Business Intelligence Functional Approach

Chris FrederickUniversity of Notre Dame

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Traditional BI: A pictorial summary

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What you want What you get

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What happened?

Customer UnsatisfiedDelivery late and incomplete

Key issues:• Insufficient collaboration• Low accountability• User doesn't know all the requirements up front• Bad data• No shared data definitions (lack of data governance)• Overly Complex and hard to maintain• Tools are too difficult

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Waterfall didn’t work

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Be Agile

A scrum board

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Are we getting the right information into peoples hands?

Write user “stories” that deliver business value.

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Three days later…

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Priorities change

Original User Story Actual Report

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Breakthrough: In-Memory BI

Advantages

• Mash-up data from disparate sources• Column oriented databases; can easily fit

10s of millions of rows of data into memory.• Reduces need to optimize database• Quickly create rich interactive dashboards

Disadvantages

• Security needs to be the first and foremost concern when deploying In-memory tools.

• Usually requires 64-bit architecture• Watch out for “spread marts”

The measure of its usefulness involves how easily and quickly you can ask, refine, and reframe questions of the data.

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“Hot” In-Memory BI tools

Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel

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Work with partners who are “shovel ready”

• Highly motivated• Available - can commit people resources• Well understood business problem

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co-locate(get out of the server room!)

Daily Stand ups are the best!

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Schedule Live BI Demos

• The product owner gives the demo.

• IT does not give the demo.

• Invite a broad range of campus BI users.

• About two demos per project feels about right.

Learn in the least costly manner

Data Governance

Process

Data Gov.

Complete?

RelationalData

Warehouse(star

schema)

Personal BI

(in-memory)

Team BI(in-memory)

Data Gov.

Burned In?

(Key Stakeholders &their team)

No

No

Yes

Yes

NewIdea!

2x – 4x 8xCost of

1x

(Key Stakeholders)

Increasing Data Quality and Access

Enterprise BI

(campus-wide fine-grain access)

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What you get

Questions?

cfreder2@nd.edu