Embedded Analytics Platform
The Embedded Analytics Platform (EAP), powered by Sisense, provides users with an end-to-end, one-stop analytics solution to capture, analyze, and visualize data obtained from a mixture of STEP and external systems, such as ERP, CRM, and sales forecasting systems. The EAP can create relationships between this data, then perform ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) processes in preparation for analysis and visualization.
The EAP utilizes the Audit Message Framework (AMF) and the Export Manager to embed MDM data and, optionally, blend external data directly into the Web UI through widgets and screens. Preconfigured default dashboards and widgets help users get up-and-running quickly, providing valuable insights around workflow and process optimization, vendor performance, and advanced data quality analysis, both at a high-level and in a more detailed view.
The Embedded Analytics Platform allows you to analyze and explore your data with a robust, industry-leading BI data analytics visualization platform, providing you with:
- The ability to take business data from outside the STEP platform and blend it with master data to enable better-informed decision making, leading to improved business outcomes
- Quick value with minimal effort through default dashboards and widgets targeted towards specific themes: workflow and process optimization, vendor performance, advanced data quality analysis, and high-level executive dashboards
- Out-of-the-box web-enabled data administration and designer tools that can enable your solution to evolve as your business changes, including the ability to modify default dashboards and widgets, build new dashboards on available data, or add new data
- An open plugin framework and community library, allowing you to develop your own widgets and utilize other shared widgets
- Actionable insights and automated alerts, which allow for immediate action to be taken on your data, enhancing the productivity and efficiency of users
- Data security that can be aligned with STEP User Groups to control access to dashboards, and group permissions that can be set to view specific rows in any source data
Prerequisites
To access the Embedded Analytics Platform, the 'embedded-analytics-platform' and 'audit-messaging' add-on components must be activated on your system. Additional setup tasks and system configurations must also be performed by Stibo Systems Technical Services team upon initial setup. See your Stibo Systems representative for more information.
Instructions for installing components can be found in the SPOT Program topic in the System Administration documentation here.
About this Guide
Analyzed data is embedded within the Web UI through the Embedded Analytics Platform Screen and Embedded Analytics Platform Widget components, which are detailed in the following topics in this guide:
- Embedded Analytics Platform Web UI Widget Component (here)
- Embedded Analytics Platform Web UI Screen Component (here)
Additional topics covered are:
- Embedded Analytics Platform - Sample JAQL Filter (here)
- Embedded Analytics Platform - Additional Configurations (here)
This guide focuses primarily on the actions that can be taken in the STEP Web UI. For additional information about configuration actions specifically related to the embedded platform, including how to gather information from external data sources, refer to: https://documentation.sisense.com/#gsc.tab=0.
For more information on the Audit Message Framework functionality included with the EAP solution, see the Audit Message Framework section of this guide here.
For more information on the Export Manager, see the Export Manager section of the Data Exchange documentation here.
Important: Users should be aware of how the EAP solution behaves in regards to Web UI user impersonation. If you log in as User A, you will be logged into Sisense as User A. If you start impersonating User B, then the Web UI display changes as if you are User B. However, the EAP functionality will still display data as if User A is logged in. The reason for this is that while impersonation changes the user logged in, it does not change the Sisense cookie. For more information on impersonating another user, see Web UI User Impersonation in the System Setup / Super User Guide documentation here.