The document discusses bridging the gap between business and technology by understanding business value. It defines key terms like business drivers, problems, benefits and the purpose of a business case. It also outlines common business challenges around data like data silos and lack of governance. The future will involve even larger data volumes, incorporating unstructured data sources, and greater user empowerment through tools like Power BI.
Lunch & Learn Case Study: ERP and Business Transformation for Make to Order &...Jeff Carr
Knox Machine Company is a leading make-to-order manufacturer of precision machined parts, mechanical sub-assemblies and pre-packaged kits. The company engaged Ultra to lead their ERP selection and implementation services, as well as guide them through their business process transformation phases and to a successful implementation. This case study presentation demonstrates that business transformation is about more than software, and the importance of teaming with an objective party in selecting an enterprise software system.
Getting the Maximum ROI From Your ERP Project and BeyondJeff Carr
Ultra presents the many ways a maximum Return on Investment (ROI) can be realized from your ERP project, and the exact points your company should focus on in order to get that high level of return.
This presentation will review:
- An effective Business Case for Change to ensure your ERP investment is well-defined, budgeted, and expectations are clear.
- The main areas of where you can realize ROI: Inventory management, supply chain management, product development, and many more.
- What investments should you make in people, processes and both IT and plant-level technology.
- Know the correct project team structure: Executive, PMO, Core/Functional, SMEs, and Technology.
Predictive Analytics & Decision Solutions [PrADS], a subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet provides cutting edge analytics solutions and actionable insights to leading organizations globally , The following presentation provides an overview of the services offered
A solid business case provides the foundation for implementing a successful shared services organization. This is the first session in an HR Shared Services learning series that ScottMadden presented in conjunction with SSON. In this session, we covered the elements of a good business case including examining current costs, projecting costs and savings based on your future design, and conducting sensitivity analysis to understand possible outcomes. This presentation provides detailed guidelines and lessons learned for developing a sound business case.
For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
ERP Health Check: Is Your Business at Risk with Your Legacy System?Jeff Carr
Time for your check up? It is if you seek to ascertain the value of current business processes, along with the risks your organization likely faces with legacy or outdated ERP.
This presentation shares key considerations for an ERP “health check-up” which is at the core of your business. Understand the measures of the maturity and health of your system as you begin thinking about upgrading or replacing standalone systems and manual spreadsheets now used to run key business functions.
Lunch & Learn Case Study: ERP and Business Transformation for Make to Order &...Jeff Carr
Knox Machine Company is a leading make-to-order manufacturer of precision machined parts, mechanical sub-assemblies and pre-packaged kits. The company engaged Ultra to lead their ERP selection and implementation services, as well as guide them through their business process transformation phases and to a successful implementation. This case study presentation demonstrates that business transformation is about more than software, and the importance of teaming with an objective party in selecting an enterprise software system.
Getting the Maximum ROI From Your ERP Project and BeyondJeff Carr
Ultra presents the many ways a maximum Return on Investment (ROI) can be realized from your ERP project, and the exact points your company should focus on in order to get that high level of return.
This presentation will review:
- An effective Business Case for Change to ensure your ERP investment is well-defined, budgeted, and expectations are clear.
- The main areas of where you can realize ROI: Inventory management, supply chain management, product development, and many more.
- What investments should you make in people, processes and both IT and plant-level technology.
- Know the correct project team structure: Executive, PMO, Core/Functional, SMEs, and Technology.
Predictive Analytics & Decision Solutions [PrADS], a subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet provides cutting edge analytics solutions and actionable insights to leading organizations globally , The following presentation provides an overview of the services offered
A solid business case provides the foundation for implementing a successful shared services organization. This is the first session in an HR Shared Services learning series that ScottMadden presented in conjunction with SSON. In this session, we covered the elements of a good business case including examining current costs, projecting costs and savings based on your future design, and conducting sensitivity analysis to understand possible outcomes. This presentation provides detailed guidelines and lessons learned for developing a sound business case.
For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
ERP Health Check: Is Your Business at Risk with Your Legacy System?Jeff Carr
Time for your check up? It is if you seek to ascertain the value of current business processes, along with the risks your organization likely faces with legacy or outdated ERP.
This presentation shares key considerations for an ERP “health check-up” which is at the core of your business. Understand the measures of the maturity and health of your system as you begin thinking about upgrading or replacing standalone systems and manual spreadsheets now used to run key business functions.
