This document summarizes a presentation about Microsoft Cloud BI capabilities using Windows Azure. The speaker, Andy Tegethoff, is a Microsoft BI architect who has over 12 years of experience building BI solutions. The presentation covers key topics like cloud computing models, Cloud BI, and how Microsoft's Azure platform can be used to implement BI solutions in the public cloud or in hybrid cloud/private cloud environments. It provides examples of using Azure SQL Database, SQL Reporting, and HDInsight for big data, as well as running full SQL Server BI implementations on Azure virtual machines. Power BI, a new self-service BI tool from Microsoft, is also summarized. The document concludes by introducing Perficient, the company hosting the presentation, as a
Windows Azure Bootcamp - Microsoft BI in Azure VMsIvan Donev
This is the presentation from the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp event in Sofia, Bulgaria. The presentation covers topics regarding Business Intelligence components for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and 2012 on Windows Azure Virtual Machines.
RightScale Webinar: August 25, 2009 – In this webinar we introduced the first business intelligence solution stack running on the cloud. This cutting-edge solution has been created by business intelligence industry leaders Jaspersoft, Talend and Vertica with the leader in cloud computing management, RightScale.
xRM is the natural evolution of CRM. Businesses are expanding their use of new generation CRM solutions to manage a wider range of scenarios, including asset management, prospect management, citizen management, and many more. Microsoft CRM sits on the .NET platform and because of that, it is much more than a traditional CRM product. Instead, think of Microsoft CRM is as a rapid development application with out of the box CRM functionality. The purpose of this session is to understand Microsoft's CRM strategy and how you get to market first with world class business solutions.
Power BI Overview, Deployment and GovernanceJames Serra
Deploying Power BI in a large enterprise is a complex task, and one that requires a lot of thought and planning. The purpose of this presentation is to help you make your Power BI deployment a success. After a quick Power BI overview, I’ll discuss deployment strategies, common usage scenarios, how to store and refresh data, prototyping options, how to share externally, and then finish with how to administer and secure Power BI. I’ll outline considerations and best practices for achieving an optimal, well-performing, enterprise level Power BI deployment.
Windows Azure Bootcamp - Microsoft BI in Azure VMsIvan Donev
This is the presentation from the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp event in Sofia, Bulgaria. The presentation covers topics regarding Business Intelligence components for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and 2012 on Windows Azure Virtual Machines.
RightScale Webinar: August 25, 2009 – In this webinar we introduced the first business intelligence solution stack running on the cloud. This cutting-edge solution has been created by business intelligence industry leaders Jaspersoft, Talend and Vertica with the leader in cloud computing management, RightScale.
xRM is the natural evolution of CRM. Businesses are expanding their use of new generation CRM solutions to manage a wider range of scenarios, including asset management, prospect management, citizen management, and many more. Microsoft CRM sits on the .NET platform and because of that, it is much more than a traditional CRM product. Instead, think of Microsoft CRM is as a rapid development application with out of the box CRM functionality. The purpose of this session is to understand Microsoft's CRM strategy and how you get to market first with world class business solutions.
Power BI Overview, Deployment and GovernanceJames Serra
Deploying Power BI in a large enterprise is a complex task, and one that requires a lot of thought and planning. The purpose of this presentation is to help you make your Power BI deployment a success. After a quick Power BI overview, I’ll discuss deployment strategies, common usage scenarios, how to store and refresh data, prototyping options, how to share externally, and then finish with how to administer and secure Power BI. I’ll outline considerations and best practices for achieving an optimal, well-performing, enterprise level Power BI deployment.
SqlSaturday#699 Power BI - Create a dashboard from zero to heroVishal Pawar
Every data has meaning, but we had limitation to use data through big long running process Extraction, Transformation and Representation, but now Power BI solves your problem to kick start having Data extraction in Power Query, Data Modelling and Transformation in Power Pivot and reach data representation using power view and power map on demand any nearby device on your fingertips.
Learn how to create Power BI Dashboard from scratch.
View the webinar here - https://bit.ly/2ErkxYY
Enterprises are moving their data warehouse to the cloud to take advantage of reduced operational and administrative overheads, improved business agility, and unmatched simplicity.
The Impetus Workload Transformation Solution makes the journey to the cloud easier by automating the DW migration to cloud-native data warehouse platforms like Snowflake. The solution enables enterprises to automate conversion of source DDL, DML scripts, business logic, and procedural constructs. Enterprises can preserve their existing investments, eliminate error-prone, slow, and expensive manual practices, mitigate any risk, and accelerate time-to-market with the solution.
Join our upcoming webinar where Impetus experts will detail:
Cloud migration strategy
Critical considerations for moving to the cloud
Nuances of migration journey to Snowflake
Demo – Automated workload transformation to Snowflake.
