using business intelligence to bring your data to life
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Click to edit Master subtitle styleUsing Business Intelligence to
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