BI allows organizations to analyze large amounts of data from multiple sources to better understand their business and make informed decisions. It provides predictive analytics capabilities through tools like dashboards, reports, and data visualization. Implementing a successful BI system requires integrating data from across an organization's various databases and systems, defining important KPIs, and providing users with self-service analytics tools to track metrics and receive alerts. BI has been shown to increase financial performance, speed of decision making, and ability to execute decisions as intended.
This publication seeks to explain what business intelligence is, its history, usage in modern business operations and prospects into the future of BI.
The publication also mentions relevant software tool that help deliver business intelligence solutions.
A Strategic View of Enterprise Reporting and Analytics: The Data FunnelInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Colin White and Jaspersoft
Slides from the Live Webcast on June 12, 2012
As the corporate appetite for analytics and reporting grows, companies must find a way to secure a strategic view of their information architecture. End users with varying degrees of expertise need a wide range of data and reports delivered in a timely fashion. As the audience for analytics expands, that puts pressure on IT infrastructure and staff. And now with the promise of Hadoop and MapReduce, the organization's desire for business insight becomes even more significant.
In this episode of The Briefing Room, veteran Analyst Colin White of BI Research will explain the value of being strategic with enterprise reporting. White will be briefed by Karl Van den Bergh of Jaspersoft, who will tout his company's “data funnel” concept, which is designed to strategically manage an organization's information architecture. By aligning information assets along this funnel, IT can effectively address the spectrum of analytical needs – from simple reporting to complex, ad hoc analysis – without over-taxing personnel and system resources.
Erp and business intelligence - why your business needs bothDavidAltmen
Have any ideas to expand your business? Thought of a smart growth strategy? But having trouble managing day-to-day business operations? Failing to effectively manage the workforce? Not being able to benefit from intracompany collaboration?
Well, you’re not alone. Every company that still relies on traditional modes of business management is in the same boat as you. Yes, you heard right. The traditional methods of business management that benefitted your company decades ago are not at all reliable today. Why?
Look around you; everything you see is dependent on technology. Embracing the tech revolution is what will give you a competitive edge in the corporate sector. A way to get ahead of your game by managing your internal business operations and implementing expansion strategies is the integration of the powerpack, ERP and BI.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) combined with Business Intelligence (BI) has proved to work wonders for any business. From streamlining business operations to providing companies actionable insights to make smart decisions, this tech power combo can really serve as a game-changer for you.
Here is how you can benefit by incorporating ERP and BI into your business management model;
● Streamlined business operations
● Adequate utilization of resources
● Saves times and efforts
● Single database to access the entire company’s data
● Access to actionable insights to make better business decisions
This publication seeks to explain what business intelligence is, its history, usage in modern business operations and prospects into the future of BI.
The publication also mentions relevant software tool that help deliver business intelligence solutions.
A Strategic View of Enterprise Reporting and Analytics: The Data FunnelInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Colin White and Jaspersoft
Slides from the Live Webcast on June 12, 2012
As the corporate appetite for analytics and reporting grows, companies must find a way to secure a strategic view of their information architecture. End users with varying degrees of expertise need a wide range of data and reports delivered in a timely fashion. As the audience for analytics expands, that puts pressure on IT infrastructure and staff. And now with the promise of Hadoop and MapReduce, the organization's desire for business insight becomes even more significant.
In this episode of The Briefing Room, veteran Analyst Colin White of BI Research will explain the value of being strategic with enterprise reporting. White will be briefed by Karl Van den Bergh of Jaspersoft, who will tout his company's “data funnel” concept, which is designed to strategically manage an organization's information architecture. By aligning information assets along this funnel, IT can effectively address the spectrum of analytical needs – from simple reporting to complex, ad hoc analysis – without over-taxing personnel and system resources.
Erp and business intelligence - why your business needs bothDavidAltmen
Have any ideas to expand your business? Thought of a smart growth strategy? But having trouble managing day-to-day business operations? Failing to effectively manage the workforce? Not being able to benefit from intracompany collaboration?
Well, you’re not alone. Every company that still relies on traditional modes of business management is in the same boat as you. Yes, you heard right. The traditional methods of business management that benefitted your company decades ago are not at all reliable today. Why?
