LS Insight is a BI solution that gives you access to all the data analysis power and reporting options you need – with none of the complications attached to building your own data warehouse.
LS Insight is built by LS Retail on Power BI, which is Microsoft’s Business Intelligence service in the cloud. When you use LS Insight, you get access to reporting optimized datasets, and all the Microsoft Power BI reports with their advanced calculations and relationships.
You can download it for free, and use as is, or as a base for your data warehouse and Business Intelligence environment.
The first free version used Azure Data Factory V1 (ADF V1) to collect relevant data and store in an Azure SQL database, but the current version uses ADF V2.
Here is an architecture overview of the product:
Prerequisites
Before starting the onboarding process for LS Insight, you need to make sure your customer fulfills the following requirements:
- Customer must have an LS Central license at LS Retail.
- Customer must be active on maintenance for the LS Central license during his or her subscription.
- Customer must have a subscription for Power BI.
- Customer must be on LS Central version 8.4 or later on-premise. We have not yet added support for LS Central 15.0 and later in-cloud.
Onboarding
Everything you need to run LS Insight is created during the onboarding process. This includes the Azure data factory, Azure SQL server, and the Data warehouse. Note: Therefore, do not create any of these manually.