Rob HumphreysSolution Specialist, Application Platform and Business Intelligence

Reducing costs by taking scalable Business Intelligence solutions into the business

Data, Data everywhere….

80% of business is conducted on unstructured data – Gartner2007 – First time data exceeded available storageBy 2011 the digital universe will be 10 times the size it was in 2006. IDC

Nearly half of all enterprises are using three to five different business intelligence analysis and reporting tools. And more than one out of five are running six or more. Forrester

Friend or Foe?

Which become

Which eventually become

Inefficiencies of Business Intelligence

ExistingApplications

SQL ServerWindows

OracleSolaris

SQL ServerWindows

Oracle DBUnix

DB2Z/OS

Other Partners &Customers

ERP Finance Inventory CRM Operations

Data Warehouse Staging DataOperational

Data StoresData Marts

Dashboards Analytics Data

MiningReporting Scorecards

Semantic Layer

Semantic Layer

Semantic Layer

Semantic Layer

Data Quality / Master Data

BI Platform

Results

BI = Too Complex

BI = Too ExpensiveBI = Too hard to use

So users end up…

BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY INFRASTRUCTURE

BUSINESS USER EXPERIENCE

DATA INFRASTRUCTURE & BI PLATFORM

Microsoft Business Intelligence Offering

SQL Server is the fastest growing DBMS OLTP and Data Warehouse Benchmark Leader Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data

Warehousing SQL Server is the #1 OLAP Server

SQL Server 2008A comprehensive BI platform

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Integrate Store

Report Analyze

Microsoft SharePointQuickly and easily create and deliver rich, interactive reports

Create interactive dashboards and scorecards to quickly understand if your organization is on target to reach your business objectives

Dashboards and

scorecards

The Report Center site provides a central location for business-intelligence-related information. It contains special document libraries for storing reports, lists, and connections to external data sources

Report Center

Excel Services enables you to store an Excel workbook on a server and then publish any part of that workbook on a Web page. Users need only a browser to view and interact with the live data.

Excel Services

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Microsoft Office Excel 2007Quickly and easily create and deliver rich, interactive reports

By using Office Excel 2007 and Excel Services to create reports, you can navigate, sort, filter, input parameters, and interact with PivotTable views directly on a Web browser

Create and share

reports

By harnessing the data mining algorithms of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services, business users can quickly gain valuable insight into complex sets of data with just a few mouse clicks.

Analyze and share

information

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) is a technology that can enable you to organize large business databases and to support detailed business intelligence

Leverage OLAP

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Hundreds of Customer Examples

BarclaycardLloyds Banking GroupUnileverCoca ColaPfizerNHS

http://www.microsoft.com/bi/evidence/case-studies.aspx

Imminent Future

SQL 2008r2 and Office 2010

PowerPivot

Master Data

Services

Parallel Data

Warehouse

Introducing PowerPivot PowerPivot add-in

for Excel PowerPivot add-in

for SharePoint

Next Steps

You already own it! - Switch it onLook for low hanging opportunitiesEngage with Microsoft and Partners for 4-6 week engagementDeliver usable solutions out into the business

Learn more about Microsoft’s BI solutions at:

www.microsoft.com/bi

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