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Using the Right Tools to Build Quality Business Intelligence and Reporting for Microsoft Dynamics GPEarl Hunt – Solutions [email protected]
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Today’s Agenda• What is Business Intelligence?• VISUAL Self-Service BI• Obstacles to Effective BI• Available Tools• Demonstration – Some Examples• Summary
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What is Business Intelligence
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Many Aspects
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Information ManagementOLAP
Data Warehouse
Decision SupportDashboards Visualization
Management Information
Scorecards
Query and Reporting
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Types of Business Intelligence• Personal
Role Specific Generally not Shared Non-Complex Tools Real time information
• Team Departmental Needs to be Easily Shared Both Reports and Graphical Up-to-date information
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Types of Business Intelligence• Organizational
Organization Wide Often presents both ERP and Non-ERP info Pre-formatted with drill down capability More used by Non-ERP users
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Strategic Alignment
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Dr. Gerry Faust – Responsibility for Actions and RESULTS
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What is Business Intelligence
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What Information, If You Had It, Would Transform the Way You Run Your Organization?
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Thames River Cholera Outbreak Data ‐ 1854
The Importance of Visualization
Dr. John Snow
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Seeing is Understanding
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Why Visual BI?
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Every Pitcher Tells a Story Doughnut
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Visual Self-Service BIAberdeen Group Study – Business Answers at Your Fingertips
Best in Class Use Tactical or Operational Dashboards• To Expose the Metrics that Support Decision Making• Daily, Hourly or Real-Time Visualizations
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Visual Self-Service BI For Large Datasets
• Ability to Ask Questions in a Shortened Timeframe• Start Measuring “Time-To-Information”• Use a Data Warehouse Appliance (like Analysis Cubes)
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Data ProliferationDigital Information Created in 2010
1.2 Zettabytes(1,200 Exabytes or 1.2M Petabytes)
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Equals 707 Trillion Copies of the more than 2,000 page U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – which, if stacked end to end, would stretch from Earth to Pluto and back 16 times
Bonus Question: What comes after a Zettabyte?
A Yottabye
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Obstacles to Effective BI• Don’t Know What Tools are Available
We will address that issue today
• Underlying Data Structure Hard to Understand
Concept of Metadata
• Getting the Information to the People Who Need it for Decision Making
Most Tools Can Deploy to the Web orMobile Devices
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Concept of Metadata
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Goodbye to Cryptic Table Names (SOP60100?)
• Data Warehouses – “Cubes”• Report Models – Tables pre-joined• Easy to Understand Data Elements
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Available Visual Tools• Microsoft Products
SQL Reporting Services – Create and Display Business Analyzer- Display SRS Charts/KPI’s Sharepoint/Business Portal – Display SRS Charts/KPI’s Analysis Cubes – Optimized Data Source Excel PowerPivot – Free Add-in SQL Server 2012 PowerView – Visual Display
• Third Party Products Tableau – Visual Display & Analysis Geckoboard – Fast Set Up of Metrics Dashboard Hundreds of Others
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Let’s Take a Look• PowerPivot Dashboards – Excel Add-in
• SRS Chart Deployed to Business Analyzer
• Tableau Analysis
• PowerView Dashboards – SQL 2012
• Geckoboard
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In Summary1. More Powerful Tools Are Available at Lower Costs
Than Ever Before
2. Investments Should Be Driven by Information Needed to Make Decisions and Enable Results
3. Timeliness and Consistency/Accuracy of Information Needs to be Managed to Avoid Making “the right decision with the wrong information”
4. Visual BI & Analytics Should Be an Area Where Consistent Investments are Made. Create a “Culture of Curiosity”
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“Teach People to Manage from the Numbers to Improve the Numbers” – G. Faust
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Questions?
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