Today´s business world is changing, but one thing remains constant: the need to maximize value and to minimize costs. Now more than ever. IT needs change. How can the various aspects of Lean be applied to IT Strategy Deployment, Portfolio- Program, Project Management, Service Design, Service Delivery and Service Support examined through a Lean lens.
Creating IT Value-A Better Way to Make IT Investment DecisionsScottMadden, Inc.
All IT organizations are resource constrained—demand exceeds supply. Organizations need criteria to decide which projects warrant allocation of high-value constrained resources. This is the second in a series on maximizing IT investment value.
Want to make creating tickets, entering time and adding notes easier? Autotask's new Incoming Email Processing service is the tool you need. Not only can customer emails be parsed neatly and automatically into tickets, it integrates email communications into your day-to-day workflow, improves response times, increases customer satisfaction, and automatically captures ticket updates, task and time entries. This session shows you how you can increase efficiency and communication with the correct configuration of this powerful, new tool.
[Presenter: Guido Frank, Autotask]
Your Challenge
Internal stakeholders usually have different – and often conflicting – needs and expectations that require careful facilitation and management.
Vendors have well-honed negotiating strategies. Without understanding your own position and leverage points, it’s difficult to withstand their persuasive – and sometimes pushy – tactics.
Software – and software licensing – is constantly changing, making it difficult to acquire and retain subject matter expertise.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Conservatively, it’s possible to save 5% of the overall IT budget through comprehensive software contract review.
Focus on the terms and conditions, not just the price.
Learning to negotiate is crucial.
Impact and Result
Look at your contract holistically to find cost savings.
Guide communication between vendors and your organization for the duration of contract negotiations.
Redline the terms and conditions of your software contract.
Prioritize crucial terms and conditions to negotiate.
Technology is a key enabler for achieving the synergies and savings associated with a shared services delivery model and are important tools for running an HR service center. This is the second session in an HR Shared Services learning series that ScottMadden presented in conjunction with SSON. In this session, we reviewed a range of HR technologies to consider as you plan your shared services operation. We discuss the key functions of different types of technologies, important requirements and tips for evaluating different solutions, and guidelines for estimating technology costs.
For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
Benchmarking is a continuous improvement practice used by many facilities managers as a cost effective way to identify potential opportunities and implement proven practices. This presentation will describe how facility managers can get value from each step in the benchmarking process.
Enterprise service management is finally a business realityFreshservice
ITSM Blogger Stephen Mann talks about using the ITSM Solution for Enterprise Service Management and the different benefits of it. He also highlights about how to improve the chances of getting Enterprise Service Management right.
Devoteam itsmf 2021 - from business automation to continuous value-driven i...itSMF Belgium
The race for enterprise business process digitalization is raging. IT is often left behind as enterprise budgets for innovation are shifting towards business teams.
During this session, we will present the challenges and our field-tested approaches to catch-up and how to take this opportunity to create new app factories. All the while using low-code and RPA platforms.
You will discover how to capture business demands, and create an operating model for your IT department to stay in control of the applications being deployed, while bringing value at speed.
Enterprise Business Analysis Capability - Strategic Asset for Business Alignm...Alan McSweeney
Introducing the concept of Enterprise Business Analysis as a strategic resource to achieve business and IT alignment. Alignment means being able to draw a straight Line from business strategy through to delivered and operational solutions implemented to respond to businessn. Business and IT Alignment requires more than just relationship management – it requires actual engagement by IT with the needs of the business.
IT strategy presentation by global leading CIO, Creagh Warrenbob panic
IT STRATEGY
This presentation outlines the steps required to produce a Technology enabled Business Strategy which will support your business goals to further Your Company’s successes into the future in this Digital age.
It’s not a secret that the need to modernize traditional finance operations and evolve into a “Digital Finance” organization has become a key priority for finance leaders.
In this video recap of the webinar held on 12/11/ 2019; Raul Vega, Auxis CEO, discussed the key risks and challenges organizations typically face as part of their transformation journey, and how to develop and execute a strategy that provides the business case and outcomes you expect based on your specific company size and needs.
What was covered:
- What does Modern Finance really mean?
- Digitization as a Key Element of the Modern Finance Organization
- Most Common Tools you should be implementing as part of your Digital Finance journey
- What’s driving RPA’s growth?
