Agile BI Webinar (Neil Pratt, Bournville College)

NEIL PRATT

Speaker

Neil Pratt Assistant Principal CIS, Bournville College UK

Agile BI in practice How Bournville College uses NeutrinoBI for business agility

About Bournville College

•  First Established in 1913

•  Relocation Sept ‘11 to £66m purpose built campus

•  Caters for 15,000 students

•  Revenue for 2012: £32m

•  State of the art facilities:

•  Mac™ Suite

•  Over 1000 computer access points

•  Universal Wi-Fi access

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Achieving revenue and profitability goals when faced with:

•  Increasing competition in the FE sector (domestic and international)

•  Need to exceed Government targets for educational performance

•  Decline in traditional revenue streams (state funding/philanthropy)

•  Constraints in tuition fee increases

•  Pressure to offer students demonstrable added-value

Business challenges

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Business needs:

•  Supporting daily decision making with: ‑  More in-depth information

‑  More up to date information

•  Enabling strategic decisions through:

-  Rapid answers to specific questions

-  More insight on trends/issues and

opportunities

BI challenges:

•  Simplistic visualization & reporting tools

•  Required hours and hours of manual preparation

•  And manual consolidation of data from different systems

•  CIS team is already stretched, BI requests add to that workload

The challenge for our BI

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NeutrinoBI had just the breakthrough BI tool we needed

•  Initial implementation during the summer recess 2012

•  New dashboard reporting for:

–  On-going Success/Achievement ratings

–  Daily attendance metrics

•  Across two key databases:

–  Oracle - Student record system of over 100 Million records

–  SQL - Timetabling and attendance database of 4 Million records

The NeutrinoBI Project

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The team at NeutrinoBI came in on a Monday morning, and I performed the first search at lunch-‐<me

–  With the NeutrinoBI built-‐in data acquisiGon tool, new data take-‐on was fast and efficient

–  In fact, once the data view was available in Neutrino, it only took less than 25 minutes to:

•  Build a domain

•  Define drill-‐down and aggregate the data

•  Assign the domain to a new user

•  Ask our 1st quesGon

We could then immediately build a dashboard that reported on total absences/ lateness/ a@endance by course by day of week, by <me, and by student

Results: fast implementaGon

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Results: how it looks

In the next few months we expect NeutrinoBI to replace over 100 legacy Dashboards September 2012 7

More than dashboard reporting – it gives the management team the freedom to search.

My testing shows that finding information is really fast:

Results: rapid search and discovery

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Our intention: to use NeutrinoBI to deliver the insight we need to continue developing as one of the UK’s most progressive Further Education establishments.

• Roll-out self-service data discovery to 60 of our Senior Managers over the next 3 months

• Deploy cloud service to satisfy our international customers

• Developing web-based focused daily performance dashboards for all 15,000 students and their sponsors

• Planning for iPad deployment in the future

Next steps

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For BI at it’s Agile Best

Niall Thomas Sales Director, NeutrinoBI

September 21, 2012 | Slide 12

The quest for agile BI

Get info when needed

Quickly implement new BI projects

Increase profit operaGng profit grew year on year

Improve ROI on BI projects

Instantly create and share dashboards

The difference agile BI makes to the bo]om line

Equip Explorers ‘Dock’ with IT


Equip your explorers for the agile BI quest

Search Combine Drill-‐down Visualize Interact


Why Neutrino for Agile BI?

SEARCH answers to ad-‐hoc quesGons < 10 seconds

COMBINE integrate corporate and local data in < 30 seconds

DRILL-‐DOWN to analyse the underlying data in < 5 seconds

VISUALIZE create fresh visualizaGons on new data in < 1 minute

INTERACT Customize dashboards without IT involvement in < 5 minutes


NeutrinoBI in acGon


NeutrinoBI in acGon


NeutrinoBI in acGon


NeutrinoBI in acGon


NeutrinoBI in acGon


NeutrinoBI in acGon


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