What every IT Manager needs to know to solve their biggest business intelligence struggles. Productivity – Empowerment – Security. Three of the banes for IT that are important to run an efficient I.T. department and a business. I will begin with Productivity. This is productivity for the IT staff but that in turn affects the productivity of others, and the organization as a whole.

1. Every IT
Manager’s Key
to Better Data
Management

2. Mike Stegeman
Sr. Data Access Consultant
Introductions
Heath Kath
Sr. Data Access Consultant
Today’s speakers:

3. •Productivity
•Empowerment
•Security
•Brief SEQUEL introduction
Agenda

4. Productivity

5. Productivity
INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY
LEARN
LISTEN
PLAN

6. Business users
need information
Request made to
IT department
IT decides how
to access data
IT gathers data
into report
IT delivers data
to analysts
Typical information request life cycle
Productivity

7. Business users
need information
Request made to
IT department
IT decides how
to access data
IT gathers data
into report
IT delivers data
to analysts
Productivity
Typical information request life cycle

8. Analysts need
information
• For a particular date or date range
• For a particular customer or product
Analysts run
reports
• From a desktop icon or dashboard
• From a browser en route to customer site
Analysts
transform data
into information
• Report prompts for requested input
• Analysts decide on output format
Productivity
More efficient process

9. Analyze
data
Analyze
data
How many
steps?
Productivity

10. A
Remote database access
 Access data through your
IBM i system on:
– SQL Server
– Oracle
– MySQL
– Any DB2 database
– Most other relational databases
 Write ad hoc queries
 Consolidate data onto a single server
 Drill from data on one platform
to data on another
Productivity

11. PC file creation
Excel + PDF + RTF + CSV + Text + Custom + More…
Interactively
• Display in Excel from ViewPoint
• From Excel 2010+ as Add-In
• Export to Excel
• Save Results As… Any PC File Format
• Emailed
Scheduled View or Script
• Emailed
• FTP
• IFS Folder
From a browser
• Save As PC File
• Emailed
Your PC FILE
only a click
away
Productivity

12. User chooses dates at run time
Dates can have floating default
To Date variable default value = current date – 7 days
Empower business users
Empowerment

13. User enters customer number
User selects states at run time
Empowerment
Empower business users

14. Empowerment

15. SEQUEL Web Interface
Abc123………….
Data deployment
Empowerment

16. Output options
Display
PC file
Email Archive
Report
Print
Empowerment

17. New look
Colors
Download
to PC
Email
Browser
access
“Play”
with data
Automatic
reports
HTML
Modernization
Empowerment

18. Security

19. Security
Centralized
repository
Secure by user
or group
Department/
functional
libraries
One version of
the truth
Run-only, modify,
create controls
in SEQUEL
Record level
security*
* Version 11.3 - Nov 2015

20. Inefficient collaboration
GL summary
(Excel)
Summary sales by
customer/brand
Profitability
extract
Summary sales
by region
Purchasing
extract
(MS Access)
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Joe downloads this
manually via Client Access
every Monday… except
when he’s on vacation or
out with the flu!
Mary wrote this
extract. She left
last year and no-
one knows how it
works.
The Net Sales
calculation in this
extract is different
than Mary’s.
No one has yet realized
that this is loaded
incorrectly. The auditors
will be the first to
discover the problem.
These reports
don’t balance
with each
other.
These
reports
don’t
balance with
each other.
No one trusts
this report.
John spends 5 days
every month
generating this and
massaging the
numbers until he
thinks it is correct.
Security
A chaotic reporting
environment!
Sales FinancialsPurchasing

21. Security
55% lower
than Oracle
49% lower
than SQL Server
Cost of ownership

22. SEQUEL Demo
• SEQUEL Dashboard
- Graphs and Gauges
• SEQUEL View
- Prompt
- Dynamic Drill Down
• SEQUEL Client Table

23. • Productivity
-IT staff
-Business users
• Empowerment
• Security
Summary

24. SEQUEL is offering exciting fourth-quarter
promotions. We’d love to tell you about them!
Interested?
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Special Promotions—Just for You

25. Every IT Manager’s Key to
Better Data Management
We are ready for your questions!
Mike Stegeman
Sr. Data Access Consultant
Heath Kath
Sr. Data Access Consultant
Today’s Speakers:

26. Thank You for Joining Us Today!
Website: www.helpsystems.com/sequel
Phone: 800-328-1000 or
+1 952-933-0609
Email: mike.stegeman@helpsystems.com
heath.kath@helpsystems.com