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NEXT GENERATION

BUSINESS ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGY TRENDS

TECHNOLOGIES AND TECHNIQUES

FOR

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

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Presenters

Michael Beller

10 years of executive management experience leading major growth and change initiatives as

COO

CIO

EVP of Strategy Management

15 years of management consulting experience helping clients with operations and IT strategy, planning, and execution

Alan Barnett

25 years of retail management experience with Steve and Barry’s, Levitz Furniture, Loehmann’s, Victoria’s Secret Stores, and Barney’s New York

Merchandising

Planning

Information Technology

Frequent speaker industry events on systems and operational planning

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• Understand limitations of current Business Intelligence tools

• Discover how next generation tools for Business Analytics can supplement and enhance current BI environments

• Identify vendors and characteristics of next generation Business Analytics tools

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Learning Objectives

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• Business analytics vs. business intelligence

What is Business Analytics?

• Challenges for current BA environments

IT Limitations – Data and Tools!

Business Impact

• Next generation BA vendors and tools

Business trends

Technology trends

Agenda

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Business analytics is more than just traditional business intelligence and reporting

Business Intelligence

• Oriented to standard and consistent metrics and analysis

• Focused on dashboards and pre-defined reports

• Primarily answers predefined questions

• Provides end users indirect raw data access through cubes, reports, and summarized data

• Exception based reporting

Business Analytics

• Oriented towards ad-hoc analysis of past performance

• Focused on interactive and investigative analysis by end users

• Used to derive new insights and understanding

• Explore the unknown and discover new patterns

• Relies on low-level data to provide visibility to unexpected activity

BUSINESS ANALYTICS VS. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

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BUSINESS ANALYTICS VS. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

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Part of routine daily, monthly, and quarterly processes – not a sporadic or exception based exercise

“Peel the onion” – answers to some questions generate more questions – dive deeper and deeper into the data

Explore the unknown, search for new patterns and new findings and new metrics

Investigate exceptions and anomalies, research hypotheses

Gain broader and deeper insight and understanding into past performance

Stay focused on goal to improve business planning and overall business performance

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• What is business analytics?

Continuous iterative exploration and investigationof past business performance to gain insight and drive business planning

• What impacts and drives business analytics?

The quantity and detail of critical business transaction and related datacombined with powerful and flexible data analysis tools

• How do you improve business analytics?

Use next generation technologies to lower data warehousing and IT infrastructure costs,

Store larger amounts of historical data at granular levels of detail, and

Provide ad-hoc analysis and data mining without IT development efforts.

BUSINESS ANALYTICS VS. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Business Analytics provides end users tools and data to explore and develop broader and deeper business insight

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“there are $8B (yes, billion) of internally developed analytic applications with Excel as their front end. The BI players treat the output to Excel as a feature” [3]

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• Level of granularity

Transaction data is summarized and aggregated for analysis

• Historical context

Technical constraints often lead to less than optimal data retention

• Consolidated view

Data warehouses often focus on closely related systems, not enterprise views

Multiple disparate data silosWebsites and ecommerceSupply chainEnterprise resource planning (ERP)CRMFinancialOther, e.g., weather, competitor, etc.

CHALLENGES FOR CURRENT BA ENVIRONMENTS

Organizations struggle to aggregate sufficient breadth and depth of data for thorough Business Analytics

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“80% of companies use three or more business intelligence (BI) products” [1]

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• Complex tier of tools

ETL and EAI platforms

Data warehouses

Dashboards and reports

Ad-hoc analysis

• CostlyCapital

Effort

Duration

• Oriented to IT

Cumbersome for end users

Puts IT in the middle

CHALLENGES FOR CURRENT BA ENVIRONMENTS

Traditional data analysis and reporting tools are oriented to IT developers and difficult to modify at the speed of business

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Complexity leads to fragile systems and long lead times for changes

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• Understanding of past performance leads to quality of future planning

• End users often develop cursory and summary level insight into business performance which leads to sub optimal plans

• BI tools have multiple versions of the truth

Uncertainty

Wasted effort

CHALLENGES FOR CURRENT BA ENVIRONMENTS

Current BI environments pose numerous challenges for Business Analytics and impact quality of business planning

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“the only way to make a difference with analytics is to take a cross-functional, cross-product, cross-customer approach” [5]

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The BA market is dynamic, rapidly expanding and poised for high growth and adoption beyond early adopters

Business trends

• Companies look to leverage investments in ERP and legacy systems

• Economic environment driving low risk projects with quick payback

• Existing data warehouse and reporting systems have limitations

Cost

Flexibility

Data Quantity and Granularity

Technology trends

• Massively scalable data and processing clouds for data aggregation, storage, and analysis

• SaaS and managed service offerings for low cost quick payback projects

Minimal, if any, capital

Fast implementation

• Next generation tools, portals, and visualization for data analysis and presentation

NEXT GENERATION BA VENDORS AND TOOLS

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• Data granularity, history, and consolidation

Columnar, in-memory, and other database technologies require minimal data modeling and can load diverse and complex data

• Technology cost, complexity, and end user access

SaaS and managed service require minimal initial cost

Cloud storage and processing enable massive scalability at reasonable cost

NEXT GENERATION BA VENDORS AND TOOLS

Next generation BA vendors and tools address current limitations and complement existing environments

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SAP, Oracle, and IBM purchased three major BI vendors (Business Objects, Hyperion, and Cognos) within months of one another – a clear sign of the importance of both BI and BA

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Why are companies adopting new SaaS BI solutions?

NEXT GENERATION BA VENDORS AND TOOLS

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Source: BeyeNetwork Research Report – May 2009

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By one expert estimate, there are 2 new players entering the BI and BA market every week

NEXT GENERATION BA VENDORS AND TOOLS

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QUESTIONS?

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THANK YOU!

MIKE BELLER [email protected]

ALAN BARNETT [email protected]

WWW.LIGHTSHIPPARTNERS.COM

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2. Kirk, Jeremy. “'Analytics' buzzword needs careful definition.” InfoWorld.com, February 7, 2006. http://www.infoworld.com/t/data-management/analytics-buzzword-needs-careful-definition-567 .

3. Gnatovich, Rock. “Business Intelligence Versus Business Analytics--What's the Difference?” CIO.com, February 27, 2006. http://www.cio.com/article/18095/Business_Intelligence_Versus_Business_Analytics_What_s_the_Difference_?page=1 .

4. Hagerty, John. “AMR Research Outlook: The New BI Landscape.” AMRresearch.com, December 19, 2008. http://www.amrresearch.com/Content/View.aspx?compURI=tcm%3a7-39121&title=AMR+Research+Outlook%3a+The+New+BI+Landscape.

5. Thomas H. Davenport. “Realizing the Potential of Retail Analytics.” Babson Working Knowledge Research Center, June 2009.

6. van Donselaar, K.H.; Gaur, V.; van Woensel, T.; Broekmeulen, R. A. C. M.; Fransoo, J. C.; “Ordering Behavior in Retail Stores and Implications for Automated Replenishment” Revised working paper dated May 12, 2009; first version: January 31, 2006. http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1410095

7. Imhoff, Claudio, and Colin White. “Pay as You Go: SaaS Business Intelligence and Data Management,” May 20, 2009. http://www.b-eye-research.com/

End Notes and References

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