Database nel cloud: una alternativa ai fogli di calcolo per raccogliere, gestire e condividere dati in modo semplice ed affidabile

Livebase A database for the cloud

The business case (SMB)
Mary has a small real-estate firm with three local offices.
Needs a custom information system allowing all the offices to interact in real time.
Commercially available packages are rigid , force their business logic, and require investment.
N o IT expertise or infrastructure, and no budget to pay software developers.
People at each office keep sending and receiving daily spreadsheets via email, just to make sure that everyone is aligned.

The business case (Corporate)
John is Head of Dept. at a large corporation .
Needs his global team to share structured information, and to make it available to customers, on the web, just for the time of the project .
Cannot wait for the corporate IT to provide a custom, tactical database application, or even a figure about its cost.
Would actually pay 90 dollars of his own just to avoid writing the ROI plan required to be approved.
John’s department ends up using spreadsheets .

Many small organizations (mis)use spreadsheets as databases
The opportunity John Ed Luis Anne

Unfortunately spreadsheets are not databases
No role-based access control
No data quality / integrity control
Concurrent updates can cause information loss
Multiple versions spread on multiple servers
Cannot perform correlations and queries
No compliancy when regulations apply
The opportunity

Why do small and large businesses keep using spreadsheets as databases?
No cost-effective alternatives !
DBMS s require application development (risky and highly expensive)
Commercial software for SMB is rigid (don’t handle properly custom data)
ERP s are overkill and hard to configure / extend
The opportunity

Turning conceptual models …
compact & elegant
easy to understand and modify
… into database applications
virtually bug-free, and secure
robust and scalable (multi-user)
instantly available on the web
The concept

Entirely web-based
Developers just need a java-enabled browser
Users of generated apps just need the browser ( no plugins , nothing to install).
Custom applications are
generated using open-source java technologies
compiled and deployed on our servers, in seconds
immediately available to authorized end-users
The Platform

Click
Instantly on-line
Auditing & backup
No technical details
The Platform Step 1: create a virtual server

The Platform Step 2: draw your data model

The Platform Step 3: start the server, and enjoy

The platform Business apps, not toys
Complex (multi-join) queries
Data-quality constraints
Referential integrity, cardinality, uniqueness
Value range, patterns, formula-based predicates
Reports
Tabular
Cross-tabs,
Charts (pies, histograms…)
Business intelligence
Dynamic, multi-level grouping
Formula-based filtering

The Platform Administration & maintenance tools
Drag & drop members, engines and databases across your servers
Backup , restore and clone an entire server, with one click
Download & upload databases in Access and MySQL formats
Import and normalize multiple, cross-related Excel files
Refine your models at any time: datababase schemas updated automatically, data preserved.
Production Validation validation

The Platform Scalable & flexible architecture BASE LIVE HS HS HS HS HS FS FS FS FS PS PS PS DS DS Factory servers Hosting servers Portal servers Subscribers (modelers & administrators) End users MySQL servers

The Platform Multiple hosting options
Keep them safe on our servers…
Access protected using SSL
Dedicated MySQL databases (no multi-tenancy)
… or move them to your ones!
Generated applications (and their databases) can be optionally deployed at your premises or anyware in the cloud (Amazon Web Services, GoGrid, Google App Engine for Business, etc.)
And you can still manage and maintain all of them, using all the powerful tools provided by our platform!

The Platform It’s your stuff, not ours
Interface external applications via a REST programming interface
Buy your applications at any time, and install them on any java-enabled server (Linux, Windows, …)
All applications generated on Livebase are entirely based on standard, open-source java technology.
You can buy the binary (a standard WAR file) or even the source code (with comments and documentation). And it’s yours, forever .

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Database nel cloud: una alternativa ai fogli di calcolo per raccogliere, gestire e condividere dati in modo semplice ed affidabile

by VMEngine on Nov 09, 2010

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Database nel cloud: una alternativa ai fogli di calcolo per raccogliere, gestire e condividere dati in modo semplice ed affidabile — Presentation Transcript