Look around you; everything you see is dependent on technology. Embracing the tech revolution is what will give you a competitive edge in the corporate sector. A way to get ahead of your game by managing your internal business operations and implementing expansion strategies is the integration of the powerpack, ERP and BI.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) combined with Business Intelligence (BI) has proved to work wonders for any business. From streamlining business operations to providing companies actionable insights to make smart decisions, this tech power combo can really serve as a game-changer for you.
Here is how you can benefit by incorporating ERP and BI into your business management model;
● Streamlined business operations
● Adequate utilization of resources
● Saves times and efforts
● Single database to access the entire company’s data
● Access to actionable insights to make better business decisions
Advanced Topics In Business Intelligenceguest1a9ef2
The blurring of the line between decision support systems and operational systems because of real-time warehousing, the use of Enterprise Information Integration (EII), and closed- loop business processes
Business intelligence strategy and roadmap 2018Mondy Holten
Get Ready for 2018 with this Business Intelligence Training & Consulting . Learn more about Visual Analytics. Interactive Dashboards. Data Discovery. Mobile Analytics. Self-Service-BI. Business Analytics. Business Intelligence. Drag & Drop Reporting. Data Visualisation. Big Data Analytics.
Register for this Inhouse Training info@mr-data.nl or contact our Sr Business Intelligence Consultant Mondy Holten today mondy.holten@mr-data.nl
Learn the basics of business intelligence, including common terms, how to implement solutions, and what it can do for your company. For even more insight into how project management can benefit your work, visit: http://bit.ly/GuideToBI
To find a custom business intelligence solution that fits the specific needs of your work, visit: http://bit.ly/GetBI1
Critical success factors to develop and deliver a forward-looking BI strategy...SAP Analytics
sap.com/analytics - This SAPinsider #BI2015 session attendees will learn key elements of an effective BI strategy that benefits both IT and the core business alike.
Donning a completely new look, the next version of BI promises to deliver more in terms of features and functionality than traditional BI.
By Neeraj Gandhi
Role of business intelligence in knowledge managementShakthi Fernando
This study is fundamentally based on the most common components of a Business Intelligence System, data warehouses, ETL tools, OLAP techniques and data mining, which comfort the decision making function. It further describe about the role of each component in a Business Intelligence System and how Business Intelligence Systems can be used for better business decision making at each level of management.
What is BI,Definition, examples, BI industry, Solutions, Evolution, Catogeries, Key Stages of BI, BI significance, BI technologies, tools, future of BI
Business Intelligence, Portals, Dashboards and Operational Matrix with ShareP...Optimus BT
Key areas of growth in Business Intelligence with SharePoint | Optimus BT
The business environment has driven organizations to view BI as more than technology with strategy, end user adoption, collaboration, real time predictions, pervasive deployments, and mobile adoptions that allows for intelligent business decision making process while keeping cost and IT expertise at the forefront.
This presentation provides an overview of current state of Business Intelligence, portals and dashboards has been deployed enterprise wide, challenges in the existing deployments and how Business Intelligence can be scaled up to the end users in terms of cross organizational collaboration, business initiatives, data availability, user acceptance and data source integration. Even more, this presentation talks about the trends that drive BI which includes but not limited to predictive & real time analysis, Mobile Business Intelligence and Social BI within the process framework, Social Media Analytics, Self Service BI. Towards the later part of the presentation we talk about the vision of a BI solution to meet business initiatives, and how SharePoint 2010 will be a clear winner in terms of how various platforms stack up. There are few real implementation screens illustrated towards the end w.r.t Sales, financial and decision making portal dashboards.
Optimus BT provides end to end SharePoint Business Intelligence Software Consulting and solution implementation services. Using SQL server integration capabilities and SharePoint excel services our BI solutions bring analytics from data warehouse systems into an intuitive dashboard which helps real time reporting with self service tools. Learn more @ www.optimusbt.com/sharepoint_business_intelligence
Advanced Topics In Business Intelligenceguest1a9ef2
The blurring of the line between decision support systems and operational systems because of real-time warehousing, the use of Enterprise Information Integration (EII), and closed- loop business processes
Business intelligence strategy and roadmap 2018Mondy Holten
Get Ready for 2018 with this Business Intelligence Training & Consulting . Learn more about Visual Analytics. Interactive Dashboards. Data Discovery. Mobile Analytics. Self-Service-BI. Business Analytics. Business Intelligence. Drag & Drop Reporting. Data Visualisation. Big Data Analytics.
