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Pentaho Reporting Solution - Strategic Analysis for aGlobal Leading Energy Company headquartered in US
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The Client is one among the world’s largest power companies headquartered
in the US and has a growing portfolio of generation, transmission, and
distribution businesses with the capacity to serve 100 million people
worldwide.
The Client
The Client will be deploying over 120 MW of battery-based Energy Storage
Systems over then next 12 months. These projects will be mostly distributed
across the US and a few globally. In order to monitor, analyze and manage,
forecast and report the performance of units, the Client will implement an
Operations Support System (OSS) to attain High level business objectives,
Success criteria and Manage multiple projects, in different physical
locations. Customized reporting is needed to suit varying project needs.
Sigma Infosolutions proposed a Web based Reporting Solution using Pentaho,
a leading open source business intelligence platform.
Business Case
ChallengesGiven the vast size of the database and large number of transactions, at
times the database goes down leading to abrupt termination of various data
loading and fetching processes. This happens due to various factors and also
due to heavy usages of the database for verification the processes on a daily
basis. This pushed Sigma Infosolutions’ team to find a quick technology fix to
keep up the time line and budget for this project.
“Increased profitability withover 5% saving in strategic analysis
Executive Summary
Sigma Infosolutions leveraged its
expertise on Pentaho Web-based Ad Hoc
Query and Reporting technologies to
develop application along with its web
engine for a company in North America.
The web application is an automated
reporting engine which allows the users
to monitor, analyze and manage, forecast
and report the performance of various
high-level business objectives. The
automated engine leverages Pentaho
Reporting, Dashboards and Analyzer tools
for additional analysis and visualization.
Built on Pentaho, the application extends
numerous customization capabilities to
users with analytical front-end.
Successes
Removed unnecessary Caching problems in Pentaho Data Integration
Optimized the database for better performance
Optimized Mondrian application layer for better performance
Extracting data from JIRA and Google APIs
Maintaining one of the most heavy datasets (Database size is around 300
gigs)
Technology
Pentaho BI suite 3.6GA
Pentaho Data Integration (earlier
called Kettle)
Mondrian Schema Workbench
Crowd
MySQL 5
Business Benefits
Monthly technical availability is
more than 98%
Monthly KPI, monthly audit vs.
market performance report are now
standardized, available online and
easily printable formats
Analytical access to historical data
f o r r i g o r o u s a n a l y s i s a n d
benchmarking with past
Complete set of data, functioning
alarms in real-time
Ongoing operating costs at or better
than budget
Low system Overhead and lower
support costs
SolutionSigma Infosolutions’ team worked closely with the client’s team to design an
Enterprise Business Intelligence Reporting Solution which enables real-time
information to make data-driven decisions.
Key Modules Developed in phase 1
o Developed charts, management dashboards, Automatic data loading scripts,
Jira Reports, Jobs to fetch Jira data etc.
o Operational Reports and KPIs for various projects which gets broadcasted on a
monthly basis for all the major stakeholders of the respective project.
o Generate OLAP structures (Cubes and fact tables) for Client Database
o Aggregate the data for various market places, ISOs and services
o Developed Analytical reports and dashboards for the market pricing for
Ancillary and Energy prices
o Developed the OLAP DB model, ETL and Analytical reports for Project/Fleet
data
o Optimization of reporting and Analytical reports by improvising the
performance across the different layers like DB optimization with buffering, query
caching, partitioning, indexing, etc, Pentaho Mondrian cache optimization with
smart refresh
Integration with 3rd party products or components
o Extracting data from JIRA APIs. JIRA is being used globally by the client’s team
for project management.
o Extracting data from Google spreadsheets
o Extracting the data from the SCADA dumps placed in MySQL in EAV format
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Next Phase
The next phase includes creating more
reports and generating cubes for various
sub organizations
Built a frictionless process for creating, delivering and consumingrelevant business data critical to monitoring P&L
About Sigma Infosolutions
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Sigma Group, an Indian conglomerate has more than 4 decades of experience in Mining, Chemicals Manufacturing & Export,
Handicrafts Manufacturing & Exports, and Software Development
Sigma Infosolutions is a TUV certified ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 27001:2005 company
Headquartered in US with development center in India
Some of our esteemed customers include Airtel, Zyme Solutions, Yodlee, Celerity Consulting, Resolution Economics, Birla
Global Asset Finance, Fosroc Chemicals, Surgery Planet etc.
Sigma Infosolutions’ services comprises of application development, application management, IT Consulting, Offshore testing,
and Website and Portal Development
Sigma Infosolutions, Sigma Towers, #66/A, 13th Cross
6th Main, JP Nagar, 3rd Phase, Bangalore- 560078
Telephone: +91-80-40865100
Sigma Infosolutions, 2082 Michelson Dr.
Suite 100, Irvine, CA 92612
Telephone: +1-714-717-1826
Fax: +1-866-405-6750, Toll Free: 1-888-861-7360
Website: www.sigmainfo.net
E-mail: [email protected]
Toll Free: 1-888-861-7360