The document discusses the role of a business intelligence (BI) developer. It describes the key responsibilities of a BI developer which include meeting with customers to define report requirements, gathering specifications, estimating timelines, understanding the data and technology, managing changes, delivering reports, and troubleshooting issues. The document also provides a brief history of reporting and how it has evolved from mainframes to relational databases to modern BI tools that allow self-service reporting and advanced visualizations. It discusses emerging areas like mobile BI, Hadoop, artificial intelligence, and predicts continued growth and expansion of BI in the future.
To download go to http://www.microstrategy.com/9/
In this presentation you'll find information about the following subjects:
- The MicroStrategy Architecture
- Extending the Performance, Scalability & Effeciency of Enterprise BI
- Enabling Rapid Deployment of Departemental BI
- Supporting Smooth Migration from Deparatemental Islands of BI to Enterprise BI
- MicroStrategy Products
Power BI is a business analytics service by Microsoft. It aims to provide interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities with an interface simple enough for end users to create their own reports and dashboards.
This presentation will give you an overview of what Microsoft Power BI is. What are its features. Why it is an upcoming popular Data Visualization tool in the market. How to use it and comparison with other Visualization tools.
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Discusse how business intelligence (BI) is a set of theories, methodologies, architectures and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information for business purposes. Because of its fexibility, it can bring order to the most chaotic environments.Click here to read more.
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In Power BI we are used to create reports and dashboards really quickly, but in most cases we forget to think about governance, development and maintenance at an enterprise wide scale.
During this session I share some best practices about applying DTAP (Development, Production, Acceptance and Production), or better known as multi-tier deployment.
By using Azure DevOps for deployment we bring back the structure and use a self-service tool in an enterprise environment. Beside deployment there is also version control and enterprise roll-out of your content in a managed structure.
In this session:
- Azure DevOps
- PowerShell
- Power BI REST API
Choosing the Right Business Intelligence Tools for Your Data and Architectura...Victor Holman
Watch video presentation and get a FREE performance management kit at
http://www.lifecycle-performance-pros.com
This presentation takes you through the steps of understanding your business intelligence needs and identifying the right tools for you. We discuss the different types of BI tools. We to discuss the criteria for selecting each type of tools. We to discuss popular Business Intelligence vendors and how to rate them. And we are going to discuss the job functions and responsibilities for a typical BI implementation
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About the Speaker:
Frances is a vivacious lover of data.
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Still Struggling between the Power BI and Tableau? Here is the in-depth difference between Power BI vs Tableau. With the help of this PDF you will be quite confident to choose the better one as per your requirements.
When choosing a BI Analytics platform, it's important to understand your company's needs. For analyzing large datasets, Tableau is the best option. Start-ups may want to use Power BI due to the low price of $9.99 per user/month. Find out which BI tool is best for your company.
What's New with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.1?SAP Analytics
http://spr.ly/sapbusinessobjectsbi - Learn more about SAP's strategy for an enterprise BI and the new features in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.1.
For more information on “SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Upgrade”, register for our upcoming webcast on October 8, 2013, 8 AM PST: http://bit.ly/1bamzuh
Example of the BI application technology comparison based on customer needs and application capabilities performed by DWApplications.
This is one of 3 deliverables in the free BI Roadmap Assessment provided by DWApplications.
- BI application technology comparison
- Current and future state assessment
- Timeline, resource and implementation plan
If you are interested in a free BI roadmap assessment
Contact: scott.mitchell@dwapplications.com
To download go to http://www.microstrategy.com/9/
In this presentation you'll find information about the following subjects:
- The MicroStrategy Architecture
- Extending the Performance, Scalability & Effeciency of Enterprise BI
- Enabling Rapid Deployment of Departemental BI
- Supporting Smooth Migration from Deparatemental Islands of BI to Enterprise BI
- MicroStrategy Products
Power BI is a business analytics service by Microsoft. It aims to provide interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities with an interface simple enough for end users to create their own reports and dashboards.
