The document discusses the Minnesota Medical Foundation's journey implementing a business intelligence (BI) system. It describes how they worked with Blackbaud consultants to install SQL Server BI tools, build a data warehouse, and develop reports from the warehouse. Key steps included taking BI classes, remotely installing the BI software, and having a Blackbaud consultant work directly with their team. They then focused on designing, building, and refining reports for things like campaigns and major gift officers. The implementation process required flexibility, time, strong teamwork, and listening to user needs.
Integration of Information system & Business(Business Analytics annd Business...Bala Himalayas
This document discusses how business intelligence (BI) and business analytics (BA) can help businesses address challenges in today's competitive environment. It provides an overview of BI/BA and their benefits such as increased customer satisfaction, competitive advantage, and cost savings. The document also describes Great Eastern's analytics initiative to enhance their brand and customer experience through tools like Adobe Experience Manager. While BI/BA strategies face challenges implementing new technologies and organizational changes, Great Eastern has seen benefits like improved efficiency, reduced costs, and optimized strategies from their analytics efforts.
Business Intelligence - Journey towards an Intelligent EnterpriseSanjay Uppal
Emirates NBD is embarking on a journey to create an intelligent enterprise through business intelligence (BI). The objectives are improved business planning, customer acquisition and retention, effective marketing, and regulatory compliance. Previously, BI capabilities were unstructured with separate departments and underleveraged infrastructure. Now, Emirates NBD is centralizing data, elevating the BI function, and standardizing processes. Key steps include establishing data stewardship, demand management, and moving to an enterprise data warehouse with a single data model. This will help transform the BI program from tactical to strategic and deliver automated, predictive insights.
Data, Information, Intelligence The Perception Bi JourneyAndrew Rabbitt
The document discusses the difference between data, information, and intelligence. It notes that avoiding data warehousing can reduce costs and improve success rates for business intelligence projects. The company Perception BI takes a different approach by associating data without needing a data warehouse. While individual data sources can answer specific questions, the answers lack context. By combining data from multiple systems, greater context is provided, allowing information to be turned into intelligence. With context and detail, organizations can better understand root causes and make faster, better decisions.
The document discusses aligning business, technology, and knowledge through an intelligent enterprise ecosystem. It proposes a new alignment model with two axes: content-based and process-based. The content-based axis focuses on competitive strategy and gaining advantage over rivals. The process-based axis focuses on the dynamic alignment of business and IT strategies. The model aims to incorporate knowledge creation and management. Case studies on applying this model to the retail and banking industries are also provided.
We're at the start of our journey to change the way that startups are built, for the better. We want to give business a better name by creating more purpose-driven companies that measure success in happiness, as well as profits. Our vision is a world with thriving, more sustainable businesses, happier employees and delighted customers.
We strongly believe that if you place happiness at the heart of your business, it will be more successful. Zappos (a $1bn company) and many others have done it and you can too. Follow this path and you'll have a stronger company culture, a more resilient brand and customers that love you so much they'll tell their friends. However putting happiness first doesn't mean that profit isn't important. In fact it's the fuel for your mission, the validation of your purpose. A 21st century business is all about passion, purpose, people and profit – what we call the four pillars of a happy startup.
Here we highlight 10 steps you can take to ensure that your startup journey is a happy one, allowing you to align your personal and career goals, meaning both you and your business should flourish.
Business Intelligence, Portals, Dashboards and Operational Matrix with ShareP...Optimus BT
This document discusses business intelligence (BI) trends and the role of SharePoint 2010 in enabling BI capabilities. It outlines trends driving BI like predictive and real-time analytics. The vision is described as strategy-driven BI execution across the enterprise using tools like dashboards, reports and collaboration. SharePoint 2010 supports BI through features for self-service, group and organizational BI like Excel services, reporting and collaboration tools. Examples are provided of dashboards and reports built in SharePoint 2010.
The document outlines Paula Belyeu's mastery journey timeline through a Business Intelligence master's program. It consists of 11 courses over several months, with goals, strategies, and resources listed for each course. The courses cover topics like personal leadership, business intelligence foundations, data management, analytics, data mining, pattern recognition, process modeling, data visualization, communication skills, and case studies. The timeline confirms for Paula that this program will help take her career to the next level and make her more marketable. It also provides clarity on areas she needs to improve to be successful.
