microsoft sql server - bi consolidation presentation
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BI ConsolidationName
TitleGroup/Company
Common Situations…
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Departments choosing best in class solutions for their specific
needs
Lack of coordinated BI strategy across the enterprise
Acquisitions of companies using different BI tools
…lead to common business challenges
3-5 BI solutions in use in your company?
IT developing, deploying and maintaining multiple, disconnected tools?
IT and users growing skills in several BI technologies?
Discrepancies in numbers coming from different reporting tools?
Debates about which data metrics to use across multiple tools?
No single, consolidated view of information?
Need to reduce BI overhead?
Need to simplify training time and costs?
Need to find opportunities to reduce overall TCO?
“Office SharePoint Server 2007 BI tools are faster to learn and use than our other tools…. We can enable more people to take advantage of BI due to the familiar interface.”
Rebecca Wilson, Project Leader, Productivity Management Group, Tyson Foods
Case Study – Tyson Foods
Company profile:The second-largest food production company in the Fortune 500 and a member of the S&P 500. The company employs 104,000 employees at more than 300 facilities around the world.
Business Challenge Solution Benefits
Implemented a portal solution that delivers accurate, timely data in proper context to facilitate better decision making. The portal provides a Microsoft BI solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, SQL Server, and Office Excel.
• Improved collaboration
• Better business insight
• Improved organizational efficiency
• Powerful solutions with less development
• Reduced costs with collaboration and BI
• Creating complex reports from SAP data
• Simplifying report management and distribution
Fast Facts
Total number of documents searched using Enterprise Search
250,000
“We can evaluate product mixes for our most important customers and know immediately whether a marketing campaign is successful. Our sales team tracks month-to-date trends and opportunities. Vending looks at machine throughput, while operational teams view performance to forecast for manufacturing. We’re taking advantage of our Microsoft solution to make better decisions in nearly every part of the business..” - Chris Witzgall, Vice President of IT, G&J Pepsi-Cola
Bottlers
Case Study – G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers
Company profile:A leading bottler and distributor of Pepsi and other beverages throughout Kentucky and Ohio. Operating four manufacturing and 13 distribution facilities, the company is one of the largest Pepsi bottlers in the U.S.
Business Challenge Solution Benefits
Adopted a Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) solution based on Microsoft SQL Server®, Office SharePoint® Server, and Office PerformancePoint™ Server.
• Rapid insight intobusiness performance
• Improved business agility
• Faster access to critical sales figures
Fast Facts
Number of fields accessed from Master Customer Data file
50
Time taken to generate month-end data 24 hours
• Getting timely access to enterprise-wide data and moving beyond a solution based on Microsoft® Office Access to consolidate this data for up-to-date reporting
• Consolidating data from five disparate servers to a central data warehouse
Why Consider Consolidation
“In a recent study, close to 80% of companies polled said they use three of more business intelligence (BI) products. Just under half said they use between three and five BI products.”
Forrester Research
Key Considerations
More BI vendors offering comprehensive suites
Upfront investment in licenses and migration costs may be more easily justified
Improved consistency of information and analysis lead to better, more accurate decisions
• Comprehensive and integrated BI and performance management offering
• Agile products that adapt to how you use information
• Built on a trusted IT backbone
Microsoft Business Intelligence Vision
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Improving organizations by providing business insights to all employees leading to better, faster, more relevant decisions
Microsoft Business IntelligenceGet the most out of the products you know
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Business Collaboration Platform
Data Infrastructure & BI Platform
Business User Experience
Data Infrastructure and BI PlatformAnalysis ServicesReporting ServicesIntegration ServicesMaster Data ServicesData MiningData Warehousing
Business Collaboration PlatformDashboards & ScorecardsExcel ServicesWeb based forms & workflowCollaborationSearchContent ManagementLOB data integration
Familiar User Experience Self-Service access & insightData exploration & analysisPredictive analysisData visualizationContextual visualization
Empower Your People
Enable IT Efficiency
Improve Organizational Effectiveness
Enabling You to…
• Cut cost and complexity by leveraging existing IT investments
• Scale-out to support BI for all users at a lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Increase productivity with familiar and intuitive development and management tools
• Increase team and organizational productivity through dashboards
• Improve visibility into key team and organizational objectives and metrics
• Increase business user efficiency with an integrated collaborative platform
• Increase individual productivity through familiar and intuitive tools
• Enable your end users to create their own BI solutions
• Improve end-user sharing and discovery of insights
Empowering the End User Introducing PowerPivot for Excel
• Enable users to perform self-service analysis and intuitively build their own BI solutions
• Allow users to interactively explore and perform calculations on large data sets
• Integrate data from multiple sources
• Minimize dependence on IT support
Powerful Personal Analysis Tools Drive personal productivity and insight
Improved formatting and charts
Easier navigation with Slicers
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PowerPivot for Excel PowerPivot for SharePoint
Self-service AnalyticsIntroducing PowerPivot
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Self-service ReportingEmpower end users to author reports
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Report Builder 3.0 • Familiar Microsoft Office
interface• Intuitive report wizards and
reusable report components• Powerful query designer• Flexible layout options with
rich visualizations• Can support all data sources,
including SharePoint list or PowerPivot
Rich Visualizations Deliver more insight with geospatial mapping of BI data
• Mapping, routing, andcustom shapes
• Integration with Bing Maps
• Visualize data within a single cell
• Dynamically segment and filter data
• Display data using interactive and dynamic PivotChart
Maps Sparklines and
Databars
Graphs
Choose the right graphic to illuminate answers and trends
Improving Organizational Effectiveness Supporting business collaboration across the enterprise
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Find people, expertise and information
Capture and use business information
Enable alignment, transparency and accountability
Collaborate anytime, anywhere
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Share Insights Get a common view of organizational performance
Publish and share rich workbooks to SharePoint
Get access to unlimited data secured in SharePoint with PowerPivot
Refresh workbook data manually or automatically
Get the same rich fidelity with a Web browser, including Ribbon and Excel functions
“What we like about the 2007 Microsoft Office system products is the deep integration of desktop programs with back-end data.”