- Implementation Strategies & Alternatives
- How Outsourcing can help finance executives self-fund their Digital Finance Strategy and drive faster outcomes
Antoon Vansina stelt vast dat steeds meer financiële afdelingen hun beslissingen en adviezen willen onderbouwen. Zowel voor financiële inzichten, opvolging van strategische doelen als voor controlling en compliance investeren meer en meer van uw collega’s in Business Intelligence. Helaas worden dergelijke projecten dikwijls duur en traag. Vanuit zijn ervaring wijst de IT Director van Acerta op een aantal concrete factoren die een bijzonder groot verschil kunnen maken in de productiviteit en added value van uw Business Intelligence team. Met 'bijzonder groot’ bedoelt hij een factor 5 tot 10, afhankelijk van de huidige werkwijze en organisatie.
Today´s business world is changing, but one thing remains constant: the need to maximize value and to minimize costs. Now more than ever. IT needs change. How can the various aspects of Lean be applied to IT Strategy Deployment, Portfolio- Program, Project Management, Service Design, Service Delivery and Service Support examined through a Lean lens.
Creating IT Value-A Better Way to Make IT Investment DecisionsScottMadden, Inc.
All IT organizations are resource constrained—demand exceeds supply. Organizations need criteria to decide which projects warrant allocation of high-value constrained resources. This is the second in a series on maximizing IT investment value.
Want to make creating tickets, entering time and adding notes easier? Autotask's new Incoming Email Processing service is the tool you need. Not only can customer emails be parsed neatly and automatically into tickets, it integrates email communications into your day-to-day workflow, improves response times, increases customer satisfaction, and automatically captures ticket updates, task and time entries. This session shows you how you can increase efficiency and communication with the correct configuration of this powerful, new tool.
[Presenter: Guido Frank, Autotask]
Your Challenge
Internal stakeholders usually have different – and often conflicting – needs and expectations that require careful facilitation and management.
Vendors have well-honed negotiating strategies. Without understanding your own position and leverage points, it’s difficult to withstand their persuasive – and sometimes pushy – tactics.
Software – and software licensing – is constantly changing, making it difficult to acquire and retain subject matter expertise.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Conservatively, it’s possible to save 5% of the overall IT budget through comprehensive software contract review.
Focus on the terms and conditions, not just the price.
Learning to negotiate is crucial.
Impact and Result
Look at your contract holistically to find cost savings.
Guide communication between vendors and your organization for the duration of contract negotiations.
Redline the terms and conditions of your software contract.
Prioritize crucial terms and conditions to negotiate.
Technology is a key enabler for achieving the synergies and savings associated with a shared services delivery model and are important tools for running an HR service center. This is the second session in an HR Shared Services learning series that ScottMadden presented in conjunction with SSON. In this session, we reviewed a range of HR technologies to consider as you plan your shared services operation. We discuss the key functions of different types of technologies, important requirements and tips for evaluating different solutions, and guidelines for estimating technology costs.
For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
Benchmarking is a continuous improvement practice used by many facilities managers as a cost effective way to identify potential opportunities and implement proven practices. This presentation will describe how facility managers can get value from each step in the benchmarking process.
Enterprise service management is finally a business realityFreshservice
ITSM Blogger Stephen Mann talks about using the ITSM Solution for Enterprise Service Management and the different benefits of it. He also highlights about how to improve the chances of getting Enterprise Service Management right.
Devoteam itsmf 2021 - from business automation to continuous value-driven i...itSMF Belgium
The race for enterprise business process digitalization is raging. IT is often left behind as enterprise budgets for innovation are shifting towards business teams.
During this session, we will present the challenges and our field-tested approaches to catch-up and how to take this opportunity to create new app factories. All the while using low-code and RPA platforms.
You will discover how to capture business demands, and create an operating model for your IT department to stay in control of the applications being deployed, while bringing value at speed.
Enterprise Business Analysis Capability - Strategic Asset for Business Alignm...Alan McSweeney
Introducing the concept of Enterprise Business Analysis as a strategic resource to achieve business and IT alignment. Alignment means being able to draw a straight Line from business strategy through to delivered and operational solutions implemented to respond to businessn. Business and IT Alignment requires more than just relationship management – it requires actual engagement by IT with the needs of the business.
IT strategy presentation by global leading CIO, Creagh Warrenbob panic
IT STRATEGY
This presentation outlines the steps required to produce a Technology enabled Business Strategy which will support your business goals to further Your Company’s successes into the future in this Digital age.
It’s not a secret that the need to modernize traditional finance operations and evolve into a “Digital Finance” organization has become a key priority for finance leaders.
