Dashboards

Overview

The Dashboards feature extends Visualization Suite with the Pentaho-powered business intelligence. It offers basic visualizations and analysis reports of your data. Organizations that wish to explore data beyond the basic reports can take advantage of Hitachi Visualization Suite Custom Dashboards, an add-on that provides administrators with the Pentaho business intelligence tools to use for creating their own reports and dashboards.

Features and infrastructure requirements depend on your environment, including whether you:

have the cloud or on-premises version of Visualization Suite
have the Custom Dashboards add-on

The following tables describe the differences of the reporting feature provided for cloud and on-premises systems:

Reporting Type: Basic

	Cloud	On-Premises
Feature summary	Enhanced live visualizations for historical event and crime data (powered by Pentaho). Learn more about the basic reporting for a cloud system: Cloud systems	Historical event and crime statistics (same as Visualization Suite release 5.x.x). Learn more about the basic reporting for an on-premises system: On-premises systems
License	Included in the base license	Included in the base license
Export	PDF and Excel	Not supported
Update frequency	Reports are updated every 2 minutes	Does not automatically refresh. For the current date, manually refresh the browser.
Report customization	Not supported	Not supported
Installation	Not required	Not required

Reporting Type: Hitachi Visualization Suite Custom Dashboard

	Cloud	On-Premises
Feature summary	Custom reporting capability with an administrator access to the Custom Dashboards server running Pentaho See Cloud systems for more information.	Custom reporting capability with an administrator access to the Custom Dashboards server running Pentaho See On-premises systems for more information.
License	Required. See Visualization Suite Custom Dashboard license for more information.	Required. See Visualization Suite Custom Dashboard license for more information.
Export	PDF and Excel	PDF and Excel
Update frequency	Every 2 minutes (can be customizied)	Every 2 minutes (can be customized)
Report customization	Supported	Supported
Installation	Not required	OVF deployment required. See Setting up custom dashboards for more information.

Basic reporting

Cloud systems

Visualization Suite integrates with Pentaho to provide the enhanced visualizations for event and crime data. These basic reports include a trend chart showing crime distributions which can provide critical insights that help cities, businesses, and organizations gain insights that help them improve efficiencies, make smarter business decisions, and improve public safety.

These event and crime statistics are helpful when:

Predicting hot spots
Deciding where to place cameras and other assets
Predicting where and when you may need additional assets
Using your assets where and when they are most valuable and cost-effective

Note that all crime and event data in a domain is included in the statistics. The basic reporting does not filter data by user permissions. A user can, for instance, see a data visualization related to gunshot events even if the user is not granted view access to the gunshot data.

These reports are accessed by selecting Dashboards Basic Dashboards.

On-premises systems

Customers running Visualization Suite locally can continue enjoying the same crime and event statistics that were available in release 5.4.2 or earlier.

These reports are accessed by selecting Dashboards EVENT STATISTICSor CRIME STATISTICS.

Crime statistics example

Event statistics example

Visualization Suite Custom Dashboard

With the Custom Dashboards module, you can create your own visualizations and analysis reports using the Pentaho analytics tools and import them to Visualization Suite. You can access, integrate, manipulate, visualize, and analyze all event data from your domain to help you gain deeper situational awareness and operational insights.

If Visualization Suite is run on-premises, the Custom Dashboards module needs to be deployed and configured to send data to the Custom Dashboards server through Pentaho Data Integration (PDI). For the cloud version, your system will be upgraded to allow access to the Custom Dashboards server for report creation. To learn more about how to obtain a trial or production license, see Visualization Suite Custom Dashboard license.

The following figure provides an example of custom reports you can generate.

Pentaho Custom Dashboard

For on-premises installations, Visualization Suite can display customer owned Pentaho dashboards and reports within the Visualization Suite Dashboards menu. As such, the dashboard data source can vary and may not relate to Visualization Suite data.

For information about enabling a customer owned dashboard menu, see Administering Domains.
For information about configuring Visualization Suite Single sign-on (SSO) on the customer owned Pentaho server, see Setting up Single Sign On (SSO) with Pentaho Business Analytics Server.

NoteCloud customers can also display customer owned Pentaho dashboards provided that a Pentaho Business Analytics server is publicly available, the server can reach the Visualization Suite API, and the Pentaho Business Analytics server is accessible from the cloud Visualization Suite. If Visualization Suite is run on a cloud server, contact Visualization Suite Sustaining.

Overview