Integration of Information system & Business(Business Analytics annd Business...Bala Himalayas
This document discusses how business intelligence (BI) and business analytics (BA) can help businesses address challenges in today's competitive environment. It provides an overview of BI/BA and their benefits such as increased customer satisfaction, competitive advantage, and cost savings. The document also describes Great Eastern's analytics initiative to enhance their brand and customer experience through tools like Adobe Experience Manager. While BI/BA strategies face challenges implementing new technologies and organizational changes, Great Eastern has seen benefits like improved efficiency, reduced costs, and optimized strategies from their analytics efforts.
Business Intelligence - Journey towards an Intelligent EnterpriseSanjay Uppal
Emirates NBD is embarking on a journey to create an intelligent enterprise through business intelligence (BI). The objectives are improved business planning, customer acquisition and retention, effective marketing, and regulatory compliance. Previously, BI capabilities were unstructured with separate departments and underleveraged infrastructure. Now, Emirates NBD is centralizing data, elevating the BI function, and standardizing processes. Key steps include establishing data stewardship, demand management, and moving to an enterprise data warehouse with a single data model. This will help transform the BI program from tactical to strategic and deliver automated, predictive insights.
Data, Information, Intelligence The Perception Bi JourneyAndrew Rabbitt
The document discusses the difference between data, information, and intelligence. It notes that avoiding data warehousing can reduce costs and improve success rates for business intelligence projects. The company Perception BI takes a different approach by associating data without needing a data warehouse. While individual data sources can answer specific questions, the answers lack context. By combining data from multiple systems, greater context is provided, allowing information to be turned into intelligence. With context and detail, organizations can better understand root causes and make faster, better decisions.
The document discusses aligning business, technology, and knowledge through an intelligent enterprise ecosystem. It proposes a new alignment model with two axes: content-based and process-based. The content-based axis focuses on competitive strategy and gaining advantage over rivals. The process-based axis focuses on the dynamic alignment of business and IT strategies. The model aims to incorporate knowledge creation and management. Case studies on applying this model to the retail and banking industries are also provided.
We're at the start of our journey to change the way that startups are built, for the better. We want to give business a better name by creating more purpose-driven companies that measure success in happiness, as well as profits. Our vision is a world with thriving, more sustainable businesses, happier employees and delighted customers.
We strongly believe that if you place happiness at the heart of your business, it will be more successful. Zappos (a $1bn company) and many others have done it and you can too. Follow this path and you'll have a stronger company culture, a more resilient brand and customers that love you so much they'll tell their friends. However putting happiness first doesn't mean that profit isn't important. In fact it's the fuel for your mission, the validation of your purpose. A 21st century business is all about passion, purpose, people and profit – what we call the four pillars of a happy startup.
Here we highlight 10 steps you can take to ensure that your startup journey is a happy one, allowing you to align your personal and career goals, meaning both you and your business should flourish.
Business Intelligence, Portals, Dashboards and Operational Matrix with ShareP...Optimus BT
This document discusses business intelligence (BI) trends and the role of SharePoint 2010 in enabling BI capabilities. It outlines trends driving BI like predictive and real-time analytics. The vision is described as strategy-driven BI execution across the enterprise using tools like dashboards, reports and collaboration. SharePoint 2010 supports BI through features for self-service, group and organizational BI like Excel services, reporting and collaboration tools. Examples are provided of dashboards and reports built in SharePoint 2010.
The document outlines Paula Belyeu's mastery journey timeline through a Business Intelligence master's program. It consists of 11 courses over several months, with goals, strategies, and resources listed for each course. The courses cover topics like personal leadership, business intelligence foundations, data management, analytics, data mining, pattern recognition, process modeling, data visualization, communication skills, and case studies. The timeline confirms for Paula that this program will help take her career to the next level and make her more marketable. It also provides clarity on areas she needs to improve to be successful.
