The Evolution of Self- Service BI Introducing Governed Data Discovery Nick Barth - Senior Solution Architect
What I am going to talk about today The origins of self service in BI The importance of collaboration in BI How self- service pits IT against Users How Pyramid Analytics provides the answer Some recent/local Pyramid customer case studies
We are famous for using tools, and also for being social animals 3
IT has become about self- service BI Office 4
But IT is also about collaboration 5
Power must walk hand in hand with control Real Time computing Life Cycle Management Natural Languages > Query languages Monitoring / tuning Graphical User Interfaces Security / access control Mobility Collaboration / off- line 6
so self- service risks pitting IT against users IT Guy End User
Trends in BI have oscillated between reporting and analytics Analytics Reporting 1980 s 1990 s 2000 s 2010 s what happened? OLAP, ROLAP what s happening now? Visual discovery, Big Data Decision Support why did it happen? Scorecards & Dashboards what will happen next? 8
How did we get here anyway? 10 years ago:
BI becomes a part of the infrastructure
How did the megavendors work out? + Good data governance + Robust back- end + Scalable Architecture - Extremely IT Centric - Heavily dependent on professional services - Low User adoption!
Giving rise to Agile BI
How did Agile BI work out? + Self service + Easy to use, flexible + Fast implementation, without need for IT - No sharable biz logic; does not scale - Epidemic of departmental BI silos - No single source of the truth
Current Platform Models Governed: a centralized framework anchored in IT Secured Scalable Rigid Data Discovery: a distributed framework for Business Users Direct, Peripheral Access to data End user driven modeling Flexible
Business Analytics - Market Evolution The BI Pendulum Governed Platforms 2000 2008 Data Discovery 2014 Governed Data Discovery
Market Future Governed Data Discovery The ability to meet the dual demands of enterprise IT and business users Increasingly, companies would like to expand use and even standardize on data discovery platforms for their larger enterprise BI deployments but find that in many cases these platforms (from Tableau, Qlik and Tibco Software [Spotfire]) lack the necessary enterprise features in relation to governance, administration and scalability, among other things. Gartner MQ 2014 for Business Intelligence
Realizing the Vision Pyramid Analytics Offering: Singular, Integrated Suite A Business Analytics platform built from the ground up to support both Business Users and Enterprise IT
Case Studies
VW and Business Intelligence How VGIE measure Dealer Performance? Sell In / Purchases How Dealers measure their Performance? Sell Out / Sales User Group 2015
Volkswagen Group Ireland Business Intelligence Needs: Collaboration between VW and their dealers Mobility Predictive Analytics Integration with the Microsoft Stack to leverage existing investment Visual discovery - > dashboards - > print- ready reports Commercial needs Joined- up reporting between Sell In and Sell Out Pipeline analysis Web Hit - > Test Drive - > Purchase - > Service appointment Spare parts analysis and red flags on known issues / recalls
VGIE Analytical Journey User Group 2015
StiBat Stibat recycle 3,000,000kg of batteries a year, over 42,000 types and 26,000 pickup locations They employ only a small workforce efficiency is key Stibart used Pyramid to move from a data processing model to a data analytics model. Why? To improve collection efficiency co only collect full containers. Collaboration is key:- Collaboration with collectors Collaboration with stakeholders councils etc.
What do these cases have in common? All these cases started as Departmental BI but then needed to scale Information is created for consumers outside HQ governance is crucial The business needed to lift BI productivity, not just create more dashboards Self- service BI is as much about collaboration as it is about creating content
What do these cases have in common? These apps got BI analysts out of the data processing business BI should be about scale. Excellent BI creates demand for more Excellent BI BI should be a conversation about the data, not an argument about numbers IT were assured by Pyramid all data & content is secured
Impact: Delivers Best TCO & ROI Low Maintenance High User Adoption Single Source of the Truth Highest ROI and Lowest TCO Pyramid is selected as the Enterprise Standard by ever growing numbers of Fortune 1000 companies
: Data Discovery Self- driven dashboard designer and viewer Self- driven querying, ad- hoc analytics and data mash- ups Self- driven report and publication designer & scheduler Self- driven data mining & predictive analytics
BARC report: Top TCO and Chosen Standard BARC Report 2014 ranked Pyramid best in ALL TCO categories & Top ranked as Chosen Standard vendor Top ranked Analytics vendor in Chosen as standard Top ranked Analytics vendor in investment The BARC report (called the BI survey) is the world largest and most comprehensive survey of business intelligence end- users. In total, 3149 people responded to the survey. Altogether, 30 products received a detailed analysis.
Pyramid Analytics: Why do we win? Implement enterprise BI projects in Days vs. Months Increase user adoption in the enterprise from <10% to >50% Decrease dependence on professional services significantly Most comprehensive BI platform for Microsoft SQL Best TCO in class
What do we do? Departmental BI Enterprise BI Fusing the innovation of departmental BI with the scalability of Enterprise BI 29
Notable Customers
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