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Beyond the Enterprise Reporting System
John HowellBusiness Intelligence Manager
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Reminder – why have an ERS?
• Economies of scale, eg security, costs, deployment
• Build a critical mass of skills and experience
• Data quality is easier to manage
• Information governance is less difficult
• Here today, here tomorrow
Better visualisations& story telling
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To make a strategic proposal persuasive requires high-quality visualisations that both arrest and engage decision makers. Novel ways to present insights are necessary to avoid visualisation fatigue
Personalisation
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The time for ‘business as usual’ is continually being squeezed.
More operational information must be delivered to me when I need it and only if relevant to my purposes
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to an enterprise reporting system
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Adding new visualisations
What did we want?
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What did we want?
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Our Capabilities
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Subject matter
expertise
Data
science
Cognos report development
Project
manager
Javascript
Cognos interfacing
Where to find these resources?
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New Sankey diagram added to Cognos
IBM Development, Ontario
D3 javascript weighted tree embedded in Cognos
BrightPoint Consulting, San Diego
How did it work out?
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• International contracts
• Communication
• Cost
• Timelines
• Ongoing flexibility / support
• Visualisation just one part of project
• Quality
an enterprise reporting system
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Personalising
BI maturity model
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Cost Benefit
Do execs like to be told
what to do?Prescriptive
What should I do?
PredictiveWhat will happen?
AnalysisWhy did it happen?
ReportingWhat happened?
Where most of the work is
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Information access maturity
Home-grown search that’s not as good as Google
Wiki, folder structures
I know what I’m looking
for
BI Portal
I’m not sure I know what
I’m after
Role-baseddashboards
PersonalisationException / automation
Information relevant to my role(s)
Information relevant to me
Tell me when I need to know
something
Defining roles
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• What people do their job title
• Many roles are informal
• Some roles are implicit
• Many formal roles aren’t stored in a usable way
• But ldap might help?
Example role analysis
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Personalisation data set
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Username Faculty School Campus Course More…
jhowell B&L Business Waterfront M300
nikanand Health Psychology Burwood H344
mjohnson Health Nursing Waurn Ponds H330
…
Datawarehouse
Adding personalisation
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Create user information data set
Integrate with Cognos
Personalisationcapability
Role Analysis
Personalise existing dashboards
Create new personalised
dashboards for rolesExtend capability
Example personalised dashboard
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Example personalised dashboard
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Defaults to user’s faculty - Health
Can return to University view by unchecking ‘My
Defaults’
Where next?
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Use basic user details from warehouse
Add further details from other sources,
eg ldap
Allow users to edit their preferences
Extends functionality
Allow users to define triggers
Solves issue of poorly defined roles
Enables exception &
‘push’ reporting
Summary
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• Both new visualisations and personalisation can be added to enterprise reporting solutions such as Cognos
• New visualisations are relatively costly, but once integrated they can be re-used
• Personalisation requires:• Deep knowledge of the reporting solution
• Analysing / cleaning / creating data on your user base
• However once done this enables increasing information access maturity
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Questions or comments?
John Howell [email protected] Intelligence ManagerStrategic Intelligence and Planning Unit
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D3 Exampleshttps://github.com/d3/d3/wiki/Gallery
Collision / detection: http://mbostock.github.io/d3/talk/20111018/collision.html
interactive (but useless!)
Collapsible force layout: http://mbostock.github.io/d3/talk/20111116/force-collapsible.html
Interactive, could be useful?
Circular heat chart: http://prcweb.co.uk/circularheatchart/
might be good for cyclical data, e.g. trimester / weeks?
Concept network browser: http://www.findtheconversation.com/concept-map/
Field of education / courses / units?
Sankey diagram: https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/d3-sankey-diagram
Cohort flow through years