Moments in Life (with help from Jane SeabrookKaron Graham
The document contains short passages offering advice and reflections on life, love, happiness, and moving forward. It encourages finding someone who makes you smile, following your dreams, making the most of what comes your way, letting go of past failures, and living a life with good memories.
Cupolé is a daily beverage capsule that allows users to easily access their favorite drinks anywhere. The capsules come in multiple flavors, are compact to store and transport, and save time by eliminating the need to carry or prepare full beverages. Cupolé capsules are medically tested and proven safe, and are available at stores, cafes, and pubs to provide an on-the-go energy boost in a simple and spill-proof format.
TommyJams is a platform that connects artists, venues, fans and promoters in the Indian live music scene. It aims to address issues such as high costs of hosting gigs that limit venues, and difficulties artists face in finding gigs. The business model involves the website facilitating gig bookings and marketing, with revenue from fees, advertising and premium listings. Market research estimates the initial annual market size at 36,300 transactions worth $720,000. Industry experts express optimism about the growth of live music in India. Risks include venues' reluctance and lack of contracts between parties.
Understanding the Value of a Payments ProblemMulti Service
Today’s national fleets are juggling a multitude of financial challenges. With average fleet operating margins of 2-4% in the United States, these financial variables ladder up to overwhelming business concerns for over-the-road trucking companies. A survey by the Kinetic Group of 300 fleets participating in aftermarket parts programs identifies the role billings and payments can play in managing these financial challenges for fleets.
Political Economy of Energy Subsidy Reform (EN)Paul Mithun
This document discusses the political challenges of reforming energy subsidies. It notes that while the economic costs of subsidies are understood, political factors make reform difficult. Governments struggle to address issues like uncertainty, identifying winners and losers, and proposing alternative social assistance. Citizens and interest groups often favor retaining subsidies due to self-interest in benefits, perceptions of inequity, and distrust in government. The document outlines key steps in effective subsidy reform policy design, including developing policy scenarios, extensive consultation, scenario testing, and implementation strategies that address these political challenges.
Building a Better National Targeting System for Improving Social Safety Net P...Paul Mithun
Dr. Bambang Widianto
Executive Secretary to the National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction
Office of the Vice President
Republic of Indonesia
El documento discute cómo la lectura y la escritura han evolucionado en la era digital. El internet y las tecnologías digitales ahora dominan la forma en que las personas acceden a la información y comparten ideas. Esto ha traído tanto oportunidades como desafíos para los lectores y escritores. Por un lado, hay más recursos disponibles y formas interactivas de leer; pero por otro lado, es más fácil distraerse y dispersarse. Los lectores y escritores deben adaptarse a estos cambios para aprovechar todo el potencial que ofrece
The document provides a summary of Prathibha's professional experience as an SAP BO Consultant. She has over 3 years of experience designing and implementing SAP BO 4.0. Her skills include creating universes and reports using IDT and WEBI. She has worked on projects for clients like Jones Apparel Group, Winn-Dixie Supermarkets, and Lawson's Group. Her responsibilities included designing universes, reports, and dashboards; handling support tickets; and testing reports. She received positive feedback and awards for her work.
As we move from experience and intuition based decision making to factual decision making, it is increasingly important to capture data and store it in a way that allows us to make smarter decisions. This is where Data warehouse/Business Intelligence comes into picture. There is a huge demand for There is a huge demand for Business Intelligence professionals and this course acts as a foundation which opens the door to a variety of opportunities in Business Intelligence space. Though there are many vendors providing BI tools, very few of them provide end-end BI suite and huge customer base. Microsoft stands as leader with its user-friendly and cost effective Business Intelligence suite helping customers to get a 360 degree view of their businesses.
Succeeding with Analytics: Mastering People, Process, and Technologyibi
Wayne Eckerson and Dr. Rado Kotorov take a journey through the behind-the-scenes characteristics of a great analytics program in this Information Builders Innovation Session presentation.
