Reporting Meeting, 2009-10-13

See Reporting Meetings for meeting logistics.

Agenda and Minutes

Agenda

1. Welcome new workgroup members
2. Call for last minute agenda changes
3. Reminder to register for Reporting-specific mailing list at http://open-services.net/mailman/listinfo/oslc-reporting_open-services.net
4. Update on outstanding actions
5. Discuss Use Cases (ReportingUseCases)

Outstanding Action Items

Action Item: Scott Fairbrother to followup with CAST, Actuate, BusinessObject.

Action Item: Tack Tong to followup with Accenture, Cognos, Pentaho, Tivoli

• Jim Daly from Cognos and Joan Touzet from Accenture join the workgroup.

Action Item: Tack Tong to followup with OSLC leads in other topics to solicitate external service providers.

• Email sent. No response so far.

Action Item: Benjamin Williams to followup with InfoSphere Data Architect.

Minutes

Attendees: TackTong, XiangDongHu, JoanTouzet, StevePitschke, ScottFairbrother, JimDaly? , BenjaminWilliams, SebRose

Regrets: SteveAbrams, JamesMoody, DragosCojocari, MikKersten, ScottBosworth

1. Welcome new members

• JimDaly? , Cognos
• JoanTouzet, Accenture
• StevePitschke, IBM Rational

2. ScottFairbrother reported that business partners need to understand the value of the REST interfaces while direct DB access is readily available. This is related to solicitate more vendor participation.

Action Item: TackTong to arrange off-line call to discuss and address this. (TackTong, ScottFairbrother, XiangDongHu) TackTong to consult ArthurRyman on his experience with the OSLC Software Estimation workgroup.

3. Use Case Discussion

• It was identified that we need to start the use cases with a section on what is the motivation behind the need to have an open RESTful API for Reporting.
• Action item: StevePitschke and BenjaminWilliams to draft this motivation section.
• Action item: BenjaminWilliams to draft document gen. high level use case.
• Action item: TackTong to add a terminology section.
• Action item: Tack to update ReportingUseCases
  • remove assumption of ETL; should only reference as an example
  • separate reporting system design and report/template design

Next week

• ReportingUseCases discussion continuing....

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