Business Intelligence is about making decisions. It eliminates guesswork by transforming raw data into valuable information. It makes you better informed, more efficient, and fully confident in every move you make. Topics covered: Defining the business problems that BI solves Exploring examples of BI solutions at work Identifying which new tools could have real impact for your business Highlighting the first steps to leveraging BI in your company About the Presenter Aaron Crouch is the Business Intelligence Practice Lead for Aptera. Upon graduating from Purdue University, Aaron immediately began working on Data Warehouses and Business Intelligence (BI) implementations. Throughout his career, Aaron has strategically planned, designed, and developed BI solutions for multiple Fortune 500 companies both in the United States and abroad. His work spans the fields of retail, education, healthcare, and automotive vertical markets, and he has also acquired multiple Microsoft certifications. With over 10 years of experience, Aaron is proficient with both Microsoft as well as LINUX, UNIX, and Oracle tool sets. If you have any questions, please contact Jen Booth at jbooth@apterainc.com or call 260.739.0732

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6. Integration
• BI infrastructure
• Metadata management
• Development tools
• Collaboration

7. Information Delivery
• Reporting
• Dashboards
• Ad-hoc query
• Office Integration
• Search-based BI
• Mobile BI

8. Analysis
• On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP)
• Interactive Visualization
• Predictive Modeling and Data Mining
• Score Cards

10. • SQL Server
• Office
• SharePoint

11. SQL Server Relational Database
• Serves as the data repository
• ODS, MDM, Data Warehouse
• Star Join Query Optimization
• Resource Governor
• Scalability (Scale Up… Scale Out)
• Back up to the Cloud (Blob Storage)
• AlwaysOn High Availability
• PowerPivot
• Table Partitioning
• Partition Elimination
• Partition Parallelism
• 15,000 Partitions
• Tabular Data Models in SSAS
• SQL Server Data Tools
• PowerView

12. Integration Services
• Responsible for moving the data
• ‘’ The World’s Fastest ETL Tool! ’’
• In-Memory Extract, Transform, Load
• Connect to non-SQL Server instances
• Oracle, DB2, etc…
• Many, many inbuilt transforms
• Where the data gets clean
• Create, Delete, Merge, Split, Group, Count, Sort
• Fuzzy Logic
• .NET and SQL Tasks, too!

13. Reporting Services
• Many data sources
• Static and semi-dynamic reporting
• Drill through interactivity
• Subscriptions
• Data driven
• Report Builder
• Create and utilize models

14. Analysis Services
• “Slice and Dice” the information to answer the questions that
YOU need answered
• Centralized KPI engine
• Data Mining for predictive analysis
• Handle large analytical data sets quickly
• Perspectives
• Partitioning
• Write-Back
• Multidimensional and Tabular Models

15. • Office 2013
• Excel
• Power View
• PowerPivot
• Visio
• Office 365 (To the cloud!)
• Excel
• Power View
• PowerPivot
• Visio
• SharePoint Online
Microsoft Office

16. • Utilize a vast existing skillset
• Pivot Tables
• Slicers
• Spark Lines
• Connect to lots of different data sources
• Conduct “What if” analysis
• Scenarios
• Goal Seeking
Microsoft Office Excel

17. • Self-serve BI
• Analyze massive amounts of data
• In Memory Analysis (Tabular Again!)
• Create Relationships between data
• Slice, Dice, Filter, and Sort in sub seconds
• Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
PowerPivot for Microsoft Office Excel

18. • Self-serve BI
• Visual, Interactive Data Exploratioin
• In Memory Analysis (Tabular Again!)
• Presentation Ready!
• Based on Data Model
• DEMO!!!
Power View for Microsoft Office Excel

19. • Data Driven Diagramming
• Display real-time data right within the shapes
of your diagrams, based on conditions you
define
Microsoft Office Visio

20. • No PerformancePoint
• No Reporting Services Integrated Mode
• No external data sources… yet.
• Make sure you get the right Plan!
• E3/A3/G3
• E4/A4/G4
• SharePoint Online Plan 2
Are there any limitations with office 365 BI features?

21. • Excel Services
• PowerPivot
• Power View
• Reporting Services
• Visio Services
• PerformancePoint Services
SharePoint “Insights”

22. • Construct Reports and Pivot Tables in Excel
• Surface Reports in SharePoint from document libraries and Web Parts
• Utilize External Data Sources
• Excel workbook acts as a data source
• Edit workbooks with Office Web Apps
• Capitalize on Existing Skillsets
Excel Services

23. • PowerPivot Gallery
• Elegant interface
• Common location for PowerPivot reports
• Can utilize PowerPivot applications as
data sources for other reports from within
the Gallery
• Manual or timed automatic refreshes of
data
• Power View reports live here too!
PowerPivot Gallery

24. • Consists of:
• Report Designer
• Report Builder
• Integration with SharePoint
• SharePoint is the repository for reports,
models, and connections
• Reports are viewed in a web browser
through Web Parts or Report Pages
Reporting Services

25. • Render & View via web browser
• Create Diagrams Which Translate Into SharePoint Workflows
• Create Diagrams That Tie Into External Data Sources
Visio Services

26. • Bundled with SharePoint 2013 Enterprise
• Dashboard Designer installed
as a Click Once application
• Dashboards and KPI’s are SharePoint content
PerformancePoint Services

27. PerformancePoint Services
• Dashboards
• Key Performance Indicators
• Scorecards
• Filters
• Data Sources
• Reports (PowerPivot, Power View, SSRS, Excel
Services, etc)
• Analytic Reports
• Graphs/Charts

28. • Dashboards can utilize
pre-existing reports such as
• Reporting Services
• Excel Services
• PowerPivot applications
• Dashboard Web Parts and visualizations can be
centrally filtered
• Build new KPI’s in the Dashboard Designer, or
use previously created Analysis Services KPI’s
instead
PerformancePoint Services

29. • Create, Edit, Manage, and Publish Business
Intelligence Content
• PerformancePoint Content Is Reusable
PerformancePoint Services

30. • What the heck is “Master Data”?
• Useful to the entire organization
• Utilized in many different ways (Not just for reporting)
• Reference and Transactional Data
• MDM and ODS’s
• Multiple Sources
• Cleansed, scrubbed, and validated
• Reduced Redundancy
• Application of business rules
Managing Your Master Data
• Where does this fit?
• Data Governance

31. Master Data Services
• Control your organizations master data
• Use the master data hub as an authoritative data source.
• Formalize and enforce processes with automated
workflows.
• Help ensure quality in the master data hub by using rules.
• Support ranges of hierarchies and attributes.
• Foster user access with comprehensive role-based
security.
Data Quality Services
• Discover
• Build
• Cleanse
• Business Knowledge Driven
• Business User Driven
• Computer Assisted and
• Interactively Assisted
• Cloud-based Reference Data

32. What is a Data Warehouse?
• Is it a Dying concept!?
• NOT A JUNK DRAWER!
• Used for reporting
• Offloads report processing from transactional system
• Can utilize data from an MDM solution
• Specially modeled to support reporting
• Foster user access with comprehensive role-based security.

34. Now What?

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