This document provides a summary of Jayadevan T V's career profile including his contact information, overall experience, technical expertise, academic credentials, employment history, and details of various projects he worked on. It highlights his 9+ years of experience in software development with a focus on Business Intelligence projects using SAP BO and ETL tools like Informatica. As a technology lead, he is currently managing a BI project for PepsiCo and has previously worked on projects for clients such as Fossil, FTSI, Walmart, and RSA-Arrowpoint.
A "how-to" guide on creating successful websites or Apps. The three elements are (1) Design for User Tasks (2) Design for Flexibility (3) Design for Measurement. The presentation introduces numerous practical methodologies, e.g., The Application Mountain, The Water Mill Development Model, Onion Governance, and the User Task Matrix. Practical examples are taken from work at Scandinavian Airlines, Tryg Insurance, and Maersk.
Tableau 2018 - Introduction to Visual analyticsArun K
This document provides an overview of a visual analytics course using Tableau. The course structure includes modules on Tableau Desktop foundations, exploratory data analysis, creating analytics dashboards, advanced predictive analytics with R programming, and completing visual analytics projects. Learners will gain skills in exploratory data analytics, building dashboards, predictive analytics, and developing a project portfolio. Case studies will cover topics like geo-data analysis, customer segmentation, and price index analysis. The importance of visual analytics and Tableau for industries like sales, marketing, and finance is also discussed.
I am Murali.Below is a short summary on my professional experience,
Total years of experience - 13 (Releavant BO experience - 10 Years)
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.
Sarthak Gandhi has over 3 years of experience in business intelligence, data warehousing, and Tableau data visualization. He has worked on projects developing BI solutions and dashboards for various clients using tools like Tableau, QlikView, Oracle, and SQL. His experience includes roles providing production support, developing Tableau reports and dashboards, ETL processes, and retrieving customer data for billing issues. He has strong skills in data analysis, visualization, and SQL querying.
Data Insights and Analytics: Simplifying Data Lake and Modern BI ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Evolving into the world of Data Lakes and leveraging Big Data effectively does not have to be complicated. Current technologies are more effective than ever, and many organizations are now invested in allocating the right resources to managing data. When it comes to Data Lake and modern Business Intelligence (BI) architecture, simplicity can be key.
Join John and Kelle for this webinar to discover:
What “simplifying” really means
What processes are needed to derive a modern BI architecture
What is required to deploy the process
How to bridge the gap from traditional BI to contemporary BI and Data Lakes
Acctiva: expertise in Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data GovernanceAcctiva Ltd.
Easy about complex things.
Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Data Governance.
If you need help on this, Acctiva has an extensive experience to share.
Take a look at our company introduction and see Acctiva's simple approach to these complex things.
This document provides a summary of Pradeep Ketolira's professional experience including 9 years of experience in SAP Business Warehouse (BW) and Business Intelligence (BI). He has extensive experience in building SAP BW and BI components, developing dashboards and reports, and has participated in 5 project implementations. He is certified in SAP BW and HANA with expertise in data warehousing, business intelligence, and industries including oil and gas, chemicals, energy, retail, manufacturing, and agriculture.
This document provides a summary of Murali Tummala's work experience and qualifications. He has over 13 years of experience in data warehousing and business intelligence projects using tools like SAP BO, Crystal Reports, and Tableau. He has led teams and taken on roles including developer, designer, and subject matter expert.
Moments in Life (with help from Jane SeabrookKaron Graham
The document contains short passages offering advice and reflections on life, love, happiness, and moving forward. It encourages finding someone who makes you smile, following your dreams, making the most of what comes your way, letting go of past failures, and living a life with good memories.
Cupolé is a daily beverage capsule that allows users to easily access their favorite drinks anywhere. The capsules come in multiple flavors, are compact to store and transport, and save time by eliminating the need to carry or prepare full beverages. Cupolé capsules are medically tested and proven safe, and are available at stores, cafes, and pubs to provide an on-the-go energy boost in a simple and spill-proof format.
TommyJams is a platform that connects artists, venues, fans and promoters in the Indian live music scene. It aims to address issues such as high costs of hosting gigs that limit venues, and difficulties artists face in finding gigs. The business model involves the website facilitating gig bookings and marketing, with revenue from fees, advertising and premium listings. Market research estimates the initial annual market size at 36,300 transactions worth $720,000. Industry experts express optimism about the growth of live music in India. Risks include venues' reluctance and lack of contracts between parties.