To view - visit https://bit.ly/2ErkxYY
Comparison of approaches to security taken by Tableau and Power BI to help make wise choices when planning out enterprise level deployments. View the video recording and download this deck at: https://senturus.com/events/enterprise-security-tableau-vs-power-bi/
Senturus offers a full spectrum of services for business analytics. Our resource library has hundreds of free live and recorded webinars, blog posts, demos and unbiased product reviews available on our website at: http://www.senturus.com/senturus-resources/.
The breath and depth of Azure products that fall under the AI and ML umbrella can be difficult to follow. In this presentation I’ll first define exactly what AI, ML, and deep learning is, and then go over the various Microsoft AI and ML products and their use cases.
Data Engineer, Patterns & Architecture The future: Deep-dive into Microservic...Igor De Souza
With Industry 4.0, several technologies are used to have data analysis in real-time, maintaining, organizing, and building this on the other hand is a complex and complicated job. Over the past 30 years, we saw several ideas to centralize the database in a single place as the united and true source of data has been implemented in companies, such as Data wareHouse, NoSQL, Data Lake, Lambda & Kappa Architecture.
On the other hand, Software Engineering has been applying ideas to separate applications to facilitate and improve application performance, such as microservices.
The idea is to use the MicroService patterns on the date and divide the model into several smaller ones. And a good way to split it up is to use the model using the DDD principles. And that's how I try to explain and define DataMesh & Data Fabric.
Informatica Cloud Services deliver purpose-built data integration cloud applications to allow business users to integrate data across cloud-based applications and on-premise systems and databases. Informatica Cloud Services address specific business processes (customer/product master synchronization, opportunity to order, etc.) and point-to-point data integration (e.g. Salesforce.com to on premise end-points).
Power Big Data Analytics with Informatica Cloud Integration for Redshift, Kin...Amazon Web Services
Companies are dealing with increasingly large data sets and looking for ways to significantly improve the scale and cost of Big Data analysis with AWS. This hands-on session shows you how you can achieve that. With hundreds of pre-built connectors, you will learn how to get your on-premise and cloud data into Redshift in minutes, not days, and at a significantly reduced costs using Informatica Cloud Integration. With fully certified support for large scale RDS deployments and Informatica’s Vibe Data Stream solution for automated streaming data collection for Kinesis, Informatica offers a comprehensive cloud integration solution for Big Data analytics with AWS. The ability to seamlessly migrate Informatica’s PowerCenter to Amazon Cloud (EC2) offers customers a Cloud migration path, with even higher performance and lower costs.
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.
Part of proper governance in Power BI means taking proper care of what goes on in your tenant. Here's a list of areas you need to watch for and some helpful telemetry to start collecting.
With the new Power BI Preview Microsoft brings more Self-service BI functionality to the users. In this session we will look from a different perspective to the offering: What about Governance, Application LifeCycle, Enterprise Integration? We will review what is currently possible in the preview for sharong querys, integrating the cloud offering with your enterprise data sources, monitoring datasources and gateways and what is possible to use it on Windows Mobile devices.
South Florida SQL Saturday - Power BI Report Server Enterprise Architecture, ...Vishal Pawar
SSSF-Power BI Report Server Enterprise Architecture, Tools to publish reports and Best Practice.
•Chief Architect in Aptude Inc
•Microsoft MVP
•Microsoft Certified Trainer
•PASS BA VC Group Admin
•Global Power BI Group 20K+
•Udemy Free Power BI Course 30K
•VPawar@Aptude.com
Building the Enterprise Data Lake - Important Considerations Before You Jump InSnapLogic
In this webinar, learn from industry analyst and big data thought leader Mark Madsen about the future of big data and importance of the new Enterprise Data Lake reference architecture.
This webinar also covers what’s important when building a modern, multi-use data infrastructure, the difference between a Hadoop application and a Data Lake infrastructure, and an enterprise data lake reference architecture to get you started.
To learn more, visit: www.snaplogic.com/big-data
Hybrid Analytics in Healthcare: Leveraging Power BI and Office 365 to Make Sm...Perficient, Inc.
As organizations realize the cost savings and scalability benefits of hybrid environments, the focus turns to implementing an analytics platform in these new environments. On-premises vs. cloud is the big choice, but how are some companies leveraging the best of both worlds?
Perficient and UnityPoint Health discussed the benefits of Power BI and Office 365, and how one technology-savvy healthcare provider is leveraging its hybrid environment of Power BI, Excel-enabled dashboards and SharePoint 2013.
Making the Most of Power BI with SQL Server 2014 and AzurePerficient, Inc.
Power BI is a compelling new cloud-based BI offering for Office 365 SharePoint Online users, with advanced collaborative capabilities including mobile cross-platform reporting, on-the-fly dashboarding and natural language querying.
