The Briefing Room with Radiant Advisors and Cisco Live Webcast Jan. 21, 2014 Watch the archive: https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?RCID=05e9d4ccbd2505ce15bc8de699f9c961 Today’s business analyst needs data from all kinds of places: the data warehouse, data marts, web services as well as local and departmental files and spreadsheets. The fact is, even seasoned analysts typically spend more than half their time hunting and gathering data, which impedes analytical insights and limits time to value. Increasingly, innovative organizations are turning to data virtualization as a faster path to analytics, thus expediting business impact. Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear Analysts Lindy Ryan and John O'Brien of Radiant Advisors explain how analytical sandboxes and data virtualization can enable true analytic agility. They will be briefed by Marc Breissinger of Cisco Data Virtualization Business Unit, who will tout his company’s upcoming analytic platform Data Collage, a desktop tool for designed for analysts who need agile access to enterprise data. He will discuss how Data Collage allows users to easily combine data and accelerate the development of new analytics. Visit InsideAnalysis.com for more information.

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2. The Agile Analyst: Solving the Data Problem with Virtualization
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Analytics
You want your analyst
to look like THIS
NOT like THIS

7. Analysts: Lindy Ryan and John O’Brien
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Lindy Ryan is the Research Director for Radiant Advisor’s Data
Discovery and Visualization practice and leads research and analyst
activities in the confluence of data discovery, visualization, and data
science from a business needs perspective. She also retains the role
of Editor in Chief of RediscoveringBI Magazine. As Radiant Advisors’
Editor in Chief for three years, Lindy participated in in-depth
discussions and analysis with industry thought leaders and vendors
while maturing her position and perspectives in the BI industry.
John O’Brien is Principal and CEO of Radiant Advisors. With over 25
years of experience delivering value through data warehousing and BI
programs, John’s unique perspective comes from the combination of
his roles as a practitioner, consultant, and vendor in the BI industry.
His knowledge in designing, building, and growing enterprise BI
systems and teams brings real world insights to each role and phase
within a BI program. Today, through Radiant Advisors John provides
research and advisory services that guide companies in meeting the
demands of next generation information management, architecture,
and emerging technologies.
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Cisco
! Cisco Systems is a known leader in the design,
manufacturing and sales of networking equipment
! Through its acquisition of Composite Software, Cisco is
expanding its footprint in the Data Virtualization space
! Cisco will soon announce Data Collage, a new product
designed to quickly gather and integrate data from
enterprise sources

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Guest: Marc Breissinger
Marc Breissinger joined Cisco Systems during its 2013
acquisition of Composite Software. As Director of
Advanced Services for the Cisco Data Virtualization
Business Unit, he advises Fortune 500 clients on
advanced data virtualization strategies, architectures,
and implementations, having. As CTO of webMethods, he
guided internal and key account technology strategy and
architecture. Marc’s efforts resulted in millions in new
revenue, multiple new products and seven acquisitions.
Prior to webMethods, Marc was a Senior Manager at
Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where he
successfully led over a dozen major projects in
Automotive, Electronics, Chemical and Retail market
clients.

