This session explores the planning process we recommend to companies that want to ensure they launch prescriptive dashboards to effective manage their departments. While many think of BI as a series of reports, BI is much more. We'll explore how companies should prepare for a BI rollout and hear from customers that benefited from doing so.

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Building Impactful Prescriptive Dashboards
Terry Ginley, Socius
Brent Keilin, Socius
Alex Larsson, Jet Reports

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Remember when Information looked like THIS?

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In this Session
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The Challenges with Business Intelligence and Dashboards
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Socius View of the Opportunity for BI and Analytics
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Define Dashboards
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Demonstrate and Build a few Dashboards
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Dashboards vs Traditional reports
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Show how easy it can be to get started
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Q&A

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The Challenges….
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BI and Analytics continues to be important. Since 2001 in the Top 5 Technology’s
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40% of BI all solutions are never completed or provide the proposed value
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Building a traditional BI Data warehouse solution from scratch can take 2-6 months and 8+ technology skill sets

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The Socius View of Analytics
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BI is much more than reporting
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BI is not about the best or latest technology. Its about Ease of Use and Adoption
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Changing the mindset in organization to become a “Learning Organization”
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Analysis, Alerts, Visual Presentation
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Don’t just show data, create Actionable Data
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Right time / Right place

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What is a Dashboard?
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A business intelligence dashboard is a data visualization tool that displays the current status of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for an Organization. Dashboards consolidate and arrange numbers, metrics and scorecards on a single screen.
(source ww.searchbusinessanalytics.com )

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Pieces of an Analytics Dashboard

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Jet Reports Dashboard Solutions
Alex Larsson, Jet Reports

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Dashboards come in all shapes and sizes

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A Simple Pivot Chart

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Dashboard with Geo Drill Through

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Sales Dashboard in Sharepoint / SSRS

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Decomposition Tree

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Operational Dashboard with Alerts

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Our own Dog food!

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Benefits of a Dashboard vs Reporting

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How easy it is
Brent Keilen, Socius

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To Summarize…
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BI and Analytics are more important than ever for your business
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The solutions need to be easy to be adopted in your organization
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Start with small solutions, then build out
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Lots of applications and tools at fingertips
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Involve Socius early in your BI and Analytics strategy

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To Summarize…
Questions?