Analytics: Application Developer (Siebel 7.

7)

Module 13: Deploying

Disconnected Analytics
Module Objectives

 After completing this module you will be able to:

 Identify the components of Disconnected Analytics
applications
 Navigate the Disconnected Analytics Application Manager
user interface
 Open Disconnected Analytics applications to view, create,
modify, and save Intelligence Dashboards in offline mode
 Synchronize Disconnected Analytics applications

 Why you need to know

 Disconnected Analytics let you view and work with data
when away from the office

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Disconnected Analytics Components

Personalized Dashboards

Disconnected Analytics Application Manager

Local Repository

Local Web Catalog

Local Analytics SQL Anywhere database

Local Analytics Schema

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Personalized Dashboards
 Can be accessed as you would if you were logged on to the
Siebel Analytics Web
 May include your own versions of the enterprise-level
Dashboards, with any special data filters you may add
 Are created with data downloaded from the network to your
laptop
 Follow the same visibility rules as the Siebel Analytics Web
 Rules set up by your organization’s Siebel Analytics administrator
determine whether a given data set is valid for the application you
are using
 Will be overwritten the next time you synchronize the application
if the changes were made to the shared folders

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Disconnected Analytics Application Manager

 Allows you to update your local application data and use
different Disconnected Analytics applications while
disconnected from the network

Starts the
application
shown in the
drop-down list

Runs synchronization for

the application shown in
the drop-down list

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Local Repository
 Is not a subset of the server repository
 Is conceptually a pass-through repository because it is derived
from the main Analytics repository
 A Disconnected Analytics application only has one repository
 Each disconnected application has its own repository

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Local Web Catalog

 Can be a copy of the server Web catalog or a copy that has
been scaled for single use
 Only makes requests to the disconnected repository
 Stores changes made to personal folders
 Each Disconnected Analytics application only has one Web
catalog

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Local Analytics SQL Anywhere Database

 Stores the downloaded data on the local machine
 Is used only for disconnected analytics
 Supplied with a schema

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Local Analytics Schema

 Is unique to the local, disconnected Analytics database
 Set up by the Administrator to hold the local data when
synchronized

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Content Sharing in Disconnected Analytics
 There are differences in the way data is shared in Disconnected
Analytics versus the network-based Siebel Analytics:
 Disconnected Analytics users can only make modifications to My
Dashboard
 Disconnected Analytics users must store all reports in their private
folder and not in a shared folder
 Changes made to Dashboards in the Disconnected Analytics
application are not transferred to the Siebel Analytics Web
Dashboards

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Using Disconnected Analytics

1. Download Data from Disconnected Applications Web Page

2. Synchronize Analytics Data

3. Connect to the Local Disconnected Analytics Application

4. Update Disconnected Analytics Application Data

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1. Download Data from Disconnected Applications Web Page

1. Click the Disconnected link in Siebel Answers to open the

Disconnected Applications Web page
2. Click Update Data for each application

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Download Data from Disconnected Applications Web Page Continued

3. Save the sawd.dad file into the

C:\SiebelAnalyticsData\Disconnected\appname\Data directory
on the laptop.

Application
folder

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2. Synchronize Analytics Data

1. Open the Disconnected Analytics Application Manager
2. Click Synchronize, then Yes
3. Click OK when finished

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3. Connect to the Local Disconnected Analytics
Application
1. Open the Disconnected Analytics Application Manager
2. Select the application you wish to work with from the
Application drop-down list
3. Click Start

Application drop-down

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4. Update Disconnected Analytics Application Data

1. Connect to network
2. Open Disconnected Analytics Application Manager
3. Click Get Server Info
4. Click Update, if active

Will change to Update if changes

are available on the server

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Update Disconnected Analytics Application Data Continued

5. Enter your User ID (network login) and password in the Login to
the Server to synchronize dialog box
6. Click OK

By default,the dialog box

displays the server URL from
the last synchronization
operation

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Summary

 This module showed you how to:

 Identify the components of Disconnected Analytics
applications
 Navigate the Disconnected Analytics Application Manager
user interface
 Open Disconnected Analytics applications to view, create,
modify, and save Intelligence Dashboards in offline mode
 Synchronize Disconnected Analytics applications

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