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Open Source Bpm & Bi in the Cloud

Patrick Beaucamp

Data & Process Management in the CloudOpen Source Bpm & Bi Platforms

Founder & Leader of Vanilla, the Honest

Open Source Business Process Intelligence Platform

Mail : patrick.beaucamp@bpm-conseil.comSkype : patrick_beaucamp

mailto:patrick.beaucamp@bpm-conseil.commailto:patrick.beaucamp@bpm-conseil.com

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Shaking presentation with slides !

BI is expensive ! and now, Bi editors havegone ! what is the solution ?

Bpm (process) is difficult to extend at enterprise

level

New BPI (Business Process Intelligence) offersare available on the market

Why Should I go in the Cloud with BPI Platform ?What are Bi & Bpm ? What is Bpi ?What are the pro and cons to run in the CloudWhat is available today a tomorrow ?

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Why should I go ?

Decrease cost & simplify architecturesBpm & Bi platform are too expensive, difficult tomaintain

Insure worldwide access & availabilityProcess are inter-related with customers, suppliers,subsidiaries Access to information has to be unlo-cked

New backup strategy & security policyBy getting data out of your company, you need newbackup stratgy & security policies

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What Bi stands for ?

Making data from various Erp consistent & available

Answer to legal subjects data publication

Various Architectures & ConceptsOds, Staging Area, Dwh, DatamartOlap database, Column database Fact & Dimensions tables to analyze data

Bi components : Etl, Reporting, Olap, Dashboard, Kpi

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Bi Concepts

Building new data model for data publicationProviding a stable source for data (Erp are

moving)

Data transcodification & data cleaningAbstraction layer with Oltp Erp & databaseBI model is not tied to any technology (S-

nowflake schema !)

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Open Source Bi Platforms

3 platforms & 3 stratgies : marketing ver-sus product

PentahoThey took available projects and built platform

JaspersoftThey took Ireport, built Web Reporting & Dashboard,and signed agrement

VanillaWe did it from scratch, by our own

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Open Source Bi Components

EtlTalend, CloverEtl, Xaware, Apatar

ReportingIreport, Birt

OlapMondrian, Palo

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What BPM stands for ?

Tools & Method to standardize internal pro-cess at enterprise level

Automatic Process versus Manual processInsurance for good quality process

Process is not tied to a single employe

Employe has no responsability

2 standards languages : XPDL, BPEL

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Open Source Bpm Platforms

Intalio : BPEL, with complex offer and Cloud platform

Bonita : product turned recently into a company

Shark : oldest Xpdl offer

RedHat Jbpm : RedHat BPEL platform

Alfresco Activiti : just arrived on market

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Intalio Bpm Designer

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Large Bi needs Bpm BPI

how to manage the development cycle, and how to moveapplication from development to production

how to manage data flow between large databases

how to ensure good response time when dealing withlarge database available through Ad-Hoc Web Reportingservices modules

how to automate processes such as data transformation,load of BI databases or report production & delivery

how to have a global orchestration of a BI application,along with management tools for administrators

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Business Process Intelligence (1/2)

Business Process Intelligence platforms offerbest of bread combination of standards ser-vices you can find in Bi & Bpm solution

Globally, it can be seen like a Bi platformwith additional services such as Workflowservices & Forms Services, for end users,for process developers and for administra-tor

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Business Process Intelligence (2/2)

BiWorkflow Designers can design workflowthat manage standard Bi documents,suchas reports, Etl process or Kpi comparisons(common subject is automatic delivery ofreport in Pdf format)

Forms can be used to allow end users to en-ter additional information, such as filter cri-teria, budget information or to validate run-ning process

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Vanilla WorkFlow Designer Pool View

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Pro & Cons of Cloud

Worlwide availability versus local architecturemanagement (servers)

Data Trafic out of the Company

Alert : Where are my strategic data just re-think your first Cloud Bi application objectives

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Cloud Basic Constraints

(not only in Bpm & Bi area)

Basic Services

MultiThreadingService can be duplicate

Servers managementMapping of servers for services allocation

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Going to Cloud offers

Cloud Framework for ressource manage-ment & dynamic allocation, invoice of res-source usage

Cloud & SaaS / IaaS / PaaS don'tconfuse Cloud & Hosting !

Sorry there is no Cloud Ready Platformavailable today (Bpm or Bi) and Bi can'tgo on the cloud without Bpm

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Focus on various Cloud Offers

Intalio (Bpm) : more a PaaS offer

Pentaho (Etl) : Kettle, without service ma-

nagement at platform level

JasperSoft : Marketing announcement withEtl, Database & Bpm vendors, more a hos-ting solution (interesting : they added aBpm service)

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Futur of Bpi : Vanilla 3 Cloud Ready

Vanilla v3 : september 2010

Multithreading management

Admin Console for Server & ServicesEmbeded Forms EditorDocument Management (Ecm)

Bi Xml extension for Bpm language ?

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Thanks for your Attention !

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