Agenda
What is Business Intelligence ?
Why do organisations use it?
BI tools overview
Generally Speaking……………………
According to Google…………………
Business intelligence (BI) is a broad category of technologies that allows for gathering, storing, accessing and analyzing data to help business users make better decisions
Companies need to buy …transactional Systems
Financials— JDE, Oracle, PSFT , SAP
Supply Chain Management— IBM, SAP, PSFT, Manugistics
Customer Relationship Management— Clarify , Onyx, Pivotal
Sales Force Automation— Seibel , Salesforce.com
Etc……
In its simplest form
datadatadata data data
Database
report
data
report report report report
Database
B I …………….AKA
Reporting
Analytics
Decision Support
Data Warehousing
EIS
Dashboarding
Some Terms you might hear
Transactional Reporting
Relational Reporting
Multi-dimensional Reporting
Analytics
Predictive Analytics
Data Mining
Data Visualisation
Database Schema (Star , Snowflake)
Dashboards, KPI’s LI’s Balanced Scorecarding
OLAP, ROLAP, MOLAP, DOLAP, HOLAP…..SCHMOLAP !
Some People you might hear of
Business Objects / Crystal
Cognos
Microstrategy
Microsoft
SAP
Panorama
IBI
Hyperion
Relational BI tools
Easiest to useQuery,
Reporting, Analysis &
Dashboarding
OLAP BI tools
Most Scalable, Powerful Analytics
BIPlatform
Complete &PowerfulSolution
A Single Platform for Breakthrough Performance Everywhere
Highlights
Dashboards for user-directed analysis— Self-service access to graphical views of key performance
indicators— Central distribution of dashboards for any group, role, or
individual
Full range of Query, Reporting and Analysis Capabilities — Management Reporting , End-User Reporting, Production
Reporting— Report Delivery & Alerting
Zero footprint, browser-based query, reporting and analysis— Distribution of dashboards, reports and analytics to a
broader user base— Extending visibility to customers and partners outside
the firewall
Highlights (cont.)
Web-based administration, publishing, scheduling, and delivery— Single management environment reduces administration
time— Logging mechanism provides continuous system
performance tuning— Enables Intelligence and SQR to benefit from common
functionality
Role-based access control— Administration can be delegated so user communities can
be self sufficient— Leverage existing investments in external authentication
systems
Unified, scalable architecture with single repository— Services run as distributed, multi-threaded processes on
back-end servers— High performance and dependability via fail-over and load
balancing
Information The Way You Want It
Drag & DropQuery
Graphical Charts and Cross-tab Analysis
Presentation-Quality Reports
Platform for Dashboard Applications
Enterprise Reporting
ANY report layout
ANY data manipulation
ANY numeric manipulation
Single Pass, Multiple Outputs