Avanade business-intelligence-employee-value-proposition-fy13

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Why are Business Intelligence solution

professionals joining the Avanade BI team?

It’s Your Career – Make it Happen! avanade.com/careers

Click HERE to view the Avanade Story

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Who We Are: Avanade fast facts

Founded by

More than US $1.5 billion revenue

More than 20% average yearly growth since our inception in 2000

Trusted advisor to more than 800 customers in all industries

Realized an average of 95% satisfied customers

More than 17,000 employees in 70 locations in 20 countries

&

About Us

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Power of Three - Insight from our unique connections

3

• Industry and business acumen

• Industry, cross-industry solutions

• Horizontal solution accelerators

• Specialization on the

Microsoft platform

• Engineered assets

and architectures

• Industry, cross-industry

solutions

• Comprehensive

enterprise platform

• Superior price, performance

• Commitment to research

and development

Integrated, innovative solutions that realize results

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Avanade Microsoft Alignment

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Avanade Vision, Mission & Core Values

• Our vision is to be recognized as a global services innovator, helping customers realize the best results from the Microsoft platform.

• Our core values define how we:

• Achieve through global teamwork

• Focus on customers

• Embrace change

• Demonstrate a passion for technology

• Build the Avanade experience

• Act with integrity, dignity and respect

5

“I wanted to work with the smartest people in the industry, and

that’s been proven out. I wanted to challenge myself and get

experience with large enterprise systems… you have the flexibility

to move around the country or do different kinds of projects.” - Group Mgr., Microsoft Solutions

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Specialized expertise in the Microsoft platform

• Application Development

• Application Integration

• Application Lifecycle Management

• Business Intelligence

• Collaboration and Content

• Communications

• CRM

• Data Platform

• Devices and Deployment

• Digital Marketing

• Enterprise Resource Planning

• Hosting

• Identity & Access

6 6

Gold Competencies (updated list here)

• Management and Virtualization

• Messaging

• Midmarket solution provider

• Mobility

• OEM

• Project and Portfolio Management

• Server Platform

Also Silver competencies in:

• Learning

• Software Asset Management

• Volume Licensing

20 Microsoft earned Gold Competencies, #1 of all MS partners worldwide by far

“Accenture and Avanade have distinguished themselves in the

market for their ability to apply their deep expertise across a large

spectrum of Microsoft technologies.“ -- Jon Roskill, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Group

“In addition to delivering

Microsoft based solutions,

Avanade plays an active

role in Microsoft Partner

Advisory Councils,

Technology Adoption

Programs & Customer

Advisory Boards to drive

the future direction of

MSFT products to meet

our enterprise customers’

needs.” – Tyson Hartman, Corporate VP,

Avanade

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Specialized expertise in the Microsoft platform

7

• Accenture and Avanade are Microsoft’s global system integrator partners of choice for the Windows Azure platform.

• 2013 Partner of the Year for Alliances and

Mobility

• 2012 Partner of the Year for Application

Platform and Mobility

• 2011 Partner of the Year for Application

Platform, Desktop, and Dynamics

Distribution

• 2011 US East Region Cloud Partner of the

year

• Microsoft Dynamics President’s Club 2011, 2012 & 2013 and Dynamics Inner Circle 2009-2013 & 2005-2007

• 2 of the Top Global 50 SharePoint Influencers

• 26 Microsoft Most Valued Professionals

• 28 Microsoft Certified Architect/Masters

• Microsoft Global Enterprise

Partner of the Year 2010 and 5 other times

• 2010 Partner of the Year for CRM,

Communications and Collaboration, and

Virtualization

• #1 Reporting and Analysis

• #1 SQL Server

• #1 Platform Data Management

• #1 in SharePoint Server

• #1 Enterprise Search

• #1 in .NET Framework

• #1 Application integration

• #1 Application Platform Optimization

• #1 in BizTalk Server

• #1 in Dynamics AX

• #1 in Dynamics CRM

• #1 Custom Development

• #1 Platform

• See case studies for different customer industry verticals and MS technologies here (PDF 32MB)

• Computerworld’s “Premier 100 IT Leaders” recognizes Avanade CIO Chris Miller (2011)

• The most experienced partner delivering on BPOS/Office 365

7

Recognition Certifications

2011

2012

&

2013

8 www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved. 8 www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Avanade Business Intelligence service line

8

Corporate Enterprises generate more data

than ever before. How do you get more

meaning and value out of that for actionable

decision-making?