When you combine Power BI’s self-service business intelligence with SQL Server 2014 and Microsoft Azure, you can host your entire BI solution in the cloud while providing greater access to business analytics than ever before.
Join Perficient's Microsoft business intelligence expert Andrew Tegethoff to learn how to host your analytics and reporting solution in the cloud with Power BI and SQL Server 2014.
SqlSaturday#699 Power BI - Create a dashboard from zero to heroVishal Pawar
Every data has meaning, but we had limitation to use data through big long running process Extraction, Transformation and Representation, but now Power BI solves your problem to kick start having Data extraction in Power Query, Data Modelling and Transformation in Power Pivot and reach data representation using power view and power map on demand any nearby device on your fingertips.
Learn how to create Power BI Dashboard from scratch.
View the webinar here - https://bit.ly/2ErkxYY
Enterprises are moving their data warehouse to the cloud to take advantage of reduced operational and administrative overheads, improved business agility, and unmatched simplicity.
The Impetus Workload Transformation Solution makes the journey to the cloud easier by automating the DW migration to cloud-native data warehouse platforms like Snowflake. The solution enables enterprises to automate conversion of source DDL, DML scripts, business logic, and procedural constructs. Enterprises can preserve their existing investments, eliminate error-prone, slow, and expensive manual practices, mitigate any risk, and accelerate time-to-market with the solution.
Join our upcoming webinar where Impetus experts will detail:
Cloud migration strategy
Critical considerations for moving to the cloud
Nuances of migration journey to Snowflake
Demo – Automated workload transformation to Snowflake.
To view - visit https://bit.ly/2ErkxYY
Comparison of approaches to security taken by Tableau and Power BI to help make wise choices when planning out enterprise level deployments. View the video recording and download this deck at: https://senturus.com/events/enterprise-security-tableau-vs-power-bi/
Senturus offers a full spectrum of services for business analytics. Our resource library has hundreds of free live and recorded webinars, blog posts, demos and unbiased product reviews available on our website at: http://www.senturus.com/senturus-resources/.
The breath and depth of Azure products that fall under the AI and ML umbrella can be difficult to follow. In this presentation I’ll first define exactly what AI, ML, and deep learning is, and then go over the various Microsoft AI and ML products and their use cases.
Data Engineer, Patterns & Architecture The future: Deep-dive into Microservic...Igor De Souza
With Industry 4.0, several technologies are used to have data analysis in real-time, maintaining, organizing, and building this on the other hand is a complex and complicated job. Over the past 30 years, we saw several ideas to centralize the database in a single place as the united and true source of data has been implemented in companies, such as Data wareHouse, NoSQL, Data Lake, Lambda & Kappa Architecture.
On the other hand, Software Engineering has been applying ideas to separate applications to facilitate and improve application performance, such as microservices.
The idea is to use the MicroService patterns on the date and divide the model into several smaller ones. And a good way to split it up is to use the model using the DDD principles. And that's how I try to explain and define DataMesh & Data Fabric.
Informatica Cloud Services deliver purpose-built data integration cloud applications to allow business users to integrate data across cloud-based applications and on-premise systems and databases. Informatica Cloud Services address specific business processes (customer/product master synchronization, opportunity to order, etc.) and point-to-point data integration (e.g. Salesforce.com to on premise end-points).
Power Big Data Analytics with Informatica Cloud Integration for Redshift, Kin...Amazon Web Services
Companies are dealing with increasingly large data sets and looking for ways to significantly improve the scale and cost of Big Data analysis with AWS. This hands-on session shows you how you can achieve that. With hundreds of pre-built connectors, you will learn how to get your on-premise and cloud data into Redshift in minutes, not days, and at a significantly reduced costs using Informatica Cloud Integration. With fully certified support for large scale RDS deployments and Informatica’s Vibe Data Stream solution for automated streaming data collection for Kinesis, Informatica offers a comprehensive cloud integration solution for Big Data analytics with AWS. The ability to seamlessly migrate Informatica’s PowerCenter to Amazon Cloud (EC2) offers customers a Cloud migration path, with even higher performance and lower costs.
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.
Part of proper governance in Power BI means taking proper care of what goes on in your tenant. Here's a list of areas you need to watch for and some helpful telemetry to start collecting.
With the new Power BI Preview Microsoft brings more Self-service BI functionality to the users. In this session we will look from a different perspective to the offering: What about Governance, Application LifeCycle, Enterprise Integration? We will review what is currently possible in the preview for sharong querys, integrating the cloud offering with your enterprise data sources, monitoring datasources and gateways and what is possible to use it on Windows Mobile devices.
South Florida SQL Saturday - Power BI Report Server Enterprise Architecture, ...Vishal Pawar
SSSF-Power BI Report Server Enterprise Architecture, Tools to publish reports and Best Practice.
