From open data to API-driven business

From open data to API-driven business

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  From Open Datato Open APIs Future plants of sustainable innovation David Thoumas – CTO 12/4/2012 with OpenDataSoft 1 think bigdata. start smartdata. scale fastdata
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  WHO ARE WE? 2
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  OpenDataSoft the data driveninnovation company Full featured cloud-based platform for • operating ones own data driven innovation hubs • speeding-up new data-centric services go-to-market • leverage both cloud elasticity & big data fields Smart metering, M2M, data API … thanks to its integrated platform of Data Management & Data Publishing, OpenDataSoft helps its customers to set up and operate their own data open platform dedicated to new services go-to-market, leveraging cloud computing & big data technologies. 3
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  OpenDataSoft the data driveninnovation company OpenDataSoft builds a services centric platform 4
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  OpenDataSoft the data driveninnovation company The 3 main platform pillars • Big Data Management • Data Smart Publishing • Data API Factory 5
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  FROM [OPEN] DATA TO OPENAPIS 6
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  Open Data Strategy? « Open data strategy should be a top priority for any organization that uses the Web as a channel for delivering goods and services … Open data APIs are a lightweight approach to data exchange. Their use is now considered a best practice for opening data and functionality to developers and other businesses. » (Gartner – août 2012) 7
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  What problem dowe solve ? Removing the barriers between Data and Applications. • For Business users / analysts • Who know their data • To think and design their applications • With a quick Go To Live • Without needing to instantiate a complex IT project Building applications in days, no more in months or years 8
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  How do wesolve this problem ? Functionalities Data procurement • File extraction • Pulling from remote sources (Web, DB, …) • Pushing through APIs • And sometimes, MDM Data preparation • Fields mapping • Simple transformations (geo coords, text, …) • Complex transformations (geocoding, analytics, …) Data publishing • Simple Web UI (navigate into the data) • API Factory (search, facetting, aggregation) 9
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  How do wesolve this problem ? Technologies NoSQL • Schema less Search • Highly scalable • New flavor of applications • Mixing – Traditionnal search approach In the Cloud – And Big Data analytics … and Python … because it’s cool ! • Sustained by a brilliant and huge community • Allows for multi-facets development patterns 10
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  How do wesolve this problem ? Performances One platform for any scale use case. Store datasets of tens of millions of records or even hundreds of millions of records. With sub-second response time in simple real-time analytical processing tasks. 11
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  And, at theend ? API factory => Application factory Smart Metering … … Mobile applications … 12
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  DEEP DIVE INTO OPENDATASOFT’SAPI FACTORY 13
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  API Factory Demo [DEMO …] 14
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  API Factory Functionalities forrich modern applications Cross datasets search Full Text Search Numerical and rangesearch Field search Using standards Geographical filtering Analytical processing Streaming of large results sets 15
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  API Factory Developer oriented Documentation Test console 16
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  www.opendatasoft.com twitter: @opendatasoft Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/opendatasoft LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/company/opendatasoft QUESTIONS ? 17