- Randy Benz, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Energizer Holdings
Case Study – Energizer Holdings
Company profile:A leading manufacturer of batteries, flashlights, and wet-shave products. The global company has made a significant investment in Microsoft Office software for its 6,800 knowledge workers, who also use dozens of specialized line-of-business (LOB) applications to do their jobs.
Business Challenge Solution Benefits
Deployed the 2007 Microsoft Office system to 6,800 knowledge workers to take advantage of SQL Server, Microsoft Office, and SharePoint.
• Ability to self-service information needs
• More strategic use of IT staff
• Enhanced user productivity
• Enabling employees to have easy access to LOB data from their desktop productivity applications
• Improving productivity in everyday tasks
Fast Facts
Number of knowledge workers using Microsoft Office Solution 6,800
Discuss and EngageEnable team interaction with social media tools
Discuss and share insights with a rich blogging experience
Locate useful information with content rating and navigation with tag clouds
Relevant SearchFind structured and unstructured data
Find reports, workbooks, and people seamlessly with relevance
Refine and filter to get what you want the first time
Increase visibility into key team and organizational
objectives with dashboards
Display business data in context
Enable continuous analysis and iterative
decision making with new chart types
See interdependencies with strategy maps
Increase Organizational VisibilityTrack key metrics
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Centralized Visibility
Report and datausage
ApplicationPerformance
Database performance and
utilization
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High Performance
and Scalability
High scale datawarehouse
High scale analytics and reporting
Application andmulti-servermanagement
Integration and
InteroperabilityRich data
connectivity
Enterprise dataintegration
Data alignment across multiple
systems
Administrative Consistency
Increase IT EfficiencyAdministrative consistency expedites BI uptake
Reduce Cost and ComplexityConsolidate disparate product investments
Master Data Data Warehouse
Analysis
Data Mining
ETL
Collaboration
Portal
Search
Enterprise Content Management
Scorecards and Dashboards
Reporting
Data Quality
New features: Query Optimizations, Resource Governance, Enhanced
Partitioning Performance
Improve ScalabilityScale-out to support BI for all users at a lower TCO
Enable Administration EfficiencyEasily manage the self-service environment
Provide user-driven application administration and monitoring
Simplify management of BI content using the PowerPivot Management
Dashboard
Manage and facilitate access to secure organizational data
Enable IT EfficiencyFamiliar and intuitive development and management tools
Productivity Enhancing Designers
Integrated Development Environment
Dix IncDixie Dixie(Salem)
Dixie Inc Aut_Dixie
HR DocAsset Mgmt
Purchasing DB
Master Data Stewardship
Matching
Versioning
Workflow
Role- Based Security
Hierarchy Mgmt
Business Rules
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Integration and InteroperabilityMaster Data Services (MDS) aligns data within and across systems
•Align to a single, authoritative source• Integrate information with people and systems• Includes central storage and services•Features to support stewardship and integration
Microsoft Leads in BI
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted January 29, 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
The Magic Quadrant graphic was published by Gartner, Inc., as part of a larger research note and should be evaluated in the context of the entire report. The Gartner report is available upon request from Microsoft.
“Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms”, 29 January 2010 Rita L. Sallam, Bill Hostmann, James Richardson, Andreas Bitterer
Case Study – Clalit Health Services
Company profile:The second largest health maintenance organization (HMO) in the world. Clalit Health Services serves more than 3.8 million people, and supports 70 million customer interactions per year.
Business Challenge Solution Benefits
Upgraded the BI data warehouse to SQL Server 2008 Enterprise (64-bit) to take advantage of SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services and SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services—without upgrading their hardware infrastructure.
• Valued decision support
• Enhanced query performance
• Support for spatial data
• Performance protection with
Resource Governor
• Maximizing value from a2.7-terabyte data warehouse
• Taking advantage of SQL Server 2008 features to boost query performance
• Protecting performance by protecting resource allocation
Fast Facts
Total data stored in SQL Server 16 terabytes
Data in enterprise BI data warehouse 2.7 terabytes
Multidimensional data cubes 100
Analysis running ad-hoc queries 400
Users running OLAP queries 5,000
SQL Server data compression rate 50–60%
www.microsoft.com/bi
Committed to Your Success
• Advisory Architecture & Planning
• Highly skilled App Plat consulting
• Enterprise Support for high availability, critical applications
• Proven adoption methodologies to reduce risk and increase velocity
Partners and ISVs• Line of business applications to fit your needs
• Global and local presence
• Trained, certified, and assisted by Microsoft
Training and Readiness• IT Pro communities to share latest trends and innovation
• Online and classroom training
• Certification to ensure quality
Application Assessment Tool• Help you assess your business applications
• Propose technology solution plan to answer your business and IT requirements
www.microsoft.com/applicationplatform
Next Steps
UPGRADE TO SQL SERVER 2008
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