Hi Hans, Congratulations on getting Birt into trunk!
Does Birt now contain most of the functionality found in mondrian? Many thanks, Chris Hans Bakker wrote: > Hi Chris, > > we are currently extending the OLAP entities and use these for Birt to > report on. > > recently we added ordersales, today we will add the Inventory Item Facts > and Star schema and later the product and statistics will follow..... > > Regards, > Hans > > > On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 08:54 +0000, Christopher Snow wrote: > >> Hi Milind, >> >> I agree with you about not mixing OLAP/OLTP. However, it looks like the >> marts are already built in Ofbiz (e.g. Sales Invoice Fact) and I was >> thinking that mondrian may be good for exposing the ofbiz data mart >> tables. Smaller users of ofbiz (such as my last client) would wanted >> the analysis tools in the ofbiz UI. >> >> Also, using multiple data sources, the OLTP and OLAP data can be stored >> in different backend databases that are optimized for their environment. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Chris >> >> Milind Parikh wrote: >> >>> IMO, OLAP tools should not be used on transactional systems. Mondrian does >>> provide some amazing capabilities; but these rely on data marts (facts and >>> dimensional tables being built). Invariablely such data marts must be built >>> and maintained seperate to the transactional systems (and with the attendant >>> ETL runs) >>> >>> Regards >>> -- Milind >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Scott Gray >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Unless it provides something amazing compared to what birt is offering I'm >>>> guessing not. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Scott >>>> >>>> HotWax Media >>>> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com >>>> >>>> >>>> On 15/12/2009, at 8:00 PM, Christopher Snow wrote: >>>> >>>> Is it likely that the neogia mondrian addon will get added to ofbiz? >>>> >>>> >>>>> Many thanks in advance, >>>>> >>>>> Chris >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >> -- Chris Snow - CEng MBCS CITP MBA (Tech Mgmt) (Open) CISSP Tel: 01453 890660 Mob: 07944 880950 Www: www.snowconsulting.co.uk
