at the tipping point: considerations for cloud bi in a multi-platform bi enterprise
TRANSCRIPT
Grab some coffee and enjoy the pre-show banter before the top of the hour!
The Briefing Room
At the Tipping Point: Considerations for Cloud BI in a Multi-platform Enterprise
Twitter Tag: #briefr
The Briefing Room
! Reveal the essential characteristics of enterprise software, good and bad
! Provide a forum for detailed analysis of today’s innovative technologies
! Give vendors a chance to explain their product to savvy analysts
! Allow audience members to pose serious questions... and get answers!
Mission
Twitter Tag: #briefr
The Briefing Room
Topics
This Month: CLOUD
April: BIG DATA
May: DATABASE
2014 Editorial Calendar at www.insideanalysis.com/webcasts/the-briefing-room
Twitter Tag: #briefr
The Briefing Room
Big Data
Twitter Tag: #briefr
The Briefing Room
Analyst: Wayne Eckerson
Wayne Eckerson has been a thought leader in the business intelligence and analytics field since the early 1990s. He is a sought-after consultant, noted speaker and bestselling author who thinks critically, writes clearly and presents persuasively about complex topics. Eckerson is president of Eckerson Group, LLC (www.eckerson.com), a business-technology consulting firm that helps business leaders use data and technology to drive better insights and actions.
Twitter Tag: #briefr
The Briefing Room
Birst
! Birst offers a SaaS-based, multi-tenant BI platform; it can also be deployed on-premise
! The Birst solution is capable of unifying siloed technologies, automating data management and providing agile enterprise-class BI and analytics
! Birst’s approach enables self-service analytics by allowing business users to manage and add new data sources, create custom dashboards and collaborate across the organization
Twitter Tag: #briefr
The Briefing Room
Guest: Brad Peters
Brad Peters is the CEO and co-founder of Birst. Brad has spent the last 10 years building analytics products and solutions. Prior to working at Birst, he helped found and later led the Analytics product line at Siebel Systems, which forms the basis of Oracle’s current OBIEE product family. Brad started his career as an investment banker for Morgan Stanley in the New York M&A practice. Brad regularly blogs for Forbes.com where he writes about Cloud and business software related issues.
Enterprise-caliber Cloud BI
CLOUD BI AT THE TIPPING POINT
March 2014
11
ANALYTICS NEEDS VARY
Financial Analyst
I want to track performance in specially designed dashboard
Product Manager Can I ask some ad-hoc “business” questions – without
touching the dirty data?
Why do we spend so much time arguing over who has
the “right” number? Sales Ops
Manager
VP of Operations
Distribute a report looking exactly this way every morning to thousand of
clients
12
Pixel Perfect Enterprise Reporting
GLUT OF BI Distributed Interactive Dashboards
Visual Data Discovery and Exploration Predictive Analytics
Rich Analytic Design Studio Mobile Analytics
13
YET…NEEDS STILL NOT MET
Extract Business Context Visualize
0
50
100
North
South
West
East
Top priority
Lower priority
Extract Business Context Visualize
0
50
100
North
South
West
East
Extract Business Context Visualize
0
50
100
North
South
West
East
10-15 FTE
14
BI ARCHITECTURE CHALLENGES • The “back-end”
• The “front-end”
Speed of business
Data governance
IT asset strategy
Different end-user consumption models
15
Pixel Perfect Enterprise Reporting
MEETING DIFFERENT DATA CONSUMPTION NEEDS
Distributed Interactive Dashboards
Visual Data Discovery and Exploration Predictive Analytics
Rich Analytic Design Studio Mobile Analytics
16
Automated Data
Management
Automated Historical & AnalyBc Data
Store
Logical Layer
Smart AnalyBc Engine
Enterprise Reporting
ENTERPRISE CALIBER CLOUD BI "ONE LOGICAL MODEL IN ONE LOGIN
Interactive Dashboards
Visual Discovery
Design Studio
Mobile Analytics
Predictive Analytics
17
Automated Data
Management
Automated Historical & AnalyBc Data
Store
Logical Layer
Smart AnalyBc Engine
Enterprise Reporting
AGILITY WITH GOVERNANCE "LOW-RISK LOW-MAINTENANCE CLOUD DEPLOYMENT
Interactive Dashboards
Visual Discovery
Design Studio
Mobile Analytics
Predictive Analytics
Top priority
Lower priority
10-15 FTE
1- 2 FTE
18
WHO IS BIRST
• Enterprise-Caliber BI Platform – born in the cloud
• 10,000+ organizations rely on Birst across all verticals
• Founded by Siebel Analytics veterans
• 80+ Strategic Partners
“ No. 1 in product functionality and customer (that is, product quality, no problems with software, support) and
sales experience.”
