miércoles, 27 de septiembre de 2006

BEA CTO: we need 'business intelligence' applied to SOA


Fuente: ZDNET.COM via news.google.es

"We see SOA (Service-Oriented Arquitecture) governance as the ability to understand why you're doing it and who is allowed to do what, and then adding traceability and management view into the SOA stack. It's about how it's done, why it's done, who did it and where did it happen, more than what it is that did happen," he told Rich Seeley of SearchWebServices.

"The first thing you need for governance is the ability to put all the artifacts somewhere so you can actually see them in a cohesive manner…. Once you have information in the repository, you can really start looking at it in a more holistic way, and say: 'Okay why did it change? Who changed it? What does it mean that they did this? Was it done under an agreed-upon workflow and policy?'"

Levy said BEA intends to support the use of dashboards to manage and monitor changes within the SOA repository. "You'll see more 'business intelligence' types of views on top of the central repository and you'll see policy definition against that," he said. "There's no difference between policy against change management policy and policy against security access. One is an IT policy, the other is a governance policy, but the concept of policy applying to the artifact did not really change."



Un comentario interesante:

... I think it's oversimplifying to suggest there will be one repository to report off of. And there's no way (in practice) to create a data warehouse for SOA. So I think it's more likely you'll see federated repositories, similar to what the ITIL/CMDB (Configuration Management Database) folks are doing. You'll need to capability to query across several, some in relational and some in XML, in real time, to create those dashboard views people are looking for

jueves, 7 de septiembre de 2006

Introduction to Datawarehousing and Business Reporting

Business Intelligence
Tutorial
Fuente: Nicholasgoodman blog

GIS, inseparable del Business Intelligence

Fuente: TodoBI

Hacía tiempo que no colaboraba en TodoBI. Se trata de un artículo en el que se presentan los fundamentos de GIS y algo de su relación con Business Intelligence.

"Tras construir el GIS los usuarios disponen de un sistema fiable que les permite acceder de forma rápida, homogénea y organizada a conjuntos de información que han sido integrados según las necesidades de la empresa y a la que antes no tenían acceso, tenían una visión limitada y parcial o que el proceso de conseguirla era lento, costoso en cantidad de horas-hombre invertidas, proclive a errores o muy difícil de conseguir de forma integrada, por ejemplo por diferencias de formatos (CAD, papel, formatos digitales, PDF, etc).


Herramientas GIS


Como mayores valores añadidos de un GIS destaca su capacidad, al igual que en Business Intelligence, de realizar análisis complejos aunque sobre entornos geográficos y la mejora de la toma de decisiones asociada, el acceso fácil y rápido a información exacta, completa, relacionada y actualizada y la generación de mapas e informes de gran calidad. En general, al implantar un GIS, se reducen los costes operativos, se incrementa la productividad y se ahorra mucho tiempo en la gestión de mapas.
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