From business intelligence to decision making

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From Business Intelligence to Decision Making 24/11/2014 Andrea Masiero Senior Pre-Sales Consultant BOARD International BI Symposium, Bussum

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In a global economy, traditional competitive factors are losing their importance: it is the decision-making processes that move the needle. Winning companies are those that make the best decisions and implement them in the shortest timeframes, by aligning strategy with operations and providing relevant and timely information to every organizational level. Attendees to the conference will learn: • How new Business Analytics solutions can blur the boundaries between BI and CPM, supporting end-to-end decision making processes and streamlining integration of operational and financial perspective across the organization • Why it’s time to move beyond pure data visualization and analysis, to make the difference into decision-making processes • What is the added value of Predictive Analytics when made easily accessible to business users and integrated in a unified analysis, simulation and planning environment

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From Business Intelligence

to Decision Making

24/11/2014

Andrea Masiero

Senior Pre-Sales Consultant

BOARD International

BI Symposium, Bussum

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2500+ customers

100+ partners

+30% growth in 2013

9th year in a row of two-digit growth

International

Software Vendor

Headquartered

in Switzerland

Founded in 1994

Exclusively

focused on

BOARD

BOARD International

at a Glance

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Dashboarding

Profitability

modeling &

optimization

Analysis &

simulation

Data exploration

Strategy

management

Reporting

Financial

Consolidation

BOARD is a

software product

that unifies

Business

Intelligence,

Analytics

and Performance

Management

in a single

integrated

environment

Budgeting,

planning and

forecasting

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From

Business Intelligence

to Decision Making

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1989………. Once upon a time

Decision Support Systems

were called for the first time

«Business Intelligence» systems

«…an umbrella term to describe "concepts and methods to

improve business decision making by using fact-based

support systems.“»

(Howard Dresner)

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24 years later………….

Source: Gartner CIOs Survey 2013

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Decision Making

is still an open issue topic ?

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Information

gathering

Analysis and

diagnosis

Development of

alternatives

Analysis and

selection of

alternatives

Implementation

of chosen

alternative

Performance

Monitoring

Traditional BI

Data Mining

MOLAP (business

modeling, What-if

analysis)

Planning and

Controlling Application

1980 - 2000

2000 - 2013

Data Exploration

Predictive Analytics

Prescriptive Analytics

Performance

Management Suites

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Reporting

Predictive Analytics Profitability

Analysis

Data Mining

Dashboard

Traditional

BI

MOLAP

Performance

Management

Suites

Planning and

Controlling

Application

Data

Exploration

Scorecards

Prescriptive

Analytics

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High Performances Technology

Agile business modeling (toolkit)

Workflow - Collaboration

Unified Metadata / Data Federation

Self Service

Analysis Easy Analytics Simulation

What-if Planning and

Controlling

Reporting

Dashboarding

Scorecards

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Vendor’s fantasy?

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Gartner vision: Business Analytics

Gartner start introducing the concept of Business Analytics as a

convergence of:

• Business Intelligence

• Performance Management

• Analytics

Gartner's Business Analytics Framework

20 September 2011 G00219420

Analyst(s): Neil Chandler | Bill Hostmann | Nigel Rayner | Gareth Herschel

“No vendor today can provide all the needed technologies, applications

and services, despite megavendors' continued expansion through

acquisitions”

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Large Vendors: Stack strategy 1994 2000 2003 2007 2014

ACQUISITION

INTERNAL DEVELOPMENT

ADAYTUM

TM1 APPLIX COGNOS

CLARITY SYSTEMS

SPSS

NETEZZA

COGNOS INSIGHT

Planning

MOLAP and Planning Enterprice Business Intelligence

Performance Management

Analytics

Vertical database

Data Exploration

SRC

CRYSTAL DECISION BUSINESS OBJECT

OUTLOOKSOFT

KXEN

HANA

Planning

Reporting Enterprice Business Intelligence

Performance Management

Analytics

In-memory database

SYBASE

Vertical database

VISUAL INTELLIGENCE / LUMIRA

Data Exploration

PLANNING

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

SIMULATION

DATA FEDERATION

HYBRID IN-MEMORY

DATA EXPLORATION

EASY ANALYTICS

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Effective Decision Making

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Effective Decision Making

Integration of

technically

Different levels of details of the information

ERP and Legacy systems’ interfaces with actuals and

data entry platforms

Shared workflows

Data consistency and interoperability

Rational & Logical

Targeted & Tailored

Consistent & Complete

Interactive & Flexible

functionally

Operational aspects with BI & CPM & Analytics

Tactical & Strategic considerations

Actuals & Planning and forecasting figures

interdependencies

Different offices \ business departments processes and

workflows

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Corporate Planning Sample

replace «silos» XLS based process with centralized and «workflown» Application

highlight measure planning interdependencies

report and dashboard

heads of Departments

heads of Business Unit

Board of Directors +100

+100

WW Company, Dubai HQuartered

Properties Investment, Building, Hospitality, Luxury Shopping Centers

5* Hospitality Division

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Application Flows

REPORTING

DASHBOARD

Business SCENARIOs

HR Planning

FINANCE BUDGET

HISTORICAL DATA ACTUALS

Labour Cost Other Variable

Costs Overhead Cost Revenue

Room Revenue

F&B Revenue

Other Revenue

Sales Cost

FORECAST

(…)

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Example

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Operations Sample

link Operations with Strategic and Tactical Planning plus local Market Policies

improve data quality and data consistency

improve auditing and responsability flows

Country managers

Heads of Business Unit +300

+150

WW Company, Switzerland HQuartered

Hardware Manufactures

Operations Division

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Application Flows

REPORTING

DASHBOARD

BONUSES

PROFITABILITY FORECAST

ACTUALS... ACTUALS...

TACTICAL Discounts NET PRICE ADjs

Default Local

Policies

Quantity Street Price VAT

GM

CHANNELs..

GPM

NEW FORECAST ITEM

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Example

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Predictive Analytics

Easy to use and to configure and to understand

Automatic creation of the statistical model

Half automated – Half configurable

Integrated with

Impacting on Business Processes

Strictly related to aims \ objectives \ utilization context

Data Scientist Advanced (& smart) business user

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All-in-One

Analytics

Business Intelligence

Data Discovery

Performance Mgmt

Toolkit

Visual Modeling

Build and Run

No Code

Self-Service

Drag&Drop Analysis

Personal Environment

Integrated Search

In-Memory

Flexibility

Scalability

Performance

Effective Decision

Making

Time to

Solution

ROI

TCO +

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Visit us at booth n. 2

www.board.com