Seminar at Software University
Bulgaria, Sofia
13th October 2015
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Speakers
Stanislava Tropcheva
Ani Vasileva
in/tropcheva Blog: tropcheva.com
BI Consultant in Adastra Bulgaria
10 + years in IT
6 years in BI
BI technologies: OBIEE, SAP Business Objects, MS SQL Server BI
Databases: Oracle, Netezza, DB2, MS SQL Server
BI Developer in Adastra Bulgaria
3+ years in IT and BI
BI technologies: Tableau, QlikView, MicroStrategy
Databases: MS SQL Server , Oracle, MySQL
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Our Objectives … or what we’ll give you
To touch to the surface of BI
To understand why BI is so helpful
To try yourself
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Agenda
Business Intelligence (BI) Overview and Discussion
Data Visualization
BI Architecture
Demo – BI and Decisions Making: GA, Tableau
Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI & Analytics Platforms
Try it yourself
Crossword Game
Are you a Business Intelligence Hound?
Q&A
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Hans Rosling: The River of Myths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYpX4l2UeZg
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What is BI after Hans Rosling?
“Ohhh, it’s cool, isn’t it?”
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BI is not an oxymoron!
Found missing
Clearly misunderstood
Business Intelligence
Same difference
Terribly pleased
Pretty ugly
Random order
New Tradition
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HOWARD DRESNER, Gartner Group - coined the phrase 'Business Intelligence‘, 1992
Technology Rain
Decisions,
based on facts
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“I have to make a decision …”
What is Business Intelligence
Which is The key?
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“I have to make a decision …”
What is Business Intelligence
Intuition … !?
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“I have to make a decision …”
What is Business Intelligence
Reality Facts & Numbers
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Similarities between Pilot cabin & BI …
Data exists ,
but … needs
Information
Visualization
transforms
data into
Information
Information
becomes
Knowledge
Knowledge
powers
Decisions
… and again
Data
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“I have to make a decision …”
What is Business Intelligence
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it…”
Peter Drucker
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Where BI is applicable
… and …
Why it is so important?
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Everywhere … It Surrounds us
Healthcare
Pharmaceutical
Government
Education & Research
Retail
Transportation & Travel
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
Banking & Finance
Energy
Information & Technology
Media & Entertainment
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Discover Business Intelligence systems
Business Question:
CEO says: “We need to increase our sales”
Marketing Manager says: “In order to do that I need an information about
the most sold products. Who can provide us with this information… because
we have it on our servers, don’t we?”
IT Manager says: “Yes, the data is there … BUT … it is not in the right
structure so that to have the answer immediately ….I need between 20-30
days to extract this information from the data”
Data ≠ Information
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What stays behind BI?
Data Warehouse
“digital” warehouse, storing all of the company’s information
(daily + historical)
Consolidate the information in one centralized place
Used for reporting & data analysis, so that to detect changes and
tendencies
Based on dimensional modeling (Facts & Dimensions)
Allow easy and fast access to company’s information
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What stays behind BI?
Extract Transform Load
… by ETL processes:
Extract the data from OLTP systems
Transform it
Load it into the Data Warehouse
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Questions from the Public
Кои инструменти са безплатни за персонални цели?
(Translated: “Which tools are free for Personal Purposes?”)
Which tools do you use most often say SQL, data mining
software, statistical software other.
What is the most suitable background for such a career?
What is the difference between BI , data science and data
mining?
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Questions from the Public that we haven’t time
to answer
Какви са тенденциите за развитието на BI
(Translated: “What are the trends in the BI development?”)
What about NoSQL (i.e. graph databases) ? Is it used in
business?