Register for this Inhouse Training info@mr-data.nl or contact our Sr Business Intelligence Consultant Mondy Holten today mondy.holten@mr-data.nl
Learn the basics of business intelligence, including common terms, how to implement solutions, and what it can do for your company. For even more insight into how project management can benefit your work, visit: http://bit.ly/GuideToBI
To find a custom business intelligence solution that fits the specific needs of your work, visit: http://bit.ly/GetBI1
Critical success factors to develop and deliver a forward-looking BI strategy...SAP Analytics
sap.com/analytics - This SAPinsider #BI2015 session attendees will learn key elements of an effective BI strategy that benefits both IT and the core business alike.
Donning a completely new look, the next version of BI promises to deliver more in terms of features and functionality than traditional BI.
By Neeraj Gandhi
Role of business intelligence in knowledge managementShakthi Fernando
This study is fundamentally based on the most common components of a Business Intelligence System, data warehouses, ETL tools, OLAP techniques and data mining, which comfort the decision making function. It further describe about the role of each component in a Business Intelligence System and how Business Intelligence Systems can be used for better business decision making at each level of management.
What is BI,Definition, examples, BI industry, Solutions, Evolution, Catogeries, Key Stages of BI, BI significance, BI technologies, tools, future of BI
Business Intelligence, Portals, Dashboards and Operational Matrix with ShareP...Optimus BT
Key areas of growth in Business Intelligence with SharePoint | Optimus BT
The business environment has driven organizations to view BI as more than technology with strategy, end user adoption, collaboration, real time predictions, pervasive deployments, and mobile adoptions that allows for intelligent business decision making process while keeping cost and IT expertise at the forefront.
This presentation provides an overview of current state of Business Intelligence, portals and dashboards has been deployed enterprise wide, challenges in the existing deployments and how Business Intelligence can be scaled up to the end users in terms of cross organizational collaboration, business initiatives, data availability, user acceptance and data source integration. Even more, this presentation talks about the trends that drive BI which includes but not limited to predictive & real time analysis, Mobile Business Intelligence and Social BI within the process framework, Social Media Analytics, Self Service BI. Towards the later part of the presentation we talk about the vision of a BI solution to meet business initiatives, and how SharePoint 2010 will be a clear winner in terms of how various platforms stack up. There are few real implementation screens illustrated towards the end w.r.t Sales, financial and decision making portal dashboards.
Optimus BT provides end to end SharePoint Business Intelligence Software Consulting and solution implementation services. Using SQL server integration capabilities and SharePoint excel services our BI solutions bring analytics from data warehouse systems into an intuitive dashboard which helps real time reporting with self service tools. Learn more @ www.optimusbt.com/sharepoint_business_intelligence
During Open Summer of Code 2014, we had to do a "hackathon": implement in one day a bunch of features.
This happened in Leiedal, Kortrijk.
This presentation is for the iRail-project.
During open Summer of code 2015, team GTFS managed to build a GTFS and GTFS-realtime feed of the Belgian railway company NMBS.
31/08/2015 @Corda Incubator Hasselt
During hackathon at open Summer of code 2015, we made the first steps of generating GTFS-files and GTFS-RealTime feed of the NMBS. Third-party applications can easily integrate this open data of the Belgian railway company into their applications.
Power bi implementation for finance services firmsaddendanalytics
Addend Analytics is a Microsoft Power BI-partner based in Mumbai, India. Apart from being authorized for Power BI implementations, Addend has successfully executed Power BI projects for 100+ clients across sectors like financial services, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Sales, Manufacturing, Real estate, Logistics, and Healthcare in countries like the US, Europe, Australia, and India. Companies partnering with us save their valuable time and efforts of searching and managing resources while saving hugely on the development costs and hence, most of the small and medium enterprises in North America prefer Addend to be their Power BI implementation partner.
5 Things To Look For In A Business Intelligence SoftwareGrow
Looking for the right Business Intelligence software? Finding the best options from reputable Business Intelligence software vendors can be trickier than it seems. Discover the top 5 factors to consider when selecting Business Intelligence software. For further assistance, visit Grow.com
What are actionable insights? (Introduction to Operational Analytics Software)Newton Day Uploads
What Are Actionable Insights? In this presentation I outline what Actionable Insights are and the Operational Analytics Software that can produce them. And because Business Intelligence and the Business Intelligence Software market can be so confusing for buyers I've attempted to position where Actionable Insights and Operational Analytics fit in the Business Intelligence 'story'.