•Chief Architect in Aptude Inc
•Microsoft MVP
•Microsoft Certified Trainer
•PASS BA VC Group Admin
•Global Power BI Group 20K+
•Udemy Free Power BI Course 30K
•VPawar@Aptude.com
Building the Enterprise Data Lake - Important Considerations Before You Jump InSnapLogic
In this webinar, learn from industry analyst and big data thought leader Mark Madsen about the future of big data and importance of the new Enterprise Data Lake reference architecture.
This webinar also covers what’s important when building a modern, multi-use data infrastructure, the difference between a Hadoop application and a Data Lake infrastructure, and an enterprise data lake reference architecture to get you started.
To learn more, visit: www.snaplogic.com/big-data
Hybrid Analytics in Healthcare: Leveraging Power BI and Office 365 to Make Sm...Perficient, Inc.
As organizations realize the cost savings and scalability benefits of hybrid environments, the focus turns to implementing an analytics platform in these new environments. On-premises vs. cloud is the big choice, but how are some companies leveraging the best of both worlds?
Perficient and UnityPoint Health discussed the benefits of Power BI and Office 365, and how one technology-savvy healthcare provider is leveraging its hybrid environment of Power BI, Excel-enabled dashboards and SharePoint 2013.
Making the Most of Power BI with SQL Server 2014 and AzurePerficient, Inc.
Power BI is a compelling new cloud-based BI offering for Office 365 SharePoint Online users, with advanced collaborative capabilities including mobile cross-platform reporting, on-the-fly dashboarding and natural language querying.
When you combine Power BI’s self-service business intelligence with SQL Server 2014 and Microsoft Azure, you can host your entire BI solution in the cloud while providing greater access to business analytics than ever before.
Join Perficient's Microsoft business intelligence expert Andrew Tegethoff to learn how to host your analytics and reporting solution in the cloud with Power BI and SQL Server 2014.
My Slidedeck about Common Data Service and Model. This technology is under development so content is subject to change and based on current service on 4/13/2018
During the bake-off (NYC Enterprise Collaboration Meetup in the NYC Microsoft Office) between Power BI and QlikView, Gal Vekselman presented the Power BI tool and those are his slides.
RDX Insights Presentation - Microsoft Business IntelligenceChristopher Foot
May's RDX Insights Series Presentation focuses on Microsoft's BI products. We begin with an overview of Power BI, SSIS, SSAS and SSRS and how the products integrate with each other. The webinar continues with a detailed discussion on how to use Power BI to capture, model, transform, analyze and visualize key business metrics. We’ll finish with a Power BI demo highlighting some of its most beneficial and interesting features.
Sql Saturday Jacksonville- Power BI Report Server Enterprise Architecture, to...Vishal Pawar
Sql Saturday Jacksonville- Power BI Report Server Enterprise Architecture, tools to publish reports and best practice
Power BI Ecosystem
Architecture of Power BI Report Server
Best Practices for PBI Report Server
General Best Practices Power BI Ecosystem
Q&A
Introduction to Microsoft Power Apps- a no code app development solution on Office365. Integrates with the office platform and is better together with Microsoft Flow and Power BI.
Oracle EPM Day Philadelphia - What is your Cloud Strategy?Alithya
Randy Schmitz of Edgewater Ranzal presented at Oracle EPM Day in Philadelphia on What is your Cloud strategy?
Approaches to Extending your Oracle Technology Investment
Think of big data as all data, no matter what the volume, velocity, or variety. The simple truth is a traditional on-prem data warehouse will not handle big data. So what is Microsoft’s strategy for building a big data solution? And why is it best to have this solution in the cloud? That is what this presentation will cover. Be prepared to discover all the various Microsoft technologies and products from collecting data, transforming it, storing it, to visualizing it. My goal is to help you not only understand each product but understand how they all fit together, so you can be the hero who builds your companies big data solution.
Two of the tech industry’s essential front runners providing business intelligence solutions are Microsoft’s Power BI and Tableau. These leaders of data visualization help businesses narrow down and analyze their data with powerful built-in tools and clear visualizations. Each platform has distinctive strengths and weaknesses that should be considered before deciding on a business intelligence software.
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Two of the tech industry’s essential front runners providing business intelligence solutions are Microsoft’s Power BI and Tableau. These leaders of data visualization help businesses narrow down and analyze their data with powerful built-in tools and clear visualizations. Each platform has distinctive strengths and weaknesses that should be considered before deciding on a business intelligence software.
Power BI for Office 365: Using SharePoint to Deliver Self-ServicePerficient, Inc.