In this video recap of the webinar held on 12/11/ 2019; Raul Vega, Auxis CEO, discussed the key risks and challenges organizations typically face as part of their transformation journey, and how to develop and execute a strategy that provides the business case and outcomes you expect based on your specific company size and needs.
What was covered:
- What does Modern Finance really mean?
- Digitization as a Key Element of the Modern Finance Organization
- Most Common Tools you should be implementing as part of your Digital Finance journey
- What’s driving RPA’s growth?
- Implementation Strategies & Alternatives
- How Outsourcing can help finance executives self-fund their Digital Finance Strategy and drive faster outcomes
Antoon Vansina stelt vast dat steeds meer financiële afdelingen hun beslissingen en adviezen willen onderbouwen. Zowel voor financiële inzichten, opvolging van strategische doelen als voor controlling en compliance investeren meer en meer van uw collega’s in Business Intelligence. Helaas worden dergelijke projecten dikwijls duur en traag. Vanuit zijn ervaring wijst de IT Director van Acerta op een aantal concrete factoren die een bijzonder groot verschil kunnen maken in de productiviteit en added value van uw Business Intelligence team. Met 'bijzonder groot’ bedoelt hij een factor 5 tot 10, afhankelijk van de huidige werkwijze en organisatie.
During this session, you will gain insights about the critical difference between operational analytics and business value intelligence, the minimum requirements of any BI tool for ITSM, and the critical role people and process play in maintaining your standing within your company as a trusted business partner.
Participants will leave with specific recommended actions they can take to engage with their business clients to start the process of establishing a trusted, strategic business partnership that goes beyond providing ITSM operational analytics
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Business intelligence and data analytic for value realization iyke ezeugo
This presentation centres on how Businesses can take advantage of this era of information overload for enhancing their Business Intelligence and Data Analytic exploits to assure greater values with the available technology solutions.
It is focused on demystifying the BIG DATA phenomenon of the information age, and also on motivating traditional business drivers to begin to take advantage of business decision support systems (DSS) for their business intelligence and data analytics needs. The objective is to help organizations discover what and what they can do with these ICT solutions in their business for greater value realization. These values are expressed in building agile business that are able to thrive, make profit, grow and remain sustainable in the midst of stiff competition, globalization, innovation and regulatory pressures, even with elastic customers’ demands.
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The Value of Business Intelligence in OperationsICFAIEDGE
Business Intelligence helps scale operational efficiency, reduces costs and improves the overall impact of operations. Business Intelligence is crucial for planning vital aspects of operations as it provides actionable insights that can be leveraged to make data-driven decisions. Learn more about the value of Business Intelligence in Operations in this presentation.
The Business Value of Business IntelligenceSenturus
Learn about various BI architectures and approaches, as well as a comparison of different vendors’ BI offerings. See a demonstration of OLAP cube building. View the video recording and download this deck: http://www.senturus.com/resources/the-business-value-of-business-intelligence/
Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Cavin Griffiths, Executive Business Intelligence at Telkom discusses important of Business Intelligence in large organisations and the value add over time as more people buy into the philosophy.
Dr. Robert Mauro of the Global Leadership Institute at Boston College shares his thoughts on creating values and developing skills for values-based management. Delivered as the keynote address at National Employment Week in Cork, Ireland
Creating Value Through Digital Enterprise Transformation
Originally presented to XPX, CT Chapter. We look at what it takes to create value and reduce risk using digital enterprise transformation to improve your business processes, technology, and talent foundations.
Topics covered include building a roadmap, process improvement, systems improvement including ERP, CRM, BI/Analytics, and eCommerce, how to build a global organization, and how to build a professional management team.
Healthcare Enterprise Data Model: The Buy vs. Build DebatePerficient, Inc.
Every mid-to-large-sized healthcare organization will at some point need an enterprise data warehouse to consolidate data from its many source systems. The first question most will ask is, “Do I build it from scratch or buy a model?”
For some organizations, the answer to this question is simple and obvious. For others, it may be the source of internal debate on whether someone else can create a model that will address their nuances. Some will argue that a pre-built model will save time and money and should be explored as an option, while others may curb discussions due to the belief that their electronic medical records vendor already has it figured out.
In this webinar, we explored the pros and cons of building your own data model vs. buying one and looked at real customer use cases to help weigh the pros and cons of this critical enterprise decision. Topics included:
-How experience plays into the equation
-Which solution delivers value more quickly
-Which solution helps reduce the risk to the organization
-How easy is it to integrate other solutions
-How the decision to build vs. buy can impact your internal team
KPIs are almost universally used in organizations of all types. But are they being used effectively? Are they making an impact on the system? Or are they expensive, consultant-driven projects that simply report performance? A well-designed KPI system provides the right agility to fit your business, and it keeps business in control.
