- Hello and welcome everyone.
Today we will introduce you to eazyBI reports
and charts for Jira.
This is the first episode of the series
on how to create eazyBI reports.
During the video, you'll get to know eazyBI
and have a quick overview of its basic concepts.
EazyBI is a powerful analytics and reporting app for Jira.
With eazyBI, you can build custom reports,
charts and dashboards from your Jira issues
with just a few clicks.
Jira contains several built-in reports
and filtering options.
so you may be asking, how is eazyBI different?
As the name indicates,
eazyBI is a business intelligence or BI tool.
Using eazyBI's drag and drop builder,
you can explore, gather and compare data in new ways.
And extract the information you need
to quickly answer specific questions.
For example, while Jira reports
and JQL queries are helpful for gathering Jira issue data,
they don't always solve the tricky questions
like totals, averages and other custom calculations.
In this video, we will take a quick overview
of the three main steps that enable teams
to begin benefiting from the many business intelligence
capabilities of eazyBI.
Importing data, create report and finally publish them.
Let's look into each of these steps in more detail.
EazyBI is a non-realtime analysis tool
which means the data you want to analyze
must first be imported from a source system like Jira.
In addition, eazyBI can accept data from Jira apps,
SQL databases, REST:API and other data sources.
Use them separately or combine them
with a Jira issue information.
Data importing ensures that
Jira issues information is organized
in a more report friendly structure.
Imported data are organized into the building blocks
of eazyBI reports called measures and dimensions.
Let's take a closer look at the measures and dimensions.
All numerical while using Jira
are imported as measures,
and can be things like original estimate values,
or created or resolved issue counts.
As you may know,
Jira issues have fields that contain data
like issue type, assignee, resolution and so on.
These data and the Jira issue themselves
are imported into eazyBI as dimensions.
While dimensions identify the information being analyzed,
measures show the quantitative value of it.
Being able to separately pull dimensions and measures,
eazyBI allows you to analyze data
that within Jira may not be related.
This means you can answer questions such as
how many hours have been logged
for all stories within the last month.
Once the initial data import is completed,
automatic update between eazyBI and Jira
can be scheduled.
For example, once a day or even every hour.
Manual data updates are always available too.
Once the data are imported,
they're ready to be used in report creation.
In the eazyBI drag and drop report builder,
all imported dimensions and measures appear automatically.
They can be added, removed and combined
in the report builder to quickly build custom Jira reports
or simply explore the data.
At first, you will likely use only the predefined measures.
As you get more comfortable with eazyBI,
you can start creating your own custom calculations
using the powerful MDX editor.
With syntax highlighting, and auto complete.
Once you select all the measures
and dimensions for the report,
you then choose how to represent data.
Put them into a pivot table, a bar or a pie chart,
or a combination of columns, ranges and lines.
The last but not least phase is publishing reports,
which makes it possible to share them
with your team and stakeholders.
There are several ways to do that.
For instance, you can combine the reports created in eazyBI
into a dashboard that tells the story
about the project's progress in a glance.
Which is perfect for sharing
on a large screen in the office.
Alternatively, use the eazyBI for confluence app
to share reports on a project space.
Before we wrap up, let's do a quick knowledge check.
What are the main eazyBI process steps?
Import data, trade reports, published reports.
Correct data, draw smooth lines, print results.
Identification, specification, representation.
Import Data, trade reports, published reports.
This is the correct answer.
What are measures and dimensions in eazyBI?
Measures are kilometers,
centimeters, millimeters, and so on.
Dimensions are height, depth and width.
Dimensions are alternative worlds,
measures are number of worlds.
Measures are a collection of quantitative metrics
and dimensions are lists of values.
Correct, measures are a collection of quantitative metrics
and dimensions are lists of values.
In this video we covered the basics of getting started.
What is eazyBI?
What are the main process steps?
As well as the most important terms in eazyBI,
measures and dimensions.
In the next episode, we will learn about eazyBI accounts
and how to import Jira data into them.
By the way, it's me Robert.
Meet you in the next video.