directory! content storage! back-tier server connections
Portal Architecture: Tiered Architecture
Portal Advantage:! SAS Publishing Framework - Pub/Sub! Ad Hoc Reporting! Relational Query! Multi-Dimensional OLAP! Data Warehousing! Vertical Applications
Portal Advantage: Pub & Sub! Information has a Time Dimension! Information can lose value over time! Information can become misleading over time! Information must be delivered to the right people at the right place at the right time
Portal Advantage: Pub & Sub - Information Producers! Don t always know! Who needs the information! How they need the information! When they need the information
Portal Advantage: Pub & Sub - Information Consumers! Don t always know! Who has the information EMEA! How to get the information! When to get the information
Portal Advantage: Pub & Sub - Defining Communities of Interest Channel! Manufacturing! Customer Service! North America Sales & Marketing! EMEA Sales & Marketing! APLA Sales & Marketing! Research & Development! Corporate Financial Information! HR! Senior Management!.
Portal Advantage: Pub & Sub - Proactive Information Delivery Information Producer Information Consumer Channel Subscriber Information Consumer Publisher Subscriber
Portal Advantage: Pub & Sub - Just about anything! Information Producer Publisher! Web Content (Reports, Graphics etc.)! HTML frame sets! URL reference strings! Data Content! SAS relational tables! SAS relational table transformations! SAS structured data stores! MIME-associated files! PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT, BMP, GIF, AVI, XML,...
Portal Advantage: Integrated Data Warehousing
Portal Advantage: Integrated Data Warehousing! Warehouse Administrator meta data exported to secured enterprise directory! Warehouse navigation and search! Relational tables! Multidimensional databases! Auxiliary data resources
Portal Advantage: Ad Hoc Reporting! Stored reporting programs that utilize conventional SAS 4GL facilities! Full exploitation of SAS data access and analytical services! Default or custom Web input form and results presentation options! Registered and secured in the enterprise directory
Portal Advantage: Relational Query and OLAP! Relational Query facilities! HTML-based query form! Query-builder applet! Multidimensional OLAP Viewer! Tables and MDDBs registered and secured in the enterprise directory
Portal Advantage: Vertical Applications! Application-building framework! Java SDK class libraries! Back-tier SAS connectors! JDBC! JavaIDL! JMS! Solutions deployable within a common, centralized management framework
Portal Advantage: Enterprise Platform Reach! Back-tier SAS MVA platform coverage! OS/390! Solaris! HP-UX! AIX! Windows! others forthcoming
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