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Jaspersoft Suite Overview IRMAC Presentation 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 1

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INTRODUCTION TO JASPERSOFT ARCHITECTURE Products in the BI Suite Standards and APIs Deployment, scalability and upgrades Security 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 2

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Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 3 Reporting Engine Visual Report Design Environment Ad Hoc Reports, Dashboards, In-Memory Analysis Server Powerful OLAP Data Analysis High Performance Data Integration

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Jaspersoft BI Architecture (Marketecture) 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 4

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Report Scheduling Scheduler *** Business Logic: Service APIs *** Web Standard Customizable Front End with Service APIs Extensions Back-End Implementations can be Configured and/or Replaced Reporting Engine OLAP Engine Ad Hoc Reporting Object Permission User Authority JasperReports Library OLAP Engine JasperReports Server Spring Security Repository Hibernate ORM LDAP, JAAS, MS Active Directory, IBM Tivoli, SiteMinder, CAS TXT & CSV JSR-168 portlets Web Service Integration Interfaces: SOAP and REST Web Services / C/C++, PHP Java API HTTP API XML/A (OLAP) XML, XML/A RDBMS connect any data source Jaspersoft UI Framework Presentation (.css) Events (.js) Structure (.jsp) SSO Standards and APIs

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JasperReports Server Components WAR file deployed to Java application server Examples: Tomcat, Web Logic, JBoss, tcServer, WebSphere, Glassfish Can be configured behind a load balancer WAR file includes a Web user interface and APIs One shared Jaspersoft Repository Database (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2, MS SQL Server) Database can be configured master/slave for failover Diverse clients Jaspersoft web user interface (JasperReports Server - UI) Web services clients (SOAP and RESTful) 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 6

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Scalability and Failover 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 7 Repository Database Data Sources Email Services External Authentication e.g. SiteMinder, CAS, JAAS, LDAP etc. Java application servers JasperReports Server deployed as WAR files load balancer Browser user Web services client See the JasperReports Server Ultimate Guide, Chapter 11

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SECURITY Object, column and row based security Single Sign On Secure infrastructure 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 8

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Authorization: Security Permissions Object, column, row security Principal Object JasperReports Server creates and maintains for each user session Identifies the user Role(s): order of precedence Custom profile attributes: handles cases where user, tenant and role do not suffice 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 9

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Object based security 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 10

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Different Profiles, Different Views Typical Business UserTypical Superuser 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 11

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Authentication: Spring Security A variety of authentication providers come with Spring Security, or are easily integrated: LDAP/Active Directory JAAS CA SiteMinder CAS (Central Authentication System) Tomcat realm Static/in-memory Custom database lookup X509 More Custom 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 12

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DATA INTEGRATION Case study: Jaspersofts internal data warehouse 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 13

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Internal use case: Data Integration Requirements Many Source Types (SFDC, XML, Web Services, CSV, etc) Data Cleansing/Scrubbing Full Refresh Incremental Refresh Fault Tolerant (Error Handling, Auto-Restart and Alerting) Scheduling with Intelligent Workflows Performance Rapid Time-to-Metrics 14

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Internal use case: Business Systems We Use 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 15 salesforce.com (53) - Campaigns/Hits (2,000,000) - Inquiries/Leads (400,000) - Opportunities (25,000) - Accounts (32,000) - Contacts (79.000) - Custom Objects Intacct (50) - Orders - Invoices - AP/AR - Rev Rec Schedules Others (26) - Eloqua (4,900,000) - Bugzilla - Openair - Jasperforge.org - Jaspersoft.com - eStore Every 15 min Hourly Nightly SOAP App Exchange XML Gateway JDBC Hardware Dual Processor Quad Core 24 GBs RAM 4 TB Raid 5 Software ESXi CentOS JasperReports Server MySQL

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Internal use case: Jaspersoft ETL Workflows 16

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Internal use case: ETL Administration 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 17

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Internal use case: Lessons Learned Define metrics and dimensions before implementing In writing, signed off by key stake holders Definition, Owner, Data Refresh Rate Define the roles of users accessing the data How to access the data? Dashboards? Ad-Hoc Data security Make it a Closed Loop Regular meeting to discuss the metrics Define changes to be made Implement changes 18

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Summary: Why use ETL? Transform the data at the ETL layer Persist results sets, including calculated metrics Faster, more responsive reporting Consistently accurate data Schedule near-real time data refreshes 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 19

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REPORTING AND ANALYSIS, PART 1 Report designers: web-based Ad Hoc and iReport Unified Analysis experience 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 20

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Preview: JasperReports Lifecycle - Server 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 21.jrprint JasperReports Server : associates inputs into logical JasperReports Units automates report execution exposes APIS for other applications to do the same Compiled.jrxml file

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Two Report (.jrxml) Designer Tools iReport For professional report designers Client-side installation required Pixel-perfect and programmatic control Extensive capabilities JasperReports Server: Ad Hoc Appropriate for all users Web-based, only require a browser Pre-defined report templates Limited formatting 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 22

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JasperReports Server Report Units 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 23 Sub-report Chart customizer Images Translation files Input controls

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Technical Training 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 24

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Online Learning Portal 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 25

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Best Practices for Building Complex Reports Dont boil the ocean break it down Learn to leverage components Use sub-datasets, sub-reports, Tables etc. You can use multiple Detail bands Use conditional logic to get more from one report Use parameterized queries but dont start with them Appreciate the power of report design its not Excel Take training and read the Ultimate Guide its great Join JasperForge and user groups 2012 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 26

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