Business Intelligence in the Cloud Free your analysts for decision support processes

Felipe PereiraApr 20, 2013

FelipePereiraAnalytics

What is this all about?BI Today

Time consuming, lackof rigor, expensive tools

Wrong reports, inaccurate dataMisalignment for decision making

Confused strategyProblems in execution

BI in the Cloud

Efficient performance by expertsusing state of the art tools.

Customized and accurate reports enabling action plans and decision making

Clear strategyOptimized execution

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What are the main benefits ?Opportunity Benefit

To force discussion and consensus on the main KPIs to be followed

Aligns the strategy of the company, leading the management “to speak the same language”

To have a set of standard and 100% accurate reports

Makes management meetings more efficient, saving time on the busy agenda of decision makers

To automate the production of performance management reports

Improves execution of the plan, focusing the commercial team on customers rather than on understanding internal reports

To focus finance organization onto the analytics and cut unnecessary investment on expensive IT tools

Right-sizes finance organization and saves IT costs

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How does it work?

Database C

Database B

Database A

Reports, dashboards and templates may be provided through different types of media:- Excel- Word- Power point- PDF- Web

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Interaction between and customer may happen in several ways:- SharePoint website- Email- Chat- Help line

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Workflow in 3 steps

Diagnosis- Customer visit to understand the requirements and assess databases - Prove the customer’s ROI - Evaluate the solution building blocks

QuotationPreparation of an offer:- Engineering specifications- Data model tests- Alternative Data distributions tools

Execution- Deploy the solution- Manage the solution for customer’s targeted audience- Maintain the solution (sustainability), documentation, evolution

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Customer’s ROI

Ease management of execution and alignment with strategyKPIs alignment

Lead-time for analytics delivery

Expenses reductions: IT software licenses and portage

Value for money: use your analysts for value-add tasks, not data crunching!

Labor efficiency: avoid full analyst jobs for partial use

Risk management:Not people dependent

Back-up, Training, Standard operating Procedures (SOP’s) description which can be re-internalized at any point in time

Description for SOX compliance

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Questionnaire

1. How is my business (customers and products) doing now as compared with last year, three years ago, forecast and the budget?

2. Who are my best sales people in terms of quota achievement?3. What is the size of my pipeline and how it compares with previous periods?4. What is the current proportion of ongoing/new business and how it compares with

previous periods?5. Is my market share improving?6. Are my consultants being well utilized?7. Is my AR over 60 days being reduced?8. Which are my most profitable products and what make them profitable?9. How long does it take to prepare my main reports? How accurate are they?10. How many people are involved in the preparation of these reports?11. Who is getting these reports and how often they are issued?12. How easy is to integrate manual adjustments in these reports?13. Can I generate ad-hoc reports and create “what-if” scenarios in short time?

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