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Page 1: Q & A Session. 2 BI Certification Planning towards a BI solution Best Practices for BI solution

Q & A Session

Page 2: Q & A Session. 2 BI Certification Planning towards a BI solution Best Practices for BI solution

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Q & A Session

• BI Certification

• Planning towards a BI solution

• Best Practices for BI solution

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BI Certification

• Industry independent BI Certification:– Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP)– http://www.tdwi.org/Certification/CBIP/index.aspx

• SAS Specific Certification:– Link: http://support.sas.com/certify/creds/

• Partner-Specific– SAS 9 Enterprise Business Intelligence Installation Certification– SAS 9 Enterprise Data Integration Installation Certification

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Planning Towards BI Solution & BI Best Practices

• Involves 3 components:– 1) Planning Process– 2) Technical Infrastructure– 3) Maintenance of Environment

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Planning Process

Charting a Smooth Course to BI Implementation

By Dr Claudia Imhoff– http://www.sas.com/apps/whitepaper/index.jsp?cid=3529

• Key Points:– Know what you have– Decide what you want to do– Maintain resource integrity– Keep the goal in mind– Make better decisions

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Technology

The SAS® Enterprise Intelligence Platform: SAS® Business Intelligence

http://www.sas.com/apps/whitepaper/index.jsp?cid=3596

• Key Challenges to delivering business intelligence– turn around time to investigate business questions is getting less– Disparate data sources and systems– Initial reaction is to provide a single business intelligence tool– Multiple independent information chains

• Outlines how the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform can integrate individual technology within the existing infrastructure into a single unified system.

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Maintenance

• Business Intelligence Competency Center:

Creating a successful business intelligence strategy with SAS ®

http://www.sas.com/apps/whitepaper/index.jsp?cid=3548

– BICC will continuously evaluate the BI system and make necessary modifications to ensure the business goals and objectives are being met

• Maximizing Technology and Resource Investment with a BI Competency Center– https://support.sas.com/edu/schedules.html?ctry=us&id=42

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Conclusion

• Plan for the future

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Other Resources

• Best practices for implementing a BI strategy with SAS – SAS Global Forum 2007

• http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2007/245-2007.pdf

• Roles in Business Intelligence – SAS Global Forum 2009

• http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings09/049-2009.pdf