10. Solving the Data Problem with
Virtualization
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11. Find the
Data
Access
the
Data
Build a
Sandbox
for the
Data
Build the
Model
Analyze
the
Results
Develop
the
Business
Insight
Analysts spend more
than half their time
pulling together their
data
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12. Third Party
Data
Analytic Stores
& Sandboxes
Data Warehouses
Transactional &
Operational Stores
& Marts
Enterprise
Applications
SaaS
Applications
“Big” Data
& NoSQL
Personal
& Departmental
§ Data is increasingly distributed and heterogeneous
§ Demand for short lived analytics in increasing
§ It is unrealistic to expect IT to consolidate/generate datasets on
demand
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13. Cisco Collage lets analysts quickly pull together all the data they need
without all the hassle. Unlike traditional sandbox building approaches that
are cumbersome or highly dependent on IT, Cisco Collage brings
elegance and productivity to the task of gathering and staging data.
Analysts now have more time to actually analyze the data within their
favorite front-end analytic tool.
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14. Analytic DI Agility with Self-Service
Power Analytics/Mining Traditional BI Visualization
Capabilities
• Install on your desktop quickly
• Access data from anywhere
• Browse through data efficiently
• Combine data easily
• Transform/enrich data
• Accessible from any analytic app
• Share data with teammates
Benefits
• Spend more time
analyzing data
• Less time gathering data
• Greater overall
productivity
“Big” Data
& NoSQL
Data Warehouses
& Marts
Enterprise
Applications
Transactional &
Operational Stores
Analytic Stores
& Sandboxes
SaaS
Applications
Third Party
Data
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15. How it works
Power Analytics/Mining Traditional BI Visualization
Local Materialization
(Optional)
“Big” Data
& NoSQL
xlsx mdb
csv
MySql
External
Personal Sources Data Collage Application/Service
Data Warehouses
& Marts
Enterprise
Applications
Transactional &
Operational Stores
Analytic Stores
& Sandboxes
SaaS
Applications
Third Party
Data
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16. Increased
Agility
Fits into
the way
you do
things
Collaboration
Self
Service
• Sandboxes can be
shared, changed, and
reused
• IT can easily
incorporate your work
into enterprise systems
• Access the information
you need without delay
• Reduce your
dependence on IT to
create complex data
environments
• Respond quickly to
changing business
needs
• Bring data together
from any data source at
run time
• Sandboxes make your
queries run faster
• No need to learn
another reporting or
analytics tool
• Fits into the full data
analysis life cycle
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17. TOMORROW starts here.
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Perceptions & Questions
Analysts:
Lindy Ryan and
John O’Brien

19. ENABLING THE
AGILE ANALYST
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Lindy Ryan | Research Director, Data Discovery & Visualization
@lindy_ryan lindy.ryan@radiantadvisors.com
John O’Brien | Principal Analyst, Modern Data Platforms
@obrienjw john.obrien@radiantadvisors.com

20. Enabling the Agile Analyst
CHALLENGES IN DATA DISCOVERY
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Business knowledge required
• Business analysts and intuitive tools
• Iterative process to explore and “fail fast”
• Data doesn’t integrate easily or data quality
Data is everywhere
• Data warehouses contain predefined data
• Other operational data
• Personal or local data
• External or big data

21. Enabling the Agile Analyst
THE NEW MODERN ANALYST
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Empowering users with data is to enable data discovery,
and redefining the modern business analysts to do more
More complete self-sufficiency to work
with data in their own way and speed
Not just self-service access to data but
data acquisition, integration and analytics
Reshaping the role of traditional IT to ET:
Enablement Technology
Download Insight Paper: From Self-Service to Self-Sufficiency --- How Discovery is Driving the Business Shift

22. Enabling the Agile Analyst
DATA VIRTUALIZATION IS AGILITY
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Data abstraction and federation is the key to enabling
agility and self-sufficiency in working with data
Reduces the need for support to move
and re-store data for analysis and
exploration
Views represent integrations that are
meta data and easily re-mapped
A technology/tool that specializes in
accessing all forms of data and services

23. Enabling the Agile Analyst
INFORMATION LIFE CYCLES
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Where: consider the migration of data integrations from personal
environments to departmental or enterprise. This still involves
enterprise data virtualization servers.
1
Information lifecycle and governance required to verify
and determine where integrations should reside in the
information architecture as materialized or virtualized
How: consider processes that are self-regulating, such as peer
reviews and collaboration for context and analytics. Work with IT
and BI teams for performance requirements for long-term.
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ANALYST QUESTIONS
1. Is discovery the primary application of Cisco Collage?
2. Is discovery part of the information lifecycle, i.e., are
integrations migrated to enterprise or production?
3. Discuss the relationship with analytic sandboxes.
4. Are data definitions in Collage collaborative? Can users
access other analyst’s data?
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