Platform Analytics, is an analysis tool for Platform LSF environments that employs OLAP techniques to analyze long-term historical data for a variety of purposes useful to the business. These include, project and capacity planning, resource usage accounting and chargeback applications, and the identification of opportunities to improve efficiency or avoid cost.

Platform Analytics, a key component of the Platform Manage suite, is designed for:

• Capacity planners needing to visualize their hardware and software resource usage trends to make better informed planning decisions 
• Project planners wishing to conduct root-cause analysis to remove bottlenecks and to ensure that projects are obtaining their fair share of resources required to run optimally
• Business analysts wanting to correlate activities with service levels, find opportunities for cost reduction, and account for how resource are being consumed by business unit and project with a view to implementing chargeback-based accounting.

How you can benefit from Platform Analytics:

• Ensure that projects are running efficiently and have access to their fair share of software license and hardware resources
• Analyze why projects are not running optimally and how to leverage idle resources to speed up project progress
• Provide accurate monthly and quarterly resource consumption reports by business units for chargeback purposes
• Use historical usage trends for identifying periods and patterns of under and over supply of resources and to forecast future resource demands
• Analyze opportunities for resource sharing across business units, and provide justifications for hardware and software purchases
• Report on service level in terms of service availability, throughput, and efficiency to highlight to business executives where improvements are required

Selected facts about Platform Analytics:

• Optimized for ad hoc query – pre-joined tables, optimized for millions of query combinations with fast, interactive response-time, eliminate need to define and optimize SQL queries one at a time
• Optimized for large data volumes – millions of daily and hourly sampled data points, automatically aggregated over multiple years, ensure instant data availability for analysis
• Flexible charting and presentation tools – user-friendly 2D and 3D charts and tables allow analysts to quickly visualize their data in a suitable format with little or no training
• Personalized reports – construct personalized, analytic models using intuitive, "drag-n-drop," "slice, dice, and drill" user interface to fit specific analysis needs
• Data loader failover support – data collection interruption is kept to a minimum through monitoring and automatic restart of data loaders in case of failure
• Data loss protection – Platform Analytics automatically detects and recovers from database access interruptions to minimize any data loss during slow network performance, or peak database workload
• Proven scalability – Platform Analytics is proven to scale to the largest Platform LSF production environments – with millions of jobs and license events per day, from multiple clusters around the globe – data is collected, aggregated, correlated and transformed automatically into report-ready data marts for day-to-day ad hoc query and reporting