SAS Business Intelligence Portal · Intelligence Collaborative Synergies. Copyright © 2000 SAS EMEA Portal Approach: Aggregate Information Resources! Corporate announcements!

Copyright © 2000 SAS EMEA

SAS® BusinessIntelligence 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 platformproviding the right information,

to the right person,at the right time, thus

giving people the power to makethe right decision!

The Power to Know tm


Key DifferentiatorKey Differentiator

“Quality of BI surfaced due to“Quality of BI surfaced due tointegration with SAS solutions onintegration with SAS solutions onthe backend to provide industrythe backend to provide industry

leading aggregation andleading aggregation and analytics 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

SAS BI Portal

Senior Management

Balanced Scorecard AppBusiness

Intelligence CollaborativeSynergies


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 directoriesenjoy 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


! Don’t always know…! Who needs the information! How they need the information! When they need the

information

Portal Advantage:Pub & Sub - Information ProducersPortal Advantage:Pub & Sub - Information Producers


! Don’t always know…! Who has the information EMEA! How to get the information! When to get the information

Portal Advantage:Pub & Sub - Information ConsumersPortal Advantage:Pub & Sub - Information Consumers


ChannelChannel

! 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 - Defining Communities of InterestPortal Advantage:Pub & Sub - Defining Communities of Interest


InformationConsumer

Subscriber

InformationConsumer

Subscriber

Publisher

InformationProducer

ChannelChannel

Portal Advantage:Pub & Sub - Proactive Information DeliveryPortal Advantage:Pub & Sub - Proactive Information Delivery


PublisherPublisher

InformationInformationProducerProducer

! 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:Pub & Sub - Just about anything!Portal Advantage:Pub & Sub - Just about anything!


Portal Advantage:Integrated Data Warehousing



! Warehouse Administrator meta dataexported to secured enterprise directory

! Warehouse navigation and search! Relational tables! Multidimensional databases! Auxiliary data resources



Portal Advantage:Ad Hoc Reporting

! Stored reporting programs that utilizeconventional SAS 4GL facilities

! Full exploitation of SAS data accessand analytical services

! Default or custom Web input formand results presentation options

! Registered and secured in theenterprise directory


Portal Advantage:Relational Query and OLAP

! Relational Query facilities! HTML-based query form! Query-builder applet

! Multidimensional OLAP Viewer

! Tables and MDDBs registered andsecured 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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