Advantages
There are many advantages for using Connect for Analytics, it:
• Allows customers to create the best-of-class business intelligence reporting.
• Can be used by most BI tools as long as they support the OData protocol (version 4).
The added value here being that customers can use the tooling they are familiar with and have a license for.
• Is easy to set up - getting up and running only requires a few configuration steps. Also, the data exchange is fully automated and nearly real-time.
• Requires no further data transformation because data is formatted correctly.
• Includes data model relations that are automatically provided by the data connector.
It is, therefore, easy to include fields of related business objects into the data set to be analyzed.
• Supports calculated fields.
In the regular Planon application, it was not possible to report on calculated fields; now this is possible.
• Will have a positive effect on operational performance because the load for reporting on Planon's operational database is decreased.
• Allows customers to combine data lakes for creating management information.
For example, by combining information from the Planon data lake with information from an ERP data lake in one report or dashboard.
• Implies less work for existing Planon Cloud customers who have implemented their own analytics solution by querying the data from the data lake, replacing and making Enterprise Talk data exports redundant.
• Enables customers who already have a data lake/warehouse to extend it by using Connect for Analytics to feed Planon data into this data lake/warehouse.
Connect for Analytics was developed to connect BI tools to Planon for reporting/analytics and is optimized for this type of use case.