Earlier this month, we at Explore Analytics unveiled ground-breaking new Business Service Reporting, designed to make true mature service-oriented analytics possible for the first time.

One of the barriers of achieving true Business Service Reporting in the past is complex CMDB hierarchies that need to be understood in order to deliver mature Business Service-focused analytics.

When we spoke to our customers, we understood quickly that aligning incidents, problems, changes, and availability to the business service would be only a starting point for many customers. IT Environments are frequently mapping their CMDB up to multiple levels of Services and Applications.

In this blog post, we’ll walk through an example to show how we can easily produce live reports against a multi-tiered service hierarchy in a way that is intuitive and easy-to-use.

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Explore Analytics empowers user to understand information through advanced analytics using an intuitive, self-service user-interface.

It does this by allowing non-technical users to generate powerful visualizations using drag-and-drop selections and drop-down choices, rather than needing scripts, code, or database work.

For many who’ve worked with business intelligence tools in the past, this may be a conceptual adjustment. As such, I’m frequently asked the question, “Where do I put the SQL?” In fact, Explore Analytics makes it even easier — allowing you to do a lot of what you did before in SQL using an intuitive graphical interface.

To show you what I mean, we’ll walk through an example that shows how we build queries easily, and how you can shift away from writing code to getting information.

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