Modern Business Intelligence

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3 modes of BI working together

Agile Business IntelligenceFind reports and insights which give value

Fail Fast for reports that done deliver value

Query line of business systems

Business User driven

Find requirements for Enterprise BI

Enterprise Business IntelligenceData Warehousing approach

Cloud based for elastic scale

Structured data

Extract Transform Load Data Warehouse

Reliable and enterprise ready

Heavy compute capabilities

Big DataUnstructured Data

Large volumes

Stream based or batch based

Map Reduce

Data Lakes

Microsoft Cortana Suite

Applied Architecture

Agile Business Intelligence

Power BI Gateway

Line of BusinessApplications

SaaS Applications

Power BI

Power BI Desktop

Report Viewer views dashboards viaBrowser or mobile

Report Author creates reports then publishes to Power BI

Power BI uses Gateway to access on premise data sources

Power BI has content packs for many SaaS applications

Other AzureData Sources

Enterprise Business Intelligence

Line of BusinessApplications

Power BI

Machine Learning

Data Factory

SQL Data Warehouse

Data Catalog

Hybrid Connectivity

SQL DW used for storage

Data Factory pulls data from line of business and cloud applications

Data Catalog used to manage data dictionary

A number of options for advanced analytics

Power BI for visualization

SaaS Applications

Azure Search

Big Data – ETL Channel

Line of BusinessApplications

Power BI

Machine Learning

Data FactorySQL Data Warehouse

Hybrid Connectivity

Data Lake and Azure Storage for unstructured data store

Data Factory pulls data from line of business and cloud applications

A number of options for advanced analytics

Power BI for visualization

SaaS Applications

Azure Search

Azure Storage

Data Lake Analytics

HDInsight

Data Lake Storage

Big Data – Real Time Events Channel

Power BI

Machine Learning

Data Lake Storage

A number of options for advanced analytics

Power BI for visualization

Azure Search

Azure Storage

Data Lake Analytics

Event HubIoT Hub

Stream Analytics

VDevices, things, etc

Applications

Eventing and Streaming based Channel

Data Lake and Azure Storage for unstructured data store

Data Factory

HDInsight

Data Lake Storage

How do I get the Data?

Data Factory provides the lift and shift ETL to support modern ETL requirementsAzure Data Factory

Logic Apps &BizTalk

Event Hubs &IoT Hub

Power BI Enterprise Gateway

Azure Service Bus Relay provides a bridge under the hood to allow Power BI Gateway to access on premise data sources

Logic Apps provides light weight api orchestrationWhich can feed BI

BizTalk provides heavy weight EAI for more complex scenarios

IoT Hub and Event Hub provide device and stream based approaches which can be used to feed telemetry to a BI platform

Technology Summary

Power BI

Machine Learning

Data Factory

Data Lake Storage

Azure Search Azure Storage

Data Lake Analytics Event Hub

IoT HubStream Analytics

HDInsight

BizTalk Server

Logic Apps

Modules in Microsoft Cortana Analytics Suite

Modules in Microsoft Integration Suite