Neil Pratt, Assistant Principal CIS, discusses how implementing an agile BI tool has revolutionised how users search and interact with company data, supporting a faster time to decision and improving Bournville College's business agility.

1. Speaker
NEIL PRATT
Neil Pratt
Assistant Principal CIS,
Bournville College UK

2. Agile BI in practice
How Bournville College uses NeutrinoBI for business agility

3. About
Bournville
College
• First Established in 1913
• Relocation Sept ‘11 to £66m
purpose built campus
• Caters for 15,000 students
• Revenue for 2012: £32m
• State of the art facilities:
• Mac™ Suite
• Over 1000 computer access points
• Universal Wi-Fi access
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2012
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4. Business
challenges
Achieving revenue and profitability goals when faced with:
• Increasing competition in the FE sector (domestic and international)
• Need to exceed Government targets for educational performance
• Decline in traditional revenue streams (state funding/philanthropy)
• Constraints in tuition fee increases
• Pressure to offer students demonstrable added-value
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2012
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5. The
challenge
for
our
BI
Business needs: BI challenges:
• Supporting daily decision • Simplistic visualization &
making with: reporting tools
‑ More in-depth information
• Required hours and hours of
‑ More up to date information manual preparation
• Enabling strategic decisions through: • And manual consolidation of data
- Rapid answers to specific questions from different systems
- More insight on trends/issues and • CIS team is already stretched, BI
opportunities requests add to that workload
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6. The
NeutrinoBI
Project
NeutrinoBI had just the breakthrough BI tool we needed
• Initial implementation during the summer recess 2012
• New dashboard reporting for:
– On-going Success/Achievement ratings
– Daily attendance metrics
• Across two key databases:
– Oracle - Student record system of over 100 Million records
– SQL - Timetabling and attendance database of 4 Million records
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7. Results:
fast
implementaGon
The
team
at
NeutrinoBI
came
in
on
a
Monday
morning,
and
I
performed
the
first
search
at
lunch-­‐<me
– With
the
NeutrinoBI
built-­‐in
data
acquisiGon
tool,
new
data
take-­‐on
was
fast
and
efficient
– In
fact,
once
the
data
view
was
available
in
Neutrino,
it
only
took
less
than
25
minutes
to:
• Build
a
domain
• Define
drill-­‐down
and
aggregate
the
data
• Assign
the
domain
to
a
new
user
• Ask
our
1st
quesGon
We
could
then
immediately
build
a
dashboard
that
reported
on
total
absences/
lateness/
a@endance
by
course
by
day
of
week,
by
<me,
and
by
student
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8. Results:
how
it
looks
In
the
next
few
months
we
expect
NeutrinoBI
to
replace
over
100
legacy
Dashboards
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9. Results:
rapid
search
and
discovery
More than dashboard reporting – it gives the management team the
freedom to search.
My testing shows that finding information is really fast:
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10. Next
steps
Our intention: to use NeutrinoBI to deliver the insight we
need to continue developing as one of the UK’s most
progressive Further Education establishments.
• Roll-out self-service data discovery to 60 of our Senior
Managers over the next 3 months
• Deploy cloud service to satisfy our international customers
• Developing web-based focused daily performance
dashboards for all 15,000 students and their sponsors
• Planning for iPad deployment in the future
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2012
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11. September 2012 10

12. For
BI
at
it’s
Agile
Best
Niall
Thomas
Sales
Director,
NeutrinoBI

13. The
quest
for
agile
BI
The
difference
Get
info
Quickly
Instantly
Improve
ROI
Increase
agile
BI
makes
to
when
implement
create
on
BI
profit
the
bo]om
line
needed
new
BI
and
share
projects
operaGng
projects
dashboards
profit
grew
year
on
year
Equip
Explorers
‘Dock’
with
IT
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14. Equip
your
explorers
for
the
agile
BI
quest
Search
Combine
Drill-­‐down
Visualize
Interact
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15. Why
Neutrino
for
Agile
BI?
SEARCH
COMBINE
DRILL-­‐DOWN
VISUALIZE
INTERACT
answers
to
ad-­‐ integrate
to
analyse
the
create
fresh
Customize
hoc
quesGons
corporate
and
underlying
visualizaGons
dashboards
<
10
seconds
local
data
in
data
in
on
new
data
in
without
IT
<
30
seconds
<
5
seconds
<
1
minute
involvement
in
<
5
minutes
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16. NeutrinoBI
in
acGon
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17. NeutrinoBI
in
acGon
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18. NeutrinoBI
in
acGon
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19. NeutrinoBI
in
acGon
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2012
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20. NeutrinoBI
in
acGon
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21. NeutrinoBI
in
acGon
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22. Ready
to
find
out
more?
To
learn
more
about
agileBI
please
visit
our
website:
Take
a
look
at
the
Or
read
our
www.neutrinobi.com/agile
agileBI
infographic
agileBI
flyer
Or,
for
a
close-­‐up
view
of
NeutrinoBI
in
acGon:
Watch
the
demo
Request
a
demo.
Email:
video:
niall.thomas@neutrinobi.com
NeutrinoBI
-­‐
YouTube
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23. Ready
to
find
out
more?
A
discovery
POC
(proof
of
concept)
Try
NeutrinoBI
which
can
take
as
a
li]le
as
½
day
for
yourself
Or
a
full
POC
email:
niall.thomas@neutrinobi.com
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24. It’s
BI
at
its
Agile
Best!
www.neutrinobi.com/agilebi
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