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Using SAP Crystal Reports
as a Linked (Open) Data clientvia
Virtuoso’s ODBC Driver
By Kingsley Idehen (@kidehen)
Founder & CEO, OpenLink Software
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Situation Analysis
Agility is the timeless pursuit of enterprises and individuals alike. In all cases, access, integration,
and dissemination of data is pivotal.
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Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud
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Situation Analysis
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Data is growing exponentially along the
following dimensions:
•Volume -- production
•Velocity – dissemination fire-hoses
•Variety – APIs and underlying data Models
•Virtuosity – insight discovery expectations.
All of this happens while the total hours in day
remains constant at 24 hours!
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Product Value Proposition
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Enterprise and Individual Agility
via Data Virtualization, without
compromising performance,
scalability, security, or
investments in existing
infrastructure!
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Product Architecture
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A high-performance, scalable,
secure, and operating-system-
independent server designed
to handle contemporary
challenges associated with
data access, data integration,
and data management.
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Data Virtualization Middleware
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An in-built middleware layer
(“Sponger”) for creating
Linked Data Views over
Heterogeneous Data
Sources.
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Pluggable Linked Data Cartridges/Drivers
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A collection of prefabricated
and customizable Data
Extraction, Transformation,
and Lookup cartridges
(drivers) covering a vast
ranges of data formats and
data access protocols.
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Sophisticated Content Crawler
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DBMS hosted Content
Crawler that leverages
loosely coupled binding to
the Sponger Middleware
component for
transformation of
unstructured and semi-
structured data into Linked
Data.
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How Do I Get Going?
Download, install, and experience the power of coherent integration of disparate data sources, data access protocols, and data representation formats.
In an nutshell, commence exploitation of powerful business intelligence, socially enhanced collaboration, data virtualization, and entity analytics without writing a line of code!
Turn "Big Data" into exploitable "Smart Data" without compromise!
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How Does Virtuoso Expose LOD Cloud Data To ODBC Clients?
Creation of ODBC accessible SQL Views using SPASQL (SPARQL inside SQL) that targets local data
Ditto via SPARQL-FED (Federated SPARQL) for external SPARQL endpoints.
Example instances include:
DBpedia (Linked Data version of Wikipedia content and LOD Cloud nexus)
URIBurner Service for “on the fly” transformation of data from: LinkedIn, Facebook,
Twitter, Google+, Freebase, Disqus etc.
Live Linked Open Data LOD Cloud Cache.
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Virtuoso ODBC Driver Installation &
Configuration
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Install Virtuoso ODBC Driver
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Installer
Wizard
Screen
#1
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Install Virtuoso ODBC Driver
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Installer
Wizard
Screen
#2
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Install Virtuoso ODBC Driver
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Installer
Wizard
Screen
#3
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Install Virtuoso ODBC Driver
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Installer
Wizard
Screen
#4
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Install Virtuoso ODBC Driver
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Installer
Wizard
Screen
#5
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Install Virtuoso ODBC Driver
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Installer
Wizard
Screen
#6
Done!
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Using Crystal Reports & ODBC
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Start
Application
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Attaching External Tables via ODBC -1
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Start External
Table
Attachment
Wizard
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Attaching External Tables via ODBC - 2
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Table Attachment
Wizard will
automatically use the
ODBC Administrator
to Lookup Existing
Data Source Names
(DSNs)
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Attaching External Tables via ODBC - 3
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There isn’t an existing
Virtuoso ODBC Data
Source Name in place,
so we select the File
Data Source Name
radio button.
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Attaching External Tables via ODBC - 4
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Select the Google
Drive File to which
the Virtuoso ODBC
File DSN resolves.
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Attaching External Tables via ODBC - 5
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Select the Google
Drive File to which
the Virtuoso ODBC
File DSN resolves.
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Attaching External Tables via ODBC - 6
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Select the Google
Drive File to which
the Virtuoso ODBC
File DSN resolves.
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Connecting to Configured ODBC DSN - 1
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Database
Authentication
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Connecting to Configured ODBC DSN - 2
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Selecting an actual
Virtuoso Server
hosted Database
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Connecting to Configured ODBC DSN - 3
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Selecting an actual
Virtuoso Server
hosted Database
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Setting Up Remote Table Utilization
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Selecting Fields
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Setting Up Remote Table Utilization -- 2
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Selecting Fields
For Group By Use
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Selecting Report Template
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Initial Report (with Group By in applied)
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Query Results
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Setting Up Drill-Down based on Groups
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Query Results
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New Report Page From Drill-Down
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Query Results
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Benefits?
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Progressive Intelligence Accumulation via Links!
StructuredData
Structured Data
StructuredData
StructuredData
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End Game?
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Our Agility !!
Your Agility++ Their Agility++ My Agility++
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OpenLink Company Overview OpenLink Software is a privately-held company founded in 1992 by its President &
CEO, Kingsley Idehen. The company is an industry acclaimed technology innovator in the following areas:
ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and OLE-DB compliant Data Access Drivers for Oracle, SQL Server, Informix, Ingres, Sybase, Progress, MySQL, and PostgreSQL
High-Performance & Scalable Multi-Model (Relational & Graph) Database Technology
Data Integration Middleware (Data Virtualization Technology across a wide variety of Protocols & Formats)
Linked Data Deployment & Management
Web Application Server Technology
Socially-enhanced Distributed Collaborative Applications Platforms (Weblogs, Wikis, Feed Aggregation and Syndication, Web File Systems, Discussion Forums, etc.)
Identity Management.
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Products & ServicesSoftware Products
• OpenLink Universal Data Access Drivers (UDA) - High-performance data access drivers for ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and OLE DB that provide transparent access to enterprise databases.
• OpenLink Virtuoso - available in single server and cluster editions that are deployed in cloud and/or enterprise modes.
• OpenLink Data Spaces Platform and Applications
• OpenLink Ajax Toolkit
• OpenLink Data Explorer
• An Open Source Data Access SDK for ODBC
All OpenLink products are delivered by download from the Internet (http, ftp, etc.). Temporary licenses are issued upon download and may be extended as needed, on a case-by-case basis. Permanent licenses are issued once payment is received.
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Products & ServicesProfessional and Support Services
• OpenLink Product Support provides front-line email and phone support,web-based online support, and a variety of premium services such as phone, emergency, and onsite support.
• Our Support staff is comprised of individuals with extensive knowledge of data access, data migration, database administration, programming APIs, and other relevant skills.
• Services are sold in either Standard "Bronze" or Premium "Platinum" Support packages, with varying hours of availability, response times, etc.
• We also offer Custom Development, Training, and other Consultancy services. These services can be offered on- or off-site. Expenses for travel, accommodations, food, etc., associated with on-site services are charged separately.
Rates start at US$250 per person per hour.
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Office Locations
USA
OpenLink Software, Inc 10 Burlington Mall Road Suite 265 Burlington, MA 01803 Tel.: +1 781 273 0900 Fax: +1 781 229 8030
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UK
OpenLink Software Ltd. Airport House Purley Way Croydon, Surrey CR0 0XZ Tel.: +44 (0)20 8681 7701 Fax: +44 (0)20 8681 7702
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Additional Information
OpenLink Software: OpenLink Software OpenLink Virtuoso Universal Data Access Drivers
Social Media Data spaces http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/ (weblog) https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/
posts (Google+) https://twitter.com/#!/kidehen (Twitter) Hashtag: #LinkedData (Anywhere) .
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