Understanding the Value of a Payments ProblemMulti Service
Today’s national fleets are juggling a multitude of financial challenges. With average fleet operating margins of 2-4% in the United States, these financial variables ladder up to overwhelming business concerns for over-the-road trucking companies. A survey by the Kinetic Group of 300 fleets participating in aftermarket parts programs identifies the role billings and payments can play in managing these financial challenges for fleets.
Political Economy of Energy Subsidy Reform (EN)Paul Mithun
This document discusses the political challenges of reforming energy subsidies. It notes that while the economic costs of subsidies are understood, political factors make reform difficult. Governments struggle to address issues like uncertainty, identifying winners and losers, and proposing alternative social assistance. Citizens and interest groups often favor retaining subsidies due to self-interest in benefits, perceptions of inequity, and distrust in government. The document outlines key steps in effective subsidy reform policy design, including developing policy scenarios, extensive consultation, scenario testing, and implementation strategies that address these political challenges.
Building a Better National Targeting System for Improving Social Safety Net P...Paul Mithun
Dr. Bambang Widianto
Executive Secretary to the National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction
Office of the Vice President
Republic of Indonesia
El documento discute cómo la lectura y la escritura han evolucionado en la era digital. El internet y las tecnologías digitales ahora dominan la forma en que las personas acceden a la información y comparten ideas. Esto ha traído tanto oportunidades como desafíos para los lectores y escritores. Por un lado, hay más recursos disponibles y formas interactivas de leer; pero por otro lado, es más fácil distraerse y dispersarse. Los lectores y escritores deben adaptarse a estos cambios para aprovechar todo el potencial que ofrece
The document provides a summary of Prathibha's professional experience as an SAP BO Consultant. She has over 3 years of experience designing and implementing SAP BO 4.0. Her skills include creating universes and reports using IDT and WEBI. She has worked on projects for clients like Jones Apparel Group, Winn-Dixie Supermarkets, and Lawson's Group. Her responsibilities included designing universes, reports, and dashboards; handling support tickets; and testing reports. She received positive feedback and awards for her work.
As we move from experience and intuition based decision making to factual decision making, it is increasingly important to capture data and store it in a way that allows us to make smarter decisions. This is where Data warehouse/Business Intelligence comes into picture. There is a huge demand for There is a huge demand for Business Intelligence professionals and this course acts as a foundation which opens the door to a variety of opportunities in Business Intelligence space. Though there are many vendors providing BI tools, very few of them provide end-end BI suite and huge customer base. Microsoft stands as leader with its user-friendly and cost effective Business Intelligence suite helping customers to get a 360 degree view of their businesses.
Succeeding with Analytics: Mastering People, Process, and Technologyibi
Wayne Eckerson and Dr. Rado Kotorov take a journey through the behind-the-scenes characteristics of a great analytics program in this Information Builders Innovation Session presentation.
This document provides a summary of Jayadevan T V's career profile including his contact information, overall experience, technical expertise, academic credentials, employment history, and details of various projects he worked on. It highlights his 9+ years of experience in software development with a focus on Business Intelligence projects using SAP BO and ETL tools like Informatica. As a technology lead, he is currently managing a BI project for PepsiCo and has previously worked on projects for clients such as Fossil, FTSI, Walmart, and RSA-Arrowpoint.
A "how-to" guide on creating successful websites or Apps. The three elements are (1) Design for User Tasks (2) Design for Flexibility (3) Design for Measurement. The presentation introduces numerous practical methodologies, e.g., The Application Mountain, The Water Mill Development Model, Onion Governance, and the User Task Matrix. Practical examples are taken from work at Scandinavian Airlines, Tryg Insurance, and Maersk.