In this webinar ( presentation), "Building a KPI Solution" you will
• Learn to discover and unleash the real value in your data
• Understand how you should plan for and design an effect KPI system
• Learn how to specify a solution, and how to avoid vendors that cannot deliver
This webinar (presentation) will also cover best practices in solution design, where to define your business logic, how to include analytics, and how to best work with the solution. Discover how organizations of all types are using actionable KPI systems to achieve business outcomes.
Stop the madness - Never doubt the quality of BI again using Data GovernanceMary Levins, PMP
Does this sound familiar? "Are you sure those numbers are right?" "Why are your numbers different than theirs?"
We've all heard it and had that gut wrenching feeling of doubt that comes with uncertainty around the quality of the numbers.
Stop the madness! Presented in Dunwoody on April 18 by industry leading expert Mary Levins who discusseses what it takes to successfully take control of your data using the Data Governance Framework. This framework is proven to improve the quality of your BI solutions.
Mary is the founder of Sierra Creek Consulting
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The world of data analytics is booming, offering exciting opportunities to those who can unlock the power of information. This talk will equip you with a roadmap to kickstart your data analytics journey. We'll explore three key areas to empower your beginning: Business Acumen: Gaining a business understanding is crucial. We'll discuss how to translate business problems into data-driven solutions, ensuring your analysis is relevant and impactful. Six Sigma Foundations: This problem-solving methodology can be a valuable asset. We'll delve into the basic principles of Six Sigma and how they can improve your data analysis approach, leading to more efficient and accurate insights. Data Analytics Fundamentals: We'll introduce essential data analysis concepts like data wrangling, visualization, and basic statistics. Understanding these fundamentals will equip you to handle and interpret data effectively. By combining business acumen, Six Sigma principles, and foundational data analysis skills, you'll be well-positioned to embark on a rewarding data analytics journey. This talk will provide a clear starting point and ignite your curiosity to explore this dynamic field further. at the end we shall share some business cases from our success stories.
Gaining benefit at the Enterprise level is all about betting on the risk of success. We breakdown the needs for a winning architecture technique with a template example based approach. Feel free to reach out to and if more details are required or you have an opportunity to explore
Your Digital Finance Transformation JourneyWorkday, Inc.
When it comes to navigating digital transformation within finance, no two organizations or industries are alike.
View this slide deck to learn how Workday and Deloitte are partnering to provide customers across industries with a perfect path forward, and can help you set a clear strategy for your journey.
Five Attributes to a Successful Big Data StrategyPerficient, Inc.
The veracity, variety and sheer volume of data is increasing exponentially. With Hadoop and NoSQL solutions becoming commonplace, there are many technical options for managing and extracting value from this data. Many companies create labs to experiment with Big Data solutions, only later become IT playgrounds or unstructured dumping grounds.
To help avoid these pitfalls,companies with successful Big Data projects approach challenges by formulating a strategy that assures real business value is derived from their Big Data investments. In a Perficient poll, 73% of companies stated they are in the early-evaluation stage to find solutions to their Big Data problems and are only beginning to create their strategy.
Join us for a webinar featuring thought-provoking best practices used by successful companies to quickly realize business value from their Big Data investments. You'll learn:
The top five steps to increased business value
What the top companies are doing in Big Data that you need to know
Next steps to lay the ground work for a successful Big Data strategy
Do you have an OEE calculator? TBM Operations consultants share their framework for demonstrating process improvements in financial terms so you can convince senior management that OEE improvement should be a top priority in 2022.
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WorkSpace lets you interact with business processes based on your assigned roles within your company.
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This session will be an introduction to concepts relative to the Modern Web. The Web has come a long way since it’s inception over a quarter of a century ago. We will explore a bit of history, where we were, how far we have come and the new technologies that deliver on the promise of a modern web experience, and digital transformation. We will define “the Modern Web” and explore selection criteria for a few of the tools of the trade. The goal is for Scorpions to walk away with a better understanding of the concepts and thinking relative to the Modern Web and to generate further interest in the domain.
Most authors and researchers (Gartner, Forrester, McKinsey, MIT Sloan etc.) agree that true digital transformation is achieved when the four imperatives of employee empowerment, organizational process change, customer engagement and product transformation are addressed.
