PLATFORM OVERVIEW
M A R C H 1 8 TH, 2 0 0 9
CHUCK RUSSELL
SENIOR PARTNER
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE INC.
CRUSSELL@COLLECTIVEINTELLIGENCE.COM
Microsoft Business Intelligence
Improving organizations
by providing business
insights to all employees
leading to better, faster,
more relevant decisions
Analytic
Development
Applications
Tools
and End User
Tools
BI Platform
Content Producers Content Consumers
All Types of Decision Making
Development
Organic Intentional
Self-Service
Personal Easy discovery of data
Simple, intuitive tools
Ad-hoc
Creative and agile
Scope
Performance Management
Consistent corporate definitions, KPIs
Shared
Portal
(SharePoint)
Data Delivery
Report Builder End-user Analysis
SSRS (Excel)
Office SQL
The Microsoft BI Data Delivery Components
SQL Server 2008
Metadata Development
Management Productivity
Impact and Development
Lineage Environment
Analysis from with visual
source debugging
systems to and version
cubes control
Extensible
Enterprise
Architecture
Data
Plug in
Integration
custom
Scalable data
components
integration
written in C#
platform with
or call
parallel
existing
pipeline
business
architecture
logic using
VB.NET
SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
Report Report
authoring management
Visually Manage report
design categorization,
reports & data sources,
layout via security,
the subscriptions
Report via the Report
Designer Manager
Model design
End user Design
report creation semantic
Enable end models that
users to map to real
dynamically business
create their entities via
own Ad-hoc the Model
reports via the Designer
Report Builder
BI Studio & SQL Server Management Studio
Performance
Management
• Integrated with
SharePoint & MS
Office
• Integrates with SQL
Server 2008
• Collaborative
• Analytics - drill
down/up with
visualization
• KPI and Scorecards
• Iterative Monitoring
of Performance
• Provides
Infrastructure for
Enterprise Planning
& Budgeting
What Happened to All those Other Products?
Scorecards
Scorecards
Analytics
Planning
Analytics
Planning
Personal BI
Excel Spreadsheets!
Ad Hoc Querying and other Neat Stuff
Team BI
Reporting, Report Distribution
SharePoint Integration with Reporting Services
Overview of Analysis Services and Evaluating Data with Excel
Excel Services within SharePoint
Enterprise BI
Collaborative BI Portals
Performance Point Contoso Slide Deck
Demo Script
Monitoring
Driving Q&A
Demo scenario accountability
Collaboration
More than just numbers
END
Planning
Affecting the
future
Integration Analytics
Delivery in Office Asking questions
This CFO uses Microsoft®
Office SharePoint™ Server
as a thin and personalized
interface to her corporate
information
One type of information
that can be managed inside
SharePoint is
PerformancePoint
scorecards.
This CFO can now consume
very rich analytics
At this point, we are using all available hierarchies in the data (product category, geography
and time).
We can of course go back to
a much simpler view
When users perform this type of
analysis, they assume that they
picked the right metrics to
analyze the data by.
Switching their analysis to a
different metrics is often
challenging.
Switching their analysis to a
different metrics is very
easy using the
decomposition tree
The analysis is now ran the
gross profit margin, but the
CFO didn’t have to go
through all the steps of the
previous analytical path.
The CFO has now being able to
resolve the margin issue.
Holland is the country creating
the problem in Europe: it was a
top 3 in revenue, but the last
performance from a margin
standpoint
CHUCK RUSSELL
SENIOR PARTNER
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE INC.
CRUSSELL@COLLECTIVEINTELLIGENCE.COM