Tableau 2018 - Introduction to Visual analyticsArun K
This document provides an overview of a visual analytics course using Tableau. The course structure includes modules on Tableau Desktop foundations, exploratory data analysis, creating analytics dashboards, advanced predictive analytics with R programming, and completing visual analytics projects. Learners will gain skills in exploratory data analytics, building dashboards, predictive analytics, and developing a project portfolio. Case studies will cover topics like geo-data analysis, customer segmentation, and price index analysis. The importance of visual analytics and Tableau for industries like sales, marketing, and finance is also discussed.
I am Murali.Below is a short summary on my professional experience,
Total years of experience - 13 (Releavant BO experience - 10 Years)
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.
Sarthak Gandhi has over 3 years of experience in business intelligence, data warehousing, and Tableau data visualization. He has worked on projects developing BI solutions and dashboards for various clients using tools like Tableau, QlikView, Oracle, and SQL. His experience includes roles providing production support, developing Tableau reports and dashboards, ETL processes, and retrieving customer data for billing issues. He has strong skills in data analysis, visualization, and SQL querying.
Data Insights and Analytics: Simplifying Data Lake and Modern BI ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Evolving into the world of Data Lakes and leveraging Big Data effectively does not have to be complicated. Current technologies are more effective than ever, and many organizations are now invested in allocating the right resources to managing data. When it comes to Data Lake and modern Business Intelligence (BI) architecture, simplicity can be key.
Join John and Kelle for this webinar to discover:
What “simplifying” really means
What processes are needed to derive a modern BI architecture
What is required to deploy the process
How to bridge the gap from traditional BI to contemporary BI and Data Lakes
Acctiva: expertise in Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data GovernanceAcctiva Ltd.
Easy about complex things.
Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Data Governance.
If you need help on this, Acctiva has an extensive experience to share.
Take a look at our company introduction and see Acctiva's simple approach to these complex things.
This document provides a summary of Pradeep Ketolira's professional experience including 9 years of experience in SAP Business Warehouse (BW) and Business Intelligence (BI). He has extensive experience in building SAP BW and BI components, developing dashboards and reports, and has participated in 5 project implementations. He is certified in SAP BW and HANA with expertise in data warehousing, business intelligence, and industries including oil and gas, chemicals, energy, retail, manufacturing, and agriculture.
This document provides a summary of Murali Tummala's work experience and qualifications. He has over 13 years of experience in data warehousing and business intelligence projects using tools like SAP BO, Crystal Reports, and Tableau. He has led teams and taken on roles including developer, designer, and subject matter expert.
The document provides an introduction to Microsoft Business Intelligence (MSBI). It discusses how MSBI addresses the needs of users by integrating data across networks, providing summarized and historical data to help understand organizational health, and enabling 'what-if' analysis. It describes the MSBI architecture and how it uses SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Analysis Services, and SQL Server Reporting Services to move data between sources and destinations, perform online analytical processing to build cubes for analysis, and deliver reports, respectively. The document also compares MSBI to other BI tools and argues it provides the most reliable solution at the lowest total cost.
This document provides a summary of Shital Mandar Redij's experience including over 10 years experience in software development lifecycles using various tools like Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Oracle, and SQL Server. Recent experience includes SAP BO reports, universe creation, and maintenance. Work experience spans various domains including energy trading, finance, manufacturing, and transportation. Technical skills include databases, query languages, object-oriented design, and GUI design.
Lisa Ryan has over 10 years of experience as a BI solutions architect and delivery professional. She has expertise in Tableau for data visualization, data analysis, and dashboard creation. She has also worked extensively with Business Objects and SAP BI tools. Her experience includes implementing BI solutions, gathering requirements, designing semantic layers, report and dashboard development, and project management. She has successfully delivered several full-cycle BI implementations.
Accelerate Self-Service Analytics with Data Virtualization and VisualizationDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/3fpitC3
Enterprise organizations are shifting to self-service analytics as business users need real-time access to holistic and consistent views of data regardless of its location, source or type for arriving at critical decisions.
Data Virtualization and Data Visualization work together through a universal semantic layer. Learn how they enable self-service data discovery and improve performance of your reports and dashboards.