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SharePoint and Digital Transformation: Is SharePoint Still TransformativeMatthew W. Bowers
Digital Transformation is an often misunderstood term, often confusing, and in real danger of becoming over used and meaningless. The term ‘digital transformation’ has been used to describe anything from creating a fully responsive mobile website to developing a social media strategy, but in reality true transformation needs to involve much more than just the end product. Many people are asking today, is SharePoint still transformative. Can SharePoint be used or leveraged in a way, to digitally transform an organization? Can it empower and engage employees? Or is it in danger of becoming as ubiquitous as your network file share? Come out and let’s have a great discussion about this topic and find out just HOW SharePoint can still be transformative!!
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SQL Saturday STL 2016 Presentation
1. SQL and Business Intelligence
Understanding and Establishing
Business Value
Bridging the gap between business and technology
2. Agenda
1. Introduction
2. What this session is not
3. Understanding Business Value
4. Purpose of a Business Case
5. Business Case components
6. Data Business Challenges and the Future
7. Digital Transformation
3. About Me
• Varied background and career
• 12 years US Naval Service (Chief Petty Officer)
• BS Allied Health
• MA Counseling
• 7 years Probation / corrections
• Started working in technology in the Navy and through my
corrections career
• 12 Years CIO experience in mid market / mid size company
• Broad and deep technical background
• Multiple IT and technology certifications across multiple
technology areas and stacks
• Much more BS
• 10 years as a Business Solutions consultant
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4. What this session is NOT
• How to
• Deep technical dive
• Technical demo
• SQL technical capabilities
• What’s New etc.
• Sales pitch
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5. What this session IS
• Business focused
• Business problem focused
• Business driver focused
• Business pain and requirement focused
• Objective is to help IT / technology folks effectively bridge the gap
between business and technology!
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6. Questions
• How many of you are IT team, staff or leadership?
• How many of you are business?
• How many are more of a hybrid?
7. Questions
• Who has worked to budget for a SQL implementation?
• How many of your organizations have a specific business case model
that you use?
• For what business solutions are you using SQL?
• What is the value of a business case?
9. Establishing Business Value - Terms
• Business Drivers
• Business Problem
• Business Case
• Business Value
• Business Benefits
10. Business Drivers
• Whether managers plan to implement new-business processes or
specify new technology, a proposed change in operations often
involves a financial investment, forcing managers to make an effective
business case that justifies the change. To make the case, managers
must understand business drivers the change must support.
• Simply put, it is critical to show the way the proposed change will
better align the organization with its mission. It must show the way this
proposed project’s measurable benefits will outweigh potential risks.
Managers should consider the primary business drivers. One major
global facilities organization identified its top five business drivers as:
11. Business Drivers
• elevate the level of consistency and quality of services across the entire
portfolio and automate standardized business processes by using
enabling technology
• shift time spent on labor-intensive activities to higher value-add
activities
• achieve data transparency to allow visibility and timely access to data
at all levels of the organization
• leverage technology as a resource to scale for increasing client
demands, while reducing the cost of providing those services
• support professional staff by freeing up their time for core activities,
aid in career growth, and make the collective institutional knowledge
available for the entire organization.
12. Business Problem
Well-defined problems lead to breakthrough solutions. When developing new
products, processes, or even businesses, most companies aren’t sufficiently
rigorous in defining the problems they’re attempting to solve and articulating
why those issues are important. Without that rigor, organizations miss
opportunities, waste resources, and end up pursuing innovation initiatives that
aren’t aligned with their strategies. How many times have you seen a project go
down one path only to realize in hindsight that it should have gone down
another? How many times have you seen an innovation program deliver a
seemingly breakthrough result only to find that it can’t be implemented or it
addresses the wrong problem? Many organizations need to become better at
asking the right questions so that they tackle the right problems.
Harvard Business Review
13. Business Benefits
A business benefit can be defined as an outcome of an action or
decision that contributes towards meeting one or
more business objectives.
14. What is a Business Case
• A business case captures the reasoning for initiating a project or
task. It is often presented in a well-structured written document, but
may also sometimes come in the form of a short verbal argument
or presentation.
