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General Introduction: DataWarehouse Explorer  Michiel Delpeut Delpeut@cns.nl www.cns.nl
Agenda CNS: Vision DWE: Scope of Solution DWE: Solution Components CNS: Company Profile
1. CNS Vision
Vision: BI Dominates IT Priorities Business Intelligence Enterprise Applications (ERP, CRM, and others) Servers and Storage Technologies (Virtualization) Legacy Application Modernization Collaboration Technologies Networking, Voice and Data Communication Technical Infrastructure Security Technologies Service Oriented Applications and Architecture Document Management Source: Gartner, 2009
Vision: BI covers your Business Issues BI related Business Process Improvement Reducing Enterprise Costs Improving Enterprise Workforce Effectiveness Attracting New Customers Increasing the Use of Information/Analytics Creating New Products or Services (Innovation) Targeting Customers and Markets More Effectively Managing Change Initiatives Expanding Current Customer Initiatives Expanding Into New Markets and Geographies Source: Gartner, 2009
Vision: OLAP Analysis crucial part of BI: multi-dimensional How much has our company spent on staff costs;  And how much is this divided per Month or per Quarter; how much at Maintenance, divided per Company Division; in comparison with the plan of this year, but also last year; and what are the expectations for next year? Decision makers want multiple questions addressed;  Questions are not one-dimensional but multi-dimensional one-dimension
Vision: Required BI/OLAP Solution Critical factor not to collect but to disclose data: Solution Criteria: User Friendly – Affordable - Scalable; Provide ability to Consume,Create, and Act on reports. Operational IT Consume Create Act Act Create 	Consume Create Consume Act Manager End Users BI Analyst
Vision: DWE Portal designed to meet market requirements Custom Solutions BO Cognos Hyperion Acceptance MS Reporting Services Crystal Reports Excel Standard Reporting
2. DWE – Application Scope
Solution: What does DWE provide? ,[object Object]
Intuitive BI solution : Consume, Create, and Act
Ad Hoc Analytics, Standard Reporting, KPI Visualization, Report Scheduling, Dashboards
Solid and affordable investment
Web-Client or through Desktop
Rich support for SQL Server AS,[object Object]
Solution: What makes DWE unique? Most Intuitive BI Solution			 No Training Required Simplicity of Installation Easy To Maintain & Manage Affordable & Transparent Costs Speed of Processing & Analysis
3. DWE : Solution Components
Components: DataWarehouse Explorer Recognizable Office 2007 Ribbon Drag  	&  	Drop Qualitative Graphics &  Charting Fast business insightobtained
Components: DWE Geo-Integration New: Integration of DWE with Mapping Technology: Use Colors to Highlight 						Relative Value or Trends Use Graphic Size to Analyze  	Relative Value
Components: DWE Portal Portal Functions: Repository: 	Central & Intuitive Report Location Access: 		Fully Thin Point of Access to Reports; Web Server: 	Very Light Deployment of DWE client; Scheduling: 	Distribution Scheduling of Reports	 Security: 		Defining Access to Portal and Data
4. CNS: Company Profile

