Deployment of a business intelligence (BI) meta model and a BI report specification for use in presenting data mining and predictive insights using BI tools

A computer system for processing Business Intelligence (BI) reports, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• storage coupled to the processor, wherein the storage stores a computer program, and wherein the computer program is executable by the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• using a database, coupled to the computer system, to generate information for consumption by a BI tool by:
• creating a description of data in one or more data tables, stored in the database, that identifies each column in each of the one or more data tables, wherein each column has multiple values;
• using the description of the data in the one or more data tables to create a new table, stored in the database, that includes a row for each value of the multiple values for each column in each of the one or more data tables and new columns for statistics about the data in the one or more data tables;
• generating BI meta information based on the description of the data in the one or more data tables and based on a schema and data of the new table that describes the columns for the statistics;
• generating a BI report specification that describes how a first BI report is to be rendered based on the schema and the data of the new table by describing a layout of data in the columns in each of the one or more data tables and in the columns for the statistics;
• deploying the BI meta information and the BI report specification to a BI server for use in generating the first BI report using the BI tool at the BI server;
• in response to a request for the first BI report,
• generating the first BI report dynamically with the BI tool at the BI server that dynamically invokes a stored procedure, stored in the database, with one or more parameters and that uses the BI meta information and the BI report specification to provide the statistics about the data in the one or more data tables;
• and
• displaying one or more graphs for the first BI report in a second screen;
• in response to another request for the first BI report after data in the one or more data tables has changed,
• using the new table to generate new BI meta information and a new BI report specification for use in generating a new BI report dynamically;
• and
• displaying one or more graphs for the new BI report in a second screen;
• in response to a request for a second BI report,
• using the new table to generate new BI meta information and another new BI report specification for use in generating a second BI report dynamically;
• and
• displaying one or more different graphs for the second BI report in a third screen.