Hi Derrick,
Derrick Kittler wrote:
Jacopo-
The BI component is an excellent start to overall BI suite. Are you
thinking that OFBiz can be used as a standalone BI platform something
like Pentaho? Or are you thinking the BI will only support OFBiz-centric
apps.
The main goal right now is to create a clean, well documented (by meta
data) data model for datawarehouse based on best practices and together
with the services (business rules) and ecas (triggers) to keep its data
updated and synchronized with the transactional data model (i.e. the
data model of OFBiz). For this, it will just be something strictly
related with the OFBiz applications.
Of course, it would be possible to extract the data model for the
datawarehouse and use it outside of OFBiz.
It would be excellent if there was another all-star open source BI
suite in the works.
Again, I think it is great work.
Thanks, you are too kind
Jacopo
-Derrick
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 13:05 +0200, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
new specialpurpose component (but it will probably
disappear as soon as all its parts will be integrated in the main
OFBiz
applications) with a simple web application.
For more details, visit the new tab "Business Intelligence" and read
the
component introduction in the main page (there are also instructions
on
how to start.... everything is very simple).
And of course, let me know your opinions/questions/comments etc...
*IMPORTANT*: the datawarehouse report will drill up/down correctly
only
if the patch attached to this mail is applied; I will commit it (or
an
equivalent variant) soon but I have to wait for feedback on this in
the
dev list before... by the way I'll let you know as soon as it is in.
Jacopo
