Introduction - Advanced Analytics API

Description

The Advanced Analytics API is an AG5 service that provides data to be used in Data Analytics or Data Visualization tools. The provided data comes from the AG5 DataLake, is derived from the data stored in the AG5 system, and selected with the purpose of delivering additional insights.

Elements

The key elements of AG5 Advanced Analytics are:

1. Data stored on Google Cloud Platform

   1. Compliance Computations

   2. Statistics

   3. Entities

   4. Events

2. Access methods

   1. REST API

   2. Google Cloud Service account

3. Data preparation (not provided by AG5)

4. Visualization (not provided by AG5)

All these elements will be detailed in the following articles.

Frequency

The Advanced Analytics data is calculated or refreshed at least daily.

Data Volumes

The Advanced Analytics can be connected to Visualization tools like Power BI. However, these tools can be limited. In general the use of the Advanced Analytics API requires the data to be loaded into your own Data Warehouse or Data Lake via an ETL Pipeline, only small datasets with less than 1000 records (skills, employees, alerts) will probably not need an intermediate storage.

Security

Data security is crucial for any organization, and the Advanced Analytics data is bound to the same strict data protection methods as all other AG5 data.

The data is securely stored in Google BigQuery (hosted in Europe). When providing a customer with access to Advanced Analytics data, AG5 will carefully inform about which data elements will be exposed.

It is the customer’s responsibility to to set up data governance around the use of the provided data within their organization.