The document discusses Vision.bi Quality Gates, a centralized data quality solution. It provides an overview of quality gates and how they can be used for integration and business intelligence projects. Quality gates help define tests to constantly monitor and improve data quality. The document outlines various test types like check sums, referential integrity checks, and execution flow tests. It demonstrates how quality gates provide alerts, ensure data integrity, and validate data warehouse cubes. Clients currently using Vision.bi are also listed.

1. Your Data Quality Solution
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2. Meeting Agenda
 Quality Gates – A Brief Overview
 BI Data quality
 Demo
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3. Vision.bi Quality Gates - overview
 Vision.bi Quality Gates ™ is a centralized solution for data quality.
 The solutions helps organizations to constantly and efficiently improve
the quality of information and trust in organizational information systems
by defining various types of quality gates.
 Quality gates can be used for integration and BI projects (QA) or for
monitoring data quality in production (On going…)
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4. Vision.bi – Quality Gates
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5. QA in BI Environment
Quality Gates
OLAP
Front
SCD
On Going QA RI
Source Changes ColumnsTable Mapping
Quality Gates
Undated sources Data Loaded
Centralize management
Bugs in the sources Calculations
Auto execution Roles
Referential Integrity Cubes
History Vision.bi Create Reports *
Regression tests
Various sources
Methodology
Load Metadata Design Your Model Create DWH Create ETL QA

6. Centered Management
Manage QA organization tree
Cartelize Solution
 Unique QA dashboard
 Intuitive drill to the tests result
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7. Various test types
QA best practices
 Unique test types for BI and integration
 User friendly definition
Best practices
 Check sum - Compare between source
 Compare tables – Detailed compare
 Execution flow – Tests parallelism and
dependencies
 Referential integrity – Complete dimension
missing value
 Free SQL – Custom tests
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8. #1 – Data consistency
Test goal
 Identify changes in data trend
 Identify missing sources
How
 Compare amount between current period to previous
 Compare to average
 Test type: Check Sum
When
 End of the ETL cycle
 Before cube process
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9. #2 – Data Availability
Test goal
 Verify updated data availability
 Inform users for updated data
How
 Query for rows on the last period
 If missing inform the IT team else inform the user
 Test type: Custom test
When
 End of the ETL cycle
 Every hour
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10. #3 – RI Completeness
Test goal
 Check and complete dimension missing keys with default values
 Insure data integrity for join between fact tables and dimensions
How
 Find distinct values from fact where not exists in the dimension
 Test type: Referential integrity
When
 After loading fact tables
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11. #4 – Cube correctness
Test goal
 Verify cube data Vs. Data warehouse
How
 Compare last period in cube Vs Dwhsources queries
 Test type: Check Sum
When
 End of the ETL cycle
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12. #5 – Execution Flow
Test goal
 Tests dependencies
 Execute in parallel
 Drill to the row level
How
 Add your tests to the execution flow test and define the dependencies
 Test type: Execution flow and all other objects
When
 End of the ETL cycle
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13. And more…
 Compare values – changes over time
 Tests history & versions
 Advanced mail alerts
 Environments (Test -> Production)
…
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14. BI clients (Partial List)
A global company (NYSE: DOX) with revenue of $3.0 billion in fiscal 2010, Amdocs is the
market leader in customer experience systems innovation with over 19,000
employees delivering the most advanced business support systems (BSS), operational
support systems (OSS) and service delivery to innovative service providers in more than
60 countries around the world.
NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE), is the worldwide leader of intent-based solutions
that capture and analyze interactions and transactions, realize intent, and extract
and leverage insights to deliver impact in real time.
Harel Group is the third largest insurance group in Israel. It is the second largest in
general insurance; the market leader in health insurance, and from the perspective of
premium volume, it is the third largest in life insurance.
Eden Springs Ltd is the IL market leader in the Water Cooler Industry and forms part
of Eden Springs Europe, which has a presence in 13 other European countries.
013 NetVision is the leading company in the Israeli communication sector with a
market share of 36% in International Telephony services. In addition, the company
offers its customers a domestic calls service (VOIP).
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15. Summary
Start using Vision.bi Quality gates and get
Business alerts
Data integrity
Inform on data inconsistency
Cube validation
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16. Thank You!
For demo please contact
Ram Yonish Yifat Vector
M - ryonish@tact.co.il M - yifatva@matrix.co.il
P – 052-2424314 P – 052-8651729
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