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DataWarehouse Explorer

  • 1. General Introduction: DataWarehouse Explorer Michiel Delpeut Delpeut@cns.nl www.cns.nl
  • 2. Agenda CNS: Vision DWE: Scope of Solution DWE: Solution Components CNS: Company Profile
  • 4. Vision: BI Dominates IT Priorities Business Intelligence Enterprise Applications (ERP, CRM, and others) Servers and Storage Technologies (Virtualization) Legacy Application Modernization Collaboration Technologies Networking, Voice and Data Communication Technical Infrastructure Security Technologies Service Oriented Applications and Architecture Document Management Source: Gartner, 2009
  • 5. Vision: BI covers your Business Issues BI related Business Process Improvement Reducing Enterprise Costs Improving Enterprise Workforce Effectiveness Attracting New Customers Increasing the Use of Information/Analytics Creating New Products or Services (Innovation) Targeting Customers and Markets More Effectively Managing Change Initiatives Expanding Current Customer Initiatives Expanding Into New Markets and Geographies Source: Gartner, 2009
  • 6. Vision: OLAP Analysis crucial part of BI: multi-dimensional How much has our company spent on staff costs; And how much is this divided per Month or per Quarter; how much at Maintenance, divided per Company Division; in comparison with the plan of this year, but also last year; and what are the expectations for next year? Decision makers want multiple questions addressed; Questions are not one-dimensional but multi-dimensional one-dimension
  • 7. Vision: Required BI/OLAP Solution Critical factor not to collect but to disclose data: Solution Criteria: User Friendly – Affordable - Scalable; Provide ability to Consume,Create, and Act on reports. Operational IT Consume Create Act Act Create Consume Create Consume Act Manager End Users BI Analyst
  • 8. Vision: DWE Portal designed to meet market requirements Custom Solutions BO Cognos Hyperion Acceptance MS Reporting Services Crystal Reports Excel Standard Reporting
  • 9. 2. DWE – Application Scope
  • 10.
  • 11. Intuitive BI solution : Consume, Create, and Act
  • 12. Ad Hoc Analytics, Standard Reporting, KPI Visualization, Report Scheduling, Dashboards
  • 13. Solid and affordable investment
  • 15.
  • 16. Solution: What makes DWE unique? Most Intuitive BI Solution No Training Required Simplicity of Installation Easy To Maintain & Manage Affordable & Transparent Costs Speed of Processing & Analysis
  • 17. 3. DWE : Solution Components
  • 18. Components: DataWarehouse Explorer Recognizable Office 2007 Ribbon Drag & Drop Qualitative Graphics & Charting Fast business insightobtained
  • 19. Components: DWE Geo-Integration New: Integration of DWE with Mapping Technology: Use Colors to Highlight Relative Value or Trends Use Graphic Size to Analyze Relative Value
  • 20. Components: DWE Portal Portal Functions: Repository: Central & Intuitive Report Location Access: Fully Thin Point of Access to Reports; Web Server: Very Light Deployment of DWE client; Scheduling: Distribution Scheduling of Reports Security: Defining Access to Portal and Data
  • 21. 4. CNS: Company Profile
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  • 24. UK
  • 28. Italy
  • 29. Spain
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  • 32. USA
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  • 39. UK
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Editor's Notes

  1. Welcome to this general introduction on DataWarehouse Explorer of CNS. My name is ….Below you can find my email address in case you want to send me questions, comments, or suggestions.Again: welcome.
  2. Business Intelligence is sometimes regarded as less significant than other IT activities such as ERP or security;However; as you can see on Gartner’s ranking of CIO Technology Priorities ; BI is heading the list of IT priorities.Therefore; BI is not a marginal activity but BI dominates IT activity
  3. Business Intelligence is sometimes regarded as Technology related ; rather than Business related;However; as you can see on Gartner’s ranking of CIO Business Priorities ; the majority of subjects are related to BI;Therefore; BI is not a just technology, but BI is fundamental in solving your company’s business issues
  4. Companies today are drowning in data and the challenge is not to collect data; but to select from data;Success of a company depends therefore on their ability to provide solutions to perform selection process.What kind of solution is required then to perform that selection process effectively?The first criterion is that the solution is User Friendly; that users can easily understand the solution without in depth technical training that users can easily adopt the solution in their process;The second criterion is that the solution is Affordable; that companies can actually afford a BI solution by using DWE; that additional costs, such as infrastructure, training, maintenance, are minimal;The third criterion is that the solution is scalable; that it is easy to provide the solution to a large number of users; that no heavy hardware infrastructure is required to scale the solution.We mentioned already previously that one-dimensional static reporting does not meet requirements of the users:They require more than only consuming reports; but also to create or change reports, and to act on these reports.Each user type has their own order of importance as you can see in the images:End users will mostly consume OLAP reports on a daily basis; with an occasional need for analyzing the information;While Managers will mostly act on OLAP reports;Whereas IT & BI Analysts will mostly create OLAP reports, and assist in creating and distributing templates. Important is that each user type requires to Consume reports AND to Create reports AND to Act on reports.
  5. In this section we will explain the application scope of the DWE solution
  6. An additional component of our solution is the DWE Portal; which has the following functions:DWE Portal provides a central repository with on the left the folders and the reports on the right;This repository is very easy to understand; and is the central point for sharing analyses created with DWE.DWE Portal provides a fully thin and central access point for encountering and viewing of Static Reports;And from which DWE reports can be opened dynamically in the DataWarehouse Explorer for analysis.DWE Portal can be used for deploying DWE client (first time use) and for maintaining DWE users up-to-date;With only 15 Mb and a simple mouse click on the report, it provides a very light deployment of a rich client.DWE Portal contains the Report Scheduler, which allows time scheduled distribution of DWE reports;For example: A report is mailed every day at 9:30 AM to the sales team with the sales figures of the previous day.DWE Portal allows you to integrate your existing security models for defining access to the DWE Portal and data in the reports; The existing data security defined in SQL Server on the cubes, will be applied in DWE; For example: my role is defined as EMEA; and I am opening a DWE report with data from EMEA and North America. I will be able to open the DWE report but I will only be able to see the data from EMEA. The existing Windows NT security model will be applied in DWE Portal and you will not have to define a new model; For example: when I am logged under my domain name; I will not have to log in again for accessing DWE Portal.