I gave this non technical talk about modern BI back in February to around 70 fellow Cima members. The Park Royal Hotel in Warrington was a great venue with good audio facilities.

1. Business Intelligence
and the data revolution

2. Lee Hawthorn, Acma, CGMA, Ba(Hons)
› Many roles over the years
– Software Engineer
– Management Accountant
– Business Performance Manager
– Data Analyst
› Motivated to learn and share, to solve problems
› Current : FP&A Analyst, Payzone UK
› uk.linkedin.com/in/leehawthorn/
› @lee_hawthorn
› Leehbi.com

3. Agenda
› The data revolution
› Playing your part
› Discussion with your neighbour
› Payzone experience
› Where things are heading
› Takeaways

4. The data revolution

5. Technology

6. Give the data to the decision maker
SiSense.com

7. Challenge the status quo

8. It’s not easy
COLLABORATE

9. Speed Boat or Tanker?

10. Business partner or

11. What you can bring to the party
Integrity Data
Literacy
Leadership

12. Centralised

13. Decentralised

14. Discuss - 5 minutes
› Introduce yourself to your neighbour
› Discuss any of the following points based on your
experience or vision
› Pain points
› Successes
› Spreadsheet Hell
› Too much data
› Multiple versions of the truth

15. Payzone UK before & after

16. Where things are heading
› Hybrid databases – part in memory – part on disk
› Advanced Analytics
› Big Data 2.0 (with structure)
› Natural Language querying
› API based data & services

17. Takeaways
› Follow Howard Dresner http://bit.ly/1zuMofu
› Online webinars from SQL Pass http://bi.sqlpass.org
› Unlocking Business Intelligence from CGMA
http://bit.ly/17l8dqj
› Big Data Briefing from CGMA http://bit.ly/1JvOUw0
› On Twitter? #BIWisdom tweet-chat (Friday 5pm!)
› Assess the appetite
› Build the case
› Evaluate resources

18. Conclusion
› Software & Services are mature & sophisticated
› The cloud gives us another option
› Data is on the increase
› Be a partner
› Payzone can’t live without it
› Change is on the way