CHAPTER 1

Getting Started

RTView is an open business information delivery platform that is used by IT Managers to rapidly configure, deploy, maintain, and extend real-time and other critical enterprise information systems. This enables management and operational personnel to monitor the health and status of business operations. The features of this platform extensively reduce time, cost, and risk associated with developing these systems.

RTView includes the Display Builder and the Display Viewer Application. The Display Builder is used to quickly build customized displays with objects that connect easily to live and archived data. Displays can be deployed in the Display Viewer Application. RTView supports a variety of built in data sources in addition to custom data sources. See the RTView Data Sources section of this documentation for more information.

Note: You may not be licensed to run all RTView data sources.

Following Setup and Registration, we suggest you begin by reviewing the Product Overview and completing the Quick Start Example before viewing the Sample Displays. Once you familiarize yourself with RTView, read through the documentation and complete the Examples for each component.

Product Overview

The Product Overview describes each component and explains how they interact within RTView.

Examples

These step-by-step guides will help you use each component more effectively. The Quick Start Tutorial will show you how to use the Display Builder, run the data simulators, attach objects to a variety of data sources, create drill down displays, and view your display in the Display Viewer Application.

Demos

See RTView Demos for how to utilize RTView in order to take full advantage of real-time dashboard displays of data.