• The logic of the business case is that, whenever resources such as
money or effort are consumed, they should be in support of a
specific business need
15. Why Use a Business Case
You’ve got a great idea for a new product that will
increase revenue or a new system that will cut the
company’s costs. But how can you be sure that it’s a
worthwhile investment? Any time you propose a capital
expenditure, you can be sure senior leaders will want
to know what the return on investment (ROI) is. There
are a variety of methods you can use to calculate ROI
— net present value, payback, breakeven — and
internal rate of return, or IRR.
16. Why use a Business Case?
• SQL Server like every business technology is an investment
• Before making an investment you should always know your
expected return
• Business Case Formulas (will not go into these in detail):
• Net Present Value (NPV)
• Return on Investment (ROI)
• Rate of Return (ROR)
• Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
• Cost Benefit Analysis
17. Why use a Business Case
• Focus requirements/scope on capabilities that will
deliver Value
• Useful for managing scope change
• Beginning of the Organization Change Management
Process – Ensure Users will use the system
• Level of Precision
• Depends on Maturity of the Plan
• Organization Culture – what is your culture?
• Make and document assumptions
18. Business Case Components
• Basic Components
• Costs,
• Benefits,
• Risk,
• Time
• People tend to focus on Costs
19. It Starts at Measurable Pain
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are measurable pains
• Pains have no quantitative value if they cannot be measured
Missed Deadlines
Overflowing Pipeline
Insufficient Staff
Competition
Budget Constraints
Revenue
Employee Utilization
Customer Retention
Number of Customers
Poor Cash Flow
KPIsCommon Reasons For Pain
20. Cost Analysis: Best Practices
• Group costs into buckets
• For example, desktop and server solutions usually
have different cost buckets
• The key to effective costing is identifying the time spent on each activity - Work Breakdown Structure
• Recognize costs that should not be included in analysis
• Costs that would be incurred anyway
• e.g.., normal hardware refresh
• Costs not directly related to the project
• e.g., additional system changes
• Costs already incurred (sunk costs)
• e.g., operating system upgrades already completed
• Be sure to include all components
• Always perform “what-if” analysis
• Like benefits, get buy-in to defend numbers before presenting business value study
21. Business Process Value Modeling
• Study one process at a time – Survey to understand best opportunities
• Prerequisite: Work directly with the end user
• Physically map business process metrics to get buy-in
for process change
• Business managers are the source for pains and benefit equation variables
• Pain/KPI discussion drives business value versus productivity
• Keep equations simple
• Estimate process change metrics and then present them for approval if you can’t
get the numbers you need
• Get buy-in to defend numbers before presenting
22. How are you using SQL Server?
The business doesn’t care about SQL. They care about the capabilities
and the benefits to the business that SQL provides.
• Integration services
• Master data management
• High availability
• Data integrity
• Reporting and analytics
• KPIs and metrics
23. SQL Business Scenarios
• Enterprise reporting
• KPIs and metrics
• Financial reporting
• End user reports
• Sales reporting
• Point of sale analysis
• Production metrics
• Customer satisfaction
• Customer engagement
• Marketing metrics
25. Data - Then
• Easy to forget how far we have come
• The first computers most of us worked with had memory measured in
Kilobytes, and had no hard drives
• Most data captured was from accounting software, and didn’t add up even to
gigabytes
• Green bar reports and VisiCalc were state of the art…
27. Data - Now
• New challenges have arisen
• Data is captured across most systems in an enterprise,
producing Petabytes of new raw data annually
• Integration across multiple source systems, is expected
• Access is expected to be instantaneous
• Data reliability and quality are critical
• Big data leading to huge influxes of data
• IOT is transforming the data landscape
• And many more…
28. The Business Priority
• Consolidate information from data
spread across the enterprise
• Manage data governance and quality
based on business knowledge
• Make faster, better business
decisions based on trusted data
“Exploiting business
data and information is
a nearly universal
priority for
organizations.”