This presentation will give you an overview of what Microsoft Power BI is. What are its features. Why it is an upcoming popular Data Visualization tool in the market. How to use it and comparison with other Visualization tools.
Business intelligence: A tool that could help your businessBeyond Intelligence
Discusse how business intelligence (BI) is a set of theories, methodologies, architectures and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information for business purposes. Because of its fexibility, it can bring order to the most chaotic environments.Click here to read more.
Enterprise and multi-tier Power BI deployments with Azure DevOps.Marc Lelijveld
In Power BI we are used to create reports and dashboards really quickly, but in most cases we forget to think about governance, development and maintenance at an enterprise wide scale.
During this session I share some best practices about applying DTAP (Development, Production, Acceptance and Production), or better known as multi-tier deployment.
By using Azure DevOps for deployment we bring back the structure and use a self-service tool in an enterprise environment. Beside deployment there is also version control and enterprise roll-out of your content in a managed structure.
In this session:
- Azure DevOps
- PowerShell
- Power BI REST API
Choosing the Right Business Intelligence Tools for Your Data and Architectura...Victor Holman
Watch video presentation and get a FREE performance management kit at
http://www.lifecycle-performance-pros.com
This presentation takes you through the steps of understanding your business intelligence needs and identifying the right tools for you. We discuss the different types of BI tools. We to discuss the criteria for selecting each type of tools. We to discuss popular Business Intelligence vendors and how to rate them. And we are going to discuss the job functions and responsibilities for a typical BI implementation
Frances Jones: "Tableau vs PowerBI"
THE SHOWDOWN! Two of the leading tools for data visualization come head-to-head in this presentation from Frances Jones. Frances is a leading expert and master in displaying quantitative information and has had many years of expertise using both of these tools to wow her clients. Come to hear her perspective on the strengths and weaknesses of both tools, as well as plenty of handy tips that will help you improve your viz skills.
About the Speaker:
Frances is a vivacious lover of data.
Big data consultant by day, data communicator & human behavioral enthusiast by night! She has had many years of experience across many visualization tools and platforms and is constantly pushing the boundaries on what is possible in this space.
Power BI vs Tableau: Which is Better Business ToolStat Analytica
Still Struggling between the Power BI and Tableau? Here is the in-depth difference between Power BI vs Tableau. With the help of this PDF you will be quite confident to choose the better one as per your requirements.
When choosing a BI Analytics platform, it's important to understand your company's needs. For analyzing large datasets, Tableau is the best option. Start-ups may want to use Power BI due to the low price of $9.99 per user/month. Find out which BI tool is best for your company.
What's New with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.1?SAP Analytics
http://spr.ly/sapbusinessobjectsbi - Learn more about SAP's strategy for an enterprise BI and the new features in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.1.
For more information on “SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Upgrade”, register for our upcoming webcast on October 8, 2013, 8 AM PST: http://bit.ly/1bamzuh
Example of the BI application technology comparison based on customer needs and application capabilities performed by DWApplications.
This is one of 3 deliverables in the free BI Roadmap Assessment provided by DWApplications.
- BI application technology comparison
- Current and future state assessment
- Timeline, resource and implementation plan
If you are interested in a free BI roadmap assessment
Contact: scott.mitchell@dwapplications.com
I am Murali.Below is a short summary on my professional experience,
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Technologies/Tools worked on : SAP BO 4.x - XI R2,BO Admin, Xcelsius Dashboard designing, Crystal Reports, SAP Design Studio, SAP BW 7,Unix,Oracle 10G PL/SQL, SQL Server and Microsoft Technologies(VB,ASP and VB.Net).
I am interested to take up new roles on different aspects in BO domain.
Data Discovery and BI - Is there Really a Difference?Inside Analysis
The Briefing Room with John O'Brien and Birst
Live Webcast Dec. 3, 2013
Watch the archive: https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=7869542&rKey=1f6574abc879ca42
While the disciplines of business intelligence and discovery certainly overlap, there are key distinctions between the two, both in terms of design point and user interface. While traditionally it is believed different architectures are required to address these differing analytic needs, is that really the case? Or is discovery simply another key capability within an overall BI platform?