In this session, you will learn:
- Challenges faced by business users
- How data virtualization enables self-service analytics
- Use case and lessons from customer success
- Overview of the highlight features in Tableau
This document contains a summary of Manas Maiti's professional experience and qualifications. It includes his contact information, 3.11 years of experience implementing and supporting SAP BW/BI projects, expertise in areas like data modeling, extraction, scheduling, and reporting. Recent projects include support roles for SAP BI implementations at Mearks Industries and Medtonics Innovation, where responsibilities involved troubleshooting, monitoring loads, reconciliation, and enhancements. Currently he works as a SAP BW consultant for Rockwell Automation, with duties like resolving support issues, designing data sources and BW objects, and performance tuning.
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"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...Fwdays
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
inQuba Webinar Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr Graham HillLizaNolte
HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT! 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.
In this webinar, we explored essential aspects of Customer Journey Management and personalization. Here’s a summary of the key insights and topics discussed:
Key Takeaways:
Understanding the Customer Journey: Dr. Hill emphasized the importance of mapping and understanding the complete customer journey to identify touchpoints and opportunities for improvement.
Personalization Strategies: We discussed how to leverage data and insights to create personalized experiences that resonate with customers.
Technology Integration: Insights were shared on how inQuba’s advanced technology can streamline customer interactions and drive operational efficiency.
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
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Introductions
Blackbaud Business Intelligence & Performance Management Practice
– Alan Eager, Principal Consultant
Minnesota Medical Foundation at the University of Minnesota
– Dan Lantz, Application Development Manager,
Information Services
– Margie Zenk, Senior Data Manager, Information
Services
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Minnesota Medical Foundation
The Minnesota Medical Foundation (MMF) is a
nonprofit organization that raises millions of dollars
annually to help improve the quality of life for the
people of Minnesota, the nation, and the world by
supporting health-related research, education, and
service at the University of Minnesota. Founded in
1939, the Minnesota Medical Foundation is the oldest
of four foundations recognized by the University of
Minnesota’s board of regents.
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Minnesota Medical Foundation History
Founded in 1939
Separate 501(c)(3)
First staff hired in 1959
Rapid growth in the 1980s
Raised one-third of the University total during
Campaign Minnesota
Brought in 3 of the largest gifts in University history:
$65M gift for cancer research
$50M gift for U of M Amplatz Children’s Hospital
$40M gift for diabetes research
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Terms Business Intelligence (BI)
– Concept of making use of information already available in your company to help decision makers make decisions
better and faster. BI typically includes both an ETL process for pulling and modifying data into a data warehouse
and an OLAP process for providing the warehouse data to users.
Cube
– A collection of one or more related numeric values (measure groups) and their related data (dimensions). For
example, a cube might contain the split gift amount (measure) with date and gift data (dimensions).
ETL
– Acronym for Extraction, Transform and Load. Describes the processes within Integration Services which pull and
modify data from the Raiser’s Edge or Financial Edge database and load the data into another database, in our
case a data warehouse.
OLAP
– Acronym for Online Analytical Processing. Describes the processes performed by tools such as Analysis Services
that provide warehouse data to users usually in the form of a cube.
Data Warehouse
– Database designed to store data that used for analysis purposes. A data warehouse often integrates data from
different data sources. A transactional database such as RE and FE are often concerned with now; a data
warehouse is concerned with activity over a span of time.
Denormalization
– Process of storing all of the attributes related to a dimension in a single dimension table. Tables that have been
denormalized are typically referred to as flattened. This results in redundant data but greatly speeds up the
ability to extract data during analysis and reporting.
SQL Server
– Database server produced by Microsoft. Analysis Services, Integration Services and Reporting Services are
included services in SQL Server.
The Information Edge (TIE)
– Blackbaud’s proprietary Business Intelligence software. The precursor to the current BI tools.
