In this era of big data, there are many BI products on the market, all of which are highly efficient data analysis and presentation service platforms provided to enterprises and individuals. They carry data connection, data processing, data analysis and visualization capabilities. The well-known Smartbi in China The reputation is the best, and with a solid foundation, there is a certain amount of customer accumulation and development.
What are the bi products, business intelligence products. Today, from Smartbi's data preparation, enterprise report production, self-service analysis, data sharing, etc., I will discuss with you what the bi product can do?
(1) Basic data preparation
Any BI system based on "dirty, messy, and poor" data lacks practical application value. Therefore, no matter how the product logic of the BI system evolves or changes, "basic data preparation" is a necessary module. Specifically include the following:
BI products can connect data from different databases and files:
Most BI systems will simultaneously support three data types: mainstream relational databases, distributed databases, and text data sources. Based on specific business requirements, it is necessary to focus on whether the BI system of the solution provider can support real-time data docking and the ability to support API interfaces.
As we all know, whether it is to make reports for data visualization or to dig deeper connotations of data, obtaining data is a prerequisite for all data analysis of enterprises. Data is constantly updated. At present, most companies actually store data in a database and use database data to make reports, and the report content will be updated as the database is updated. The data analysis tool is to establish the connection with various databases, files to the system through data connection, and provide data support for subsequent processing and analysis, so data connection is an indispensable ability of data analysis software.
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Smartbi can open up all kinds of data sources, rich data connection capabilities can grab data from various data sources for analysis, in addition to supporting commonly used relational databases such as oracle, sqlserver, mysql, various mainstream large databases, non-relational databases Database, multidimensional database, local files such as excel, txt, csv. In addition, it also supports custom-written java data sources for interfaces.
BI products can help companies fetch data from heterogeneous systems into a unified data warehouse.
Data processing refers to the cleaning (extract), transformation (transform), and loading (load) of data before data analysis, referred to as ETL.
ETL capability: ETL engine is the basis for data governance and data consolidation.
In the process of building a big data system, most of the ETL work should be done at the data platform level. The BI system only needs to undertake some simple ETL work, such as association, grouping, and deduplication. When an enterprise lacks a complete data platform system and there are many data quality problems, it is recommended to choose a BI product with complete ETL functions.
The source data may come from different business systems, they have different data formats, and also contain some redundant information. ETL is responsible for extracting data from dispersed and heterogeneous data sources, such as relational data, flat data files, etc., to the temporary intermediate layer, cleaning, converting, and integrating, and finally loading it into a data warehouse or data mart to become online analysis processing , Data mining provides decision support data.
Smartbi encapsulates the ETL algorithm and separates the technology, enabling business personnel to perform self-service ETL operations. Self-service ETL is implemented in the form of workflow to extract the semantics of the data model as a library table. Through easy-to-operate visualization tools, the data is processed into a data model with semantic consistency and integrity, and it can also enhance the ability of self-service data sets to build data models. .
Self-service ETL does not need to be deployed separately and can be seamlessly connected with Smartb, allowing the results of data preparation to be directly provided to BI in the form of data tables. Self-service ETL adopts a distributed computing architecture and supports multi-threading in a single node, which greatly improves the performance of data processing, and the processing time of billion-level data can reach minutes.
(2) BI products can produce various Chinese-style complex reports.
Chart development capabilities: the richness of chart types, whether to support 3D visualization charts, map integration and optimization capabilities, chart expansion capabilities (such as whether to integrate Echarts charts), etc. are important indicators for investigating BI product chart development capabilities.
Chinese-style complex statements: Strategic departments and financial departments may have more requirements for Chinese-style complex statements. If BI tools lack the ability to support complex statements, technical personnel are just "skillful women who can’t cook without rice." The performance of foreign BI products in the development of complex statements is obviously weak.
