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13th October 2015, Software University
Am I a Business Intelligence Hound?
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Speakers
Stanislava Tropcheva
Ani Vasileva
in/tropcheva Blog: tropcheva.com
BI Consultant in Adastra Bulgaria 10 + years in IT 6 years in BI BI technologies: OBIEE, SAP Business Objects, MS SQL Server BI Databases: Oracle, Netezza, DB2, MS SQL Server
BI Consultant in Adastra Bulgaria 3+ years in IT and BI BI technologies: Tableau, QlikView, MicroStrategy Databases: MS SQL Server , Oracle, MySQL
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Our Objectives … or what we’ll give you
To touch to the surface of BI To understand why BI is so helpful To try yourself
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Agenda
Business Intelligence (BI) Overview and Discussion Data Visualization BI Architecture Demo – BI and Decisions Making: GA, Tableau Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI & Analytics Platforms Try it yourself Crossword Game Are you a Business Intelligence Hound? Q&A
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What is BI up to you?
“Be what?”
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Hans Rosling: The River of Myths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYpX4l2UeZg
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What is BI after Hans Rosling?
“Ohhh, it’s cool, isn’t it?”
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BI is not an oxymoron!
Found missing Clearly misunderstood Business Intelligence Same difference Terribly pleased Pretty ugly Random order New Tradition
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HOWARD DRESNER (1992), Gartner Group - coined the phrase 'Business Intelligence‘
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HOWARD DRESNER, Gartner Group - coined the phrase 'Business Intelligence‘, 1992
Technology Rain
Decisions,based on facts
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“I have to make a decision …”What is Business Intelligence
Which is The key?
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“I have to make a decision …”What is Business Intelligence
Intuition … !?
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“I have to make a decision …”What is Business Intelligence
Reality Facts & Numbers
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Similarities between Pilot cabin & BI …
Data exists , but … needs Information
Visualization transforms data into Information
Information becomes
KnowledgeKnowledge powers
Decisions
… and again Data
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“I have to make a decision …”What is Business Intelligence
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it…” Peter Drucker
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Where BI is applicable … and …
Why it is so important?
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Everywhere … It Surrounds us
Healthcare PharmaceuticalGovernmentEducation & Research RetailTransportation & TravelManufacturingTelecommunicationsBanking & FinanceEnergyInformation & TechnologyMedia & Entertainment
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Anything strange?
Liu Bolin
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Q1: Which items have higher sales in 2014?
Viz 1 or Viz 2
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Q2: Which of these 5 countries was the most crowded in 2012? Compare the rest countries with each other.
Viz 1 or Viz 2
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Q3: Whisky or wine do our clients prefer?
Viz 1 or Viz 2
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Think with your
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Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative AnalysisNOW YOU SEE IT, Stephen Few
Essentials
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Very precise
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Not very precise
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Greater: Very precise
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Greater: Not very precise
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DEMO
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My prediction was:
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My prediction was:
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Discover Business Intelligence systems
Business Question:
CEO says: “We need to increase our sales”
Marketing Manager says: “In order to do that I need an information about the most sold products. Who can provide us with this information… because we have it on our servers, don’t we?”
IT Manager says: “Yes, the data is there … BUT … it is not in the right structure so that to have the answer immediately ….I need between 20-30 days to extract this information from the data”
Data ≠ Information
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What stays behind BI?Discover Business Intelligence systems ...
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What stays behind BI?Data Warehouse
“digital” warehouse, storing all of the company’s information (daily + historical)
Consolidate the information in one centralized placeUsed for reporting & data analysis, so that to detect changes and
tendenciesBased on dimensional modeling (Facts & Dimensions)Allow easy and fast access to company’s information
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… but how we build DW?
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What stays behind BI?Extract Transform Load
… by ETL processes:
Extract the data from OLTP systems Transform it Load it into the Data Warehouse
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… but how to see what we have in DW?
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What stays behind BI?OLAP, Reports, Dashboards…
OLAP Cubes Reports Dashboards etc.
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2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI & Analytics Platforms
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Try it yourself
https://public.tableau.com/profile/tropcheva#!/vizhome/BILeaders2015-TrialsFreeVersions/BILeaders2015
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Attention:Last Question
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Q&A
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Thank you!
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