Cloud applications are seeing a deluge of requests to support the exploding advanced analytics market. “Open analytics” is the emerging strategy to deliver that data through an open data access layer, in the cloud, to be directly consumed by external analytics tools and popular programming languages. An increasing number of data engineers and data scientists use a variety of platforms and advanced analytics languages such as SAS, R, Python and Java, as well as frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark. Cloud APIs are commonly designed to support application integration representing a disconnect with the analytics ecosystem. These combined trends create significant demand for a “bring-your-own-analytics” (BYOA) capability for cloud applications. Your cloud may already be smart, but giving users frictionless access to your data will make everyone smarter.

1. Welcome to the Era
of Open Analytics
Sumit Sarkar, Chief Data Evangelist, Progress
sumit.sarkar@progress.com | @SAsInSumit
www.linkedin.com/in/meetsumit

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The embedded analytics market is
estimated to nearly double to 46 billion
between 2016 and 2021
Source: Markets and Markets

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The same research firm estimates the
advanced analytics market will be worth
close to 30 billion by 2019

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Increasing demand for advanced analytics

5. Infographic by DataCamp
Hiring Data Engineers and Data Scientists

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8. Welcome to the era of Open
Analytics

9. But what is it?

10. ‘Open analytics’ is the
integration of an open data
access layer into business
applications to be directly
consumed by external analytics
tools and popular programming
languages.
Source: https://www.datanami.com/2017/03/29/welcome-
open-analytics-era/

11. Walk through an example

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Readmission Application in the Cloud with Embedded Analytics

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Need map of regions where readmission rates are higher?

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Readmission Application in the Cloud with Embedded Analytics
1. Build a predictive model for
readmission
2. Visualize the data blended with
hospital management system
3. Ingest the detailed medical
conditions and line items into Data
Lake
4. Need report delivered as PDF at
9AM every Monday to CEO staff
5. …

15. Just give them the data…

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But how can Cloud Apps “give” data to every analytics framework?
“BYOA”

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State of Cloud and Analytics
Source: BI and Data Management in the Cloud: Issues and Trends:
BARC Research Study January 2017

18. Open Analytics strategies
deliver open interfaces for your
Cloud Apps

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Data Access Approaches for Open Analytics
ODBC
Standard API for accessing
databases
Standard API for accessing
databases for Java
Industry standard
Interoperable REST API
JDBC
OData
SQL
REST
Business Analytics and Data
Management Tools and
Platforms, R, SAS, Python
Business Analytics and Data
Management Tools and Platforms,
Hadoop, Spark, R, Java
Data Visualization and Cloud
Analytics, Application
Development
FILE
Standard file format and
common approach
CSV Desktop Tools

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Clouds Disrupt Data Access for Analytics
SQL
REST APIs

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Data
Preparation /
Integration
Analytics
Database
Embedded BI
Server
Operational
Database Open Analytics
via standard
SQL, REST, CSV
2. Open Analytics
democratizes your data
for external Platforms,
Clouds and Tools
1. Embedded
Analytics delivered
in your UI
Closer Look at an Open Analytics Architecture

22. Our passion for open data
standards

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Progress’ Rich Heritage with Open Standards and APIs
ODBC
1.0 in 1992
3.8 in 2009
Co-founders of
ODBC
JDBC
1.0 in 1997
4.2 in 2014
Key member of
JDBC Expert
Group
ADO.NET
1.0 in 2002
4.6 in 2015
OData
ISO/IEC standard
in February 2017
First to join
OData technical
committee

24. How to deliver Open Analytics
for your cloud app?

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Open Analytics Strategies for Cloud Apps
DATABASE REPLICATIONEXPORT
DATABASE ACCESSREST API

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We’re Almost Never Solving for One Problem with Analytics
Reporting Analytics
Summarized
Data
Segmented
Data
Detail
Data
We can’t just aggregate / We can’t not aggregate
Dashboarding
Campaign
Optimization
Customer
Drill-down Attribution, CLTV,
Experience,
Personalization
Targeting
Forecasting

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REST API: OData vs Proprietary

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Database Access: Cloud Networking and Security
1. Network Based VPN
2. SSH Tunneling
3. Reverse Proxy Servers

29. Who delivers advanced Open
Analytics?

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Sample SaaS apps supporting ODBC, JDBC or OData

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Data Gravity increasing for Cloud Apps
Select production core database metrics for Oracle Service Cloud

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PROGRESS GLOBAL CONNECTED CRM LEADERS

33. What is an open REST API?

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REST is great, BUT from an analytics and data
management perspective...
It’s a style – not a standard
Limited querying capabilities
Metadata support?

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OData is an open standard REST API
for your Cloud Apps
First member to join
OData Technical
Committee
An open protocol to allow the creation and
consumption of queryable and interoperable
RESTful APIs in a simple and standard way.
OASIS Standard REST API (“SQL for the web”)
• Approved for release by ISO/IEC on February, 2017
• Ratified as an OASIS standard February, 2014
• Operations built on REST principles
• Uniform URL conventions
• Surface metadata in standard way

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Standard query capabilities
Operations OData GraphQL ORDS
Filtering Yes No Yes
Ordering Yes No Yes
Aggregation No No No
Joining Yes Yes No
Paging Yes No Yes

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Surfacing Metadata
Operations OData GraphQL ORDS
Schema Metadata Yes Yes Yes
Object Metadata Yes Yes Yes
Object
Details
Data Types Yes Yes Yes
Scale/Precision Yes No No
Read/Write No No No
Unique No No No
Primary Keys Yes No Yes
Description Yes Yes Yes
Nullability Yes Yes No

38. Let’s talk

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