Business Intelligence in the Cloud

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Business Intelligence in the Cloud: Agile Analytics for Powerful, Easy, and Nimble BI

November 10, 2009

Agenda

• Introduction to Cloud Computing

• How Cloud Computing Applies to BI

• Cloud BI Solution and Components

• Case Study

• Demo

• Live Question and Answer

Please use the Question panel to submit questions!

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Our Speakers Today

• Uri Budnik: ISV Partner Program Evangelist, RightScale

• Andrew Lampitt: Business Development Director, Jaspersoft

• Matthew Dahlman: Sr. Business Development Engineer, Jaspersoft

• Omer Trajman: Director, Vertica

• Josh Holman: Technical Consultant, Talend

On Q&A Chat: Andrew DeMille: Sr. Account Manager, RightScale


Industry Luminaries on the Cloud: All Hype?

• “The interesting thing about Cloud Computing is that we’ve redefined Cloud Computing to include everything that we already do. . . “

- Larry Ellison, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Sep. 26, 2008

• “It’s stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign…”

- Richard Stallman, quoted in The Guardian, Sep. 29, 2008

• “…irrational exuberance and unrealistic expectations…”

- McKinsey report on Cloud Computing, April 2009


Shattering the Myths: Real-World Cloud

• RightScale example(s) from white paper…


20,000+ users, hundreds of customers

Over 700,000 servers launched!

40,000,000+ server hours

Scaling events: from 40 to 4,700 servers in 3 days

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What Is Cloud Computing?

• Virtually infinite computing resources

• Scalable on-demand

• Pay per use

• Surpasses traditional hosting

– Multiple server sizes

– Reassign IPs, Virtual IPs

– Multiple failure zones and geographies

– Virtual disk volumes

– Cloud interoperability

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Classic IT Problem: Capacity Planning

You just lostcustomersYou just lostcustomers

InfrastructureCost $

time

LargeCapitalExpenditure

LargeCapitalExpenditure

OpportunityCostOpportunityCost

PredictedDemand

TraditionalHardware

ActualDemand

AutomatedVirtualization

Solution: Managed Cloud

InfrastructureCost $

time

On DemandProvisioningOn DemandProvisioning

PredictedDemand

ActualDemand

AutomatedScaling

Cloud Models RightScale

Examples: Salesforce Gmail

Examples: Force.comGoogle App Engine

• Public Clouds– Shared computing infrastructure that anyone can

access via the Internet (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Rackspace)

• Private Clouds– Cloud computing infrastructure that is owned by a

single party; may or may not be connected to the Internet (e.g., Eucalyptus-enabled data center)

• Hybrid Clouds– Union of Public and Private Clouds used together to

leverage the benefits of both

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds

AUTOMATIONARCHITECTUREAUTOMATIONARCHITECTURE

CLOUD-READY SOLUTIONS

CLOUD-READY SOLUTIONS

EXPERTISE& SUPPORTEXPERTISE

& SUPPORT

Cloud ApplicationsCloud Applications

AmazonAmazon SunSunEucalyptusEucalyptus VMwareVMware CloudCloudRackspaceRackspace CloudCloud

The RightScale Management Platform

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Why Use the Cloud for BI?

• Agility to do more BI

Seasonal projectsAnalytic sandboxesDisposable data martsReluctance of expensive DW system

• Architectural advantages

BI for Cloud ApplicationsDramatically faster time to deploymentManagement best practices

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Agile Analytics – Fit for the Cloud

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No upfront costs

Affordable commercial subscriptions

Pay as you go

Push-button launch

Zero training for business users

Simple, powerful Web 2.0 I/F

Fully integrated BI stack at the push of a button

POJO, EJB, XML,

MDX, Custom

DataSources:

Dashboards

Analysis

BI / Data Warehouse Architecture

ReportingRDBMS ETL BI User

BI Power User

Data Warehouse Professional

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Deploy on the Leading Cloud Management Platform

Agile Analytics in Action

• New Facebook trivia game, Know-It-All by CrowdStar• Selection criteria

– Low budget to get started

– Full Integrated BI, ETL, DW stack

– Source data from a variety of systems

• Main benefits – Uncover patterns in traffic

– “Slicing and dicing” of large amounts of data

– Turn Amazon cloud images on and off on-demand

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“The products work incredibly well together.

With very limited time and effort, we were able

to get our cloud-based analytic Engine up and running.”

Peter Relan, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of CrowdStar

Learn about the Solution at RightScale

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• Joint Solution offered via Cloud BI Resellers in the USA• One-Stop-Shop for purchasing, support, and services

• Qualified with each of the cloud BI technologies

– Eastern USA: • Full 360, based in New York City

– Western USA: • Optimus Information based in Vancouver, Canada• MetricMine based in the San Francisco Bay Area

– International• Contact [email protected]


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