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from veteran Analyst John O'Brien of Radiant Advisors as he outlines best practices for enabling high-quality business intelligence and discovery, and the architectural capabilities to enable both. He'll be briefed by Brad Peters of Birst who will tout his company's cloud BI platform. In particular, Peters will demonstrate how the Birst architecture was especially designed for enterprise-caliber BI and argue for a more inclusive future BI architecture.
Visit InsideAnalysis.com for more information
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The Briefing Room with Robin Bloor and Tableau Software
Live Webcast April 23, 2013
Classic author Ralph Waldo Emerson inspired a generation with his essays on self-reliance. The wisdom of his message still rings true today, and provides a vision for the modern information worker: trust in yourself and your ideas. Then, pull together the right data, and the right visualization of that data, to tell a compelling story. Rely on your instincts, and use information assets to your advantage.
Check out the slides from this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Dr. Robin Bloor provide a roadmap for enabling self-reliant knowledge workers. He'll be briefed by Suzanne Hoffman of Tableau Software, who will demonstrate how the latest version of Tableau's data visualization platform can empower information professionals from all segments of the enterprise. She'll demonstrate how anyone from a casual business user to a Data Scientist can quickly create, modify and share visualizations.
Visit: http://www.insideanalysis.com
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Self-Service BI promises to remove the bottleneck that exists between IT and business users. The truth is, if data is handed over to a wide range of data consumers without proper guardrails in place, it can result in data anarchy.
Attend this session to learn why data virtualization:
• Is a must for implementing the right self-service BI
• Makes self-service BI useful for every business user
• Accelerates any self-service BI initiative
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Speakers:
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👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
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The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
3. What is BI Reporting?
• You start with a BI Developer.
• He/she basically converts raw materials, the Data, into a
product, Information.
4. Meet with Customers
The BI Developer meets with the customer to
define the purpose of the report.
• What is the purpose of the Report Request?
• What question is the customer trying to
answer?
5. Business Side
The BI Developer must know the Business side of
the Report.
• How many widgets were created in the month of
June?
• How much revenue did that generate?
• What was the same production of widgets last
year?
• The past 5 years?
• Can I see the graphical representation?
6. Gather Specs
The BI Developer must gather the Report Specification.
• What would you like the end product to look like?
• In what format would you like the final report (PDF,
Excel)?
• What parameters would you like to be able to search?
• How often would you like the report delivered?
• Do you want to see Summed up data and/or Detailed
data?
• How should the Report be Sorted?
7. Estimate Time
The BI Developer must determine Time and
Resources to create the Report.
• Need to estimate the length of time to
complete the Report request.
• It's good practice to write up the Report Specs
in an SDLC document.
• The Customer should review, agree and sign
the SDLC document.
8. Data Side
The BI Developer must know the data side of the
Report.
• Determine where does this data reside?
• What Database Server?
• What Database Name?
• What UserID/Password is available for Reporting?
• What Tables / Views / Stored Procedures are
available?
• Are there any existing reports to leverage from?
9. Technology Side
The BI Developer must know the technology side of the
Report.
• Create the Data Source query in either SQL or Stored
Procedure.
• Add the Data Source to the Report.
• Add Header/Footer to the Report.
• Add the Database Fields to the Report.
• Add Parameters to the Report.
• Add Groups, Customer Fields, Sums, Counts, Average to the
Report.
• Add Charts/Graphs to the Report.
10. Change Management
The BI Developer must know the company procedures for
Change Management for new Reports.
• The Report Specifications must be documented by the BI
Developer.
• The Report must be verified by either Quality Assurance or
the Customer.
• A Release date must be established for the new Report.
• The Report Release must be scheduled with the Change
Manager.
• The Customer and Key Stake Holders must be notified of the
Report Release.
• The actual Report and Stored Procedure must be moved to
Production.
11. Report Delivery
The BI Developer must know how to deliver the
Report.
• Once approved, the Report is added to the
Web/Portal in a specified Folder.
