Analyst Persona

A business analyst uses the Streaming Analytics Manager Stream Insight module to create time-series and real-time analytics dashboards, charts and graphs; and create rich customizable visualizations of data.

Stream Insight Key Concepts

The following table describes key concepts of the Stream Insights module.


Stream Insight Concept	Description
Analytics Engine	Stream Insight analytics engine is powered by Druid, an open source data store designed for OLAP queries on event data. Data can be streamed into the Analytics engine via the Druid/Analytics Engine Sink that app developers can use when building streaming apps. The analytics engine sink can stream data into new/existing insight cubes.
Insight Data Source	A insight data source is powered by Druid that represents the store for streaming data. The cube can be queried to do rollups, aggregations and other powerful analytics
Insight Slice	A visualization that can be created from asking questions of the data source. An insight can be added to the dashboard
Dashboard	Consists of a set of slices. Dashboards are created by the Business analysts to perform descriptive analytics

A business analyst can create a wide array of visualizations to gather insights on streaming data.

The platform supports over 30+ visualizations the business analyst can create.