UNIT4 BUSINESS ANALYTICS

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WHAT IS THE PRODUCT?

A business intelligence tool kit, specializing in Coporate Performance Management

An application builder. No predefined screens, they are all created by a domain expert specifically for each customer

A runtime platform. Custom applications are published to our runtime platform and screens are generated on the fly by the front end

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JEE6 (GlassFish)

Front end

CubeVersioned Solution Repositoy

Authorization (and Authentication)

Directory Service (OpenDS)

Solution engine

Plugincomponents

Authentication(Optional)

REST API

XML for AnalysisSVN

LDAPXMLA/MDXWebDAV

Java Swing ApplicationTypeScript/JavaScript/HTML5Currently Flex (Adobe Flash)

NetBeans Platform

Builder

Plugincomponents

System managemnt

tools

Platformcomponents

Active Directory

SVN Front-end

Driver Front-end

Java application

ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW

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SYSTEM COMPONENTS

OLAP cube backend. Queried using Multidimensional experessions (MDX).

Domain expert tool. Java Swing Application based on the NetBeans platform. Consists of functionality such as schema editor, OLAP cube generator, query creator, layout designer, role and user management.

Meta-model defining possible screen layouts, query expressions and user actions. Defined using Eclipse Modeling Framework.

Subversion repository for keeping version controlled application definitions.

Application server containing the Java Enterprise Edition runtime platform. Currently we are using the open source Glassfish server from Oracle.

Front end client. In production we now have a Flex based client, running on the Flash Player VM in webbrowsers and compiled to native apps for tablets. We are currently rewriting the client from scratch in TypeScript and JavaScript

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DOMAIN EXPERT TOOL

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• 7 years old• 80000 lines in total

60000 lines of code• 700 classes and

components• One version for

webbrowsers and one for iPads and Android tablets

FLEX CLIENT – BEING REWRITTEN

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NEW FRONT END APPLICATION

Started January 2014.

Complete rewrite. New structure and model.

Written in TypeScript and JavaScript

Currently 4000 lines of TypeScript in 36 files, with a significantly larger number of classes and interfaces. And 1500 lines of JavaScript in 23 files

Focus is on well structured object oriented code, using functional techniques where appropriate

Desktop webbrowser application and tablet application; different version with a large amount of code reuse

Targeting only browsers supporting HTML5, ECMAScript5 and CSS3

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ABOUT TYPESCRIPT

• Created by Microsoft, released in version 1.0 in April 2014• Superset of ECMAScript 5 (aka JavaScript). Using

ECMAScript 6 syntax where possible• Has classes, interfaces, modules and generics• Static type check at compile time with fun features such as

optional typing, type inference, function types and implied interfaces

• Supports both closures and classes, so we get the both of both worlds and can write multi-paradigm programs using both functional and object oriented programming

• Dynamic prototyping and static type check. The speed of development of dynamic languages and the safety of static languages

• Excellent IDE support (Visual Studio, IDEA Intellij/WebStorm, Eclipse, Sublime Text, etc)

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ABOUT EXT

Ext JS is the industry standard for data-driven single-page applications

Large number of components available

Meta-object protocol for supporting inheritance, classes, component hierarchies, etc.

Cross browser fidelity

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DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

Maven is our build automation tool

Git is our version control system

TeamCity is our continous build system

Each developer is free to use the IDE of his or her choice. Currently most developers use IDEA IntellIJ Ultimate, but we also have licenses for Visual Studio 2013 and will accommodate other choices.

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RESOURCES

Unit4 Business Analytics

http://www.unit4.com/products/business-analytics/

http://youtu.be/JBEO18i_Mkw (story explaining the demo)

http://youtu.be/aXuK0eD5hHk (sales video)

TypeScript

http://www.typescriptlang.org/

Ext.js

http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/examples/