July 3rd, 2015

Overview

BDB is a unique analytics platform that will give you a 360° view of your business data. BDB enables users to assemble data from multiple data sources, both structured and un-structured, and then build visually stunning, dynamic dashboards. Users can access these dashboards from their PCs or mobile devices and can even enter real-time data from their mobile devices.

Product Plugin

Security and Authentication

Supported authentication modes:
  • Enterprise
  • LDAP
Password expiry (Administrator Level):

Set time limit for password expiry. Once password is expired user will be forced to change the password. Notification for password expiry will be provided to users when expiry date is approaching.

Password Strength (Administrator Level)

Setup parameter for password strength.

Password re-use strategy (Administrator Level)

Based on password re-use strategy setting: - User password history shall be maintained for the past four ‘x’ passwords to ensure users do not re-use previous passwords… where ‘x’ (count) is set in the password re-use strategy setting. User passwords shall have a minimum time to change of one (‘x’) day to ensure users do not cycle through passwords

Access lockout strategy (Administrator Level)

Provide facility to enable system lockout strategy. No of failure allowed need to be configured. The system I will be locked out if user make ‘x’ number of failed attempts. Once system is locked out, user will need to contact administrator to reset the system before he can login again.

Mobile security configuration

Ability for user, to set the mobile authentication key required for Mobile authentication. This will be used for validating mobile authentication.

User Management and Privileges

The User Management module enables administrator to create and manage login credentials for each user. Administrator can also limit that each user access, together with the available functionality.

Administrator can also create difference groups of users. Groups are collections of user who share the same account privileges; therefore, administrator may create groups that are based on department, role or location. Groups enable administrator to change the rights for users in one place (a group) instead of modifying the rights for each user account individually. Also, Administrator can assign different plugins rights to a group or groups.

Data Connectors

Native data connectors for secure, fast connections. BDB Platform has native connectors to many common databases, such as Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Hive, MS SQL OLAP. If a native connector is not listed above then any databases which support JDBC protocol can be made available through customization.

Once the connection is made successfully with the databases then user can create query service which can be published as RESTFUL service and can be consumed inside and outside the platform. Creation of query is similar to writing a query in SQL with few simple syntax change.

Dashboard Designer

BDB Dashboard Designer is a browser based HTML5 dashboard designer that users can use to build dashboards and design analytics. It comes preloaded with a wide range of charts, features, and data integration capabilities that empower users to create informative and appealing visual representations of their data.

BDB gives better insight into a business by providing features such as zoom-in/out of charts, dynamic-visibility, and flexible export options.

Features:
Visualization Components
Charts Grids Filter Others
Area Data Grid Check Box Gauge
Bar Paging Data Grid Combo Box Semi Gauge
Bubble Scorecard Hierarchy Combo Box Date Picker
Candlestick List Label
Chevron Radio Button Info Button
Column Trend
Funnel Stepper
Heatmap Horizontal Slider
Inverted Funnel Vertical Slider
Line URL Button
Mixed (Dual Axis) Textbox
Pie Image
Progress Pie Graphics
Pyramid SVG Image
Scatter Plot Export Dashboard
Spider Box
Text Analyser
Data Connectivity

It connects to various data sources like:

  • Excel
  • CSV
  • Web Services published from the BDB Platform
Data Filtering by Inter-component Communication
Client Side Data Filtering/AggregationClient Side Data Filtering/Aggregation
Scripting
Design Workspace Management

Dashboard design and workspace management within a single window

Publish Designed Dashboards to Portal

Business Views

Business Views are mini-reports that can be used by management to get a snapshot view of their business. These Business Views can quickly be generated using real-time information and then be viewed by end-users, on the fly. Since the data is displayed in a data-grid format, users can have access to a detailed view of the data. Users can then filter the data, thereby configuring the report to suit their business needs. Users will have the ability to do adhoc reporting by simply dragging and dropping dimensions and measures. They can then drill down into the data.

Geospatial

Geospatial Analysis is a distinctive approach to visualize the current corporate scenario. It enables the users to access business information of the distant geographic locations at the tip of their fingers. Big organizations having their branches around the world requires a specific tool to manage their vast business, Geospatial Analysis resolves this quest with its ability of connecting to any given geographical place for the further inspection and analysis of required data. It becomes much easier with Geospatial Analysis to view the progress of the different branches and understand the areas to improve. This helps any business to maintain their statistical records and analysis together with other procedure having a geographical aspect.

Survey

BDB Survey provides organizations with the ability to create unique, interactive, and operational surveys to gather valuable information from customer feedback to product research. It serves as an effective tool to collect, store and analyze relevant information regarding any business aspect. Integration of Survey with BDB Sentiment Analysis makes it a robust analytic tool to extract emotions out of collected textual data. It is possible to export Survey data to many formats. The most unique feature of Survey is to export Survey data into a ‘Data mart’ and use BDB Dashboard Designer to create in depth analytics and Stunning Visuals. One can fetch the relevant business data from other tools, applications, and websites into these Dashboards.

