The following presentation outlines an introduction to what is Business Intelligence and how it can help your business improve its efficiency.

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LITEBI Summer School
Introduction to Business Intelligence
19th of July 2012

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Introduction to Business Intelligence
Speaker
Javier Giménez Aznar – Business Development Manager of LITEBI

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Content
I ¿What is Business Intelligence?
II Business Intelligence Demonstration
III Pre-BI scenarios
IV Some Best practices
V Conclusions

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I – What is Business Intelligence?

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Why Business Intelligence?
The world is growing more and more complex
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure”
Information is power
¿What happens with IT?
Business Intelligence Definition

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What is Business Intelligence?
Business Intelligence or BI, software tools that allow organizations to turn the available
data into useful information for decision-making
ERP
CRM
BI
Other Sources

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History of Business Intelligence
80s: DSS, EIS
90s: OLAP, Datawarehouse
00s: Suites and popularization
Near Furute: Data everywhere

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What does Business Intelligence for the Business?
Save time and money on manual and ad-hoc reporting
Improve business control, detect trends, opportunities or problems on time.
Take better decisions with updated, visual, interactive and quality information.
Information you can trust for every need, integrated and from any source.
Work as a team, allowing information to get to the right person at the right time.

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Business Intelligence use cases
“Avoiding manual development of reports, allowing people to invest time in more value-added
tasks”
“Offering the manager of the company a visual, integrated and clear representations of the key
aspects of the business, to help make better tactic and strategic decisions”.
“Automate email report bursting (PDF, Excel, etc.) to sales employees with their metrics, evolution
and goals”
“Integrate information from to different areas of the business (ie. Sales and Production) to analyze
margins, profitability, productivity or some other complex aspects of the business that require
several sets information to work together”

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Traditional BI Architecture

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Some key definitions
Data Warehouse
Cube and Dimensions
ETL Processes
OLAP Analysis
Dashboards
Balanced Scorecard
Report Bursting

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II Business Intelligence Demonstration
(LITEBI)

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III Pre-BI scenarios

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Time invested in manual reporting
Time
Money
Low value added
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Spreadsheets
IT ad-hoc reporting
ERP reports

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Disperse information

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Not available information
Bad decisions
Misguided goals
Will vs. Reality

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Low quality information
Low quality on the data source
or
Bad BI implementation
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Bad decisions

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Delayed information
Reports take too much time to
deploy
Information is never on time
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Decisions / Actions arrive too
late

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Metric-driven culture
“Right information
Right person
Right time”
(we have to know how to get there)

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IV – BI deployment alternatives

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Deployment alternatives
Traditional Suites
Open Source
In-memory / Excel
Cloud Computing / SaaS (Software as a Service)

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Cloud Architectures

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V – Conclusions

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Conclusions
Business Intelligence is a universal need
There are clear symptoms when a business needs BI
There are already many different alternatives
in the market beyond traditional BI

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¿Questions?

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¡Thank you for your interest!
Speaker Contact:
javier.gimenez@litebi.com