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Re: OpenERP and Business Intelligence

 

In addition, here are the remaining tasks that are the minimum before it's
useable:
  - the "extended search" will be expanded on top of the view to easily
slice
  - export data to excel

Then we will continue on extra features like better dashboards, ...


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Fabien Pinckaers <fp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ovnicraft,
>
> Please test it. Check and judge by yourself if you don't agree. Our
> solution has PROs and CONs and it's very difficult to have an interesting
> conversation if you don't know what you are talking about and you don't
> have seen it before. We will waste time arguing "it's not feasible", "it's
> probably not as good", "but saiku do it that way", "Not Inveted Here is
> never a good approach..." if you don't judge by yourself.
>
> It's quite easy to test on runbot, here is the steps to test:
>   - Go to runbot: http://runbot.openerp.com
>   - Search the branch  "trunk-new-graphview-ged"
>   - Click on the arrow on the right of connect and select "All Addons"
>   - Go to Sales > Opportunities
>   - Switch to graph view
>   - Play with the data (the 'cube' view is the first icon)
>
> Once you will have tested it, I can answer all questions and we can
> discuss PROs and CONs. Before, we all waste our time.
>
> - -
> Fabien
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Ovnicraft <ovnicraft@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Fabien Pinckaers <fp@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I suggest not to go for pentaho, spago, saiku, or others. You should
>>> check the branch of Antony, we developed nearly all features of current BI
>>> software and it's already fully working.
>>>
>>>
>>> I think the community should better concentrate to build apps in OpenERP
>>> rather than trying to integrate with third party tools. Integration are
>>> always painful, difficult to reuse from one project to another, ...
>>> Developing a BI cube is just a few weeks of work (3 months for one
>>> developer, less than 1000 lines of code). Today, OpenERP is so advanced
>>> that developing a new app on OpenERP is usually easier than trying to
>>> integrate with others applications. It's much more powerful and it's
>>> maintainable over a long period of time.
>>>
>>
>> Hi @Fabien: BI capabilities are a little bit hard to write, a Q: that
>> 1000 LOC has something like agregation, browsing, OLAP, ROLAP, logical
>> analysis, phisical analysis, hirarchical deps, slice ? just to mention few
>> features. You can check http://cubes.databrewery.org/
>>
>> IDK if DRY is lost here, but integration is part of make apps and systems
>> work together, via WS and OERP has a good stuff here.
>> NIH Rule is a bad option.
>>
>> Have a good graphs dont means has BI capabilities, if i am wrong please
>> describe features.
>>
>> I consider OERP could be strong in WS maker new APIs, new methods,
>> formats, etc and help us to write more apps w/o reinvent the wheel.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> ,
>>
>> We used to say internally that everything we develop that is not an
>>> OpenERP module will probably die in a few years. We did the mistake to
>>> integrate with SugarCRM, Alfresco, Ubercart, Webdav, CALDAV, Moodle. None
>>> of these modules are still useable today.
>>>
>>> With OpenERP, modules last if they are integrated, not if they are
>>> interfaced. Search on the web, you will find plenty of integration with
>>> Pentaho, SpagoBI, ... I bet that none of them are reusable on v7.
>>>
>>>
>>> That's why I think you should rely on the work done on this branch:
>>> trunk-new-graphview-ged (on http://runbot.openerp.com)
>>>
>>> To test, go to any record (e.g. opportunities) and switch to the graph
>>> view. Then, play with the cubes.
>>>
>>>
>>> The future is going to be integrated, not interfaced...
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Fabien
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Axel Mendoza Pupo <aekroft@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
>>>> You could take a look at http://cubes.databrewery.org/ itś a python
>>>> based solution, it seems to be a good tool, lightweight, powerful and will
>>>> be not very difficult to get integrated into OpenERP
>>>>
>>>> Light-weight Python framework and OLAP HTTP server for easy development
>>>> of reporting applications and aggregate browsing of multi-dimensionally
>>>> modeled data.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Eric Caudal <
>>>> eric.caudal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Thanks everybody for the feedback!
>>>>> BTW: the branch in runbot is not responsive. I will test it locally
>>>>> though.
>>>>>
>>>>> Eric Caudal*CEO*
>>>>> --*Elico Corporation, Shanghai branch
>>>>> OpenERP Premium Certified Training Partner *
>>>>>
>>>>> Cell: + 86 186 2136 1670
>>>>> Office: + 86 21 6211 8017/27/37
>>>>> Skype: elico.corperic.caudal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> http://www.elico-corp.com
>>>>>
>>>>> [image: Elico Corp]
>>>>> On 01/23/2014 06:44 PM, Antony Lesuisse wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> You may also check the branch trunk-new-graphview-ged it's available
>>>>> on runbot http://runbot.openerp.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> It's a new graph view with BI capabilities. It will be merged in trunk
>>>>> in a few days.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://code.launchpad.net/~openerp-dev/openerp-web/trunk-new-graphview-ged
>>>>>
>>>>> On 01/23/2014 07:24 AM, Eric Caudal wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> What are currently the technical solutions available for OpenERP to be
>>>>> able to
>>>>> generate cubes for Business Intelligence?
>>>>>
>>>>> I need to prepare a panel of solutions for one of my customers and
>>>>> would like
>>>>> to know:
>>>>> - Tools and vendors involved
>>>>> - Difficulty to integrate withh OpenERP7 current data model
>>>>> - Price range if relevant.
>>>>>
>>>>> NB:
>>>>> I am not really looking for static reporting tools but more for
>>>>> dynamic data
>>>>> builders (equivalent to Cognos or Crystal Report).
>>>>> It doesnot need to be opensource and Google is not an option as
>>>>> google.doc is
>>>>> not available in China.
>>>>>
>>>>> Looking forward to reading you
>>>>> --
>>>>> Eric CAUDAL
>>>>>
>>>>> Eric Caudal
>>>>> /CEO/
>>>>> --
>>>>> *Elico Corporation, Shanghai branch
>>>>> /OpenERP Premium Certified Training Partner/  *
>>>>> Cell: + 86 186 2136 1670
>>>>> Office: + 86 21 6211 8017/27/37
>>>>> Skype: elico.corp
>>>>> eric.caudal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx  <mailto:eric.caudal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx><eric.caudal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> http://www.elico-corp.com
>>>>>
>>>>> Elico Corp
>>>>>
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