Features
  • Unlimited responses
  • Get responses via web or email
  • Unlimited collectors
  • Track email responses
  • Survey Builder
  • 11 essential question types
  • Pagination
  • Labelling, titles & numbering
  • Question & page skip logic
  • Customization & Branding
  • Progress Bar
  • Add your logo
  • Display a "thank you" page
  • Display disqualification page
  • Analysis & Reporting
  • Real time results
  • Share survey data
  • Unlimited questions
  • Add your logo
  • Filter & cross tabulate responses
  • Download results as XLS
  • Response Management
  • Require answer completion
  • Answer validation
  • Set survey end date
  • View respondent's IP address
  • BDB Facilities
  • Benchmark Analysis BDB Dashoarding Tool
  • Integration With Bizviz dashoarding Tool
  • Integration with BDB Text /Sentimental Analytics

Sentiment Analyzer

BDB Sentiment Analyzer extracts sentiments from simple reviews. It then applies Natural Language Processing, machine learning algorithms, and emotion based algorithms to determine the exact correlation between expressive scripts and their social implementation. It is equipped with the ANEW (“Affective Norms for English Words”), providing a set of normative emotional ratings for a large number of words in the English language. These word-sets have been rated in terms of pleasure, activation, and dominance in order to create a standard for use in studies of emotion and attention.

Sentiment Analyzer as a Separate module has the following features:

  1. Visualizing Reviews
    1. Sentiment Chart
    2. Topic Chart
    3. Heat Map chart
    4. Tag Cloud
    5. Breakdown Chart
    6. Review list
  2. Excel File Sentiment
  3. CSV File Sentiment
  4. Using data from Query Services & Dashboard Designer
  5. Manual Sentiment Review
  6. Export Report as PDF

Predictive Workbench

Predictive Workbench empowers its users by providing predictive models to look into the future of their organizations and business processes. It is a user-friendly tool that shields users from mathematical complexity and offers interactive graphical user interfaces to give the user an easy, intuitive experience. It enables the users to discover hidden insights and relationships in their data by allowing them to drill-down into it.

Supported Browsers

Recommended Bowsers are as follow:
  1. Chrome – Version 43.0
  2. Firefox and – Version 39.0
  3. IE – Version 11
Recommendations:
Product Description
Dashboard Designer Supports maximum 2MB data files – Excel, CSV
Dashboard Designer Reload of same csv or excel in a connection is not possible.
Dashboard Designer All charts can draw up to 70K data points beyond that it can lead to browser crash due to limited browser memory
Dashboard Designer Using over 60 chart/ grid components in a dashboard can cause browser failure.
Dashboard Designer Junk Data in excel can cause problems. Excel data should be structured as same as database table
Dashboard Designer Chevron chart supports date following formats - DD/MM/YYYY , DD/MM/YY
Sentiment Analyzer File format of Excel & CSV is static. ‘User’ Column name and ‘Review’ Column Name should be “user” and “content” respectively
Sentiment Analyzer Topic chart can display a maximum of 200 reviews due to a limitation in the number of clusters it can create.
Sentiment Analyzer If an Excel file contains over 5000 comments:
  1. Browser may crash
  2. A “Stop Scripting” message may appear since Java script is running in the background
  3. It may take extended time to process these comments. Click on‘Continue’

Known Limitations:
ID # Description
7132, 9274 Dashboard Designer – Export Dashboard to Image / Power Point: This action will skip slider/graphics/ SVG components in this version. Hence, these components won't be visible in a screenshot.
6826 Dashboard Designer – In preview mode, if user click browser back button then it will show blank screen.
8459 Dashboard Designer – Cannot wrap data grid row text if it exceeds the given width.
7838 Survey Validation of email while adding recipient manually in Email Collector.
7837 Survey Validation of add recipients while adding contacts in Email Collector
7869 Survey Validation on empty Survey Question & option text.
9283 Survey Safari Browser – It doesn’t support Export To Excel feature.

Please Note:
  • Sentiment Analyzer : -NLP (Natural Language Processing) of Sentiment Analyzer is currently at the Beta stage. Our Language experts are continually upgrading the NLP dictionary. It can be used internally, but users may experiencedefects and usability issues.
  • Business Views: - This product is currently at the Beta stage. It can be used internally, but users may experience defects and usability issues.
  • Business App: - This product is at the Beta stage. It can be used internally, but users may experience defects and usability issues.
  • Reports: - This product is currently at the Alpha stage. Users can test and experiment with this product but do not encourage it to be used in a production environment.
  • Predictive Workbench: - This product is currently at the Alpha stage. Users can test and experiment with this product but do not encourage it to be used in a production environment.