Business intelligence- Components, Tools, Need and Applicationsraj
As part of the research project for the course Technical Foundations of Information Systems at the University of Illinois, our team worked on the topic, Business Intelligence. The presentation focuses on what is Business Intelligence, its various components, latest tools, the need of BI as well as applications of this technology. This project deals with the latest development of BI technologies (hardware or software) and includes comprehensive literature survey from Journals, and the Internet.
Technology-driven process for analyzing data and delivering actionable information that helps executives, managers, and workers make informed business decisions.
How does the business intelligence process work?
A business intelligence architecture includes more than just BI software. Business intelligence data is typically stored in a data warehouse built for an entire organization or in smaller data marts that hold subsets of business information for individual departments and business units, often with ties to an enterprise data warehouse. In addition, data lakes based on Hadoop clusters or other big data systems are increasingly used as repositories or landing pads for BI and analytics data, especially for log files, sensor data, text, and other types of unstructured or semi-structured data.
BI data can include historical information and real-time data gathered from source systems as it’s generated, enabling BI tools to support both strategic and tactical decision-making processes. Before it’s used in BI applications, raw data from different source systems generally must be integrated, consolidated, and cleansed using data integration and data quality management tools to ensure that BI teams and business users are analyzing accurate and consistent information.
From there, the steps in the BI process include the following:
data preparation, in which data sets are organized and modeled for analysis;
analytical querying of the prepared data;
distribution of key performance indicators (KPIs) and other findings to business users; and
use of the information to help influence and drive business decisions.
Initially, BI tools were primarily used by BI and IT professionals who ran queries and produced dashboards and reports for business users. Increasingly, however, business analysts, executives, and workers are using business intelligence platforms themselves, thanks to the development of self-service BI and data discovery tools. Self-service business intelligence environments enable business users to query BI data, create data visualizations, and design dashboards on their own.
BI programs often incorporate forms of advanced analytics, such as data mining, predictive analytics, text mining, statistical analysis, and big data analytics. A common example is predictive modeling which enables what-if analysis of different business scenarios. In most cases, though, advanced analytics projects are conducted by separate teams of data scientists, statisticians, predictive modelers, and other skilled analytics professionals, while BI teams oversee more straightforward querying and analysis of business data.
What is business intelligence (BI)?
It is a tool for transforming data into information and then that information into knowledge using various methodologies. The objective of this process is to optimize the decision-making of the company to the maximum since the acquired knowledge can be used to develop strategic or commercial plans.
Apart from timely availability of data and insightful business knowledge, this presentation will find the list of benefits that are gained by investing in business intelligence services.
This report is an outcome of research on topic 'Business Intelligence', which is a hot topic now. This research report is prepared for the partial fulfillment of the requirements for 'Current Developments Module' of B.Sc.Computing degree.
It demonstrates details of the Business Intelligence in today's world and explains BI architecture. It also provides detailed analysis on its use in the current business environment.
About Business Intelligence, Why BI, Technologies Supporting BI,Examples of BI Careers, BI Skills and Knowledge, Sample Role, Microsoft BI Platform, SQL Server Database Management, SQL server Integration Services, SQL server Analysis Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, Microsoft Excel, SharePoint Server
How Can Business Analytics Dashboard Help Data Analysts.pdfGrow
The Business analytics dashboard provides a centralized platform that empowers data analysts to explore, analyze, and visualize data more efficiently and intuitively, ultimately driving better decision-making. You can discover how these intuitive Business Intelligence dashboard tools enhance every aspect of data analysis and streamline a data analyst's job. Revolutionize how data analysts function and make the data analysis journey successful by visiting Grow.com.
Business Intelligence In Cyber Security | Cyberroot Risk AdvisoryCR Group
The business world has changed a lot over years with invasion of internet. Along with change of business, come the risk factors as well. When the course of business functionality has changed, the code of conduct has changed along with as well.
The Fundamentals of Business Intelligence is a comprehensive overview of data and data analysis. The guide explains the types of data available to businesses and how these data types work with one another to provide insights to large companies. Look beyond the hype of big marketing to understand the role of all types of data and understand what big data is in the right context.
