Agenda

What is Business Intelligence ?

Why do organisations use it?

BI tools overview

Generally Speaking……………………

According to Google…………………

Business intelligence (BI) is a broad category of technologies that allows for gathering, storing, accessing and analyzing data to help business users make better decisions

Companies need to buy …transactional Systems

Financials— JDE, Oracle, PSFT , SAP

Supply Chain Management— IBM, SAP, PSFT, Manugistics

Customer Relationship Management— Clarify , Onyx, Pivotal

Sales Force Automation— Seibel , Salesforce.com

Etc……

In its simplest form

datadatadata data data

Database

report

data

report report report report

Database

B I …………….AKA

Reporting

Analytics

Decision Support

Data Warehousing

EIS

Dashboarding

Some Terms you might hear

Transactional Reporting

Relational Reporting

Multi-dimensional Reporting

Analytics

Predictive Analytics

Data Mining

Data Visualisation

Database Schema (Star , Snowflake)

Dashboards, KPI’s LI’s Balanced Scorecarding

OLAP, ROLAP, MOLAP, DOLAP, HOLAP…..SCHMOLAP !

Some People you might hear of

Business Objects / Crystal

Cognos

Microstrategy

Microsoft

SAP

Panorama

IBI

Hyperion

Relational BI tools

Easiest to useQuery,

Reporting, Analysis &

Dashboarding

OLAP BI tools

Most Scalable, Powerful Analytics

BIPlatform

Complete &PowerfulSolution

A Single Platform for Breakthrough Performance Everywhere

Highlights

Dashboards for user-directed analysis— Self-service access to graphical views of key performance

indicators— Central distribution of dashboards for any group, role, or

individual

Full range of Query, Reporting and Analysis Capabilities — Management Reporting , End-User Reporting, Production

Reporting— Report Delivery & Alerting

Zero footprint, browser-based query, reporting and analysis— Distribution of dashboards, reports and analytics to a

broader user base— Extending visibility to customers and partners outside

the firewall

Highlights (cont.)

Web-based administration, publishing, scheduling, and delivery— Single management environment reduces administration

time— Logging mechanism provides continuous system

performance tuning— Enables Intelligence and SQR to benefit from common

functionality

Role-based access control— Administration can be delegated so user communities can

be self sufficient— Leverage existing investments in external authentication

systems

Unified, scalable architecture with single repository— Services run as distributed, multi-threaded processes on

back-end servers— High performance and dependability via fail-over and load

balancing

Information The Way You Want It

Drag & DropQuery

Graphical Charts and Cross-tab Analysis

Presentation-Quality Reports

Platform for Dashboard Applications

Enterprise Reporting

ANY report layout

ANY data manipulation

ANY numeric manipulation

Single Pass, Multiple Outputs