Stibo Systems’ multidomain approach to master data management gives organizations across a range of industries the ability to leverage data from multiple applications, systems, and domains to drive innovation and insights. The wide selection of analytics offerings from Stibo Systems allow businesses to take this advantage to another level by providing the ability to combine their master data with data from other business systems through seamless integrations between STEP and top-rated BI tools.
These analytics offerings can be used in conjunction with Stibo Systems' Product MDM and Customer MDM solutions, fulfilling a need to make data actionable, allowing users to respond quickly to market trends and improve collaboration through fast, unique insights.
Benefits for various business users of Stibo Systems' analytics offerings include:
- Vendors can examine the quality of submitted products in the Web UI and make adjustments based on presented insights.
- Onboarding managers can identify item onboarding times and potential bottlenecks in workflows, being able to reassign tasks and solve data issues in Web UI based on the presented information.
- Product managers can examine sales information and page views for their products in Web UI to identify market value and adjust the master data based on presented insights.
This guide covers the following analytics offerings from Stibo Systems:
Visual Analytics Integrations
The following analytics solution enables the capability to embed analytics data directly into the Web UI using widgets and screens. This tool allows business users to visualize their operational information, interact with it, and determine trends without having to leave the Web UI:
- Visual Integration with External Analytics Tools: The Web UI supports integration with the data analytics tools Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI. Through configuration of the Web UI, admin users can add both homepage widgets and Web UI screens to display visually compelling views of data from these tools in one seamless interface.
Export of Analytics Data for BI Tools
For users who have existing BI tools that they want to integrate with, Stibo Systems offers more than one method of extracting data from STEP that can be sent to downstream BI tools:
- Audit Message Framework: The Audit Message Framework (AMF) is a powerful message delivery solution that sends configurable messages to an external system of the users' choice, allowing data in STEP to be extracted and exposed so it can be processed for statistical analysis.
- JDBC Delivery Method: The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) delivery plugin feature can be configured to automatically (or manually) make STEP data available to an analytics platform, typically Tableau or Qlik. Refer to the Analytics using JDBC Example topic.
Required Licenses and Components
Most of the analytics solutions discussed in this guide require either a license, an add-on component, or both.
Contact Stibo Systems to enable licenses for your system. For on-premises systems, instructions for installing components can be found in the 'SPOT Program' topic in the System Administration documentation found in 'Downloadable Documentation'. For Stibo Systems SaaS environments, contact Stibo Systems Support.
The required licenses and/or components are as follows:
|
Analytics Offering |
Required License |
Required Add-on Component(s) |
|---|---|---|
|
Visual Integration with Analytics Tools |
X.WebUI.Analytics |
N/A |
|
Audit Message Framework |
X.AuditMessaging |
audit-messaging |
|
JDBC Delivery Method |
None; included in baseline |
N/A |