Landing Self Service Analytics using Microsoft Azure & Power BI

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KEYS TO SUCCESS IN LANDING SELF-SERVICE
ANALYTICS
Chandler Stevens
VP - Microsoft BI & Analytics www.visualbi.com
Sakthi Vijay Balu
Azure BI Architect
Jason Lacoff
Azure BI Architect

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Webinar Agenda
INTRODUCTION1
WHAT IS SELF-SERVICE ANALYTICS2
POWER BI & DEMO3
Q&A (via IM Chat)4
CONCLUSION5

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What is Self-Service Analytics?

SUCCESS IN LANDING SELF-SERVICE ANALYTICS
What is Self-Service Analytics?
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“ Self-Service Analytics is a form of business intelligence (BI) in which line-of-business professionals are enabled
and encouraged to perform queries and generate reports on their own, with nominal IT support. ”
- Gartner
INGEST PREPARE MODEL ANALYZE DECIDE

DATA
ANALYST
§ Aka the “end user”
§ Speaks the language of the business
§ Require friction-free experience
WHAT IS SELF_SERVICE ANALYTICS?
Roles In Self-Service Analytics
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DATA
STEWARD
DATA
ARCHITECT
§ Works Heavily with ETL and Database Procedures
§ Drives Performance of System
§ Enhances and enriches data to make sure it meets data consumer’s
requirements
§ Validates Data to be readable and error free

Why Self-Service Analytics?
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“ Gartner boldly predicts that self-service BI platforms will make
up 80% of all enterprise reporting by 2020 ”
Get Information and Data
Insights Instantly
Anyone can analyze
data
Less Dependency
On IT

When to Implement Self-Service BI?

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Sales Team that Needs Employees to
Create Distributed and Well-designed
Reports
§ Sales Person has access to reports and data
depending on region or client base.
§ Easily publish reports and integrate within
collaborative platforms such as
SharePoint.
§ Identify better data driven strategies

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Management Can Answer Questions
About Their Business Within Minutes
§ Can Analyze Company’s performance during board
meetings or on the fly
§ No dependency on a technical team when pulling in
analysis
§ No limitations on platform or location

Factors to Achieve a Sustainable Self-Service Architecture
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User
Usability and
Adoption
Fast Processing
and Reusable
Work Flows
Security At All
Levels
Well Monitored
and Maintained
Data Integrity
Minimal IT
Intervention After
Implementation

Visual BI’s Self-Service Implementation

Visual BI Data Services Architecture
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Unstructured
Data Sources
Azure Data Factory
Structured Data Sources Azure Databricks Machine Learning Azure SQL Data
Warehouse
Azure Analysis
Services
Ingest Data Lake
Analytics
Transform
Data Lake Store
Orchestrate Storage Visualize
ModelData Science

MICROSOFT POWER BI
A Leader Among Visualization Tools
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§ User friendly GUI
§ Integrated with the Office 365 Suite
§ New features introduced periodically
§ SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, SAP HANA
and more Connectors
§ Integrated data security

Demo

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INTRODUCING ANALYSIS TO ACTION
Dashboard and Reporting Fast Start Offering
§ Deliver unique insights across your data
§ Provides clarity on the important measures and
critical information to help in driving efficiencies
within your business
§ Provides organized dashboards tailored for your
key end user personas across the organization
§ Accelerator to providing value-add visualizations
that adhere to your data governance needs
§ Brings together the industry leading Visual BI
visualization experience coupled with the
Microsoft Power BI platform
§ Contact us at solutions@visualbi.com for more
information
Analysis to
Action
Fast Time
to Value
Create BI
Users Want
Enable
Decisions
Realize New
Insights
Single
View

Summary
Self-Service Analytics overview
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§ Endpoint consumption is important but considerations must be made from
data source to building semantic model
§ Achieving sustainable self-service analytics involves focus on user
experience, data integrity, well-defined data flows, low friction for IT to
implement and support, and security/privacy
§ Microsoft Azure data platform + Power BI provides cloud-scale processing
with performance
§ Visual BI can provide end-to-end services for design, implementation and
end user enablement of a self-service analytics solution for you

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@visua
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Chandler Stevens
chandlers@visualbi.com
VP – Microsoft BI & Analytics
Sakthi Vijay Balu
sakthib@visualbi.com
Azure BI Architect
Jason Lacoff
jasonl@visualbi.com
Azure BI Architect

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