US Patent 9286329 Generating analytics application using reusable application modules

Analytics applications are generated using application modules. An application module stores metadata for use in an analytics application. The application module is associated with one or more data fields that correspond to data used in the analytics reports of an application module. An application module may be a composite application module that includes other application modules. An analytics application is generated from a specification including a set of fields. The set of data fields of the specification are matched against the data fields of the application modules. An application module matches the specification of the analytics application if the specification includes all the data fields of the application module. All matching application modules are selected and sent for deployment of the analytics application. The analytics application generated is configured to present information based on analytics reports.