Business Intelligence

Larry ChristensenChris Kennedy

Wynne Systems, Inc.“What gets measured gets managed”

The BI Challenge“Organizations are facing pressures to deliver

information that is timely and effective in meeting business goals. This requires companies to have access to the information, the ability to combine, aggregate and integrate the information, and then deliver it to people when, where and how they need it.”

“Beyond Spreadsheets: the value of BI and Analytics,” Aberdeen Group, Inc.

January 2009

Agenda

• Background/Foundational Info

• Business Intelligence (SaaS or On-Premise)

• Demonstration of InfoManager

• Q&A

Background

Example InfoManager Users

pervasiveadjective

1: spread throughout; [syn: {pervading}]

source: http://define.com/pervasive

Why do we have to think about

being Pervasive???People are

Different

BI Adoption by Companies

• Nearly 40% of shops are currently practicing advanced analytics

• By 2012 - 85% will be doing as much

TDWI Research Analyst, Philip Russom

BI Adoption in Companies

Nudged up from 18% three years ago to 24% today

TDWI Research 10/2009

BI Adoption in Companies

24% account for most of a companies power users and a handful of very determined casual users

What about the other 76% of the people in an organization?

TDWI Research

Need:

Collaboration between Business User and IT

Tools to get the information to the user

BI Adoption in Companies

BI Adoption in Companies

HOW:

• Self Service BI

• Tailored Delivery of Information

• Need Combination

Wheel

in a

Cogs

People

• Why did you hire the people you have?– Computer Expertise?– Industry Expertise?

• Most People want to do a good job

Wheel

in a

Cogs

People by Area

• Stock and Stake Holders • Press/Media• Board of Directors• Executives – CEO/COO/CFO/etc…• 3rd Party/Analysts• Senior/Division Management – VP’s• Line Management - Department Heads• Doers• IT

Wheel

in a

Cogs

People / Users (who)

• Casual / Users– Stock and Stake Holders – Press/Media– Board of Directors– Many Workers

• EXCEL Users – Consultant / Analyst / 3rd Party / CFO’s

• Experienced User– Line Managers

• Power User– IT and/or software vendor

InfoManagerBusiness Intelligence

(SaaS or On-Premise)

Business Intelligence

• Trends and Differences

• Scorecarding

• Integrated Security

• Dashboarding

• Drilling / Analytics

• E-mailing BI

• Charting and Graphing

• Traffic Lighting

• Web Enabled

• Export to EXCEL

• Exception Reporting

• Optional Data Mining using EXCEL

Example Dashboard

Another Example Dashboard

Drill Down/Through

Manage by Exception

• Traffic lighting helps identify areas that need attention

• Sort by any of the columns in the report to highlight top or bottom performers

Exception ReportingEvent Driven Analysis

• Trigger email reports and alerts based on thresholds for indicators

• Schedule reports to be emailed on a regular basis

e-mailing Reports/Charts/Dashboards/

Presentations

e-mailing Reports/Charts/Dashboards/

Presentations

To/From EXCEL

To EXCEL

Any Report or Chart

Push a Button

EXCELWorksheet

From EXCEL

Other Devices

Auto Receive or Request Info.

Other Interfaces

Demonstration

People by Area

Analytical (Drilling)

Operational

(Dashboards) StrategicSmart

PhonesSnap Shots

From EXCEL

Presentations

Web Based

Exception Reporting

e-mail Reports

StockholdersX X X

Press/MediaX X

Board of DirectorsX X X

Execs – C-LevelX X X X X X X

3rd Party AnalystX X

Senior Division Managers

X X X X X X X

Line ManagersX X X X X X

DoersX X X X X X

Larry ChristensenChris KennedyWynne Systems, Inc.InfoManager

(949) 224-6314 or 6267LChristensen@wynnesystems.comCKennedy@wynnesystems.com

www.infomanagerinc.com