Owl Dashboard

Owl Management Dashboard

An enterprise solution designed to provide cross-discipline views of business and IT. The Dashboard is an integration of SAP Business Objects Dashboard and Owl Service OpCenter.

This fully integrated solution allows users to build a dashboard using a WYSIWYG Dashboard Creation Environment and connect it to live Owl data.

In construction of the dashboards, users can make use of Owlʼs Active Model, current and historical data, and application controls. The users can also drill down into the Owl Server and directly in Blackbird to get more detailed information.

Features

Design

  • Use SAP Crystal Dashboard Design to create stunning visualizations.
  • Intuitive WYSIWYG designer allows for rapid design.
  • Rich design capabilities including visual analytics, themes, colors, and fonts.
  • Comprehensive library of eye catching visualization components which come with the product and are available from third party vendors.
  • Software development kit allows use of Adobe Flex to create custom visualization components, themes, and data connectors.
  • Runs anywhere Flash runs as well as in UBM WebSphere Portal, Microsoft Sharepoint Portal, and SAP Crystal Reports 2008.

Connect

  • Connect to Owl using a set of pre-defined web services which allow for navigation of the Owl Active Model.
  • Combine Owl data with any XML compliant database and SOAP-based Web Services for up to the second information.

Deploy

  • Use dynamic updates of visualization components to display most current status.
  • Use dynamic menus and selectors to parameterize the dashboards based on Owl namespace, groups or lists of entities or metrics.
  • Use colors to display status of Owl Entities, Groups, Metrics, and Connections.
  • Use tables to view Top X metric for components in an Owl Group.
  • Navigate the Owl Active model to explore relationships between entities to get to the root cause of a problem or to see the business impact.
  • Use a variety of charts to display history of one or more metric including:
    • Drill down into Owl for Views.
    • Entity Status Detail.
    • Tabular Status Detail.
    • Problem List.
  • Drill down directly into the Blackbird to explore the application, documentation, logs, configuration, and metrics. Execute controls to explore and correct problems.
  • Export the dashboard into PDF documents by taking advantage of the Flash content support feature in Adobe Acrobat 9. Also explore to Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, outlook, Flash, and the Web.
  • Use Dashboard as part of desktop applications and widgets using Adobe AIR.
  • Use multi-lingual capabilities. Available support for English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian.

Dashboard Examples

Order Processing Dashboard Caption

This dashboard illustrates cross discipline view. It monitors the status of Business Services supported by IT, end user response for key transactions, status of key components and key connections of this service, information of middleware and databases, as well as machine resources. In each case, the user can drill down into Owl’s topology views, Owl entity status, or directly into Blackbird instrumentation for further analysis or control of applications. The immediate history of business flow across multiple exchange links are aggregated by exchange.

Machine Monitoring Dashboard

This dashboard provides an integrated historical and current view of local machine resources.