Business Intelligenceand the data revolution

Lee Hawthorn, Acma, CGMA, Ba(Hons)

› Many roles over the years– Software Engineer– Management Accountant– Business Performance Manager– Data Analyst

› Motivated to learn and share, to solve problems

› Current : FP&A Analyst, Payzone UK

› uk.linkedin.com/in/leehawthorn/

› @lee_hawthorn

› Leehbi.com

Agenda

› The data revolution

› Playing your part

› Discussion with your neighbour

› Payzone experience

› Where things are heading

› Takeaways

The data revolution

Technology

Give the data to the decision maker

SiSense.com

Challenge the status quo

It’s not easy

COLLABORATE

Speed Boat or Tanker?

Business partner or

What you can bring to the party

Integrity Data Literacy

Leadership

Centralised

Decentralised

Discuss - 5 minutes

› Introduce yourself to your neighbour

› Discuss any of the following points based on your experience or vision

› Pain points

› Successes

› Spreadsheet Hell

› Too much data

› Multiple versions of the truth

Payzone UK before & after

Where things are heading

› Hybrid databases – part in memory – part on disk

› Advanced Analytics

› Big Data 2.0 (with structure)

› Natural Language querying

› API based data & services

Takeaways

› Follow Howard Dresner http://bit.ly/1zuMofu

› Online webinars from SQL Pass http://bi.sqlpass.org

› Unlocking Business Intelligence from CGMAhttp://bit.ly/17l8dqj

› Big Data Briefing from CGMA http://bit.ly/1JvOUw0

› On Twitter? #BIWisdom tweet-chat (Friday 5pm!)

› Assess the appetite

› Build the case

› Evaluate resources

Conclusion

› Software & Services are mature & sophisticated

› The cloud gives us another option

› Data is on the increase

› Be a partner

› Payzone can’t live without it

› Change is on the way