2014 Challenger
Twitter Tag: #briefr
The Briefing Room
Perceptions & Questions
Analyst: Wayne Eckerson
© Eckerson Group LLC
Are you currently using the cloud for any components in your BI program?
20
28%
67%
5%
36%
63%
1%
Yes
No
Not sure
2013 2011
© Eckerson Group LLC
Which type of cloud infrastructure do you use to support your BI ini9a9ve?
21
44%
27%
29%
53%
18%
30%
Public cloud (i.e. externally managed, vendor owned)
Private cloud (i.e. internally managed, customer owned)
Hybrid (i.e. a mix of both above)
2013 2011
© Eckerson Group LLC
What Cloud services are you currently using for BI?
22
64%
51%
43%
61%
36%
33%
SoYware as a service (i.e. deliver reports and dashboards)
Infrastructure as a service (i.e. provision servers for BI)
Pla\orm as a service (i.e. build data marts and reports)
2013 2011
© Eckerson Group LLC
What Cloud services are you currently using for BI?
23
46%
35%
37%
28%
26%
27%
26%
38%
37%
Small
Medium
Large
SaaS PaaS IaaS
Company Size Small = <$100M Medium = $100M-‐$1B Large = $1B=
© Eckerson Group LLC
Are you planning to increase or decrease your use of the Cloud for BI in the next 12 months?
24
75%
0%
12%
13%
65%
3%
16%
16%
Increase
Decrease
Stay the same
Not sure
2013 2011
© Eckerson Group LLC
Which of your BI architectural components run in the Cloud?
25
64%
56%
55%
47%
38%
31%
27%
27%
25%
20%
Reports/dashboards
BI servers
BI tools
Data warehouse
ETL
Data mart
Metadata
Data mining
Data quality/profiling
Data exploraBon
© Eckerson Group LLC
What are the primary USE CASES for cloud BI in your organiza9on?
26
63.6% 59.7%
53.2%
31.2%
20.8%
Report consumption
Ad hoc analysis and exploration
Report creation
Prototyping Peak load processing
What are the primary USE CASES for cloud BI in your organization?
© Eckerson Group LLC
To what degree do the following types of users use the Cloud in your organiza9on?
27
46%
19%
22%
21%
42%
22%
28%
27%
35%
Power users
Casual users
Customers/suppliers
High Moderate Low
© Eckerson Group LLC
• How long on average does it take a customer to set up a logical layer and create a library of its KPIs?
• Who typically performs this work? • Birst has automated the data warehouse and integraBon process.
How exactly does that work and what does a customer need to do to ensure the automaBon works? How much setup is involved?
• How does Birst balance custom data models and applicaBons versus standard mulB tenant applicaBons, which are the hallmark of most cloud-‐based applicaBons?
• There are new BI vendors offering a full BI stack in the cloud at a fracBon of the price of most current BI tools (i.e., RedRock BI offers $2,500 monthly subscripBon for 2TB and 5 users with ETL, etc.). As BI products (ETL, DBMS, BI) can increasingly be provisioned in the cloud and someBmes purchased on an hourly basis, how will that affect market dynamics and compeBBon among BI players?
Ques9ons
28
Twitter Tag: #briefr
The Briefing Room
Twitter Tag: #briefr
The Briefing Room
Upcoming Topics
www.insideanalysis.com
2014 Editorial Calendar at www.insideanalysis.com/webcasts/the-briefing-room
This Month: CLOUD
April: BIG DATA
May: DATABASE
Twitter Tag: #briefr
The Briefing Room
THANK YOU for your
ATTENTION!