This document outlines the key attributes of business intelligence (BI) systems according to Tableau.com. It discusses what BI is, which is gathering, storing, analyzing and sharing data to help business users make better decisions. It then describes seven key attributes of modern BI systems: speed, visual data discovery, connecting to any data, real-time collaboration, comprehensive governance, scalability, and mobile access. BI systems aim to provide the right information to decision makers at the right time to enable better business decisions.

1. THE RIGHT APPROACHTO
BUSINESSINTELLIGENCE
Bayar Shahab- IT Specialist
Darin Group

2. OUTLINE
֍What isBI (BusinessIntelligence)
֍HowBIcan answer ourbusinessneeds?
֍Speed
֍VisualData Discovery
֍ConnecttoAnyData
֍Real-timeCollaboration
֍ComprehensiveGovernance
֍Scalability
֍Mobile
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3. WHATIS BI(BUSINESSINTELLIGENCE)?
 Gathering, storing, analyzing and sharing data to help business
users make better decisions
OR Simply
 Getting the right information, to the right decision makers, at the right
time.
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4. BI IS DESIGNEDTO ENABLE MANAGERSTOMAKERIGHT
DECISIONS&ANSWER
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What do Iwant to happen? What-if?
What will happen?
Why did it happen?
What is happening?
What happened?
ERP CRM ExcelDatabase Acco.
Future
Past
Present
Data
Analysis &
Decision
Presentation

5. EXAMPLE
Marketing
If Inventory Levels Drop by 10% will
Customers Shop else where
Production
HowMany Products Sold Dueto TV
Ads Last Month
Finance
Howmany investors willmake %10
revenue for the company
Sales
WhichCustomer Demographic is
Performing Bestfor Product A5
BI

6. BIBALANCEDILEMMA
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Time
Making Right BusinessDecisions
is a Balance
Data Opinion
Business IntelligenceSolutions

7. TYPESOF USERS
• Users have the ability to view static information online and/or print to a
local printer.Executives
• Ability to refresh report information and the ability to enter desired
information parameters for the purposes of performing high-level research
and analysis.
Casual Users
• In addition tothe privileges of a casual user, functional users have the ability
to develop their own ad hoc queries and perform OLAP analysis.Functional Users
• They have full privileges to explore and analyze the data with the BI
applications availabletothem.Super Users
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8. SEVENKEY ATTRIBUTESOF BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE(TABLEAU.COM)*
 Speed
 Visual Data Discovery
 Connect to Any Data
 Real-time Collaboration
 Comprehensive Governance
 Scalability
 Mobile
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9. 1- SPEED
▪ Access, analyses, share andmake decision in a matter of hours.
▪ Creating & modifying reports/dashboards in minutes.
▪ Easily combine data sets from different parts of the business on the fly.
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10. 2- VISUALDATADISCOVERY
▪ Traditional tools like Excel present data in row & columns, filter data , then create a chart from
that sub-table. Sometimes use commands to build certain filtering.
▪ Easily create visual representations ofyour data with simpledrag and drop
▪ Ask question and getanswers using drag and drop
▪ Easy-to-use Interfaces
▪ Interactive Discovery and Collaboration
▪ Built-in Visual BestPractices
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11. 3- CONNECTTO ANYDATA
▪ Works with raw data, excel sheets, text files, databases ….etc.
▪ Works with data of any size.
▪ Combine massive amounts of data from different systemsand all
parts of a business.
▪ Blend/Mix data togethereasily.
▪ No need for business users to worry about the sourceof data.
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12. 4- REAL-TIME COLLABORATION
▪ Live interaction with data.
▪ Freshdata available any time and anywhere
▪ Filter, sort, discuss and transform data onthe fly.
▪ Modify and update dashboards immediately with simple
drag-and-drop interactions
▪ Simplesharing with dashboards in a web browser ormobile app.
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13. 5- COMPREHENSIVEGOVERNANCE
▪ Full control over your data.
▪ Keepinga balance between security and accessibility.
▪ Everybody has access to the data with difference access levels.
▪ Providing accuratedata (upto date and from trusted sources).
▪ Data is available for all users based on his/her userlevel.
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14. No BI
▪ Traditional systems want to pilot analytics
projects with a handful of users, then scale
up overtime.
▪ Traditional systems aredifficult to quickly
scale up.
▪ Upon time, complicated to configure and
maintain.
BI
▪ BI tools allow you to start small and scale at
your ownpace.
▪ From one userwith onedata source 
10,000 users with several data sources.
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6- SCALABILITY

15. 7- MOBILE
▪ View, interact and share analytics regardless of device type.
▪ Hallway conversations stand-up meetings, executive briefings and discussions with customers
and partners.
▪ Providedata any time, anywhere with any device.
▪ Optimized for Touch screendevices and mobiles.
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16. THE BOTTOM-LINE
▪ Models to the way you think, work, and act.
▪ Impact the business performanceand make better decisions.
▪ Remember seven key attributes of the modern BI
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