Appendix A. Self-Assessment Rating Chart

The Self-Assessment Rating Chart provides a quick checklist of requirements that will help you determine how close your organization’s BI application is to providing real-time, interactive Big Data visualizations. Try rating your organization on a scale from 1 to 6, with 1 being unprepared and 6 being totally prepared.

Criterion 1 2 3 4 5 6

Able to receive data from all sources?

Easy to add new sources?

Joins data from multiple sources seamlessly?

Accepts real-time streams?

Works with common cloud providers?

Easy to scale flexibly, such as through microservices?

Recognizes underlying fine-grained security controls?

Runs in memory?

Supports common filtering, grouping, and limits?

Embeddable through JavaScript and CSS, for white labeling?

Mobile friendly, with the same features available on desktop and mobile devices?

Able to alter display in response to user interaction?

Response time of a few seconds?

Updates automatically in real time?

Able to connect historical and real-time data?

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