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Back to Basics:

What is BI?Stacey Hopkins

Data Warehouse & BI Consultant

[email protected]

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Defining BI

Business Intelligence:

Using the DATAgenerated by the normal

operation of a business to generateINFORMATIONthat can be used to make

good DECISIONS

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Where We Came From:

A very brief history

Pen & Paperold fashioned ledgers

Columns & Rowsspreadsheets

Relational Databases

DSS & EIS

Data Warehouses

Cubes & Analytics Data Visualizations

Big Data & Unstructured Data

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Old School

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OLTP

Data

Warehouse

Reports

OLAPOLTP

OLTP

OLTP

OLTP

OLTP

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More Current

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OLTP Data Warehouse OLAP

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Whats Coming (or already here)

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The

Cloud

Self-service

BI

Cloud-based computing

Software-as-a-Service

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Whats Hot?

Data Visualizations

Big Data

HADOOP

Unstructured Data

R Language

Mobile BI

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Meet Some of the Players

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SAP Business Objects

IBM Cognos

Oracle Oracle BI (Hyperion)

Microsoft SQL Server

Sharepoint Excel

Power Pivot

PowerViewer

Information Builders WebFocus

Actuate BiRT

MicroStrategy MicroStrategy Analytics

Tableau Desktop & Server

QlichTech QlikView

SAS Server & Desktop

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Capabilities & Features

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Data Connections Data Discovery

Analytics

Ad hoc reports/queries Visualizations

Pixel PerfectReports

Dashboards

Mobile

Self-service

Metadata Layer Geospatial

Security

Client Footprint

Interactivity

Embedded

Functionality

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Some Things to Think About

Scale

Enterprise vs Departmental vs Individual

Ease of use

Feature set & level of importance Reports vs Analytics vs Visualizations

Mobile

Expected users IT vs Internal Business vs Outside Business vs

Customers

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References

The Forrester Wave: Enterprise BusinessIntelligence Platforms, Q4 2013http://www.forrester.com/pimages/rws/reprints/document/108103/oid/1-M6RP7E

Gartners Magic Quadrant for BusinessIntelligence and Analytics Platformshttps://www.gartner.com/doc/2668318

http://www.informationweek.com/big-data/big-data-analytics/gartner-bi-magic-quadrant-winners-and-losers/d/d-id/1114013

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Stacey Hopkins

Data Warehouse & BI Consultant

[email protected]

Linked Inwww.linkedin.com/pub/stacey-hopkins/21/bb8/485

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