The document discusses best practices for accessing and integrating data from multiple SaaS applications. It notes that the volume of SaaS data is growing rapidly, creating challenges for analyzing and reporting on data from different sources. Common approaches today like shuffling CSV files, building on-premise data warehouses, and data replication are inefficient. The presentation recommends keeping data access in the cloud, maintaining a single source of truth, prioritizing fast time to value, using standards where possible, and adopting cloud data virtualization. Yellowfin and Connection Cloud are presented as tools that can help implement these best practices to better leverage growing volumes of SaaS data.
SaaS data access & integration best practices for Business Intelligence
1. SaaS data access & integration
best practices for BI
Presenters:
Cameron Deed
Senior Consultant, Yellowfin
Murray Dunn
Vice President, The Connection Cloud
2. Today’s agenda
• The adoption of SaaS and volume of SaaS data is
rapidly increasing…
• What are the challenges this creates for business?
• Why are we challenged with Access to SaaS data?
• How can we better address these challenges?
8. Why is the ability to access and
integrate your SaaS data vital?
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13. Traditional challenges when accessing
your SaaS data…
• Crea%ng report and Analyzing data from
• Mul%ple SaaS applica%ons
• Cloud and On‐premise applica%ons
• Snapshots when you need it, real‐%me when you need it
• Extending the capabili%es of SaaS applica%on repor%ng
• FormaBng data including charts and graphs
• Analyzing large datasets (Big Data)
14. So, how do companies solve this
challenge today?
• The .CSV file shuffle
• The Data Warehouse Project
• Data Replica%on
49. Summary
• Your number of SaaS applications, and volume of SaaS data
is growing rapidly - so how are you going to leverage it?
• Access to SaaS-based data presents new challenges
• Best Practices:
• Consider Time-to-Value Delivered as the new measure of
Success
• Keep it in the Cloud
• One Source of the Truth
• Use standards when and where they exist
• Cloud Data Virtualization is the Cloud Data Approach
• Yellowfin and Connection Cloud Deliver the Ultimate Time-To-
Value solution
50. More informationYear
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Yellowfin
www.yellowfinbi.com
Connection Cloud
www.connectioncloud.com @YellowfinBI
@ConnectionCloud
Feedback & Questions
cameron.deed@yellowfin.com.au
murray.dunn@elasticintelligence.com
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