Development - Application Content

This stage implies creating the end-user artifacts based on the target data model that was developed above.

It has the following steps:

• Generate Interface

  • Create ITBA views (If Needed). For details, see Customize Views.

  • Serves for normalizing the data for the KPI modeling purposes and filtering the unnecessary DWH metadata fields.

• -Create Business Contexts

  • Based on ITBA Views or Target Tables

  • Similar to the Star-Scheme usually includes one fact entity which context is based on and the multiple dimension entities linked to the fact.

• Create Artifacts

  • KPIs

  • Metrics

  • Webi Reports

  • Xcelsius Reports

• Calculate and Verify

  • Run Calculation Engine

  • Check validity

• Packaging

  • Export Artifacts to create distributable Content Acceleration Pack

Following the IDE content development and extension process, you have created additional Content Packs for use in the Data Warehouse. This provides data to ITBA. Using the tools of ITBA, you can customize and modify your data, in order to access and display it according to specific formulas and parameters. The process includes:

• Views. Create ITBA Views (if needed). For details, see Customize Views.

• Create your Context in the Context Designer: Enables you to create and manage Contexts (universes). The universes can be based on your target schema tables or on .CSV files that can be uploaded to the target schema using the Context Designer.

  To access: In ITBA, select ADMIN >Semantic Layer > Semantic Layer. The Context Management page opens. For details, see Semantic Layer - Context Designer

  Create KPIs in the Studio: Enables you to create and manage all of the displayed KPI elements (based on your content), as well as their interactions with each other: wiring, drill downs, and other features.

  To access: In ITBA, select Studio. For details, see Create the Dashboard Contents in the Studio.

  Create Executive Pages in the ITBA Dashboard: Enables you to set up pages that include components that are of interest to specific users or groups of users. For each page, the administrator defines the layout of components on the page, and the interaction of the page components with one another.

  To access: In ITBA, select Studio. For details, see Dashboard Display .

  Create CAPs: Enables you to create Content Acceleration Packs that include Scorecards, KPIs, Dashboard pages that display the Scorecards and KPI components, Contexts (universes), and .CSV files.

  To access: In ITBA, select ADMIN > Data Management > Activate CAP. For details, see Create Content Acceleration Packs