MashZone NextGen Business Analytics
Business Analytics is a data mashup and visualization tool used to deliver data stored in Software AG products to end users. It is entirely web browser-based to facilitate configuration of widgets. It allows end users to connect to distributed data sources such as databases; XML, CSV, and JSON files; Excel spreadsheets, Apama and Digital Event Services events, graphs from Process Performance Manager, and process instance details from Optimize for Process. Business Analytics can also visualize data from web feeds (RSS or Atom) or web services (REST or WSDL).
When used with business process management webMethods Business Process Management (BPM), Business Analytics is used to visualize process event data collected by Optimize for Process. Business Analytics offers these dashboards:
Business Process Analytics dashboard that shows data on process volume and cycle times from
Process Engine, and data on SLA or KPI rule violations from
Optimize for Process, as part of
Closed Loop Analytics solution. For more information, see
Solving Problems with
Closed Loop Analytics .
Business Process Dashboards that display summary metrics, instance detail, and other performance information about processes that has been collected by
Optimize for Process. These dashboards are as follows:
Process Overview Dashboard. Provides high-level information about a selected process, including intrinsic metrics, historical views, and normality comparisons across a specified time range. This dashboard helps you quickly identify potential issues, obtain information about alarms and stage activity, and use email or escalation actions to share findings with others.
Stage Instances Dashboard. Shows stage activity and performance for a process across a specified time range. The top of the page shows metrics about each stage, including information about activity, cycle time, and alarms. Selecting table rows reveals information about individual stage instances and enables you to send email notifications or escalation actions for individual stage instances.
Process Instances Dashboard. Shows process activity and performance across a specified time range. A chart at the top of the page displays historical information about process volume activity and cycle time performance. A table at the bottom of the page shows individual process instances and enables you to send email notifications or escalation actions for individual process instances.
These dashboards can be displayed in My webMethods and Business Console.
Business Analytics provides customizable dashboards that come with out-of-the-box components such as line charts, grids, and bubble charts. A custom-widget framework also enables the ability to create bespoke visualisations. You can create dashboards based on a flexible layout, visualizing both streaming data and data at rest sources including Terracotta BigMemory. Data from Terracotta BigMemory can be refined and condensed using Real-Time Analytics Query Language (RAQL) before being visualized.
Business Analytics also provides direct connectivity to consume data from other Software AG products such as ARIS Process Performance Manager, Apama, Digital Event Services, and Terracotta, as well as data from non-Software AG sources via JDBC, flat files, and web services.
