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Ridgian – Generic Presentation

Cover Sheet

V3.018/08//2011

Ridgian

SharePoint and Business Intelligence

CCitDG22nd May 2012

[email protected]

The Agenda for today

Agenda

• Introductions

• SharePoint and Business Intelligence Overview

• Demonstration

• Questions and Answers



What are we about?

Ridgian Overview

Ridgian is about business evolution through IT excellence.

We are about the drama and ruthless necessity of business. Increasing efficiency, improving performance and providing IT solutions that work hard for business improvement.

Business Evolution: IT Excellence


• Midlands based Microsoft Partnerwith two Gold and three SilverCompetencies

• Specialise in SharePoint, BusinessIntelligence and Custom ApplicationDevelopment

• Information Management Experts

• We have been in business for over 12 yearsand are Privately Owned and Profitable

Background

Ridgian Overview

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Clients

Just some of the namesRidgian work with


Silos of Information

Intro to Information Management

Diagram BreakdownInformation is typically stored in many different places and systems across a business, making clear and consistent decision making a challenge

FileShares

WebPages

People

E-Mails

Databases

Excel

LocalDrives

Paper

LOBApps


Typical information challenges


Data and Process ChallengesAs information is spread across the business areas it creates many operational challenges

Islands ofInformation

SlowResponsiveness

To Customers

Costly DevelopmentExpensive to

Bespoke

Poor SharingMultiple Versions

Difficulty Finding‘Need to Search’

InformationManagement RiskWrong Information

Out of Date/PoorlyManaged Content

Too ManyManual Processes

Poor DataVisibility


What is SharePoint

SharePoint

BusinessIntelligence Collaboration

PortalBusinessProcess &

Forms

ContentManagement Search

PlatformServices

Workspaces, Mgmt,Security, Storage,

Topology, Site Model

Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration,

project management “lite”, Outlook integration,

offline docs/lists

Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory,

My Sites, social networking, privacy

control

Enterprise scalability,contextual relevance, rich

people and business data search

Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualisation, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards

Integrated document and records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow

Rich and Web forms based front-ends, LOB actions


What is Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence

“Dashboards are for Action, not Information”

“Traditional Reporting, is like looking in the rear view mirror”



Delivering the right BI tool forEvery role in the organization

Different types ofBusiness Intelligence


Typical information challenges


Delivery

BI Platform (RDBMS, ETL, OLAP, Reporting)

SAPORACLE IBM SIEBELMainframe/ Departmental

Systems

Delivery

Demonstration Highlights

Agenda

• SQL 2008 and SharePoint

• SQL Reporting Services and Analysis Services• Drilldowns • PerformancePoint • Excel / Excel Services

• SQL 2012 and SharePoint 2010• Powerview

• Geospatial BI – Bing Maps• Heat Maps, Pins, Spark Lines



Business Intelligence examples





Contextual view of information

• KPI’s and Scorecards

• ‘RAG’ traffic lights

• Tabular and visual graphs



Ensures

• Robust, scalable solutions that enterprises can afford to implement

Business Intelligence as anAffordable Enterprise solution

Provides

• The ability to scale without limits adding data, users and complexity

• Lower costs to deploy and manage because of integrated tools

• Priced and packaged for enterprise wide deployments

• You probably have this software already, but are not getting the most out of it


Demonstration

Questions

Demonstration


Questions and Thank You

Questions

THANK YOU

Do you have any questions





• Tabular reports

• Filters

• Drill-down to more granular data





• Targeted at Dept / Team

• Interactive graphs and charts





• KPIs

• Traffic lights

• Trend indicators





• Integration with Bing Maps

• Geospatial data overlays

• Heat maps showing data volume





• Push tips to show location

• Graph bars on map to show data volumes

• Interactive BI graphs alongside maps

• Silverlight Interaction



People asking the following:

• My company makes all its decisions based on historical reports from separate systems that are not consolidated

• I think better forecasting with the ability to estimate and track actual costs and revenue would help my company

• Business Reporting and Analysis is put together by the Finance department and is delivered late and always looking back

• We need the ability to measure and analyse our performance against company Targets / KPI’s / Balance Scorecard from a single place

Who has a need forBusiness Intelligence?



People asking the following:

• I am frustrated by the amount of time that is spent manipulating data that will be out of date when it is finally presented

• We need tools that we can easily configure to proactively alert us of potential problem areas so we can address them proactively

Who has a need forBusiness Intelligence?


Integrated Information Management

Dashboards delivered to the hand


Questions and Thank You

Questions

THANK YOU

Do you have any questions

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