• The Permissions are set for specific Users on
the Report.
• Automated Subscriptions can be added to the
Report.
12. Troubleshoot Report
The BI Developer must know how to troubleshoot
the Report.
• Once the Report is in Production, if any bugs are
found they must be troubleshot and corrected.
• The Server Log Files are useful for troubleshooting
Failed Generated Reports.
• If the accuracy of the Data is in question, the BI
Developer can view the SQL and/or Report.
13. Close Ticket
The BI Developer must close out the Request.
• The Report should be stored off in a Source Code
Repository.
• The Report Documentation should be stored in an
accessible place.
• The Customer should sign off on the Project that
it was completed and accurate and within budget.
• The Customer's Cost Center should be charged for
the BI Developer's time if applicable.
14. Universal
• The above information is generic enough that
it doesn't apply to just one vendor (ie, Crystal
Reports, SSRS, Actuate, Cognos, etc.), it
applies to all BI Report Developers.
15. Business Intelligence
• Business Intelligence is about solving
problems.
About providing insight.
And guiding actions.
If you as a developer can do all three, you will
be a success.
17. Mainframe
• Back on the Mainframe / AS400, people were
writing batch reports for over 30 years, some
are still doing it.
18. Relational Database
• Then along came the Relational Database
with the definition being: "is a collection of
data items organized as a set of formally
described tables from which data can be
accessed easily"
19. 4th Generation Languages
• So then there were 4th generational
languages which allow the developer to easily
connect to a database, apply the necessary
joins, without having know much about SQL.
20. Data Warehouse
•
Then came the Data Warehouse, which stores
data for reporting and analysis. Data was
denormalized for quick access with slicing and
dicing the dimensions and measures for multi
level dissection and drill down using a
language called MDX, which is a query
language for OLAP databases.
21. Discovery
• Because of time delays and complexity involved, users
began to demand faster access to their data, delivered
in a variety of formats, for consumption in near real
time.
Which gave rise to a new breed of reporting such as
Tableau, QlikView and Microsoft version Power Pivot.
These new tools allow a business user, not necessarily
IT people, to rapidly connect to a data source, pull data
in, join the data, see their data, then deploy to other
users, Power Point or web interfaces with permissions
almost instantly.
22. Advanced BI
• Users can create stunning visualizations
including Dashboards which drill down, drill
through, color graphics, dynamically adjust
based on Slicers and Pivots. With other tools
such as Performance Point which usually
require a developer, Balanced Scorecards are
now common place with Key Performance
Indicators KPI to quickly draw attention
visually to points of interest on the Scorecard.
23. Mobile BI
• Users don't always stay put. And by that they
sometimes are on the golf course, at the air
port, at home, sometimes connected to the
VPN other times not. Reports still need to
handle this feature. A lot of Reporting
solutions offer some type of Mobile access,
through portals such as Microsoft SharePoint.
24. Hadoop
• Next step in the evolution of Reporting is a sub-set of
Big Data, called Hadoop. This type of system uses
thousands of low end servers to host enormous
amounts of data, mostly un-structured, as in nonrelational. Basically a central controller replicates 3
copies of every item to a variety of servers, which self
regenerate if corrupt, and the data gets widdled down
to key, element pairs, which can then be queries on in
batch queries. The concept is quite powerful and has
been around for some time, although because of the
reduction in costs of hardware and software and
developer time, it has entered the mainstream.
25. Artificial Intelligence
•
Another intersection of Reporting and Data and Big
Data is the advent of Artificial Intelligence. The goal of
AI is to simulate a human cognitive brain, that
understands vast amounts of information, can query in
real time, can understand human speech and thought
patterns, as well as fragmented speech that is regional
or specific to circumstances, etc. If you've seen Space
Odyssey series, you may be familiar with the computer
character HAL, move each digit 1 letter (IBM), although
the real version IBMWatson seems to be a lot friendlier
and can win on Jeopardy.
26. Future looks Bright for BI
• So as you can see, Reporting has been here for
a while, has changed somewhat over time,
and will continue to grow and expand in the
future.