Smartbi can meet the actual needs of Chinese local companies, and the complex reports with Chinese characteristics suitable for domestic companies are called Chinese reports. It is usually characterized by complex headers, large amount of information, multiple data sources, complex calculations, and random structures. For this reason, having a report tool that can meet the needs of enterprises' Chinese-style report, while improving development efficiency and reducing workload has become an urgent need for many report developers.
Smartbi spreadsheet is a solution expert for the enterprise report platform. It innovatively implements report design based on Excel, which can meet the needs of industry regulatory reports and internal management reports in various formats. Since everyone is very familiar with Excel itself, unlike other reporting tools that require professional use background or professional engineers to provide support, the learning cost of spreadsheets is relatively low, and technicians can use Excel's rich resources and flexible format And powerful formulas to complete the design of Chinese-style reports.
Smartbi spreadsheets deeply integrate the existing capabilities of Excel, complete the design of reports and data analysis applications in the Excel interface, and have a wealth of report display styles, including list reports, cross reports, group reports, multi-source fragmented reports, and block reports , Form reports, graphic reports, write-back reports, etc. At the same time, data visualization can be realized with the help of Excel graphics and ECharts graphics to support interactive control design.
(3) The bi product can conduct self-service analysis and promote the data operation of the enterprise.
In the era of big data, business departments' demand for BI has transitioned from traditional Kanban boards and indicators to analyzing and mining operational problems from big data. The demand for real-time and diverse data analysis has gradually become popular, and self-service BI for business personnel has become a trend. However, business personnel lack development capabilities, and how to make business personnel usable, well-used, and accustomed to self-service BI has become the focus of corporate attention. There are many ways to achieve "self-help":
No code, improve ease of use: on the basis of no-code, drag-and-drop visualization, the "ease of use" is achieved to the extreme.
Reduce modeling and improve agility: redundant links such as data modeling and CUBE that only technical personnel understand are eliminated. In the face of massive data, pull and pull at any time, while ensuring real-time response to big data.
Enhance learning and improve intelligence: on the basis of BI, the recommendation algorithm of artificial intelligence is integrated to accurately recommend the chart styles that users want; based on NLP and voice recognition technology, the user’s intentions are quickly understood through search assistants, searched and presented The desired result. Using AI to make BI use foolish has become a new trend in the development of BI products.
Excel format: Although business personnel do not have the ability to develop reports, they often use Excel for data statistics and report production in their work. Learn from Excel's interface style and operating habits to ensure that ordinary people are "used to use", and then promote the implementation of self-service BI.
Smartbi Eagle provides enterprise-level data analysis tools and services around business personnel to meet different types of business users. Full self-service data extraction, data processing, data analysis and data sharing can be realized in Excel or a browser, with unparalleled application Sex.
Smartbi Eagle breaks through the bottleneck and promotes enterprise data-based operations
Smartbi Eagle realizes an enterprise-level data portal through strong management, full self-service and true sharing
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(4) The bi product can share the prepared data report or analysis report.
With the advent of the information age, the cost of time is becoming more and more important to enterprises. A timely response at important moments can even help enterprises obtain more returns, and "mobile office" has also become an enterprise manager The mainstream office style you would like to see.
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Smartbi V9 mobile cockpit is divided into two parts: server side and local terminal. On the server side, based on the extended application on Smartbi V9, it provides independent data display for mobile terminal devices based on the core components of the platform. In the local terminal part, data is released and interacted through App; it provides unified mobile application functions: portal display, report browsing, offline storage and offline browsing.
Mobile APP: Provide business reports, KPIs (key performance indicators), documents and dashboards on mobile devices such as iOS/Android through the App. Not only static viewing, all graphics, charts, dashboards, maps, and tables are interactive. Simple touch allows you to view and analyze your business data at will.
DingTalk and WeChat integration: support multi-application information push spreadsheet, and support two-way synchronization between WeChat users and Smartbi users. Realize the release of reports to Dingding, WeChat, and WeChat enterprise account binding, which is convenient for users to communicate and collaborate.
Of course, Smartbi, as a BI product, not only has the above functions, but also has many functions like data visualization and data mining, which we will discuss in detail later.