The Importance of good data management and Power BI

The BI Iceberg

• Visualising Data is only the tip of the iceberg

• Data Preparation and provisioning is a complex process

• Streamlining this process is key to success

Data Governance

Data Migration

Data Sources

Data Modelling

Data Provisioning

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Business Intelligence

The more data that is created, the better understanding and

wisdom people can obtain.

Data capabilities at each maturity stage

Make smarter decisions using

self-service tools to separately

display relational and non-

relational data sets available

through a virtualized network.

Plan for the future by analyzing

and modeling diverse data

types integrated in real time

through a hybrid environment.

Trigger automated rules to

respond to analysis of data

sets integrated in real time

through a hybrid environment.

Know your business better

through manual reports

built using structured

department data.

• Manual reports: Request IT to pull

data and build reports

• Historical analysis: Review business

periodically and track against goals

• Departmental data: Combine data

manually for business-level insights

• Self-service & mobile BI: Access

anywhere, on any device

• Visualizations and dashboards:

Answer questions by visualizing data

• External data: Capture big data for

future use

• Real-time insights: Track business

changes up to the minute

• Integrated data sources: Combine

and analyze all kinds of data

• Predictive analytics: Use complex

modeling and analysis for predictions

• Immediate innovation: Make

changes on the fly using real-time

data

• Asset feedback: Monitor IoT data to

identify new business models

• Automated actions: Trigger

automatic actions to changing trends

ACTIVITIES

Relational data Relational & non-relational data, siloed Any data from any source Any data from any source

Descriptive Diagnostic Predictive Prescriptive

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Capabilities Maturity Model

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Data is a key strategic asset

$1.6TAdditional business value captured

by companies that are leaders in

using data assets to their advantage

Source: IDC, 2014

10%Percent of organizations expected

to have a highly profitable business

unit specifically for productizing and

commercializing their data by 2020

Source: Gartner, 2016

Widely available

unstructured data

Deliver powerful insights

over big data

Massive

data growth

Build data

into all your apps

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digital transformation

Modernize your apps

with built-in analytics

Exploring new

business

opportunities with

data-driven services

Improvingvisibility

and making

accurate

predictions with

remote monitoring

Getting the right

products to the right

places with inventory

management

Offering customers

exactly what they

want, when they

want it, with

personalization

Fixing problems

proactively before

they start with

predictive maintenance

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Implement Data Warehouse

Physical Design

ETL

Development

Reporting &

Analytics

Development

Install and Tune

Reporting & Analytics Design

Dimension Modelling

ETL Design

Setup Infrastructure

Understand Corporate Strategy

Data sources

Gather Requirements

Business Requirements

Technical Requirements

OLTP Apps Analytics Cubes & Services BI ReportsData Warehouse

Finance

CRM

ERP

Data Mart or

Operational Data Store

Big Data Storage Hive Query

Harness the growing and changing nature of data

Need to collect any data

StreamingStructured

Challenge is combining transactional data stored in relational databases with less structured data

Big Data = All Data

Get the right information to the right people at the right time in the right format

Unstructured

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Increased data types and volumes

Varied data sources

Added complexity and cost

Ingest all data regardless of requirements

Store all data in native format without

schema definition

Do analysisUsing analytic engines

like Hadoop

Interactive queries

Batch queries

Machine Learning

Data warehouse

Real-time analytics

Devices

OLTP Apps Big Data & Analytics Comprehensive BI

Streaming

IoT

Social

Modern Data Warehouse

Big Data Storage

NoSQL

Data Lake

CRM

ERP

Business Analyst

BI Users

IT Pro

Data Mart or

Operational Data

Store

+ other data sources

LOB

Finance

Web

Prepare Analyse and Publish ConsumeIngest

ROLAP/Direct Query

Serialize Raw Data Stream

Data stream queries

Raw Data‘pass-through’

Train

ETL

‘Big Data’ Processing

Data Source

Power BI

Hive/Spark/HBase

Ad-Hoc data for analysis

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In-stream predictions

Direct / Real Time Reporting

DataSources

Apps

Sensors & Devices

People

Data Intelligence

Cortana Intelligence

Action

Apps

Automated systems

Transform data into intelligent action withCortana Intelligence

Intelligence

Cortana

Cognitive

Services

Bot

Framework

Preconfigured Solutions

Dashboards and Visualizations

Machine Learning and Analytics

Big Data Store

Information Management

Using exclusive, advanced intelligence technologies

Azure Machine Learning

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Deploy solutions in minutes With the click of a button, deploy the finished model as a web service that can connect to any data, anywhere

Connect to the world Brand and monetize solutions on our global Machine Learning Marketplace https://datamarket.azure.com/

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Microsoft Azure Machine Learning API service Model in production as a web service

Microsoft AzureMachine Learning MarketplaceAPIs and solutions for broad use

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Today, BI extends to everyone

Everyone

Analyst to end user

IT to end user

2nd waveSelf-service BI

1st waveTechnical BI

3rd waveEnd user BI

Turning data into business insights is challenging

Common BI challenges include…

Multiple data sources Data residing in cloud solutions and on-premise locations is difficult to access and refresh securely

End-to-end view Data often resides in disparate locations, making it difficult to see a complete picture of your business

Right data for the right users at the right time

Different roles have different needs and business users need the latest operational data

SaaS D

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Power BI web browser

With natural language

query, visual exploration etc.

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Azure

Stream Analytics

Azure SQL/DW

HDInsight

Power BI Mobile Apps

with dashboards, alerting

and visual exploration

Bring your data….. …to life

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Excel

• The standard among Business Analysts

• Easily migrate the data and underlying

models from Excel

SQL Server Analysis Services

• DAX Compatibility

SQL Server Reporting Services

• SSRS output can be pinned on Power BI

dashboards

POWER BI GATEWAY

Feature

Power BI

• Industry-leading SaaS service

o 5 seconds to sign up, 5 minutes to WOW

• Large Power BI ecosystem

o ISVs, SIs and partners creating unparalleled

momentum

• Integrated across Microsoft products

o Customers benefit from integration with

other Microsoft products

Connecting any user, in any business, anywhere, with their data

Feature• Visualize data in a variety of ways

• Growing number of visualization types

o Donuts, basic area, waterfall, filled maps, tree maps,

funnel, gauges combo charts, R charts and more

o Custom visuals available from Power BI visuals gallery

(visuals.powerbi.com)

o Tools to develop, test, package new custom visuals

• Visualizations on report page are connected – select

value in one visualization to change other visualizations

• Full screen pop out mode for report visuals to show

additional details

See your data the way you want it

Feature

• Cortana can find answers from data in Power BI, e.g.

“What were our biggest deals that closed last month?”

• Similar to Q&A, ask or type a question in natural language

• Cortana can find answers directly from dataset or from report

pages designed for Cortana (called Answer Pages)

• Interact with the visualizations as you would in Power BI, to

further explore an answer, simply open a result in Power BI

• Cortana ranks the answers from Power BI, giving you one or

more best matches

• Easily create Answer Pages in the Power BI service

Power BI Cortana Integration

Feature

Keep your data where it is and connect securely

• Faster time to insight with a hybrid BI solution

• Cloud data sources

• SaaS sources

• Azure – SQL, DW, Blob, Table, HDInsight, Marketplace

• SharePoint, web sources, OData

• OneDrive

• On-premise data sources

• SQL Server, Teradata, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, SAP

HANA, Access, Custom SQL, Custom ODBC Drivers

• SQL Server Analysis Services (tabular and multi-dimensional)

• Files/folder, SharePoint on-premises

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