Power BI is a compelling new offering with advanced collaborative BI capabilities for Office 365 SharePoint Online users. It includes mobile cross-platform reporting, on the fly dash-boarding and natural language querying, but that's not all. Power BI also encompasses new tools in Excel 2013 that support streamlined self-service reporting and analytics. Find out how you can leverage the advanced new self-service BI features coming soon via Office 365 and SharePoint Online!
In this slideshare, we explore:
Excel Power BI tools: PowerPivot/PowerView/Power Map/Power Query
SharePoint Online Power BI Sites: Data Management Gateway (for connecting to on-premises data sources), uploading Excel content
Power BI apps: Windows 8, Windows Phone
So you got a handle on what Big Data is and how you can use it to find business value in your data. Now you need an understanding of the Microsoft products that can be used to create a Big Data solution. Microsoft has many pieces of the puzzle and in this presentation I will show how they fit together. How does Microsoft enhance and add value to Big Data? From collecting data, transforming it, storing it, to visualizing it, I will show you Microsoft’s solutions for every step of the way
CRM-UG Summit Phoenix 2018 - What is Common Data Model and how to use it?Nicolas Georgeault
My Slidedeck about Common Data Service and Model from CRMUG SUmmit in Phoenix Oct 2018. This technology is under development so content is subject to change and based on current service on 10/18/2018
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The world is quite a different place than it was six months ago, and with the 2020 holiday season fast approaching, the pressure is on to meet revenue goals in what’s been an uncertain year.
In August, we surveyed 154 marketing executives to find out what they think is likely to happen this holiday season and how they are preparing for it. The results are fascinating, and we’ve distilled them into clear actions you can take right now to adapt and prepare for a very different 2020 holiday season.
In this webinar, Eric Enge (Principal, Digital Marketing at Perficient) and Jim Hertzfeld (Chief Strategist, Digital at Perficient) discussed:
How marketers have already adapted and where they see the most opportunity moving forward
What will be different this holiday season and how to adjust your strategy accordingly
Ways to identify and meet changing customer expectations, wants, and needs
How to determine if your priorities or investments should change
What actions you can take right now to be successful
Transforming Pharmacovigilance Workflows with AI & Automation Perficient, Inc.
Medical information call centers have an opportunity to transform the way they capture, code, and analyze adverse events (AEs) and product quality complaints (PQCs) with artificial intelligence (AI) and automation.
The use of such innovative technology improves data quality and consistency, compliance, and operational efficiency. It helps reduce the frequency of your pharmacovigilance (PV) operations resources going home, saying, “I have more to do at the end of the day than I did when I started."
Our one-hour, on-demand webinar shows you how you can use AI and automation to turbo-charge your end-to-end PV system. Use cases and demonstrations will include:
Analyzing safety data
Auto-coding verbatim terms to official medical dictionary terms
Auto-creating an AE case in your database
Converting speech to text
The Secret to Acquiring and Retaining Customers in Financial ServicesPerficient, Inc.
Data, when leveraged effectively, can help you segment and target customers, analyze spending habits, and can create a personalized experience that builds value and customer loyalty.
Without a 360-degree view of your customers, you can’t properly target them with real-time personalized offers, advice, and other services. In addition, lack of customer intelligence creates lost opportunities for banks and insurers to cross-sell and upsell new products and services.
Our one-hour webinar covered how customer intelligence platforms can help you engage, acquire, and retain customers.
Oracle Strategic Modeling Live: Defined. Discussed. Demonstrated.Perficient, Inc.
The only thing certain about forecasting in a volatile economy is that the future is unpredictable. Historically, organizations have effectively utilized statistical techniques for short-term business planning, but leveraging actuals no longer allows us to predict the future. The ability to be prepared, responsive, and agile under these conditions is becoming a crucial success factor. Oracle Strategic Modeling can help you better navigate change to cope with uncertainty.
If your CFO’s questions regarding earnings, liquidity, and cash flow are unceasing and far-reaching, watch our on-demand webinar for a deep dive into strategic modeling. We modeled real-world scenarios to show how you can:
Quickly and easily develop a hierarchical model of your business
Leverage multiple pre-built functions to forecast key performance drivers
Provide transparency on forecasted financials via audit trail
Utilize goal seek to set financial targets and estimate the financials drivers necessary to achieve it
Perform sophisticated “what-if” analysis via simulations to improve the accuracy of your forecast
Use built-in dashboard functionality to deliver powerful reporting capabilities
While many stay-at-home orders have been lifted, consumers’ new digital buying behaviors and habits are here to stay. Watch our panel discussion on the accelerated need for commerce and learn how commerce and content can transform our digital economy.
Topics include:
-What is the “experience economy” and how do you leverage it? -If you move beyond product and price, what’s next?
-How business models have shifted and what you can do to break down silos and leverage new processes to capture the digital dollar.
-How organizations have built agile teams to address the ever-changing needs of customers, including responsive approaches that address the omnichannel consumer.
