using business intelligence to bring your data to life

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Bring Your Data to LifeBryan Guinn | President | Prism Technologies Group | @BryanJGuinnBrian Jones | Director of Special Projects | Bartlett Cocke General Contractors

The World of Data is Changing

“By 2015, organizations integrating high-value, diverse, new information types and sources into a coherent information management infrastructure will outperform their industry peers financially by more than 20%.”

– Gartner, Regina Casonato et al., “Information Management in the 21st Century”

Consumerization of IT

10x increase every five years

85% from new data types

Dataexplosion

4.3 connected devices per adult

27%using social media input

67%of businesses worldwide say BI is a top 10 priority1

Connect with customers

1. WW, Techaisle 2014 SMB Business Intelligence/Analytics Trends Study

Find and capitalize onthe best opportunities

Give your teams out-of-the-box interactive visualizations and dashboards that make it easy to quickly identify and act on opportunities.

Easily track, monitor, and prioritize opportunities1

Use easy point-and-click tools to instantly convert data into charts or tables, enter information faster with auto-complete, and easily summarize, analyze, and present massive amounts of data.

Process and analyze data in a few clicks 2

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Information Management Challenges• Information Workers spend too much time searching for data, and preparing it

for use instead of focusing on actually analyzing the data• IT spends too much time and resources servicing data requests from the

business while trying to secure and govern data access and use• The lack of trust in information continues as a significant inhibitor to businesses

Information Workers

(supported by )

IT Pros Data Stewards

(in midsize to very large organizations)

“…only business users close to the content can evaluate information in its business context” -- Gartner

Visualize your data in new ways

Funnel

Combo Chart

Gauge

Tree Map

Fill Map

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See all your data in a single pane of glassLive dashboards and interactive reports

• Monitor live dashboards for the data that matters most

• Track your data in real time with support for streaming data

• Drill through to underlying reports to explore and discover new insight

• Pin new visualizations and KPIs to monitor performance

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Source: https://www.g2crowd.com

Why Bartlett Cocke decided to use BI software?

• Recent implementation of ERP system, CMiC

• Limited report catalog• No standard key

performance indicators, KPI

• Opportunity to shape management goals

Features Improvements Pricing

Which BI software is best for us?

• Considered Power BI, Domo and Tableau

• Baby steps• SharePoint & Office 365

Where we started...

• Monthly “cost dumps” to project team in Excel

• No visual indicators• Easy to manipulate data• No ability to compare

projects to one another or to historical trends

Where we are...

• “Real time” project data• Variety of visual

indicators• Data can only be update

via ERP system• Historical and cross

project comparison

Q&A