A presentation on the BI setup at Ghent University Library. The main focus is on Catmandu. The command line ETL tool that aggregates and transforms data from different web services, databases and various other data sources into intelligent business data that allows us to make valuable insights in the workflow of our organization.

1. An atypical Business
Intelligence setup
By Yannick Spillemaeckers
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2. Business Process Mgmt

3. Built on standard

4. Understand the
organisation
Mission
Strategy
CultureDecision
Making
Existing IT
toolkit

5. People
SUPER
IMPORTANT
Get to know
them
Talk about
their work
Ask about what
they do
Involve them
global vs
specific view

6. (people don't like)
Change
Show the data
Tell them why
Celebrate Success
Keep some things
like before?
Decision makers
vs end users

7. Analyse your data
Key Performance
Indicators
Business Intelligence
Business Analytics
Visualisation
Ad Hoc reporting

8. Toolkit
Catmandu

9. Catmandu
Command Line ETL Tool
http://librecat.org/

10. Importers
Exporters
Stores
Fixes
Items

11. Basic Examples

12. Catmandu.yml

13. fixscripts

14. bashscript

15. Result

16. Questions?
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Yannick Spillemaeckers
@yannickspille