Business Analytics
Business Intelligence
OLAP
OLTP
BI
BA
architecture of BI
techniques of BI and BA
star schema
online analytical processing
online transactional processing
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Explore our comprehensive data analysis project presentation on predicting product ad campaign performance. Learn how data-driven insights can optimize your marketing strategies and enhance campaign effectiveness. Perfect for professionals and students looking to understand the power of data analysis in advertising. for more details visit: https://bostoninstituteofanalytics.org/data-science-and-artificial-intelligence/
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
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In the face of escalating global tensions, particularly those emanating from geopolitical disputes with nations like hashtag#Russia and hashtag#China, hashtag#Germany has witnessed a significant uptick in targeted cyber operations. Our analysis indicates a marked increase in hashtag#cyberattack sophistication aimed at critical infrastructure and key industrial sectors. These attacks range from ransomware campaigns to hashtag#AdvancedPersistentThreats (hashtag#APTs), threatening national security and business integrity.
🔑 Key findings include:
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Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
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Empowering the Data Analytics Ecosystem: A Laser Focus on Value
The data analytics ecosystem thrives when every component functions at its peak, unlocking the true potential of data. Here's a laser focus on key areas for an empowered ecosystem:
1. Democratize Access, Not Data:
Granular Access Controls: Provide users with self-service tools tailored to their specific needs, preventing data overload and misuse.
Data Catalogs: Implement robust data catalogs for easy discovery and understanding of available data sources.
2. Foster Collaboration with Clear Roles:
Data Mesh Architecture: Break down data silos by creating a distributed data ownership model with clear ownership and responsibilities.
Collaborative Workspaces: Utilize interactive platforms where data scientists, analysts, and domain experts can work seamlessly together.
3. Leverage Advanced Analytics Strategically:
AI-powered Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like data cleaning and feature engineering, freeing up data talent for higher-level analysis.
Right-Tool Selection: Strategically choose the most effective advanced analytics techniques (e.g., AI, ML) based on specific business problems.
4. Prioritize Data Quality with Automation:
Automated Data Validation: Implement automated data quality checks to identify and rectify errors at the source, minimizing downstream issues.
Data Lineage Tracking: Track the flow of data throughout the ecosystem, ensuring transparency and facilitating root cause analysis for errors.
5. Cultivate a Data-Driven Mindset:
Metrics-Driven Performance Management: Align KPIs and performance metrics with data-driven insights to ensure actionable decision making.
Data Storytelling Workshops: Equip stakeholders with the skills to translate complex data findings into compelling narratives that drive action.
Benefits of a Precise Ecosystem:
Sharpened Focus: Precise access and clear roles ensure everyone works with the most relevant data, maximizing efficiency.
Actionable Insights: Strategic analytics and automated quality checks lead to more reliable and actionable data insights.
Continuous Improvement: Data-driven performance management fosters a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
Sustainable Growth: Empowered by data, organizations can make informed decisions to drive sustainable growth and innovation.
By focusing on these precise actions, organizations can create an empowered data analytics ecosystem that delivers real value by driving data-driven decisions and maximizing the return on their data investment.
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What if you could see into the future and control what
occurs? Can that be possible given the complexity of
your environment? You have many systems, multiple
databases and a ton of data to work with.
Seeing into the future is possible. Business Intelligence (BI) is the crystal ball!
• In its simplest form, BI is like a spreadsheet on steroids, allowing you to :
• Slice and Dice
• Perform Predictive Analysis
• Define Prescriptive Actions
• With Views based on:
• Current
• Future
• Multi-dimensional Attributes
• Combined with Analytical Analysis
BI considers organization spreadsheet knowledge and adheres to the same look and
feel.
BI is one area of the business that is user owned and driven
requiring significantly less dependence on your IT
organization and resources.
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In a 1958 article, IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn used the
term business intelligence. His definition was based on
Webster's dictionary definition of intelligence:
"the ability to apprehend the interrelationships of presented
facts in such a way as to guide action towards a desired
goal."[1]
BI Components
BI encompasses:
Data Warehouse
Business Analytics
Reporting
a lot of Data = Big Data
BI enables informed decisions by bringing together data from
multiple sources combined with the analytical abilities to produce
informed business decisions supported by multiple dimensional view
or scenarios.
