Self-Service BI for the Masses

Building Bridges:
Self-Service BI for the Masses

Agenda
PowerPivot as a great personal productivity tool
Self-Service BI for the Masses with PowerPivot and Panorama NovaView
Demo
Live Q & A

“High performance businesses are FIVE times more likely to use analytics than lower performers.”
*Accenture survey of executives working at U.S. companies with annual revenues of $500 million or more
http://www.information-management.com/issues/2007_56/10014969-1.html

Analytics Usage
Identify most profitable customers and offer them the right price
Accelerate product innovation
Optimize supply chains
Find the true drivers of financial performance
*Accenture survey of executives working at U.S. companies with annual revenues of $500 million or more
http://www.information-management.com/issues/2007_56/10014969-1.html

Challenge:
Business users still don’t use BI tools for data analysis

So when they need data insights,
they go to IT

Which causes a lot of frustration for IT & Business Users

Microsoft PowerPivot
The ultimate platform for self-service BI

PowerPivot integrates data from different places
Databases
Excel
Applications
Web Services

Why use PowerPivot
Great for Personal and Team Productivity
Available in Excel 2010
Remarkable platform performance
An Open In-Memory platform

Panorama & Microsoft Transform BI as we know it
For the last 14 years, Panorama has been a strategic Microsoft partner and continually adds innovation on top of the Microsoft platform, This new release will bring to market an end-to-end BI solution that combines the best of Microsoft SQL Server, Office Excel 2010 and SharePoint 2010 with Panorama’s NovaView suite, and will ultimately transform the landscape of business intelligence as we know it.
Claude Lorenson, director of SQL Server marketing at Microsoft Corp.

PowerPivot Enterprise-Ready Needs
Data Security Layer
Powerful yet Simple Web-based Analytics
Expanded Data Visualizations
A Complete End-to-End BI Solution

PowerPivot Enhancement # 1 –
Security

Enhance OLAP Security
Make PowerPivot available for Teams,
Departments and Enterprise
NovaView adds a missing data level security layer
Each user will only see his portion of the data
Users can share confidential intelligence
Make PowerPivot enterprise-ready
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PowerPivot Enhancement # 2
Self-Service BI tools
for Business Users

BI for Business Users
NovaView Flash Analytics
The most user friendly analytical client available today
Animated self-discovery features
Zero training
Interactive analysis
Fully integrated into the NovaView Dashboard and SharePoint

BI for End Users
NovaView Smart Reporting
One environment for analysis & reporting
Creates, formats and distributes high quality reports in one click
Enables full integration with user data
Supports all analytical capabilities within the report
“Slice and dice” and search capabilities
‘In Cell’ visualization, Bands
“One-click” conversion to Excel and PDF

NovaView Dashboards
Translate data into synchronized, visually rich graphical elements which show multiple results together
Provide at-a-glance views
Self-Service Dashboards with personalized look and feel
Drill-through for more detail from the dashboard level

NovaView Spotlight
Personalized LIVE insights in Microsoft Outlook
Deliver interactive personalized insights to users in a simple and intuitive way
Put insights where people work, in the most popular desktop applications
Focus only on insights which are highly relevant for you
From Insight to Analysis in one click

An End-to-End BI Solution
Intuitive & Interactive BI for Business Users
Analytics
Reporting
Dashboards
KPI’s
Visualization
Office Integration
Panorama NovaView is the only BI suite on PowerPivot today

Complete Web-Based Experience
No Installation
Access from anywhere
Intuitive & Interactive
Same User Interface & multi-dimensional capabilities
for all data sources (relational, OLAP, in-memory)

Ultimate Self-Service BI
Connect
Analyze
Publish & Share
User-friendly interface
Fully web-based
Same tools for Relational, multi-dimensional (Analysis Services) and PowerPivot data
Live in SharePoint
Share instantly and Securely
Connect to any model
Create your own interactive views
No other software, IT involvement or installations are required
All done by Business Users
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Live in SharePoint

PowerPivot Enhancement # 3 –
More BI Functionality for Power Users

Advanced Analytics
Closing the gap to Analysis Services functionality
Give more power to the analysts:
Smart exceptions
Instant calculations
Additional data formatting
Fully interactive, with Slice & Dice and Drag & Drop
and much more!
Optimized for PowerPivot models:
Efficiently handling flat and large dimensions
Innovative ‘Google/Bing-like’ instant data search for faster navigation of the flat dimensions
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PowerPivot & Analysis Services
MS Office Clients
Flash Analytics
Dashboards
Smart Reporting
Exec. Dashboards
Spotlight
NovaView Server
Business Logic
Unified Data Security Model
PowerPivot answers your ‘unknown’ questions
Analysis Services answers your ‘known’ questions

A few words about Panorama Software

15 Years of Unbeatable Innovation
A StrategicMicrosoftPartner
Panorama has recently been awarded silver in the
Best Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool
category by SQL Server magazine
2010 – Panorama makes
PowerPivot ‘Enterprise Ready’
2009 – NovaView 6 brings together the best of SQL, Office and SharePoint
2007 - Introduce the New ‘Dashboard’ in Office – ‘Spotlight’
2006 - Partner with SAP, Advise on MDX
2003 - Redefine how Users Explore Data
1996 - BI technology sold to Microsoft, basis for Analysis Services & MDX
1995 - Panorama’s first BI solution was created

BI Survey 8 – Independently Verified
“As far as third-party tools go
Panorama is still the #1 vendor…”
*BI Survey 8 – review by Chris Webb:
http://cwebbbi.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7B84B0F2C239489A!4405.entry

BI Survey 8
Business Benefit Index (BBI) by Product
Panorama scores the highest, compared to all other BI products when it comes to the business Benefits which the end users gets from the product – most value for customer investment.
#1
“Microsoft and Panorama
are clearly better together“
Source: http://www.isreport.de/index.php?id=993 Featuring: The OLAP survey 8 by Nigel Pendse

Over 1,500 customers worldwide
Telecom, Media & Entertainment
Healthcare
Financial Services
Retail & Distribution
Manufacturing

Demonstrationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_N_HSbqGIA

Live Q & A
We have a PowerPivot session at the MS BI Conference
June 6-11, 2010 (New Orleans)
How can I try Panorama NovaView?
www.panorama.com/trial
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Self-Service BI for the Masses

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