Learn how you can go from simple collaboration to social intelligence using the BI solution.

1. Self-Service BI:
From Collaboration to
Social Intelligence

2. Agenda
Can Business Intelligence be Social?
Methodology for implementation
How do you empower business users?
User Scenarios
Live Q & A

3. What do we see in the market today?

4. Speed of making a decision
is becoming incredibly important

5. Traditional BI did not deliver
on its promised value

6. Analytical tools are still too complicated
for business users to use

7. IT & analysts are swamped with requests to
generate reports

8. Data insights get lost
outside of the BI system

10. We live in a Social World

11. Bringing Social to BI
Think and Work Together
Share insights and learn from others
Build the Corporate Intelligence

12. Key requirements for Social BI
• Personalization, individual workspaces
• Desktop integration (email, search, etc)
• Annotations, discussion threads
• White boarding
• Presence awareness
• Chatting, Instant Messaging
• Searching
• Subscribing
• Friending

13. Where do you begin?

14. #1 - Focus on business goals &
business users
Keep the end user in mind from the start
Unite the IT department with less technically
savvy business users
Users should control the flow & content, while IT
group secures the data & subsequent analysis.

15. #2 - Decouple the data collection
from the business analysis
Data Collection
Continuously collect, cleanse and properly
structure data from multiple sources
Keep business users out of the complexities of
the data
Business insight
Let business users define their needs & goals
Increase the velocity of your insight generation
Allow for continuous change & evolution

16. #3 - Work-in your ad-hoc teams
Define your ad-hoc teams
By areas of interest (NOT by org chart)
Add BI experts to these teams
Gradually add teams to the pool of users
More people using the system
collaboratively improve the level of the
suggestiveness

17. #4 - Tie analysis to decision making
processes
Decision makers must have accurate
insights in front of them
Add the insight to decision making
processes
Use the Insight-evolution traceability of
the system to ensure proper
documentation of the decision making

18. #5 - Faster, stronger enterprise
Collaborative decision environment
Cultural transformation
Shift away from the data-centric approach
to the knowledge- and wisdom-centric
method

19. How do you empower business users?

20. Key Requirements for Self-Service BI
• Rich Data Visualization
• Interactivity
• Self-Service Analytics
• Web 2.0 features (wikis, tags, like buttons, etc.)
• Discoverable capabilities (no „right click‟)
• Self-designed dashboards

21. NECTO
DEMONSTRATION

22. Necto End-to-End BI Suite
Intuitive & Interactive for Business Users
Social Automated WorkBoards
Analytics
Intelligence Insights
Reporting KPI’s Visuals Office
(i.e treemaps) Integration
Complete Web-based experience

23. Social Intelligence platform
To build the Corporate Intelligence

24. User Scenarios

25. Empowering field organizations
Challenge
“As a VP Sales, most of my team are
remote and in the field, I need them to have
tools for discovery and collaboration
between themselves and HQ.”
Solution
• Collaborative decision making platform to
find the right insight and people quickly
Benefits
• Increased customer satisfaction
James Madden – • Increased revenue per customer
VP Sales • Decreased idle time and operational
costs

26. Empowering Sales & Operations planning
Challenge
“As a VP Operation, my task is to synchronize the
key stakeholders in the sales and operation
planning process, ensuring an efficient supply
chain and delivery .”
Solution
• Social intelligence helps us align the relevant
members & engage in cross functional
discussions
Benefits
• Efficient supply chain process
Garry Jones – • On time delivery according to plan
VP Ops • Learning from past mistakes, improving our
process after each collaborative meeting

27. Empowering Ad-hoc project teams
Challenge
“We are tasked to deal with a key integration
project, consolidating data from the enterprise,
analyzing it and making decisions on the best
path forward.”
Solution
• We sit in different offices, homes, and different
time zones, social intelligence increased our
productivity.
Benefits
• We successfully used the power of collective
Gail Sanders – Team Leader
Ben Spencer – Team Member intelligence to make better decisions.
Julie Cohen – Team member • All the data, context and process is kept in the
Sandy Gibson – Team member
system helping the enterprise grow it‟s
corporate intelligence.

28. Empowering Management teams
Challenge
“As a CEO, I ensure the company execute out
strategy according to our plans. I need to
measure our progress and align our resources
to deal with market conditions.”
Solution
• Measure the company‟s performance and
find areas that need more attention.
• Via social intelligence I can point to specific
data and ask for further investigation by the
relevant team members.
Benefits
Jack Mead – CEO • All the executives are aligned.
• Productivity is higher, as measurement,
analysis and collaboration is done in one
place.
• We execute better according to our strategy.

29. Welcome to the next Generation of BI

30. Over 1,500 customers worldwide
Financial Services Manufacturing Healthcare Retail & Distribution Telecom, Media &
Entertainment

31. Gartner
“Customers ranked Panorama in the
top third of vendors for OLAP and
dashboard capabilities, with a higher
proportion of users using the product
for ad hoc analysis (29%) than other
users of products/vendors featured
within this year's Magic Quadrant.”
http://www.scribd.com/doc/48815541/Gartner-BI-MQ-2011

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