BI on a Dime OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE BI

Agenda

Get up to speed on terms Feather River College case See business intelligence in action Strategy – Architecture – Infrastructure Data Warehouse ERD Exercise

What are we talking about?

Business Analytics: is the extensive use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive models, and fact-based management to drive decisions and actions.

Business Intelligence (BI): A set of technologies and processes that use data to understand and analyze business performance. BI includes both data access and reporting, and analytics.

What are we talking about?

What are we talking about?Last slide on this, I promise! Transaction Database: A system designed

to process transaction data. Optimized for putting data into the system quickly.

Data Warehouse: A system designed to store validated data for the long haul. Optimized for fast querying.

Data Mart: A user interface to present data. Should be designed to be intuitive.

FRC Case First: Where the

hell is Feather River College?

FRC Case The Problem: The institution had

matured to the point that it was good at putting data into the ERP system – Banner. Unfortunately we weren’t any good at getting it out.

Limited resources: Staff Money Technical Expertise

FRC Design and Implementation Sample – Data Flow Diagram

Data Flow Diagram

FRC Design and Implementation SQL Server - Parts

SSIS

Analysis Services

Reporting Services

Manage-ment Studio

FRC Design and Implementation It’s Demo Time

Finished Examples

A QUICK Lesson in Database Design Databases power this stuff so you should learn about

how to design them Scenario: You want to track which employees are on

committees and when they joined or left the committee.

EmployeeIDFirstNameLastNameCommittee

WhenStartedWhenLeft

EmployeeID FirstName LastName Committee WhenStarted WhenLeft

12345Brian Murphy SLOAC 4/1/2010  

12345Brian Murphy SEM 4/1/2010 4/1/2014

12345Brian Murphy SPC 4/1/2010  

A QUICK Lesson in Database Design Start breaking data out by dependency Look at relationships

*EmployeeIDFirstNameLastName

Employee

*CommitteeIDCommitteeName

Committee

?

A QUICK Lesson in Database Design Because employees can serve on multiple committees

and committees have multiple employees on them, we need an linking table.

*EmployeeIDFirstNameLastName

Employee

*CommitteeIDCommitteeName

Committee

*EmployeeID*CommitteeID

StartDayEndDay

EmployeeCommitte

FRC Design and Implementation It’s Demo Time - Making Sausage

FRC ERD FRC SQL Server Stuff

Ideas for Development

Remember the audience Different data marts for different folks Understand at a glance Simplify

You still have IR to take care of the hard stuff Train

Ideas for DevelopmentFast,

Inexpensive,

Always improving,

Always on

Ideas for DevelopmentMinimum Information System Requirements SQL Server 2012 (Enterprise Edition)

Adequate ram very important SharePoint 2010 (Enterprise Edition)

Running on SQL Server 2012 platform Silverlight installed on clients Communication between servers Administrative rights on SQL Server

Ideas for Development

Future Compliant Information System Requirements SQL Server 2012 (Enterprise Edition)

Adequate ram very important SharePoint 2013 (Enterprise Edition or

adequate Office 365 version) Running on SQL Server 2012 platform

Office 2013 Communication between servers Administrative rights on SQL Server

Ideas for Development Suggested Reading

Murach’s SQL Server 2012 for Developers Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft

SQL Server Competing on Analytics

Wrap Up

Thank you!