The document summarizes key points from a presentation on business intelligence (BI) monitoring. It discusses the importance of monitoring BI platforms to ensure performance and availability for users. It also introduces two speakers who will discuss insights driving modern businesses, challenges with performance, and how monitoring can help address issues and keep BI platforms running smoothly. The document provides an overview of topics that will be covered in the presentation.

1. Grab
some
coffee
and
enjoy the
pre-show
banter
before
the top of
the hour!

2. H TTechnologies of 2017

3. HOST:
Eric Kavanagh
@eric_kavanagh

4. THIS YEAR is…

5. THELINEUP
ANALYST:
Robin Bloor
Chief Analyst,
The Bloor Group
GUEST:
Stan Geiger
Senior Product Manager,
IDERA

6. Insights Drive Today’s Businesses
Building consensus is critical
Every part of the cycle needs data
Data should be in the DNA
A data-driven culture is critical
Don’t be afraid to look back!

7. Performance Issues Erode Trust
Patience is a virtue?
Not in the world of IT!
User expectations are changing
Performance is mandatory
40 seconds = 40 minutes
Lack of trust is a silent killer
Once gone, very hard to build

8. Can Artificial Intelligence Help?

9. Still Learning to Speak Silicon

10. If You’re Not Data-Driven?

11. INTRODUCING
Robin Bloor

12. Monitoring BI
Robin Bloor PhD

13. The Role of BI
BI is the feedback loop for corporate
systems

14. The Driving Force: Insight = Analytics
And Optimization?

15. The Begetting of BI
Desire for knowledge begets user requests
User requests beget analytics projects
Analytics projects beget data lakes
Data lakes + analytics beget insights
Insights beget BI

16. A Full BI Platform: Much Simplified

17. Corporate Reality

18. BI Disruption
u Data Volumes
u Data Sources
u Streaming & speed of arrival
u Unstructured Data
u Social (unclean) data
u IOT Data
u Data Provenance
u Computer Power (parallelism)
u Machine Learning
u New Analytic workloads
Bi is not a static situation.

19. The Internet of Things
Event-driven
Architectures
Real-time Everything
The Future BI Landscape Includes…

20. BI: Of The User, By The User, For The User
u Data Flow Integration/automation
u Performance/timeliness (overall)
u Data Coverage: Data sources, also
structured/unstructured data
u Data Cleansing
u Data access skills
u Visualizations
u Shareability
u Actionability
The issues in summary:

21. About BI Monitoring…
Unless the BI SERVICE is dependable
and timely it isn’t a SERVICE

22. INTRODUCING
Stan Geiger

23. © 2016 IDERA, Inc. All rights reserved.
Proprietary and confidential.
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
PLATFORM HEALTH
Monitoring the Microsoft BI Stack

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE

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MICROSOFT PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE
§ Source Data
• Relational Databases (SQL Server, Oracle, etc.)
• NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, Hbase)
§ Data Storage and Aggregation
• SQL Server Database
• Azure Data Warehouse
• Analysis Services (SSAS)
§ Presentation/Analytics
• Excel
• Reporting Services (SSRS)
• PowerBI

26. “
26© 2015 IDERA, Inc. All rights reserved. Proprietary and confidential.
You don’t know what you don’t
know.
Noam Chomsky

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PLATFORM MONITORING
§ Availability
• Resource Availability (up/down)
• Root Cause Identification
§ Performance
• Server level performance metrics
• Resource level performance
• Identify bottlenecks
§ Utilization
• User Sessions
• Requests (queries, reports, etc.)

28. “
28© 2015 IDERA, Inc. All rights reserved. Proprietary and confidential.
When you need it, and don't have
it…you sing a different tune.
Bert Gummer, Tremors 2

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THANKS!
Any questions?
You can find me at:
stan.geiger@idera.com

31. The Archive Trifecta:
• Inside Analysis www.insideanalysis.com
• SlideShare www.slideshare.net/InsideAnalysis
• YouTube www.youtube.com/user/BloorGroup
THANK YOU!