At the Tipping Point: Considerations for Cloud BI in a Multi-platform BI Enterprise

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At the Tipping Point: Considerations for Cloud BI in a Multi-platform Enterprise

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This Month: CLOUD

April: BIG DATA

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Big Data


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Analyst: Wayne Eckerson

Wayne Eckerson has been a thought leader in the business intelligence and analytics field since the early 1990s. He is a sought-after consultant, noted speaker and bestselling author who thinks critically, writes clearly and presents persuasively about complex topics. Eckerson is president of Eckerson Group, LLC (www.eckerson.com), a business-technology consulting firm that helps business leaders use data and technology to drive better insights and actions.


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Birst

! Birst offers a SaaS-based, multi-tenant BI platform; it can also be deployed on-premise

!   The Birst solution is capable of unifying siloed technologies, automating data management and providing agile enterprise-class BI and analytics

! Birst’s approach enables self-service analytics by allowing business users to manage and add new data sources, create custom dashboards and collaborate across the organization


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Guest: Brad Peters

Brad Peters is the CEO and co-founder of Birst. Brad has spent the last 10 years building analytics products and solutions. Prior to working at Birst, he helped found and later led the Analytics product line at Siebel Systems, which forms the basis of Oracle’s current OBIEE product family. Brad started his career as an investment banker for Morgan Stanley in the New York M&A practice. Brad regularly blogs for Forbes.com where he writes about Cloud and business software related issues.

Enterprise-caliber Cloud BI

CLOUD BI AT THE TIPPING POINT

March 2014

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ANALYTICS NEEDS VARY

Financial Analyst

I want to track performance in specially designed dashboard

Product Manager Can I ask some ad-hoc “business” questions – without

touching the dirty data?

Why do we spend so much time arguing over who has

the “right” number? Sales Ops

Manager

VP of Operations

Distribute a report looking exactly this way every morning to thousand of

clients

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Pixel Perfect Enterprise Reporting

GLUT OF BI Distributed Interactive Dashboards

Visual Data Discovery and Exploration Predictive Analytics

Rich Analytic Design Studio Mobile Analytics

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YET…NEEDS STILL NOT MET

Extract Business Context Visualize

0

50

100

North

South

West

East

Top priority

Lower priority


0

50

100

North

South

West

East


0

50

100

North

South

West

East

10-15 FTE

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BI ARCHITECTURE CHALLENGES •  The “back-end”

•  The “front-end”

Speed of business

Data governance

IT asset strategy

Different end-user consumption models

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Pixel Perfect Enterprise Reporting

MEETING DIFFERENT DATA CONSUMPTION NEEDS

Distributed Interactive Dashboards

Visual Data Discovery and Exploration Predictive Analytics

Rich Analytic Design Studio Mobile Analytics

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Automated Data

Management

Automated Historical & AnalyBc Data

Store

Logical Layer

Smart AnalyBc Engine

Enterprise Reporting

ENTERPRISE CALIBER CLOUD BI "ONE LOGICAL MODEL IN ONE LOGIN

Interactive Dashboards

Visual Discovery

Design Studio

Mobile Analytics

Predictive Analytics

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Automated Data

Management

Automated Historical & AnalyBc Data

Store

Logical Layer

Smart AnalyBc Engine

Enterprise Reporting

AGILITY WITH GOVERNANCE "LOW-RISK LOW-MAINTENANCE CLOUD DEPLOYMENT

Interactive Dashboards

Visual Discovery

Design Studio

Mobile Analytics

Predictive Analytics

Top priority

Lower priority

10-15 FTE

1- 2 FTE

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WHO IS BIRST

•  Enterprise-Caliber BI Platform – born in the cloud

•  10,000+ organizations rely on Birst across all verticals

•  Founded by Siebel Analytics veterans

•  80+ Strategic Partners

“ No. 1 in product functionality and customer (that is, product quality, no problems with software, support) and

sales experience.”

2014 Challenger


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Perceptions & Questions

Analyst: Wayne Eckerson

© Eckerson Group LLC

Are you currently using the cloud for any components in your BI program?

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28%

67%

5%

36%

63%

1%

Yes

No

Not sure

2013 2011


Which type of cloud infrastructure do you use to support your BI ini9a9ve?

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44%

27%

29%

53%

18%

30%

Public cloud (i.e. externally managed, vendor owned)

Private cloud (i.e. internally managed, customer owned)

Hybrid (i.e. a mix of both above)

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What Cloud services are you currently using for BI?

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64%

51%

43%

61%

36%

33%

SoYware as a service (i.e. deliver reports and dashboards)

Infrastructure as a service (i.e. provision servers for BI)

Pla\orm as a service (i.e. build data marts and reports)

2013 2011


What Cloud services are you currently using for BI?

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46%

35%

37%

28%

26%

27%

26%

38%

37%

Small

Medium

Large

SaaS PaaS IaaS

Company Size Small = <$100M Medium = $100M-‐$1B Large = $1B=


Are you planning to increase or decrease your use of the Cloud for BI in the next 12 months?

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75%

0%

12%

13%

65%

3%

16%

16%

Increase

Decrease

Stay the same

Not sure

2013 2011


Which of your BI architectural components run in the Cloud?

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64%

56%

55%

47%

38%

31%

27%

27%

25%

20%

Reports/dashboards

BI servers

BI tools

Data warehouse

ETL

Data mart

Metadata

Data mining

Data quality/profiling

Data exploraBon


What are the primary USE CASES for cloud BI in your organiza9on?

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63.6% 59.7%

53.2%

31.2%

20.8%

Report consumption

Ad hoc analysis and exploration

Report creation

Prototyping Peak load processing

What are the primary USE CASES for cloud BI in your organization?


To what degree do the following types of users use the Cloud in your organiza9on?

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46%

19%

22%

21%

42%

22%

28%

27%

35%

Power users

Casual users

Customers/suppliers

High Moderate Low


•  How long on average does it take a customer to set up a logical layer and create a library of its KPIs?

•  Who typically performs this work? •  Birst has automated the data warehouse and integraBon process.

How exactly does that work and what does a customer need to do to ensure the automaBon works? How much setup is involved?

•  How does Birst balance custom data models and applicaBons versus standard mulB tenant applicaBons, which are the hallmark of most cloud-‐based applicaBons?

•  There are new BI vendors offering a full BI stack in the cloud at a fracBon of the price of most current BI tools (i.e., RedRock BI offers $2,500 monthly subscripBon for 2TB and 5 users with ETL, etc.). As BI products (ETL, DBMS, BI) can increasingly be provisioned in the cloud and someBmes purchased on an hourly basis, how will that affect market dynamics and compeBBon among BI players?

Ques9ons

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