-Technologies that are best suited to enable your business and customers – and how headless commerce has changed the game.
-How the future of commerce is changing, and what you should do now to prepare.
Our panel features Jordan Jewell, IDC Research analyst known for his insight into the commerce industry. Joining him from Perficient is general manager Brian Beckham, who brings deep expertise in content management and empowering organizations in their digital transformations. Rounding out the panel is Episerver’s Joey Moore, who has spent the last decade helping organizations across the globe advance their digital maturity.
Centene's Financial Transformation Journey: A OneStream Success StoryPerficient, Inc.
Centene, a large multi-line managed care organization, was looking to modernize and streamline its corporate performance management (CPM) applications.
Centene had to move data between platforms multiple times during the close process so that close data could be fully consolidated and made available for reporting. This process had numerous challenges and inefficiencies that Centene wished to improve upon so that they could provide a more streamlined and more transparent process to the functional teams that leverage consolidated financials in their systems for reporting and analysis.
Centene chose OneStream XF for global and US consolidations, currency conversion, eliminations, and ownership percentage.
Michael Vannoni, director, financial systems solutions discussed the migration to OneStream XF including:
-Factors leading to the selection of OneStream XF
-Details of the solution design
-Benefits realized with global consolidation implementation
-Future planned enhancements
WHODrug Koda, developed by Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC), is an automated coding service, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the coding of drug names and ATC selections, improving consistency and operational efficiency. It can also be used to accelerate dictionary upgrades, including the transition from WHODrug B2 format to B3.
Through API (Application Programming Interface) web services, the coding engine can be integrated with custom or off-the-shelf drug safety, medical coding, or data management systems.
In this webinar, Perficient and UMC discussed WHODrug Koda and how you can integrate it into your medical coding activities.
Preparing for Your Oracle, Medidata, and Veeva CTMS Migration ProjectPerficient, Inc.
There are multiple reasons why companies migrate to a new clinical trial management system (CTMS). Still, the two most common are mergers and acquisitions (i.e., CTMS consolidation) and the desire to switch CTMS vendors. Regardless of the reason, many of the best practices, processes, and tools are the same.
In this webinar, we looked at the migration approaches taken across several case studies. You’ll come away with an understanding of:
Pros and cons of each CTMS migration method
Types of migration tools, including APIs, ETL tools, and adapters
Approximate timelines and costs associated with each migration method
The topics discussed in this webinar can be applied to any CTMS migration project, whether you’re moving to or from Oracle’s Siebel CTMS, Medidata’s Rave CTMS, and Veeva’s Vault CTMS.
Accelerating Partner Management: How Manufacturers Can Navigate Covid-19Perficient, Inc.
The pandemic has ushered in a new normal for manufacturers, and the impact of digital communication is more important than ever.
View our on-demand webinar with Tony Kratovil, Regional Vice President of Manufacturing at Salesforce, and Eric Dukart, National Sales Executive at Perficient. They covered why the right digital strategies are critical for manufacturers in the wake of COVID-19.
Our webinar covered:
Current challenges with forecasting, collaboration, and disruptions to distribution networks.
Insights for stabilizing operations, accelerating partner management, and developing a digital strategy that differentiates your business.
Candid Q&A with real-world examples.
New Work.com resources to help manufacturers restart safely and rebuild.
Tools and resources to move forward – fast.
The Critical Role of Audience Intelligence with Eric Enge and Rand FishkinPerficient, Inc.
Things move quickly in marketing. How do you identify what your customers need and how you can help? Now more than ever, audience intelligence is the key.
Audience intelligence is about understanding your target customers, their needs, what resonates with them, and how you can reach them. Eric Enge (Digital Marketing Principal, Perficient) and Rand Fishkin (Co-Founder & CEO, SparkToro) discussed this topic live on May 7, 2020. Watch to hear tactics for gaining a better understanding of your customers, how to use audience intelligence to optimize your marketing now, and more.
Cardtronics, the global leader in ATM deployment and management, decided to retire its on-premises Hyperion solution to gain the operational efficiencies, features, and functionality provided by a best-in-class cloud solution.
Cardtronics chose Oracle EPM Cloud including Financial Consolidation and Close, Planning, Management Reporting, Account Reconciliation, Enterprise Data Management, as well as Oracle Analytics Cloud.
In this video, project owner Richard Ng, director, financial systems, Cardtronics, discusses the migration to Oracle EPM Cloud including:
Multi-release 18-month deployment schedule across multiple countries
Benefits of a global Chart of Accounts for ERP and EPM
Seamless integration across ERP Cloud, HCM Cloud, and EPM Cloud
Preparing for Project Cortex and the Future of Knowledge ManagementPerficient, Inc.
Microsoft has turned traditional enterprise content management on its head with its recent announcement of Project Cortex.
