Datalogz BI Pillars

As BI Ops advocates, we believe that maintaining a healthy and efficient Business Intelligence (BI) environment requires focusing on four essential pillars: Security, Cost Management, Governance, and Performance. These pillars serve as the foundation of our product and define how we help organizations ensure their BI environments are secure, compliant, and performant, all while optimizing costs.

Security

Security is the continuous oversight of the BI environment. It ensures that data access, usage, and overall security protocols comply with organizational policies and industry standards. In a world where data breaches and unauthorized access can have serious consequences, robust security is a critical aspect of effective BI management.

Cost Management

Cost Management focuses on optimizing the resources and expenditure within your BI environment. It involves strategically managing licenses, infrastructure, and operational processes to ensure you get the maximum value from your BI investments without unnecessary waste.

Governance

Governance is the framework that controls the structure, management, and usage of BI assets across an organization. Effective governance ensures data is accurate, consistent, and compliant with organizational policies and industry standards. It encompasses data quality, usage, lifecycle management, and access control.

Performance

Performance ensures that your BI infrastructure operates smoothly and efficiently, supporting your organization's reporting and analytical needs without delay. This includes managing looking at storage types and system updates to guarantee rapid access to insights and a responsive user experience.

How it works

Datalogz helps address these four essential pillars by leveraging Datalogz Default Monitors. These monitors are pre-configured or user-customized SQL-based queries designed to track issues across each pillar. They continuously scan the BI environment for anomalies, rule breaches, or inefficiencies.

For example, Datalogz Monitors can:

• Identify unauthorized access attempts or suspicious data usage for Security.

• Track resource consumption and identify cost-saving opportunities for Cost Management.

• Flag outdated, inconsistent, or non-compliant reports and data models for Governance.

• Monitor query performance, and system configurations to ensure optimal Performance, including specific resource usage monitoring for Power BI users to prevent capacity overloads.

Alerts generated by these monitors are surfaced directly within the Datalogz platform, allowing users to take immediate action and maintain optimal security, cost-efficiency, governance, and performance across their BI tools.

Additionally, Datalogz offers the option for users to create their own custom monitors, allowing organizations to define their own specific metrics and track their BI environment based on internal governance and unique business needs. This flexibility enables users to tailor monitoring to their specific security, cost management, performance, and governance goals, ensuring that every aspect of their BI infrastructure is optimized and aligned with internal standards. Alerts generated by both default and custom monitors are surfaced within the platform, enabling immediate action and ensuring optimal operations and compliance across all BI tools.