Uneak White's Personal Brand Exploration Presentation
7 THINGS you should demand from your BI(Business intelligent ) solution
1. APP
APP
How can you make sure you’re getting the whole story that lives
within your data? With Qlik®
—and its unique associative engine, which
empowers you to answer your company’s most important questions
across every aspect of your business. qlik.com/whole-story
Pull from ONE—OR
SOME—of your data sources.
When you can’t integrate all your
data sources, your miss out on
important connections and insights.
1DEMAND
TOTAL DATA DISCOVERY
Query data based on
PREDEFINED CONNECTIONS.
Tools use a hierarchical model that force
your questioning down a predefined path.
As a result, you get part of the story.
Emphasis on “part.”
Freely probe ALL POSSIBLE
CONNECTIONS in all your data.
The right platform allows you to see how
all your data relates to all your other data
with an associative model. You can freely
explore all possible associations and even
answer questions you didn’t know to ask.
2DEMAND
THE WHOLE STORY
Users DEBATE the data.
Tools allow users to freely make
unrestricted changes to data, definitions,
and results. Without governance, you end
up with unreliable dashboards—wasting
time and squandering your investment.
Users DISCUSS the decisions.
A platform empowers users to make
changes to data and explore new areas of
inquiry while working within a centralized,
governed framework. When everyone
trusts the data, they can focus on
decision-making instead of data debates.
3DEMAND
CONFIDENCE
Users learn new
skills for EVERY new tool.
When you’re dealing with a cobbled-together
set of tools, users have to learn an entire
suite of skills. That creates a high probability
of error and slows your time-to-insight.
There’s a SINGLE
skill set to learn.
With an end-to-end platform, users learn
a single set of skills for all their analytic
needs—across the entire business.
You can even leverage pre-built starter
applications to simplify development and
get users up and running quickly.
4DEMAND
EFFICIENCY
Run your apps THEIR way.
Tools require that your apps reside either
on-premises or in the cloud—not both—and
you have limited access.
Run your apps YOUR way.
Run your apps in the cloud, on premises,
or both. Access them on desktop, on
mobile, or both. With a platform, you’re
in control.
5DEMAND
FLEXIBILITY
You can hit a capacity WALL.
As users make more queries to underlying
databases from their web and mobile apps,
performance can come crashing to a halt.
You can HANDLE the most
demanding environments.
With a robust platform, in-memory
processing keeps performance
humming along. So as users become
increasingly more active, your platform
provides the answers they need, at the
speed they expect.
6DEMAND
PERFORMANCE
You can meet the needs
you have TODAY.
Tools can work for what you need right now.
As for tomorrow—you’re on your own.
You’re already READY
for the next big thing.
A platform allows you to extend analytics
to areas beyond traditional reporting.
Create custom apps, integrate with
external applications and data sources,
and more. Take advantage of a solution
that grows with you.
7
DEMAND
EXTENSIBILITY
VS
42% of business professionals need to make
data-driven decisions within one day.5
Cloud-based Business Intelligence (BI) is projected
to grow from $.75B in 2013 to $2.94B in 2018.6
88% of all spreadsheets have “significant”
errors in them.3
Tools show you your data in visual form—and that’s where they stop.
So if you’re probing for the deep insights that drive meaningful business change, you’re out of luck.
Only an end-to-end platform can provide the depth you need to truly explore your data and uncover
the whole story that lives there. It’s time to demand more from your BI solution—much more.
7 THINGS
YOU SHOULD DEMAND FROM YOUR BI SOLUTION
$.75B
$2.9B
PLATFORMTOOL
APP OR
Combine, analyze, and
associate data from ALL
your sources.
Integrate from databases, spreadsheets,
websites, custom sources, and
third-party data. With a platform, you
can be sure that everything is in the mix.
44% of business and organizational leaders
say siloed data is the top obstacle to confident
decision-making.1
Only 40% of structured, 31% of unstructured,
and 27% of semistructured enterprise data is leveraged for
business intelligence and quantitative decision-making.2
On average, IT professionals interact with about
~3.5 BI/Analytics tools, while those in a different
line-of-business function encounter ~2.6 tools.4
APP APP OR ORAPP
1
Source: “Learning from the New Breed of Confident Decision-Makers.” Harvard Business Review, 2014.
2
Source: “The Forrester Wave™
: Agile Business Intelligence Platforms.” Forrester Research, Inc., 25 September 2015.
3
Source: Panko, Raymond R. “What We Don’t Know About Spreadsheet Errors Today: The Facts, Why We Don’t Believe Them, and What We Need to Do.” 9 July 2015.
4
Source: “How Many Tools Do You Use?” Blue Hill Research, December 2015.
5
Source: White, David. “Agile BI: Complementing Traditional BI to Address the Shrinking Decision-Window.” Aberdeen Research, November 2011.
6
Source: “Sector Report: Business Intelligence.” Redwood Capital, April 2014.