Thanks, Swapnil, for the feedback and the suggestions. You can rest assured that I stay committed to this project and plan to do more: one contribution at a time.
Why don't you raise the ticket yourself, before I can come to it, so that it won't be forgotten. Best regards, Pierre Smits *Apache Trafodion <https://trafodion.apache.org>, Vice President* *Apache Directory <https://directory.apache.org>, PMC Member* Apache Incubator <https://incubator.apache.org>, committer *Apache OFBiz <https://ofbiz.apache.org>, contributor (without privileges) since 2008* Apache Steve <https://steve.apache.org>, committer On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 12:43 PM Swapnil Shah <swapnil.s...@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote: > Thanks Pierre for taking it up. It looks promising. > > Are you also planning to document the overall high-level design at some > point of time. If yes I would suggest to cut a separate JIRA and share it > as > and when you feel it's in good shape. It would be easy to > refer/review/refine and appreciate it in its entirety rather than going > through each of the tix separately to get the complete understanding. > > Thanks & Regards, > Swapnil > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Pierre Smits <pierresm...@apache.org> > > Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2019 4:53 PM > > To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org > > Subject: [DISCUSSION] bi/birt component integration > > > > Hi All, > > Currently the various business intelligence (BI) functionalities are > > scattered in > > various components (consider all the overviews regarding inventory > > positions, orders/deliveries per customer/supplier) in the applications > > folder. > > > > And on the other hand we have the BI component and the Birt component in > > the plugins repo. Both of those components have minimal functionality > > regarding the business intelligence aspect. But both components are > > complimentary: > > > > 1. the bi (short for: Business Intelligence) component initialised the > > OFBiz DWH and has secas and services for copying data from the ofbiz > > database to the ofbizolap database, and > > 2. the birt (short for Business Intelligence Report Tool) component is > > intended to deliver on functionalities to display data overviews in > > various forms (tables, charts, in PDFs, UI widgets, etc)... > > > > Unfortunately, both components lack of love from our community. But a bit > > more love would significantly enhances the appeal of OFBiz for > (potential) > > adopters! > > > > As a result from a customer project, I recently have been working a bit > > more > > on the business intelligence aspect (see recent tickets in [1] and [2]). > > > > I believe it would be in the best interest of the project to integrate > the > > functionalities in the Birt component into the BI component. It will send > > a > > clear message to both (potential) adopters and OFBiz developers (both our > > contributors, and those not participating here but working on > > implementations of adopters), being: > > > > *everything related with business intelligence happens in and comes from > > the bi component*. > > > > > > What do you think? > > > > When we have this, the community can start working on enhancing the > > single component to increase its (and inherently OFBiz) appeal: > > > > > > 1. more entitiy definitions for dimension and fact tables (per [3], > > from > > the OFBiz related books), > > 2. more scheduled services that move data from various ofbiz tables > > into > > ofbizolap tables, > > 3. more UI widgets for displaying data aggregations (tables, charts) > in > > the form of portal pages widgets. These portal page widgets can then > be > > integrated by our adopters dynamically anywhere in the components of > > the > > applications folder, e.g through starting/main pages. > > > > [1] > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20OFBIZ%20AN > > D%20component%20%3D%20bi%20AND%20status%20not%20in%20(Closed) > > [2] > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20OFBIZ%20AN > > D%20component%20%3D%20birt%20AND%20status%20not%20in%20(Close > > d) > > [3] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471200247 > > > > Best regards, > > > > Pierre Smits > > > > *Apache Trafodion <https://trafodion.apache.org>, Vice President* > > *Apache Directory <https://directory.apache.org>, PMC Member* Apache > > Incubator <https://incubator.apache.org>, committer *Apache OFBiz > > <https://ofbiz.apache.org>, contributor (without privileges) since 2008* > > Apache Steve <https://steve.apache.org>, committer >
