Using HDF5 as best practices for a business intelligence initiative

Abstract

The goal of this report is to detail the internship done by the student Tiago Pombeiro in the company Sysvalue. The internship is a partial requirement for obtaining the Master's degree in Information Management with the specialization on Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence. The work done places in the development of a component of the product Lighthouse, a platform of continuous monitoring as a service developed and commercialized by Sysvalue. More specifically the component in question focuses in a system for: capture, storage, provision and presentation of the performance data that is captured by the services / infrastructures that are being monitored by the platform, proving the advantages of the use of data format Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5). The development of this component was applied to a business intelligence initiative so that the good practices of this field would be applied. This report starts by giving an introduction to the context and goals where the internship is inserted upon, followed by the detailed description of the background, context and objectives of the internship itself. After it is presented the literature background focused on the development of business intelligence projects, as well for HDF5 concepts and purposes - all subjects that were relevant for the internship practical work. Hereafter the used methodology is described, from which the task and schedule were defined. Subsequently to this section a presentation of the results of the tasks is done, followed by a critical opinion about them. To finalize it is presented the possible future works that can follow this project presented as well a pragmatic reflexion of the internship.