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The Metrikus BI Platform architecture is designed to
meet the demands of enterprise-scale IT environments and
the needs of IT executives. As shown in the diagram
below, the MetriKus Technology Platform is comprised of
four major components: the Metrikus Server, Data
Acquisition Engine, Metrikus Workbench, and the
Objectives Blueprint.
The MetriKus Server: This
forms the core of the platform and is comprised of the
Metrics Warehouse, Correlation Engine, Visualization
Engine (Reports and Dashboards), and Administration
Console. The functions of these sub-components are
described below:
Metrics Warehouse: The
Warehouse provides an enterprise class information model
that captures the entire set of common IT information
classes. The Warehouse captures and consolidates data
from various sources and stores the data
inter-relationships. Administrators can add new
information classes and extend the platform without the
need for expensive integration and customization
services.
Correlation Engine:
Metrikus’s powerful analytics engine enables customers
to apply business rules to data to develop actionable
business insights to manage the IT organization
effectively. The engine leverages the rules library,
which can be customized, to produce the consistent views
of performance, and adapt or extend them as business
conditions change.
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Visualization Engine: This
includes the Dashboards and the Reports. The Metrikus
Dashboard is a personalized web portal that allows the
senior executives to visualize the key health indicators
of the IT organization. The dashboards are easily
configurable through a standard web-based console
through pre-defined out-of-the-box components that
includes gauges, bar graphs, trend arrows, and others.
The pre-built reporting engine helps the customers
configure and schedule reports across multiple data
sets. The engine can also be used to schedule reports
for offline report generation. The open architecture of
the engine also enables easy integration with other
third-party reporting tools.
Administration Console: The
Console provides a comprehensive set of features to
manage the Technology Platform. The Console provides the
means to monitor application components such as
adapters, rules and scenarios. Additionally, the console
can be used to manage user role and access privileges
and facilitates adapter management.
Data Acquisition Engine:
The MetriKus Platform connects to anything. The Data
Collection Interface comprises of a broad set of
integration adapters that enable users to extract and
transform data from anywhere. The Interface supports
standard adapters for all types of monitoring tools,
business applications, databases, flat files, XML files,
Excel spreadsheets, and other data sources. Metrikus has
a library of pre-built adaptors and provides the users
with the capability to configure adapters for custom
data sources using the Adapter Development Kit.
MetriKus Workbench: This is
comprised of desktop administration tools that
facilitate the easy creation and modification of rules,
metrics, and their correlation. The Workbench is also
used to create and deploy scenarios on the Server for
execution and facilitates adapter configuration.
Objectives Blueprint: This
offers a flexible framework to associate collection of
metrics that includes target performance measures to
initiatives and organization goals. |
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