This chapter shows how to graphically represent OSWorkflow's business process information by integrating it with the Pentaho open-source Business Intelligence solution. Using the charting capabilities of Pentaho we will build a Business Activity Monitor (BAM) dashboard to monitor and analyze the processes.
First we'll integrate Pentaho with the OSWorkflow instance database, giving it access to the business process data, and then by using the Pentaho Design Studio we'll create an Action Sequence
that will query the database and then graph the results.
Pentaho is an open-source reporting application, with several enterprise capabilities such as chart generation, dashboards, data mining, and pivot table analysis. Pentaho is a 100% Java application, based on the JBOSS application server and JBOSS Portal for advanced user customization of dashboards.
Pentaho also uses several other open-source components, such as:
JFreeChart for chart generation...