– Gartner
29. The Need for Credible, Consistent Data
A telecommunications firm lost $8
million a month because data
entry errors incorrectly coded
accounts, preventing bills from
being sent out
A global chemical company
discovered it was losing millions of
dollars in volume discounts in
procuring supplies because it
could not correctly identify and
reconcile suppliers on a global
basis
An insurance company lost
hundreds of thousands of dollars
annually in mailing costs (postage,
returns, collateral, and staff to
process returns) due to duplicate
customer records
An information services firm lost
$500,000 annually and alienated
customers because it repeatedly
recalled reports sent to
subscribers due to inaccurate data
A large bank discovered that 62%
of its home equity loans were
being calculated incorrectly, with
the principal getting larger each
month
A health insurance company in
the Midwest delayed a decision
support system for two years
because the quality of its data was
“suspect”
Business
Decisions
Incorrect or
Incomplete
Data
Credible,
consistent
Data
Business
Decisions
30. Business Challenges – Data Silos
• Data is typically stored in
multiple applications,
documents, and systems
• Each application is used in
isolation
• Information about a single
business entity can be
difficult to:
• Correlate
• Consolidate
• De-duplicate
31. Business Challenges – Data Governance
• Data representations of business entities
must be standardized and reconciled
across systems
• Data records must meet requirements
for:
• Accuracy
• Completeness
• Consistency
• Compliance
• Data infrastructure is managed by IT, but
business users have the necessary
knowledge to manage its governance
32. Contributing factors
• Relentless advancements in technology
• Storage density
• Memory capacity
• Processing speed
• Improved 55% per year from 1986 - 2000
• Every decreasing costs per unit for CPU capacity, memory
and storage
• Ever increasing application of data capture for all kinds of
business and industrial proceses
33. Contributing Factors
• For every increase in CPU, Memory and storage capacity,
software vendors will introduce features to consume it.
• Some useful, some inane…
• And some insanely Great!
• Analysis Services
• SharePoint
• Excel/PowerPivot
34. What is next?
• Even larger data volumes
• Need to incorporate unstructured and external sources of data
• Geo-sensitive applications and analysis
• Integrate with cloud storage and services –
• “Mash-up” applications
• Self-Service BI
• Power BI
• “Agile” BI
• IOT
• Machine Learning
• Streaming Analytics
35. What to expect?
• Greater need than ever for data quality
• Data has to be trusted to be used effectively
• End-user capabilities cannot be ignored
• X64 platforms, dual quad-core CPU’s, Gigabytes of Memory,
and no-where to go…
• Greater need for access to data
• More Alerts/event trigger notifications
• Open sources of data being standardized
• ODATA standard, REST, ATOM data feeds
• Greater reliance on Network performance
• Cloud, cloud and more cloud
36. IoT
Sleep tracking
COMMUTE COMMUTE
Home security Home automation Leak detection
Smart appliances
Indoor
navigation
Health monitoring
Smart lighting
Pet tracking
Information capture
Trip tracking
and car health
Control
Child and elder
monitoring
Sports
and fitness
Air conditioning and
temperature control Environmental sensors
Behavior modification
Garden, lawn and plant care
Food and nutrition tracking
Beacons
and proximity
New devices and sensors
Object tracking
Identity Smart vending
machines
Medication adherence
Bike ride stats and protection
Entertainment systems
Office
equipment
HOME HOMEWORKPLACE
37. How do we get there from here?
• Provide a secure, stable platform for Information
delivery
• Ensure data integrity and quality across all operational
and reporting systems
• Empower analysts to produce out-of the box
• Enable business users to create compelling and useful
ad hoc reports
• Leverage the cloud
39. Gartner Quadrant for BI Platforms
• Microsoft's cloud-based delivery model and low per-user pricing offers a low TCO — one of the top three reasons
why customers selected it, in addition to ease of use for business users and the availability of skilled resources.
While Microsoft has long offered low per-user pricing, customers are advised to consider the TCO, which includes
hardware costs, development and support costs. Previously, Microsoft had a high cost of ownership in its on-
premises deployment model (despite low licensing costs), because of the complexity of implementing multiple
servers. The new Power BI addresses this issue with both a streamlined workflow for content authors and because
the hardware and server architecture is in the Microsoft Azure cloud.
• Microsoft ranks in the top quartile for achievement of business benefits, with high scores in its use for monetizing
data, improving customer service and increasing revenue, as well as delivering better insights to more users. As
customers move to business-user-led deployments, an emphasis on the achievement of business benefits at a
lower cost has driven much of the net new BI and analytics buying — in lieu of centrally provisioned, IT-authored
reporting platforms.
• Microsoft was ranked in the top quartile of Magic Quadrant vendors for user enablement (only Tableau ranked
slightly higher), with high scores for online tutorials, community support, conferences and documentation. The high
enablement scores also contributed to Microsoft's ranking in the top quartile for product success.
• Microsoft has continued to expand the number and variety of data sources it supports natively and has also
improved its partner network to build out connectors and content that includes prebuilt reports and dashboards.
For example, Microsoft now has prebuilt connectors (and content) to Facebook, Salesforce, Dynamics CRM, Google
Analytics, Zendesk and Marketo, to name a few.