So, what are the goals that you want to achieve? Where
do you start? Let’s start with areas of the business that will
benefit.
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Applying BI to Enterprise Processes
Measurement /Metrics– inform business leaders to the progress towards business goals
Business Intelligence applied to the following purposes drive
value based processes.
Allowing the measurement and real-time insight to adjust ,
improve , modify many aspects of your business, including:
Business Intelligence provides alert functionality notifies the users if certain
conditions are met.
Example: If a business metric exceeds a pre-defined threshold, the metric will be
highlighted in standard reports, and the business analyst may be alerted via
email or other system services.
Analytics – driven by quantitative processes to arrive at optimal decisions and to discover
business knowledge.
Involves: data mining, process mining, statistical analysis, predictive
analytics, predictive modeling, business process modeling, event processing and
prescriptive analytics.
Enterprise Reporting – strategic reporting, not operational reporting.
Involves data visualization, executive information system and OLAP
Collaboration/Collaboration Platform – internal and external
data sources sharing.
Knowledge Management – supports practices to identify, create,
represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and
experiences that are based on business knowledge.
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BI Great Mashups
Taking a term first coined in the music industry, Mashups
combine multiple sources (rap & rock) and tones (dance &
electronica) to create something totally new.
Mashups in BI allows us to integrate data and
visualize the results in a coherent and
persuasive manner.
When enhanced by technologies like
Flash featuring drill-down and drill-
through capability, they become some of
the most versatile and visually-powerful
BI instruments in the decision-maker’s
arsenal.
The enablers of BI include:
Data Warehouse
Visualization
Dashboards
Big Data
OLAP
KPIs
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Data Warehouse
Let’s start with one of the most obvious components and how BI
and Data Warehouse play together. Distinguishing between the
concepts of business intelligence and data warehouses, Forrester
Research defines BI as:
"Business Intelligence is a set of methodologies, processes,
architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into
meaningful and useful information used to enable more effective
strategic, tactical, and operational insights and decision-
making."[2]
BI includes:
Data Integration
Data Quality
Data Warehousing
Master-data Management
Text-Analytics
Content-Analytics
and Others….
Forrester sees data warehouse as an enabler of and input to BI based on
combined data bases/sources.
From a user’s view BI portals into the data warehouse provides for analytical
and reporting capabilities. These views are user specific, refreshed and
consolidated.
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Visualization
Supports predictive actions based on knowledge and insights driven
by analytics that are graphic and easily modified for data changes
to project resulting impacts.
Visualization allows you to:
Anticipate
React
Achieve Greater Success
Attributes are assigned allowing for perspectives not obvious in
the data, but striking when visualized
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Dashboards
Dashboards are BI’s graphical representation of information
to allow users to monitor and adjust, according to changes in
priorities, objectives or resources.
Dashboards by User/Function/KPI Specific
User Friendly
Easily Modified by Users
Mobility and Connectivity
Important consideration when deploying via :
Tablets
Other Handheld Devices
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Big Data
It’s all the rage, Big Data! What does it mean?
Is it BI?
Big Data is based on data growth and the ability to harness that data.
Growth in the following areas:
Data Volume
Information Management
System Specific (ERP, CRM, etc.)
Servers
Data Management - Internal
Data Access - External
Virtualization
Distribution
Replication
Not to fear, BI considerations include predefined:
Data Structures
User Interfaces
Data Management
Warehouses
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OLAP
OLAP or On Line Analytical Processing supports
multidimensional analysis or the analysis of data from
different dimensions, often called OLAP cubes.
OLAP prioritizes the way data is shown by a given column.
Multidimensional Databases are complex
architectures.
* With these databases, intersections of relevant
data become more apparent and easier to:
Group
Summarize
Analyze
For example, if you have a table of data about sales,
analyze it by:
product type (a dimension)
demographic (another dimension)
geographic region (another dimension)
For example, OLAP allows an analyst to answer questions like
“how many computers have been sold in the US this year?” and
“of those sold, how many were sold to people over 60?”
Not to oversimplify the capabilities of OLAP, think of OLAP as a pivot
table that also extends beyond the enterprise leveraging other data
sources via APIs and overlays like :
• Google Maps - location specific information
Location
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KPIs
Remember the dashboard is only as effective as the KPI’s that
are tracked and measured.
