Beyond the Dashboard:Exploratory Analytics

Introduction – Beyond the Dashboard, Exploratory Analytics

Quantrix◦ Building adhoc analysis◦ Visualization for identification of trends and exceptions◦ Analysis to create a model for forward-focused planning

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Rhea Elinzano◦ MISNet SE Asia

Eric Natividad◦ MISNet Inc

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Beyond the Dashboards

ReportsSummary StatisticsOLAP slice and dice

Exploratory analysisForecastingOptimization

In Gartner Top 10 technologies for 2011: #5: Next Gen Analytics

“Companies need to develop operational analytics to make predictions and use data mashups.”

“There’s value in very current information. We are now shifting our focus to start doing simulations and modeling to predict the future.”

Query: Why is territory X not achieving its targets

Exploratory Analytics

Answer: List of sales by salesperson, by product, by city, by salesperson / product / city

Actions:•What if I add more marketing $, introduce more campaigns?•What if I add more salespeople?•What if I target only customers who are responding?•What if I introduce products that are fit to the age profile of the population in this territory?

Traditional BI/Dashboard:Shows the Facts,

Gain insights

Exploratory:Test hypothesis from insights gained from

facts

Ad Hoc & Exploratory Analytics, Modeling, and Visualization

Budgeting, Strategic Planning, Forecasting, “What if” Analyses, Risk Modeling, and Visual Analytics (BI)

Distributed Budgeting and Planning

Data analysis for auditing, compliance and risk analysis

Quantrix

Pivot & filter chart

Enhanced visualization engine enables side by

side comparison of charts

Access and navigate multiple

data sources. Add data elements

to analysis with drag and drop

ease.

View underlying

data sources for greater

transparency

Fine tune analysis w/ drag & drop

qualifier pane

View & manipulate models

What-If Scenarios

Forward-Looking Dashboard

Reseller Sales Analysis Internet Sales Analysis Modeling

Demo

You are the marketing manager of Adventure Works, a distributor and online retailer of bicycles, bicycle parts, accessories and related clothing.  It is the start of July 2008. 

You note that internet sales for the company this year are much higher than last year‘s.

You feel good that your efforts are paying off.  Then you noticed that, while online sales are increasing, sales increase from May to June are less than you expected.  You then decided to do exploratory analytics to see what's happening.

Internet Sales Analysis Scenario

Offers unmatched capability for forecasting, planning, budgeting, risk modeling, visual analytics and more◦ Offers multidimensional modeling and analytics capability ◦ Unlimited “what if scenario” without rebuilding your models

Affords the approachability of Spreadsheets with robust analysis capability of BI◦ Does not require heavy IT involvement◦ BI prohibitively expensive◦ Unapproachable to the Business user

Summary. Quantrix:

Customers

National University of Singapore

"The National University of Singapore has used Quantrix to develop an integrated long-term resource planning model covering all key aspects of university revenue, expenditure, student enrolment and staffing levels. The success of the project has provided NUS with the confidence to extend the use of Quantrix to other areas of financial planning, budget preparation and monitoring."

Ajith PrasadDirector, Office of Resource PlanningNational University of Singapore

Real World Examples

Large investment bank. Real Estate Portfolio Cash Flow modeling. A model that took hours to open and calculate in a spreadsheet now takes just minutes with Quantrix. Formulas were reduced from over 1 million to just 400 while maintaining a live connection to the data warehouse.

State Retirement system. Retirement Fund Sales Model. Organization developed a brand new sales tool in Quantrix using Datalink that could pull in customers’ employee data from the database and produce retirement benefit scenarios ‘on the fly’ during sales presentations.

Large European Manufacturer. Budget and Planning. In a process that used to involve 80 spreadsheets that were extremely difficult to maintain, all budgeting and planning are now done in Quantrix. With SAP Datalink integration, the models are created quickly and easily and frees up the users' time to analyze the data.

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