1. Visualizing Operational Activities through
Dashboards
Shiroshica Kulatilake(shiro@wso2.com) - Software Architect
Ranga Siriwardene(ranga@wso2.com) - Senior Software Engineer
Gayan Dhanushka(gayand@wso2.com) - Software Engineer

2. About WSO2
•Providing the only complete open source componentized cloud platform
- Dedicated to removing all the stumbling blocks to enterprise agility
- Enabling you to focus on business logic and business value
•Recognized by leading analyst firms as visionaries and leaders
- Gartner cites WSO2 as visionaries in all 3 categories of application infrastructure
- Forrester places WSO2 in top 2 for API Management
•Global corporation with offices in USA, UK & Sri Lanka
- 200+ employees and growing
•Business model of selling comprehensive support & maintenance for our products

3. 150+ globally positioned support customers

4. Agenda
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Importance of visualizing data
Activity points in WSO2 App Factory
Why use WSO2 App Factory dashboards
Data categories
Underlying Technology
Demonstration
Next steps

5. Importance of Visualizing data

6. Importance of Visualizing data
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Large amount of data is available due to complex systems in
enterprises
This data can be a collection of
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facts such as values and measurements
numbers
observations
descriptions
Need arises to see this data in a pictorial or graphical format

7. Importance of Visualizing data

8. Importance of Visualizing data
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Visualization enables to
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find links between data
find relevance of data to a particular event
communicate the data
predict the future
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Creates an environment of responsive IT which enables
enterprise agility

9. Activity points in WSO2 App Factory

10. Why use WSO2 App Factory dashboards
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Provides snapshot of what is happening within your
enterprise
Role based dashboards enables decision making at several
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Through activity monitoring operational procedures can be
fine tuned
Gives a representation which enables decision making and
thus move towards enterprise agility

11. Data categories
Application data
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Application creation
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Application ownership
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e.g. applications created by type, application creation trend
e.g. applications per application owner
Application membership
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e.g. applications per team member

12. Data categories
Team data
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Team composition
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e.g. team members per application
Application activity data
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Commits
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Builds
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e.g. builds per application
Issues
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e.g. commits per application
e.g. issues by stage, issues per application version
Governance
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e.g. application versions per lifecycle stage

13. Underlying Technology
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Data Publishing
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Data Monitoring and Storage
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WSO2 Business Activity Monitor
Data repositories in WSO2 AppFactory
Data Summarization
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Event publishing through Appfactory
Hive Queries
External MySql database
Data Visualization
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WSO2 User Engagement Server
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Dashboards
Gadgets

14. Underlying Technology

15. Demonstration

16. What next ...
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Publishing and visualizing many more activities
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Dashboards for different roles
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A gadget store
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Customizable dashboards for each user in each role.

17. Questions?

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