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Making Strategic DecisionsBusiness Requirements for Analytics Projects@joybeatty
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Business Processes
Business Rules
Configuration rules
Data requirements
Integration requirements
Analytics Project ChecklistBig data initiative fundedAnalytics package purchasedPackage installedDone?
Packaged
Software?
Requirements lead to successful analytics solutions
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New customers?
Transform experiences?
Information usage?
Business process
changes?
Business rule changes?
Why are requirements
for analytics solutions
complicated?
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HBR and SAS, 2012
Data drives decisions!
Data is boring
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BUSINESS OBJECTIVES
FEATURES
BUSINESS OBJECTIVES
Prioritizing on Traditional Projects
Prioritizing on Analytics Projects
REQUIREMENTS
DECISIONS
REQUIREMENTS
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Model Decisions
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Sources Storage
Management and Governance
Extraction
Data Lifecycle
How is data created?
How is data transformed?
How does data leave?
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Data Analysis Results!
transformations manipulations calculations
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Identify decisions
Problems or opportunities
Past? Present? Future?
Tool capabilities
Pose “What-if?”
“…There are known unknowns….But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld
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People don’t look at data for fun, they use data to make
decisions
DecisionsPrioritized
RequirementsDesired
Outcomes
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Learn more about requirements for your big data journey!
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http://www.seilevel.com/ba-resources/rml-requirements-visual-models/