At a recent Arkansas Lunch & Learn, Sparky Business Analyst Rusty Frioux discusses Sparkhound's end-to-end Business Intelligence & Analytics approach that drives business impact through technologies like SharePoint and Power BI. Learn what Business Intelligence & Analytics is and how to build the right strategy and tools for your business.

1. THE MODERN ANALYTICS ENVIRONMENT
Rusty Frioux
Analytics Strategist

2. WHAT IS BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICS?
Data-driven, business decision making

3. Companies selling analytics services
IBM, Accenture, Deloitte: $ 8 Billion in service revenue
ANALYTICS ARE HERE AND THEY’RE BIG BUSINESS

4. ANALYTICS FOR EVERY PIECE
OF THE BUSINESS
Retain its workforce
Minimize financial risk
Reach new clients
Predict supply chain disruption
Optimize sales performance
Increase manufacturing
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ISBN-13: 978-0133833034

5. WHY NOT?
Analytics are “voodoo’
Analytics require expensive hardware and software
You need “data scientists”
It’s “Big Data” for the biggest of the big

6. Results in…
Improved employee utilization
Faster sale closings
Early identification of “red” projects
Better financial performance
NOT JUST FOR THE BIG…
FINANCIAL
WORKFORCE
SALES
OPERATIONS
DATA MART

7. OUR METHODOLOGY
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STRATEGY INTEGRATION ANALYTICS INTELLIGENCE DISTRIBUTION

8. THE MODERN ANALYTICS ENVIRONMENT
SSAS
SQL
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SSRS
Excel
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9. THE MODERN ANALYTICS ENVIRONMENT
SSAS
SQL
Server
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SSRS
Excel
Excel
Power Pivot
Excel
Power Query
Excel
w/ Power View
plus…

10. LET’S TAKE A LOOK…
Pick the right question
Model data with Power Pivot and Power Query
Explore data with Power View
Distribute with SharePoint and Power BI

11. PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
With Microsoft Azure Machine Learning
Customer Retention
Fraud Detection
Prediction
Classification
Advanced Modeling

12. BIG DATA / IOT
With Microsoft Azure IoT Tools
HD Insight (Hadoop)
Stream Analytics
Event Hub

13. HOW DO WE GET STARTED
Sparkhound Assessment Model
What should we build?
What tools should we use?
What ROI can we expect?
POC