Journey To Self Service BI

GLOBALENERGY FORUM

February 20, 2014Houston, Texas

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Hello

Global Energy Forum

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• Eric Vogelpohl:

– BI Manager

• Interests:

– Science & Skepticism

– Photography

– Data-Driven Journalism

– Sucker for old homes

(Err, money pits…)

Intros

• Williams:

– Founded in 1908

– ~4900 Employees

– Gathering & Processing

– Natural Gas Liquids

– Natural Gas Pipelines

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Background: CIO Directive for BI

Challenge Convention. New Vision

Today: Vision is Unfolding (Solutions)

Lessons Learned. Q&A

Today’s Discussion…

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Directive to Reboot BI

“Take on BI @ Williams. Form New Habits & Modernize!”

Q2 2012

“Ok, We have some

ideas…

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BI-Financial

Corp. Perf. Mgmt.

• Key Financials

• KPIs

• Forecast Cycle

• Cost Centers

• Segment P&L

BI-Business

Comm.,Ops,Support

• Major Rev. Gen. Apps

• Project Mgmt.

• SCADA / Measurement

• Asset Reliability, Maint.

• Credit, Contracts, Risk

Tale of Two BI Focus AreasQ3 2012

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Challenge Convention

Only Finance Benefits from Slice/Dice !?

Massive Enterprise DW. Why?

BI Renaissance: Entitlement, Agile, Rapid. Are We Ready?

New-Gen Tools: Cloud, Lightwt., Quick-2-Value, Mobile

App-ISVs. “BI Bolt-ons” – Can We Do Better?

For BI-Business, Question

Everything…

Bi Maturity Curve? Analytical Skills for Predictive-BI. Fast Track

Q3 2012

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New VisionQ1 2013 +

People:

• Lightweight OLAP / Data Modeling

• Kimball Method

Behaviors:

• Agile, Engaging, Consultative

• DO NOT ask for Requirements!

Technology:

• Latest MSBI. Tabular + Excel

• DAX DAX DAX DAX

Partners:

• Microsoft – Partner, Not a Vendor

• Wipro. Conversions & Net-new.

BI CoE Formed

1. Hi-Value Solutions

(BI-Business)

2. Partnerships

3. Platform & Vendor

Mgmt.Empowered +

Responsible + Engaged

= Self Service BI

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• Now, Let’s See the Vision Unfold

– Solution Showcase

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Mission

•Sunset Bus.

Objects

•Tabular / Excel

Svc

•Save $$$

Today

•Wipro On/

Offshore

•Complete:

•Credit Risk

•Gas Mktg

•Land-RoW

•Wave – 2

Starting

•SNIPE –

Conversion

Accelerator

Outcomes

•SSRS & Tabular

effective

•New Habits

(Odata)

•New BI-

vocabulary

emerging

Showcase #1: Business Objects –to- MSBI Project

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Showcase #2: Partnership w/ OSISoft Pi Team

Mission

•Asset

Performance

&

Benchmarking

Team –

Partnership

•Leverage Ops

data,

New/novel

ways.

Today

•Exposing ~50

Pi/Asset

reports –

Mobile

•Model in Dev

– Downtime

Analysis)

•Wipro Leading

Advanced

Analytics

Workshop

Outcomes

•Bi CoE

Partnership

Model

Working

•Employees @

Asset-sites.

Engaging in

Self Service

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Showcase #3: Commercial & Nat Gas Transportation

Mission

•Model

Transco

Pipeline’s

Customer &

Nominations

+ Financial

System

•Enable Self-

Service – 3

Years of Data

Today

•Model 95%

Complete

•250M Rows in

Tabular

•Business

learning Data-

manipulation

& pivoting

skills

Outcomes

•Bridging Skills

•Working w/

the business

•Synergies with

other groups

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Leadership

•Buy-in. Establish Maturity Model Point.

•Don’t Backslide into “Report Team”. Push!

•Quick-Wins, Agile, Engaging

BI Team / People

•Watch the Trends, Invest.

•Technical proficiency is a must. Invest.

•Don’t over commit.

Partnerships

•Marketing Slide – Use it often. Spread the love.

•Shared Responsibilities. COE Can’t Do it All.

•Don’t “Standards” to Death. Degree of Freedom

Business

•“Analysts” title <> Easy/Pre-Cooked.

•Develop Common Language

•You’re not a customer. You’re a partner.

Lessons From our Journey (thus far)

“Perfection is the enemy of done.” -Unknown