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rosoft Confidential, NDA only Gemini : Self-Service BI Lynn Langit http://blogs.msdn.com/ SoCalDevGal

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Gemini : Self-Service BI

Lynn Langithttp://blogs.msdn.com/SoCalDevGal

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The Corporate Twins

Business Users IT

United in a common goal but separated by a chasm of clashing roles and responsibilities

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Data

Sources

Data Marts

BI andLOB Apps

Portals and Dashboards

Self ServiceEasy to useOn and OfflineCollaborative

Empoweredand Managed Secure Scalable Up to date Backed Up

BI Spectrum

4

Personal(Empowered)

Organizational(Aligned)

Team(Connected)

End User Context for BI

ITUnmanaged

ITManaged

IT In

volv

emen

t in

BI

Spreadsheets and Desktop Apps

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Personal, Team, Organizational BI

Personal BI Team BI Organizational BI

My Logic Our Logic The Logic

Distributed Loosely Centralized Highly Centralized

Informally Developed

Collaboratively Developed

Formally Developed

Empowered Aligned

Spreadsheets and Desktop Apps

Data Source

s

Data Marts

BI andLOB Apps

Portals and Dashboards

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The Challenge

New formal BI solutions need time and resources

Diverse users have diverse data needs

Ad-hoc requests stress I.T. capacity

Data warehouses do not cover all data or all users

Power users bypass I.T. with unsanctioned sources

Bottleneck

Chaos

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Reign in the "Spreadmarts"•Excel is the IW tool of choice

• Excel is a problem - “unmanageable”• Excel is sticky – users “can’t quit it”

•Why not make Excel part of the solution?• Include Excel as part of a complete BI solution

• Structured and manageable• Give IT insight into its usage

•Provide IT with the technology to• Have insight and management• Provide clear value• Without being a bottleneck

•Enable managed Self-Service

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Gemini: Uniting the Twins

Re-draws the line betweenI.T. and end-user roles

Empowered to create without IT dependence

Managing compliance and

resources without user obstruction

I.T.

• Provision• Administe

r• Secure• Track

data

Users

• Directly model

• Analyze• Personaliz

e• Share

data

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A Technology driven approach• Adapt technology to the business user

− Remove friction and barriers to entry− Transparent to the user

• Familiar tools and skills – the cornerstone of Gemini− Nothing new to learn− Full potential of existing technology investments− Continue to work with familiar partners

• Everyone Plays their position− Business Users don’t need to be technologists− IT doesn’t need to understand business trivia

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Excel-hosted client & reporting

In-memory BI engine

SharePoint for managed collaboration

Data feeds

Gemini technologies

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Information

IW Producer

IW Explorer

& Consum

er

IT Pro

Self-service personas

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Excel-hosted client

Demo

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In-memoryengine

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$1.00

$10.00

$100.00

$1,000.00

2000 2005 2012

$/G

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Year

DRAM Prices

Radically cheap memory

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Exponentially increasing cores

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Interactive and scalable

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Publishing data

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Data should be official, accessible and easy to use

Users say …

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Data should be secure, reliable and low maintenance

I.T. says …

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Data publishing should be as easy as RSS or Atom

We say …

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Data feeds

• Data service − REST/Atom− WCF service syndication feeds− Astoria

• Data feed file− Atom service document (.atomsvc)− Opens in Gemini client to import data

Microsoft Internal Only

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Reports as Data Sources

Microsoft Internal Only

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Sharepoint lists as Data Sources

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Feeds are published in Sharepoint

Microsoft Internal Only

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Feed metadata is searchable

Microsoft Internal Only

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Ms and 3rd party apps can publish feeds

Microsoft Internal Only

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