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Choosing Business Intelligence (BI)
Executing the plan
Developing reports
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Technical Inventory
Product knowledge and experience using
Raiser’s Edge (RE)
Experience with report development
Product knowledge and experience using The
Information Edge (TIE)
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Experience with RE and Reports
Margie Zenk
• Raiser’s Edge
• Campaign and Development Report building
using Crystal and RE
Dan Lantz
• Database Application Development
• Web Development
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Development Summary Report
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Experience with TIE
The Information Edge (TIE) provided:
Data warehouse
Cubes for data analysis by Finance
Department
Data for Web-based development and
financial reporting and an application to
calculate monthly investment allocation
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Why BI Fit Our Goals
Core could be implemented quickly
Based on industry standard tools
BI concepts could be extended to build
other projects
Increased confidence and flexibility in data
Power users could quickly generate reports
using pivot tables
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Help Needed
Knowledge about how other organizations
had implemented BI
Experience using SQL Server tools to
develop a BI-based solution
Experience building a reporting solution
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Plan 1
Gain application development knowledge
and experience with SQL Server BI tools
Have Blackbaud install SQL Server BI
packages
Gain application development experience
with BI by working with Blackbaud
Develop reports using web-based platform
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Plan 1 Revised
Gain application development knowledge and
experience with SQL Server BI tools
Have Blackbaud install SQL Server BI packages
Have Blackbaud take lead in modifying and
enhancing the BI implementation
Gain application development experience with BI by
working with Blackbaud
Develop reports using web-based platform Microsoft
Excel
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First steps
Took classes in BI
Created a IS team to tackle the integration
(systems, data, and application development)
Worked with Blackbaud to remotely install BI
Met with current customers to get perspective
Blackbaud consultant came onsite and worked
directly with team
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Advancing Academic Medicine
Promoting Health
Cancer $190M
Children’s Health $175M
Diabetes $150M
Heart and Lung $135M
Neurosciences $135M
Scholarships and $100M
Medical Education
Special Initiatives $115M
Priorities Strengths
Technologies
and Innovations
Imaging Science
Transplantation
Drug Discovery
Stem Cell and
Regenerative Medicine
Genomics
Promoting Health
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Life Cycle of Report Building
1. Design
2. Data warehouse and cube preparation
3. First draft
4. Reconciliation
5. Finishing touches
6. Launch
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Design
Assemble working group of end users
– Small group: 2 – 6 people
– Experts in the report topic
– Often, currently building reports manually
Create mock-up of the finished report
– End users can react to look and feel early in the
process
Data definitions
– What should be excluded?
– How should data be grouped?
– Are we currently capturing this information?
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Design Decisions
Row Definitions
– Use definitions already used by development reports
Column Definitions
– Corridor
– Solicitation Method
– Constituency
– Fund Use
Filters
– Date
– Corridor
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Data Warehouse and Cube Preparation
Filters
– Gifts with a particular attribute should not appear on
the report
Yes/No fields
– Solicitation Method report – each column is defined
by different rules
Attributes
– Available in the cube, but grouped together. To make
them more usable, de-normalize them onto the
parent dimension
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First Draft
Filters
– Start a pivot report to set up filters
Main formulas:
– =Cubemember and =Cubeset: define rows, columns, and filters
Example: =CUBEMEMBER("Fundraising OLAP","[Campaign].[Campaign
Identifier].[C]", "Cancer")
– =Cubevalue: totals
Example: =CUBEVALUE("Fundraising OLAP",$C$5, $B$6, $B$7, $B16,
$A$5, $A$9, $D$7, $C$6, $A$6, $A$4, C10)
Hiding formulas
– Embed formula in the row and column names
– Set up formulas in column A of your spreadsheet, then hide it.
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Finishing the Report
Reconciliation
– Check totals against Raiser’s Edge reports and queries
– Pivot reports are useful for drilling into the detail
Finishing Touches
– Logo, formatting
– To display a 0 instead of an empty cell, use formula
=if(A1="",0,A1)
Launch
– How will users get to the report?
– How do you prevent accidental changes?
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Lessons Learned
Be flexible
Allow plenty of time
Build strong teams
Report progress regularly
Listen carefully to needs
Set realistic goals
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Thank you
Contact Information
– Blackbaud Business Intelligence & Performance
Management Practice
•Alan Eager - alan.eager@blackbaud.com
– Minnesota Medical Foundation at the
University of Minnesota
•Dan Lantz – d.lantz@mmf.umn.edu
•Margie Zenk – m.zenk@mmf.umn.edu