Avanade offers competitive solutions in the

areas of BI Information Delivery, Integration

and Analysis. Let us help you identify where

you’ve been, where you are now, and where

you’re going.

Learn more about our Business Intelligence

solutions:

• Avanade Analytics Platform

- BI on SAP

- BI Value Experience

- Healthcare Analytics

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Reporting

Dashboards

Ad Hoc Query

Microsoft Office Integration

Search Based BI

Mobile BI

INFORMATION

DELIVERY 9

iBIA

OPERA

What are the

capabilities a BI

platform should

address? BI Solution

Offering

Online Analytical Processing

Interactive Visualization

Predictive Modeling

Scorecards

ANALYSIS

BI Infrastructure

Metadata Management

Development Tools

Collaboration

INTEGRATION

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

BI Solution Offering. Matching between Gartner capabilities and MS

technologies

10

Line of Business Applications / Heterogeneous Data Sources

SharePoint

Scorecards

Excel Pivot

PowerPivot Applications

SharePoint Dashboar

ds

Analysis Services MD

Reporting Services

Master Data Services

Data Quality Services

Integration Services

SQL Server 2012

Fast Track 4.0

Parallel Data Warehouse 2.0

Data Warehouse - Relational

- Different products to address different

requirements in term of performance,

robustness and scalability

Analysis Services Tabular

Power View

Data Marts - Aggregations

- Standard MD

Model

- New Tabular

Model Data Governance

Report Builder

Metadata Management

Deve

lop

ment To

ols

Collaboration

Reporting

Dashbo

ards Excel

PowerPivot

Office

Integration

Ad hoc

query

OLAP

OnLine Analytical

Processing

Interactiv

e

Visualizati

on Scorecar

ds Mobile

BI

Data Mining

Ad Hoc Reporting

Mobile

BI

Predictive

Modeling

and Data

Mining

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

PREDIXION AAP (Avanade Analytics

Platform)

11

SOLUTION

PRIORITIES FY14

Health Prediction

Model

Other predictive

models

…more coming

soon

CPG Analytics V1

AAP 2.0

Visualization Framework

ETL Framework

Data Management Framework

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Business Intelligence @ Avanade

BI Transformation Solutions BI Strategy

BI strategy assessment to evaluate current state, desired state and roadmap to include: • Guided assessments • Data Management

Programs (leveraging AIMS accelerators)

• Competency Centers • Service Centers

Performance Analytics V2

Set of BI applications to address certain vertical and horizontal Analytic problems: • Regulatory Reporting (FS) • Production Planning (CPG) • Revenue Management

(Health) • Upstream Resource

Planning (Oil & Gas) • HR, Sales (horizontal)

Intelligent Warehousing V2

Packaged offering for vertical Enterprise Data Warehouses: • Retail Banking • Live Insurance • Retail • Hospitals • Oil & Gas

BI Rationalization

Unlocking the enterprise’s data through rationalization: • Federation, consolidation

and warehousing • Self-service reporting and

analytics

Collaborative Decision Making Combining BI with social networking and collaboration to improve time to decision using: • Human and automated

workflows • Social BI extension for

SharePoint • Decision analysis tools

(Leveraging our DRS experience)

• Decision extensions for SharePoint

BI Services Information Architecture Enterprise Performance

Management Reporting & Analytics

Avanade BI Framework BI Productivity Platform (Family of code based assets)

Planning

Framework

ETL Adapters

(SAP, Dynamics, Social

Networks)

Data Modeling, Rapid

Prototyping

Data Visualization,

Mobile

ETL, DQ,

Profiling, MDM

DW Data Model & BI End-to-End Demos Financial Services

Insurance, Banking Products Retail, CPG

Health Care Payer, Provider

Resources Oil & Gas

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

13

Avanade Intelligent Warehousing accelerates the deployment of Business Intelligence

Solutions. It includes a proven set of logical designs, comprehensive data models and

actionable metrics that provide tangible benefits for our clients:

• Reduction risk of implementation with data models that are compiled from actual projects.

• Application of proven best practices for data warehouse projects.

• Alignment of operational decision-making with corporate strategy by using industry leading

metrics and KPIs.

