q & a session. 2 bi certification planning towards a bi solution best practices for bi solution
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Q & A Session
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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