creating insightful reports with data from sugar and other critical saas sources

Connection Cloud WebinarCreating Advanced Reports from

Sugar On Demand and other SaaS Sources

Murray Dunn Vice President,

Connection Cloud

• Introduction

• Why is creating reports with SaaS data a challenge?

• How do we solve this today?

• Enabling advanced reporting with Data Virtualization

• Demonstration

• Q&A

Today’s Topics

Introduction

ReportingWhat Happened?

AnalyticsWhy did it happen?

DashboardsWhat’s happening now?

Predictive AnalyticsWhat’s going to happen?

Com

plex

ity

Business Value

Prescriptive AnalyticsHow can we make it

happen?

Where is your business?

Maturity of your busin

ess requirements

Source: Gartner 2013

Source: Gartner 2013

There is no shortage of great reporting and BI tools…

Complexity is driven largely by access to the data

The problem of data isolated in “Data Silos” is worse than ever on the Cloud

The largest barrier to efficient information management is data spread across too many applications and systems, according to 67 percent of organizations, followed by multiple versions of the truth

(64%). Ventana Research, In the Cloud Benchmark Research, Sept-2012

Where the “Rubber hits the Road”…

Many of us have moved from on-premise toSoftware as a Service (SaaS) for many benefits…

However, we did give up some flexibility.

Where the “Rubber hits the Road”…

On Premise Systems SaaS Apps

Back in Year BC (Before Cloud)

On PremiseSystems

When we needed to do more with our data...

On PremiseSystems

We just used our preferred reporting tools…

When it comes to SaaS applications...

…the data is in the cloud, hidden behind the UI, APIs, authentication controls, etc…

How have companies solved this challenge?

3 examples…

1. The “CSV File Shuffle” Solution

2. The “Build an On-Premise Data Warehouse” Solution

3. The Custom Connector Solution

3. The Custom Connector Solution

In Minutes, andWithout Custom Development

How Connection Cloud Virtualizes Data to Solve

Advanced Reporting Challenges

For administrators and users of SaaS applications, who

are frustrated by the lack of access to that data for

custom reporting and analysis, we provide an easy

standards-based way to access data from any reporting

or BI tool.

Unlike traditional integration vendors, like Informatica

or Mulesoft, Connection Cloud enables access to data,

within minutes, and from where it resides, without

servers or engineering.

What is the Connection Cloud?

What if, you could access your SaaS data directly – from your favorite tools - like the data was on-premise.

Real-time Data Access in Minutes

Access to your SaaS data from where it resides

Real-time Data Access in Minutes

Contacts Accounts

Opportunities CasesContracts

ProductsLeads TasksUsers

Prospects

Real-time Data Access in Minutes

Then create virtual views that join multiple tables…

Contacts Accounts

Opportunities CasesContracts

ProductsLeads TasksUsers

Prospects

Virtual View: Customer Opportunities

Real-time Data Access in Minutes

And create virtual views that join from multiple tables from multiple applications (data sources)…

Virtual View: Customer Status

And not just for SugarCRM, but from any SaaS application, with any reporting tool…

Cloud Data Virtualization – Data Access in Minutes

Virtual View: Customer Status

When the volume of data impacts performance…

Virtual View: Customer Status

Data Warehouse

Hosted data warehousing, enabled in minutes.

Demonstration

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Murray Dunn Vice President,

Connection Cloud