A goal without a plan is just a wish - Stephan Opperman, CCG

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A Goal with No Plan is Just A Wish
September 23, 2015
Presenter: Stephan Opperman, CCG
MicroStrategy Atlanta Symposium

Today’s Agenda
Introductions
BI Challenges
Recommendations
Q&A

Stephan Opperman, CCG
Stephan Opperman is a seasoned business intelligence and data warehouse professional with over 20 years of
experience in the field. Helping organizations optimize their business intelligence performance through
advanced enterprise solutions is the hallmark of Stephan’s reputation in the IT industry. As Solution Architect
for Convergence Consulting Group (CCG), Stephan is responsible for organizing and communicating key
analytics to client organizations that result in increased sales and cost-effective solutions. Stephan also acts as
CCG’s MicroStrategy Channel Director, ensuring the growth of the MicroStrategy practice by overseeing all
consultant training and new project acquisition.
Prior to joining CCG, Stephan was employed as IT Business Intelligence
Solutions Senior Project Manager with Lowe’s Companies, Inc, responsible for
supporting all Business Intelligence delivery projects, including ETL and
MicroStrategy delivery teams. His background spans a multitude of industries,
designing and enhancing enterprise data management infrastructure based on
well-defined business requirements across varying business units. Throughout
his career, Stephan has become a trusted advisor to many IT executives who
rely on him to diagnose and resolve complex hardware and software problems.
He specializes in influencing transformational improvements by leveraging
leading products like MicroStrategy, SQL, Teradata, DB2, Oracle, Microsoft,
Hyperion, IBM, Informatica and more.

An award-winning consulting firm that specializes in
helping clients overcome business challenges & increase
performance by leveraging advanced analytic solutions.
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: It’s Who We Are and What We Do.
Business Value – Improve business processes via analytic solutions
Specialized Expertise – Data & Analytics: From initiative to adoption
Partner Approach – Trusted advisor and evangelist, change cultures
Our People are the Best – Experienced, passionate, professionals

Our Practices and Competencies

BI Challenges
1. Ability to ‘Run’ without learning to ‘Crawl’
2. Bi-Modal BI
3. Pace of Business VS. IT

BI Challenges
Ability to ‘Run’ without learning to ‘Crawl’
Organizational Pressures to move quickly (Business / IT)
New to BI / Tools
or
BI Established ….. But with limited success
No clearly defined Plan / Strategy

• Performance Management
• Requirements-based
• Top-down design
• Integration and reuse
• Better decisions
• Enterprise
• Data Discovery
• Opportunity-oriented
• Bottom-up experimentation
• Immediate use
• Business innovation
• Functional
Gartner
Today’s BI Challenges
Bi-Modal – “Suits” VS. “T-Shirts”

Today’s BI Challenges
Pace of Business VS. IT
IT traditionally perceived as ‘slow’
• Structured / Governance
Business requirements / needs perceived as ‘immediate’
Business R&D / ‘Sandbox’ likely to require IT Support

Recommendations
Plan…Plan…..Plan!!
BI Strategy is Key!
Assessment to understand Current Environment
• People; Process and Technology
Strategy to define Future
• Mobile,
• Advanced Analytics,
• Big Data,
• Technology,
• Etc.

Recommendations
Roadmap to define the path to success
• Business Driven Initiatives
• Short Project Deliverables
• Agile Approach

CCG’s Assessment, Vision & Roadmap

Recommendations
Focus on the right blend of Tools Gartner

Recommendations
Blending of Data
• Structured / Governed Data VS. Un-Structured Data
• External / Business Sourced Data
Governance: Survey Reveals Best Practices Lagging in Most Enterprises
"We do not have any data governance.“ – 34% of Participants
Accuracy VS. Timeliness of Data
• Agility has trumped the need for perfectly architected BI
Strategy to evolve
• Descriptive Analytics (What Happened)
• Predictive Analytics (What Will Happen)
• Prescriptive Analytics (How can we Make it Happen)
Data Science Labs
• Big Data (Hadoop)

Recommendations
Self Service to support R&D
Shadow IT / BI Competency Center
Business Transformation
• Analytics should transform business from operations to innovation
Customers/Business must be intimately involved
• Pushing for FYA (For Your Action) vs. FYI

In Conclusion

Convergence Consulting Group 813.968.3238 | www.ccgBI.com
Thank You

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