Project Cortex uses advanced artificial intelligence to harness collective knowledge from across the enterprise and automatically organize it into shared topics like projects, products, processes, and customers. Using AI, Cortex creates a knowledge network based on relationships among topics, content, and people and delivers it in the apps you use every day – Office, Outlook, and Teams.
This webinar examined Project Cortex in more detail, including:
• What is Project Cortex?
• Why is Project Cortex different than other knowledge network projects previously introduced?
• How does incorporating AI and automation change the game?
• What is possible with Project Cortex?
• What can you do to prepare?
Utilizing Microsoft 365 Security for Remote Work Perficient, Inc.
With an increasingly mobile workforce, and the spread of shadow IT, the rapid rise of cybercrime - companies must find unique ways to effectively manage their sprawling SaaS portfolio.
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Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
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Preparing for BI in the Cloud with Windows Azure
1. Microsoft Cloud BI with Windows Azure:
What’s Possible?
September 11, 2013
2. 2
Andy Tegethoff
Andy is a Microsoft BI architect at Perficient and a senior-level
consultant with more than 12 years of experience exploring,
planning and building cost-effective software and process-oriented
solutions for challenging business problems. A Microsoft Certified
IT Professional (MCITP) for SQL Server 2008 BI, his solutions
integrate elements such as data warehousing, dashboards, and
broad-based reporting in order to deliver vital, actionable
information at every level of the enterprise.
Our Speaker
4. Cloud Computing
Why move to the Cloud?
• Reduced organizational IT costs
• Built-in scalability and reliability
• High availability
• Maximum “futureproofing”
This applies to Business Intelligence solutions, too.
• Addresses several key concerns in DW/BI planning/development
• Reduces significant hardware costs and associated planning effort
• Potentially shortens implementation time
5. Cloud Computing
Common Cloud Service Models
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
6. Cloud BI
Business Intelligence in the Cloud
• The principles of Cloud Computing applied to BI solutions
• Offers benefits of scalability, stability, reduced cost – drastically
reducing hardware concerns and overhead
• Need to be aware of some “gotchas” (i.e. data loading
complications, data size boundaries, associated costs)
7. Cloud BI
Business Intelligence in the Cloud
Public Cloud Delivery Options
PaaS
BI development
platforms/
packages
IaaS
Hosted virtual
DB servers
PaaS
“Build Your
Own” platforms
SaaS
“BI as a
Service” apps
• Deploy your own
solution in the cloud
• Low upfront costs
(licensing of VM
software, etc.)
• No cloud-based
horizontal scaling;
must be done in
application and DB
architecture
• Cloud-based platform
services
• Low cost, pay-per-use
• Allows/requires
custom development
to some extent
• Prepackaged BI solutions
• “Easy” management and
implementation
• No design flexibility;
custom apps are off the
table
8. Cloud BI
Business Intelligence in the Cloud
Other Delivery Options
PaaS
BI development
platforms/
packages
Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud
• Offers the most
control, but also
greater cost
• Design your own
solution, manage your
own cloud
• An option if your
organization already
owns and maintains a
private cloud
• Public/Private cloud
combination
• Leverage the public
cloud for “spikes” in
either availability or
processing
• More complicated
solution to accomplish
load balancing
9. Cloud BI with Windows Azure
Azure Data and Analytics
• Advanced toolset; thought leadership in cloud
• Also in the marketplace…
– “BYOLicense” Cognos in Amazon EC2 VM
– SAP BI OnDemand; file-based reporting with no Data Warehouse
• Azure PaaS offerings are fully (public) cloud-based
– Azure SQL Database/Reporting – “SQL Server + SSRS in the Cloud”
– HDInsight – Big Data/Hadoop Cloud Service
• IaaS offerings can be cloud-based or “hybrid”
– Azure VM-based SQL Server 2012 and SharePoint servers
– Source data either in the cloud or on-premises
10. Azure Platform as a Service
Azure SQL Database
• “SQL Server in the cloud“
– Formerly known as SQL Azure
– “Database as a Service” – all elements are cloud-based
– Limitations around security and certain other functions
• Only uses SQL Authorization; No SSAS, SSIS
– Value-adds:
• PaaS benefits (horizontal scalability, hardware cost savings)
• Connectivity with on-premise SQL Server
Azure SQL Reporting
• “SQL Server Reporting Services in the cloud”
– SSRS-style reporting against Azure SQL Database(s)
• Limitations: Only uses SQL Database authorization; SQL Database the
only source
11. Azure Platform as a Service
HDInsight
• Azure’s Big Data option - currently in Preview
• Wraps an Apache Hadoop implementation
• Uses Azure Tables for storage (NoSql storage option)
• Excellent option for integrating Big Data into existing applications, BI
solutions, reporting environments
How does it work?
