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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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Presentain: How to use it?

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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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