KPIs should be used to trigger alerts and actions!
Give careful consideration to what
and why you are measuring the
KPIs selected.
Don’t measure too many KPI’s;
consider combining multiple KPIs
into one.
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With BI you can take the data from those and other systems to:
Perform Predictive Analysis
Prescription Capabilities
Establish KPI Driven Analytics and User Dashboards
BI Deployment
There are many touch points to consider when BI
solutions are being planned.
Consider your other systems ERP, CRM, SCM, etc.
ERP enabled :
Integrated Processes
Information Flows Across Processes
Business Function Level Automation
CRM for Sales
Financial Systems
Sales Order Planning
Operations And Production Processes, Priorities, and Scheduling.
SCM enabled
Automated/Anticipated/Actionable/Information Based
Interactive/Actions With
In-bound Suppliers
Out-bound Activities To Customers in Your Supply Chain
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BI Product and Services Options/Considerations
There are many products to satisfy the capabilities of BI.
Don’t be drawn in by any one that claims to provide you the
entire package. Understand what you need based on what you
want to accomplish and the investments you’ve already made.
As you evaluate your options, consider what you have
already invested in systems and how that supports your BI
initiative.
There are many reports from analysts with
solution comparisons.
Do your homework on the required
investment and completeness of the
solution.
Look beyond the enterprise.
SaaS may be a viable option for your BI
implementation.
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Why BI?
Still need to know more.
The results speak for themselves. The following chart from Bain &
Company shows you…WHY!
Bain & Company’s Insights Analysis
2X more likely to have top-quartile financial performance
5X more likely to make decisions “much faster” than competition
3X more likely to execute decisions as intended
2X more likely to use data very frequently when making decisions
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Summary
This journey is one that you’ve been on for a while.
The system and supporting technologies that have been
deployed to-date have led you to this newest technology.
The foundation has been laid and BI will take you far.
BI is a technology that brings together the
combined knowledge of your organization based
on the systems and databases in place and the
foundation that has been laid.
You have made the investments and it’s
time to realize those investments.
This should help you get on your way. If you would like to talk
about you rBI initiatives, please reach out to me or our team
of consultants here at Barry-Wehmiller International. Contact
me at Pat.McGrath@B-WI.com. Wishing you a successful
project! ;-)
You are in a position to harness the power of BI.
The power of knowledge and insight gained, captured and
presented via BI to support decisions based on
prescriptive and predictive actions.
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Other Sources
• Video http://progressive.uvault.com/2361/2014/corp/Selection-Consultant-short-
DEPM.mp4
• Links:
• http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2014/06/24/roundup-of-analytics-big-data-
business-intelligence-forecasts-and-market-estimates-2014/
• Sector Report on Business Intelligence Redwood Capital Report on the Players
• http://searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/feature/Defining-and-using-KPIs-in-a-
successful-business-intelligence-system KPIs in BI dashboards
• Big Data: The Organizational Challenge Bain & Company Insights
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References
• 1 H P Luhn (1958). "A Business Intelligence System". IBM Journal 2 (4):
314.doi:10.1147/rd.24.0314.
• 2 Evelson, Boris (21 November 2008). "Topic Overview: Business Intelligence".
• http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-
products/newsletters/information_builders/vol3_issue1/gartner.html
17. Why BI?
About Barry-Wehmiller International (B-WI)
At Barry-Wehmiller International (B-WI) we are proud of our remarkable journey, a journey we
began 20 years ago to become who we are today – a trusted, global, people-centric, ‘Total
Solutions’ provider with a rich heritage in manufacturing. We take particular pride in our people-
centric culture and values.
We have built a strong foundation, we are here to lend a hand and be a guide to our customers
with our specialized consulting, technology, engineering and manufacturing talent. We were
there then, we are here now and we will be there with you into the future. Welcome to Barry-
Wehmiller International.
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18. Why BI?
About the Author
Patricia McGrath is pleased to represent Barry-Wehmiller International, as
Director of Strategic Initiatives.
B-WI provides consulting and services for manufacturing, engineering, ERP
solutions, and specialized development and support services.
Pat’s career includes positions with such prestigious companies as IBM and
KPMG. While there she focused on strategy, ERP business partners and business
consulting, plus having her own company working with others to develop both
strategic initiatives and tactical plans.
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