– Get an Azure Storage account and set up an HDInsight cluster (account cost
relates directly to size of cluster)
– Upload data using native JavaScript, Hadoop command line, Sqoop connection
from SQL Server/Azure SQL Database, or a raft of 3rd party tools
– Connect and analyze data using SQL Server and/or Excel via ODBC, an Integrated
application(s) via Hadoop.NET, or Azure SQL Database/SQL Reporting via Sqoop.
12. Azure Infrastructure as a Service
SQL Server 2012 BI in the Cloud
• Azure VM
– Only path to fully-functional SQL Server BI in the cloud
• Only way to run Analysis Services or set up SharePoint integrated
SSRS in Azure
– Link to existing AD network, plus enable virtual network
– SharePoint
• Full-featured edition needed? Run in VM!
• Certain editions of SharePoint and Office 365/SharePoint online offer BI
functionality
• Two Options for implementation
– Build VM offline, upload VHD to Azure
– Build VM directly in Azure, provision/install/configure VHD in cloud
• Pre-built VMs provided by Microsoft – including a BI server
13. Cloud Front-End
Office 365 and SharePoint Online
• Cloud-based offering of Office applications
including Excel and SharePoint
• Can provide front-end for Microsoft BI
(cloud-based or on-premise*)
• BUT some versions provide BI functionality, some do not!
– SharePoint/Excel BI features not available with O365D (private-cloud) edition
– The O365 E3/A3/G3 plans and SharePoint Online Plan 2 include BI components
– Note that PerformancePoint Services, which is used for dashboards and
scorecards, is not available in any edition
14. Cloud Front-End
Power BI
• Brand new cloud-based self-service BI offering
• Suite of powerful self-service BI apps via a
familiar interface: Excel
• Initial offering for SharePoint Online/Office 365 only
– Dedicated mobile/Windows 8 app (to be available across Windows
ecosystem)
– Supports Windows 7 and Mac users via browser
• Visualizations rendered using HTML 5
– Standard browser compatibility for internet, mobile, tablet, etc.
– Mobile Microsoft BI!
15. Power BI Components
Power Pivot
• Tool for creating and customizing flexible
data models within Excel
Power View
• Tool for creating interactive charts, graphs and
other visual representations of data
16. Power BI Components
Power Map
• Formerly known as “GeoFlow“
• 3D data visualization tool for mapping, exploring and interacting with
geographic and temporal data
17. Power BI Components
Power Query
• Formerly known as "Data Explorer“
• Easily search and access public and organization data within Excel
• Perform basic transformations to join data to your PowerPivot model(s)
18. Power BI Components
Power BI Sites
• SharePoint Online sharing of Power BI content
via new site type
• Reports can be set to refresh data on schedule
or on-demand
• Power BI sites can be browsed from mobile device or
desktop/laptop
• Add reports to mobile favorites to view on tablet or smartphone
19. Summary
With Azure, SQL Server 2012, and Office 365 you can:
• Implement PaaS or IaaS solutions in the cloud
• Run a full-fledged SQL Server BI Solution via Azure VMs
• Host Big Data in the cloud and integrate it into existing on-premise
solutions via HDInsight
• Build great BI visualizations in the cloud with a familiar Excel
interface – and even show them for mobile users!
But keep an eye on:
• Security concerns
• Maintenance needs
• Licensing
• Integration between on-premises and other Microsoft cloud offerings
20. Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving clients throughout
North America.
We help clients implement business-driven technology solutions that integrate business
processes, improve worker productivity, increase customer loyalty and create a more
agile enterprise to better respond to new business opportunities.
About Perficient
21. • Founded in 1997
• Public, NASDAQ: PRFT
• 2012 revenue of $327 million
• Major market locations throughout North America
• Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fairfax,
Houston, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Northern California, Philadelphia, Southern
California, St. Louis and Toronto
• Global delivery centers in China, Europe and India
• ~2,000 colleagues
• Dedicated solution practices
• ~85% repeat business rate
• Alliance partnerships with major technology vendors
• Multiple vendor/industry technology and growth awards
Perficient Profile
22. Business Solutions
• Business Intelligence
• Business Process Management
• Customer Experience and CRM
• Enterprise Performance Management
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Experience Design (XD)
• Management Consulting
Technology Solutions
• Business Integration/SOA
• Cloud Services
• Commerce
• Content Management
• Custom Application Development
• Education
• Information Management
• Mobile Platforms
• Platform Integration
• Portal & Social
Our Solutions Expertise
24. A nationwide Microsoft BI practice offering both:
• Strategic Engagements…
• Strategy Assessments
• Program Mentoring
• Tactical Engagements
• End-to-End Implementations
• Current state evaluations
• Proof of concept projects
BI Expertise