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He started the session with the results of a recent CIO.com survey of Fortune 500 CIOs (CIO Technology Priorities July 2009), showing that \u201cBusiness Process Management\u201d and \u201cBusiness Intelligence\u201d are the #2 and #3 priorities for 2010.<\/p>\n Bring these two trends together and you get the need for \u201coperational BI\u201d: real-time, actionable BI directly within your operational systems. SAP has now combined event processing with business process management and dashboards to create new operational BI capabilities.<\/p>\n The goal of Event Insight is to provide real-time monitoring of business events:<\/p>\n Event Insight uses technology that was first developed for high-velocity, high-transaction trades on Wall Street, but has now been extended and adapted for use in BI. The biggest difference is in the nature of the processing: compared to previous \u201cmonolithic\u201d\u00a0 CEP implementations, business intelligence typically requires more data sources, with processing shared among nodes on the network.<\/p>\n The new technology is tightly integrated with the SAP BusinessObjects semantic layer, letting you create universes and queries on top of event streams, linking them to the BI 4.0 alerting framework, and letting them be accessed from standard front end tools such as Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports and Dashboards (formerly known as Xcelsius).<\/p>\n So when might you need this technology? Here\u2019s David\u2019s comparison of traditional and operational BI approaches: unsurprisingly, operational BI is operational processes, where you need to take action on information in a short time.<\/p>\n Operational BI is a very horizontal technology that could be used in lots of different industries and applications. Examples given included:<\/p>\n The SAP Community Network<\/a> site has some great demonstrations available — here are links to some of them. First, a demonstration of how the technology could be used by an Oil and Gas company<\/a>:<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a description of how operational BI can used for improving the number of \u201cperfect orders\u201d<\/p>\n And here\u2019s an associated demonstration of the perfect order dashboard<\/a>:<\/p>\n Operational BI can be used for tracking and tracing defective products<\/a>, including collaborative decision-making with StreamWork<\/a> and SAP\u2019s business process modeling.<\/p>\n And here\u2019s the associated product defect demo, with social media monitoring and drill-down to SAP systems<\/a>:<\/p>\n David mentioned that an industrial poultry operation was even interested in the technology \u2013 but declined to explain further!<\/p>\n It\u2019s claimed that each individual agent install is quick and easy, with both SAP and non-SAP systems. As with traditional BI, the trickiest part is deciding the business process issues and trigger conditions that you want to measure. There are three types of user profile who would maintain and use the system:<\/p>\n Since some of the examples overlap with what you can do with traditional BI today, I asked David for his honest assessment of how applicable and practical this technology will be for \u201caverage BI-using organizations\u201d, including the cost of buying, installing, and maintaining it in addition to existing systems. He replied that he believes that operational BI won\u2019t be confined to just a few niches (finance, etc.), but will become a standard part of most large-organization BI deployments.<\/p>\n Complementary information:<\/p>\n Event Insight is a new product from SAP BusinessObjects that provides operational business intelligence: real-time access to event data, directly within operational processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[100,160,198,204,213,324,790,871,911],"class_list":["post-12161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bi-20","tag-analytics","tag-bi","tag-business-analytics","tag-business-intelligence","tag-businessobjects","tag-dashboards","tag-operational-bi","tag-real-time","tag-sap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/eventinsightcover.jpg?fit=668%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-3a9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20588,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions\/20588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"David](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/david-huber.jpg?ssl=1\" "\\"David")
<\/a>I\u2019m still catching up from the SAP BusinessObjects user conference<\/a> a few weeks ago. One of the sessions I attended was David Huber\u2019s overview of operational business intelligence and the soon-to-be-launched SAP BusinessObjects Event Insight product.<\/p>\n![\"image[4]\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/image4.jpg?resize=690%2C397&ssl=1\" "\\"image[4]\\"")
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The key new element of this system is SAP Event Insight. The product originally started as a prototype from the SAP Imagineering Team<\/a> called\u00a0Live Enterprise<\/a>, with links to dashboards from the\u00a0SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center<\/a>, using complex event processing (CEP) technology from a small startup called Coral8<\/a>. Coral8 was then acquired by Aleri<\/a>, who was then acquired by Sybase<\/a>, who was then acquired by SAP \u2013 all in less than 18 months! \u2013 and the product is now close to \u201cramp up<\/a>\u201d. For more information about BI 4.0, check out the SAP Analytics microsite<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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