• Providing a systematic roadmap for BI implementations that includes a foundation for gap

analysis

13

Industry-specific solutions

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Avanade Analytics and Mobile BI Showcase for Plant Performance

Enabling Decision-makers to …

• Monitor, manage and improve day-to-day operations

• Improve ability to predict and plan maintenance

• Deliver real-time and historical info to all levels of the organization

• Execute better and faster decision-making

Oil and Gas Utilities Chemicals and

Natural Resources

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Avanade Analytics and Mobile BI Showcase for Plant Performance

Web Mobile Tablet

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Customer Profile

Avanade Win Wire (enterprise project example) North America – Resources Energy management company plans for growth with integrated BI strategy using SQL Server 2012

16

Business Challenge

A utilities expense management company

needed to re-platform its business as a result

of mergers and acquisitions.

Value

Avanade provided recommendations in a BI

Strategy roadmap to develop an entirely new

custom platform from database to user

experience design, based on Microsoft SQL

Server 2012 and SharePoint 2010. Our

customer chose Avanade for our deep

Microsoft expertise. With the Avanade BI

Value Experience, we delivered an agile,

interactive and cost-effective solution, making

it among the first SQL 2012 implementations

of its kind.

This leading utility expense, energy and sustainability management company serves large commercial and industrial companies throughout North America. This company uses insights based on consumption, cost and carbon footprint data to provide fully managed, technology-optimized solutions for saving resources that can increase returns, lower risks and enhance reputation.

Anticipated Results

• With SQL Server 2012, our customer gains an integrated development environment, high-quality data and a low total cost of ownership (TCO).

Vision

• Our customer manages huge volumes of

mission-critical data, all available on a

secure extranet. Avanade strategized and

implemented a leading-edge solution that

has raised the value of the company’s

services and improved customer

satisfaction.

Utilities expense

management company

See more case

studies here.

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Avanade BI Roles

Full-time roles nationwide* from Analyst to Group Mgr. level

• We continue to hire experienced candidates developing solutions using SQL Server!

• Also require strong, customer-facing consulting “soft skills”, including conducting business conversations at any level in the enterprise customer org or internally.

• BI Solution Architecture & Development: Solutions champions with expertise utilizing the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack of technologies, including SSAS (Analysis Services), SSIS (Integration Services), SSRS (Reporting Services), etc.

• BI Delivery Management: BI DM’s track the positive predictors of project success by utilizing principles of EVM (Earned Value Management) to monitor scope, schedule and cost.

• BI Business Analysis: With heavy client and technical team interaction, BI BA’s help drive, translate, gather and document requirements, identify & track KPI’s, and lead UAT (User Acceptance Testing) for our Business Intelligence engagements.

*certain US/Canada locations may be a greater hiring priority at any given time

17

Learn more about

the Business

Intelligence team:

• What we do for

customers (BI

solution types,

case studies and

more)

• Also see our BI

industry insights,

blogposts, surveys,

etc.

• Current BI career

opportunities: in the

US and in Canada

• Life at Avanade

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Why Avanade – Total Rewards

18

• Vacation* • 0-2 yrs --> 2 weeks

• 2-4 yrs --> 3 weeks

• 4+ yrs --> 4 weeks

prorated based on hire date

• Sick Time* • Analyst: 9 days/year

• Sr. Analyst/Consultant+: 15 days/year

• Holiday

• 8 Core Holidays

• 2 Floating Holidays

• Travel • Earn hotel, airlines, and rental rewards

points for personal future use

• Fly family, friends or significant other to

project location in lieu of flying home**

• Opportunities for international travel

Total Rewards Work/Life Balance

• Competitive compensation

• Health/Dental

• 401K Benefit

• Extended Benefits – technology or work/life balance

• Analyst --> $500/year

• Sr. Analyst and above --> $2,000/year

• Corporate Cell Phone Plan

• Overtime • Analyst/Sr. Analyst (Non-exempt)

• Time+1/2

• In accordance with all state and federal laws

• Hours Premium

• Consultant/Sr. Consultant-> compensation for hours

worked in excess of 120% of the standard available

hours (subject to Avanade policy)

• Short Term Incentive (variable, performance driven)

• Paid out annually as a percentage of base salary: • Consultant/Sr. Consultant

• Manager/ Group Manager

• Director/Senior Director

• VP/Senior VP

Avanade offers competitive Total Rewards package to our consultants

*prorated based on hire date

**taxable to employee

www.avanade.com/careers

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

re you ready?

www.avanade.com/careers