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1. Introduction
A WebTop is a business intelligence cloud computing tool, that enhances the experience by offering a PC like interface and simplifies interaction of dashboarding, ad-hoc reporting and charting. It provides a common platform that is open and collaborative. Productive increases using the WebTop. NGBM will automate the entire end-to-end service request and delivery process off interactive data.
2. Application Architecture
The entire WebTop application architecture is based on following 3 facts
- Core Architecture
- Customer end Analytics Services
- Professional Services
3. Core Architecture
Kernel of WebTop is further divided into 3 key communication and integration Applications/servers.
- Data Manager
- Report Generator Communication Server
- Data Synchroniser and Listener
1) Data manager: Data manager will be an listener application responsible to following activities on the system
- Custom Data import supported by XLS, XLSX, XML, MS-ACCESS, TXT, CSV etc
- Data re engineering
- Data Formatting
- Data Integrity Check Data duplicates etc
2) Report Generator: Report Generator receives and responds requests via MSXML web service (Could be a SOAP based service). As soon as any request is placed on queue listener further communicate with data manager to check data authenticity and retrieve data. Report generator further respond to queue in MSXML data formats or with error message if any.
4. Customer end Analytics Services
Customer end analytics services:
System will offer following analytics services to customers:
- Data Handling
- Interactive Dashboard
- Report Manager
- Collaboration Tools & Utilities
- Single Sign On
- Semantic Advanced Search Capabilities
- One Click Utility
- Open Application Integrations
1) Data handling:
Allows User to import their own data - either through Excel and Google Docs, and future will allow Access and SQL integration
Open and standard data import and export structure-which protects company from any exposure-too many small BI companies are propriety and if they go out of business the data for the company becomes useless, WebTop data could be exported to any other system using standards.
Preloaded external data for ease of use, GDP, Population, etc
External data sources like OECD, IMF World Bank
2) Interactive Dashboard: Interactive Dashboard will allow users to create their own custom Dashboards with option to embed charts/tables on the dashboard. Users can create multiple dashboards with different title. A Sample of dashboard layout is as follows
3) Report Manager: Report Manager will allow users to create various reports. Report Manager Functionalities will be very same as SIA report manager.
4) Collaboration Tools & Utilities
Collaborative documents and reports
Embed snippet for charts, tables & reports
Single Sign-on to certain websites
Blogs with RSS
Articles/Discussions with document upload/download and RSS
Sharable Virtual Segmentation
5) Single Sign On:
Allow users to save his login credentials for certain websites. In future if those websites are watched via WebTop, user should be automatically logged into those websites.
In future WebTop should be enhanced to user single sign on with followings
- iNames
- Google Logins
- Yahoo Logins
- MSN Logins etc
6) Semantic Advanced Search Capabilities: System should be smart enough to search/narrate almost everything from the WebTop. Advanced search capabilities will include
Keyword ( any/exact match phrase)
Search By MetaTags
Search specifically into reports/charts/dashboard/articles/knowledge board/contents etc
7) One Click Utility: One click Utility will allow users to save any window in WebTop as a shortcut, Further that can be opened by simply clicking to the shortcut icon
The Open Application Interface provides an open standard interface to integrate third-party applications and market research systems with the WEBTOP. The common interface will be the WebTop for single screen access.
5. Professional services
NGBM will be offering some professional paid services via WebTop. These paid services includes
- Custom Dashboard Design and developments by NGBM for customers
- Content Publishing and distribution via XML Feeds/Web services
- Custom Data Import/Export
- Custom Report Managements
- Custom application Developments integrated with WebTop
- Web system
- Mobile Application development
- Desktop Applications
- iPhone Applications
- Custom Web Services
etc
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