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Business Intelligence (BI) : Overview and Trends
Business Intelligence (BI) : Overview and Trends
Matt Schwartz
March 31, 2011
Aggregate
Data
Present
Data
Reporting Tools,
Dashboards, Static
Reports, Mobile Reporting,
OLAP Cubes
Enrich
Data
Inform a
Decision
Performance
Minimize report creation and collection times (near zero)
Usability
Delivery Method Push vs Pull
Medium Excel, PDF, Dashboard, Cube, Mobile Device
Enhance Digestion A-ha is readily apparent, fewer clicks
Tell a Story Trend, Context, Related Metrics, Multiple Views
Social Computing
Cloud
Supply Chain
Micropayments
Business Intelligence/Analytics
Opinion
(aka Best Professional
Judgment)
Making Business
Decisions is a Balance
In the absence of data, business decisions are often made by the HiPPO.
With Business Intelligence, we can get data to you in a timely manner.
Major BI Trends
Mobile
Cloud
Social Media
Advanced Analytics
Data Mining
Regression
Monte Carlo Simulation
Statistically Significant
Predicting Customer Behavior
Churn/Attrition
Purchases
Profiling
BI Today vs Tomorrow
BI today is like reading the newspaper
BI reporting tool on top of a data warehouse
that loads nightly and produces historical
reporting
Retail Analytics
13
14
Customer Sat
Survey
Comments
Call
Center
Notes,
Voice
Services
Quality
Competitors
Facebook
Pages
Email
Blogs
15
Cost Friendliness
Alerts,
Real-time
Action
Garbage
Out
Garbage
In
BY
ENCOMPASSING
Data Stewardship
Data Quality
Report Governance
Metric Governance
Data Governance
Master Data Management
Data Stewards for Master Data Hubs
Customer, Vendor, Product, Location, Employee, G/L
Accounts
CREATING SIGNIFICANT
BUSINESS VALUE
19
BI Technologies
Analytic Databases
DB2
Oracle
SQL Server
Teradata
Netezza
Vertica
Aster Data
Par Accel
Greenplum
Semantic Databases
(TIDE)
BI is a consolidating industry
BI Technologies (contd)
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Q&A