Turning data into a business advantage

A look at analytics in action inside Microsoft Finance

Marc Reguera

Finance Director – Microsoft

Apr 1st 2014 – Haarlem, Holland

Twitter: @marcregueraLinkedIn: Marc RegueraYouTube: Search “Marc Reguera”

A revolution took place in Holland in the 70’s

TOTAL FOOTBALL

Before Total Football

Each player had a specific position & a specific role

Defenders take ball

away & pass it to midfielders

Midfielders pass it

around & until they find a forward open

Forwards go 1-on-1 &

try to score

Rinus Michels changed all of thatTotal Football allowed for each player who steps out of position

to be replaced by a team mate to fill the vacated hole

The defenders went forward, the forwards came back. We played football. He even used the goalkeeper, Jan Jongbloed, as a libero, playing outside the area."Rijsbergen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK3RUt7BZWI

A revolution took place in BI in the last 2 years

TOTAL POWER BI

Before Total Power BI

Each person had a specific position & a specific role

IT GETS DATA and pass

it to Analysts

Analysts Convert Data to Info for Business

Leaders

Biz Leaders Consume Reports & make decisions

that drive Impact

After Power BI

Get Data Convert data to InsightUse Insight to drive Impact

After Power BI

Get Data Convert data to InsightUse Insight to drive Impact

A Revolution has taken place in the last 2 years in MS Finance….

How MS Finance drives Business Impact

Today

Get Data Convert Data to Insight

Use insight to Influence & Impact

How did it happened?

TIME

• Single Master Data Source

• Consistent Taxonomies

“CoreFinance”

• Operational Efficiency • Outsource non-strategic

activities• Efficient C&C

“OneFinance”

• Power BI user-friendly tools

Microsoft BIFinance 2015

GOOD DATA TOOLS+ +Outcomes built from partnerships

IMPACT

Finance Strategy with BI: Finance 2015

New BI Tools = more Agility w/o compromising Security

Core Finance 1.0

Core Finance 2.0

BI Foundation

BI User Enablement

• Data Governance• Report Rationalization• Portal Consolidation

• Anchor Reports• Drill Down

Capabilities• Platform

Simplification

• Data Stabilization Infrastructure for Growth

• Enhanced Reporting & Analysis Toolkit

• Federated Reporting Model

• Self Service & Rich Drill down capabilities

• Power BI capabilities integrated (presentation connected to data source, natural language capabilities of Q&A, Touch Enabled…)

FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14

PowerPivotMajor MS

BI Product

Release

Power View Power BI

We also leveraged Megatrends

Turn data into business insights and make an impact

Data Produce, Consume & Present data & insights on many devices

Mobile

Easy & Secure access to

your confidential files

and data from anywhere

CloudCollaborate in many ways with your colleagues and business partners

Social

Let me show you• How we look at Airfare cost

• Before & After Power View: Sales Review

• How we scaled to Tabular Model

• Advanced Data Visualization Moving Bubble & Bing Maps

• Getting public data form excel => Real Madrid Performance last year in La Liga

• Answering every question at a review with Power BI Q&A

Airfare Slides before Power View

End to End Solution

Let’s continue the dialogue

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