Validation and testing of data in Business Intelligence Reports is challenging. QuerySurge, the leading data validation and testing solution, has developed the new BI Tester add-on to provide a successful approach to solving the problem of testing the data embedded in these BI reports. Learn how QuerySurge provides: - Business validation of BI reports - Full regression testing of underlying BI data - Migration testing from one BI vendor to another - Upgrade testing from one version to another - Comparison of reports between two servers - Passing of parameters to a report - Querying of report metadata Go to www.QuerySurge.com for more information or for a free trial.

1. Bill Hayduk
CEO
Business Intelligence Webinar
Matt Moss
Product Manager
Bevin Talty
Marketing Coordinator
Business Intelligence
Report Testing:
Using QuerySurge to automate the
data testing of your BI reports
QuerySurge™
Webinar team

2. Agenda
QuerySurge™
a software division of
•About QuerySurge
•BI report testing challenges
•QS BI Tester solution
•Product demo

3. a software division of
the automated Data Validation & Testing solution
About QuerySurge
QuerySurge™

4. is the leading testing solution for
automated validation & testing of Big Data
QuerySurge
QuerySurge™
Use Cases
a software division of
What is QuerySurge?

5. • Market leader and visionary in automated data testing
• Launched in 2012, has 100+ customers in 17 countries
• Partner Ecosystem boasts 35 world-renowned Technology
companies, global System Integrators, & regional consulting
firms
• Briefs leading analyst firms and appears in their reports as the
recommended solution for data testing
• Named Top 50 companies driving Big Data Innovation by
Database Trends and Applications
• In-depth training: Knowledge Base, videos, classroom training,
& free Customer & Partner Training Portals
• Sets the gold standard for PoC and post-sale support
QuerySurge: Leading the Way
a software division ofQuerySurge™

6. QuerySurge Analyst Briefings
Recently briefed Gartner on:
• How to automate Data Warehouse testing
• How to automate Business Intelligence Report testing
Assisted with information and on recommendations for 2 papers:
“Tools that support testing of both the BI layer and the data layer provide the most
expansive coverage, and are the most helpful in validating semantic rules.”
- Gartner specifically named QuerySurge in report: 4 Actions to Optimize your BI Environment
Other recent briefings include:
(BI Testing) (Automated Testing)

7. QuerySurge™
Where QuerySurge fits into your data strategy
a software division of

8. Business Intelligence & Analytics
CxOs are using Business Intelligence & Analytics to make critical business decisions
– with the assumption that the underlying data is fine.
“The average organization loses
$14.2 million annually through
poor Data Quality.”
- Gartner
Data Architecture
The Executive Office and Critical Data
Typical data issue
areas
ETL
Mainframe

9. QuerySurge supports the following data stores…
• Amazon Redshift, Elastic Map Reduce, DynamoDB
• Apache Hadoop/Hive, Spark
• Cassandra
• Cloudera
• Couchbase
• Exasol
• Flat Files (delimited, fixed-width)
• Hortonworks
• IBM (Cognos, Db2, Netezza, Informix, Big Insights, Cloudant, MDM)
• JSON files
• Mainframe
• MAPR
• Micro Focus Vertica
• Microsoft (SQL Server DWH, HDInsight, PDW, SSAS, Excel, Access,
SharePoint)
• MicroStrategy
• MongoDB
• Oracle (Oracle DB, MySQL, Exadata, NoSQL, Hadoop)
• Pivotal GreenPlum
• PostgreSQL
• Salesforce
• SAP (Business Objects, HANA, IQ, ASE, Altiscale Data Cloud)
• Snowflake
• Tableau
• Teradata, Aster
• Workday
• XML
…and any other data store
QuerySurge Supports 50+ Data Stores
Flat Files
Excel

10. Web-based…
Supported OS...
Connects through…
…to any JDBC compliant data source
QuerySurge™
QuerySurge
Controller
QuerySurge Server
DB Server (MySQL)
App Server (Tomcat)
QuerySurge Agents
(Ships with 10 Agents)
a software division of
QuerySurge Environment
Installs...
…in the Cloud…on a VM…on a Bare Metal Server

11. QuerySurge Modules
Design
Library
SchedulingRun
Dashboard
Deep-Dive
Reporting
Data Health
Dashboard
Query
Wizards
a software division ofQuerySurge™

12. ✓ Drive QuerySurge execution from your Test Management Solution
✓ See QuerySurge Pass/Fail results in your Test Management solution
✓ Click link to drill into detailed results in QuerySurge
Integration with leading
Test Management Solutions
• Micro Focus ALM/QC (formerly HPE)
• Microsoft DevOps (formerly TFS & VSTS)
• IBM Rational Quality Manager
a software division of
QuerySurge Test Management Connectors
QuerySurge™

13. Automated
Testing
Automated
Reporting
Automated
Launch
a software division of
QuerySurge DevOps: Continuous Delivery & Integration
QuerySurge™
Data Integration/ETL
solutions
QuerySurge™
and many others…
email
report
and many others…
QuerySurge™
Build/Configuration
solutions
email
report
Test Management
solutions
QuerySurge™
email
report

14. BI Report Testing challenges
QuerySurge™ a software division of

15. BI Report testing: the Challenge
Most Common Use Cases
1) Compare visualization (and underlying numbers) on
BI report to backend data store(s)
2) Compare one report to another report
3) Ensure reports have been updated correctly
4) Compare to trends & normal business operations
i.e. normal sales by day

16. The Most Common Data Validation Method
Most Common Validation Methods
• “Stare & Compare”
• Standard functional automation tools (i.e. Selenium)
Challenge of Testing BI Reports
• BI testing is mostly a manual process
• Use of Flash and other technologies is problematic

17. 10/9/2018 17
QuerySurge BI Tester add-on
Provides a successful approach to solving the problem of testing the
data embedded in BI solutions
QuerySurge™ a software division of

18. Comparison of report data
Source
Data
Target
BI Reports
Reports, Data Health Dashboard,
automated emails
Results – pass/fail
Source Data
Data Stores
• BI reports
• Databases
• Data Warehouses
• Data Marts
• Big Data Stores
BI Tester add-on
Target Data
BI solutions
• Tableau
• IBM Cognos
• SAP BusinessObjects
• MicroStrategy
• others
QuerySurge BI Tester add-on connects:
data stores BI reports or
BI Reports BI Reports

19. ETL Developer: Codes data movement based on Mapping Requirements
Data Warehouse
ETL
Data Tester: Tests data movement based on Mapping Requirements
Data Mart
ETL
Source Data Big Data lake
Testing Point #1 Testing Point #2 Testing Points #3
BI & Analytics
User extracts data
for reports
Testing Point #4
Tester tests BI
Reports
End-to-End Data Testing: Developer & Tester

20. Example: Querying report data from Tableau
Tableau reports
QuerySurge extracts inflation info
QuerySurge returns result set
Compares to data in a
data mart or in another report

21. Front Line Support:
• Technical Resources available for POCs
(7:30am – 9:00pm New York time)
• Web conferencing sessions
• QuerySurge Customer Portal (free)
• QuerySurge Partner Portal (free)
Additional Support:
• Ticket support
• Knowledge Base
• Videos / Slide decks
QuerySurge™ Support

22. BI Tester Resources
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to access the YouTube playlist, click here>>
free Knowledge Base
BI Tester Videos
free Training Portals
to access the free
Customer Training Portal
click here>>
to access the free
Partner Training Portal
click here>>
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BI Tester information
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