Introducing MashZone NextGen Business Analytics : Business Analytics Core Components : Business Analytics Hub
Business Analytics Hub
The Business Analytics Hub is the collaborative work place for power users, developers and administrators. Business Analytics Hub provides a single place to use Business Analytics tools to create dashboards, data feeds, mashables and mashups, create and publish apps, and manage all of these artifacts. It also provides an administration console for Business Analytics administrators to configure and manage the Business Analytics Server and Business Analytics Repository.
Business Analytics Hub users can collaborate with each other by sharing, tagging, rating and commenting on any artifact in the Business Analytics Hub. Business Analytics Hub also provides a powerful search and browse feature to find any artifact based on common filters or specific search terms and criteria. Community reuse and rating of mashables, mashups and apps maximizes the value of IT assets and improves the quality of information for everyone.
Dashboard
The Business Analytics Dashboard Component gives you an easy, graphic way to create, manage and view your dashboards.
Dashboards are interactive applications that collects data from different data sources, combines it, and visualizes it. The data can come from different sources and is combined. Possible data sources include Event data source or BigMemory data source. Dashboards are composed of individual components (Real-time Chart, Business Analytics App, Business Analytics Mashup and Business Analytics Grid), which obtain their data from data sources and display it. You can combine the individual components to filter the displayed results interactively and thus analyze them intuitively.
Data Feed Editor
The Business Analytics Feed Editor as a graphical user interface gives you an easy, graphic way to create, manage and view your data feeds, without any programming knowledge. The feed editor provides you with all supported data source operators and all relevant data transformation and user input operators. Rule definitions are done using drag and drop.
Data feeds are used as data sources for Business Analytics Dashboard.
App Maker
The App Maker is a visual wizard for power users or developers to easily create basic apps from any single mashable information source or mashup in Business Analytics. No coding required!
Users can choose one or more views from a wide variety of formats for mashable/mashup results. Built-in views include several types of tables, a web feed reader, maps and many types of charts. Developers can also add pluggable views for power users to choose from. Depending on the views chosen, you can design apps for desktop browsers, mobile phones, mobile tablets or any combination.
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Most built-in Business Analytics views are compatible with both desktop and mobile devices. Pluggable views can also be compatible with multiple devices. Some views, however, are only compatible with desktop browsers and are not shown in mobile devices.
App Maker allows you to preview and update app configuration till you are satisfied with the app for the devices you choose to support for that app. When users open apps, Business Analytics automatically displays the views that are compatible with their current device.
Mashboard
Mashboard is a visual, drag-and-drop designer for power users or developers to create workspace apps that combine and integrate several basic or custom apps or views to work together in a dashboard or simply group apps and views for a specific focus. Workspace apps can be published and used just like basic or custom apps. This easy-to-use, visual dashboard designer enables you to quickly create powerful apps for even the most challenging business problems and ad-hoc situations.
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Some workspace apps are compatible with mobile devices, but some may not be, depending on the layout you choose and the device compatibility or the apps and views you add to the workspace.
Mashboard supports a wide variety of layouts for combining apps including simple columns, tables, drill downs, a desktop layout, multiple tabs or multiple pages. You can also include widgets from other environments or web pages along with apps and views into workspaces for more flexibility.
App Editor
App Editor is a web-based tool for app developers to upload or update custom apps. Custom apps allow developers to create more complex user interfaces or match specific look and feel standards that may not be possible with basic or workspace apps.
Custom apps use a Business Analytics App Specification plus common web application resources such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS, images and other media. With the App Editor, you can upload or download all related, client-side resources for an app as a package, making it easy for developers to share app packages or add or update custom apps in Business Analytics from their development code base.
Wires
Wires is an easy-to-use, visual drag-and-drop, web-based tool ideal for quick and easy visual mashup creation, no coding involved! Power users and developers can use Wires to create and modify mashups, performing custom, real-time data integration tasks. You can quickly review results at any step within the mashup for immediate feedback.
Wires provides easy access to all available mashables and mashups in Business Analytics to use as information sources in a mashup. It includes many built-in, power-packed action blocks for easier mashing that leverage the underlying features of the Business Analytics platform. Developers can also create custom blocks to extend Wires functionality and handle utility or business-specific requirements. You can also create input parameters for mashups to set properties dynamically when the mashup is used.
Wires simplifies the process of creating mashups, but also limits the mashup features you can use.
Mashup Editor
The Mashup Editor is a web-based authoring tool for mashups and macros defined in the Enterprise Mashup Markup Language (EMML). Developers can rapidly and easily create mashups and macros using the full features of EMML.
Mashup Editor provides easy access to all available mashups and mashables to use as information sources in a mashup. You can also quickly add EMML code, add RAQL queries to work with large datasets or call EMML macros. Mashup Editor allows you to easily run a mashup to test it and inspect the performance characteristics of your EMML statements.
Developers can also create and test EMML macros for use in mashups or for use in Wires as custom action blocks.
The Admin Console
Business Analytics Hub also includes the Admin Console, a web based tool for Business Analytics administrators to configure and manage the Business Analytics Server. This simple, easy to use tool offers a wide degree of control to inspect, configure, and manage the features of Business Analytics.
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