2. Quick survey How many users are using SQL 2008 R2 currently? Microsoft Office 2003? 2007? 2010? How often do you use SharePoint in a daily basis? Often Really Never
5. Data sources Scorecards Charts and graphs Spreadsheets Dashboards Financial reports IM/chat Email Portals Meetings Television reports Slide decks Documents Internet Webcasts RSS feeds Presentations Blogs Project plans Analytic applications Newspapers Magazines Intranet Data does not exist in your Line of Business (LOB) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems.
7. Risks evinced by the IW’s Solution governance Data Oversight Who’s using it Where is it coming from Where is it going Data Insight - Compliance - Security - Availability
8. Being on IW’s team Managed Self-Service BI Access accurate data sources Great user experience Provide reusable solutions Building a BI Solution
9. Benefits of Microsoft BI Platform Data entry to a centralized data model like SSAS – Supported by RDBMS Data level security SSAS & Excel integration for ad hoc capabilities, data entry Centralized storage Data aggregation can be time consuming. Reusable data collection. Business rules can be enforced.
11. Building a BI Solution <Firm forecasting solution> Data Collection Data loading Security application Data Analysis Presentation
12. Tools Microsoft Office PowerPivot for Excel SharePoint – PowerPivot SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) SharePoint – Performance Point
Critical for forward views of an organization (planning, budgeting and forecast)
IW’s can provide information on the fly on how the business is changing (sales volumes, price comparisons) which can affect the profitability, cash flow or even financial stability.
Give a scenario --- access database front-end being used to interact with the database, no data reviews, table locks