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1 Armanino McKenna LLP Welcomes You To Today s Webinar: Business Intelligence Are You Data Rich & Information Poor? The presentation will begin in a few moments

About the Presenter(s) John Horner, Director BI Practice John has fifteen years of experience in applying best practice industry knowledge to business intelligence implementations for a variety of

2 About the Presenter(s) John Horner, Director BI Practice John has fifteen years of experience in applying best practice industry knowledge to business intelligence implementations for a variety of industries, including Retail & Distribution, Consumer Product Goods, Hi-Tech & Utilities. After 10 years working within industry, implementing business intelligence & reporting solutions, John has spent the last 6 years as a consultant helping other companies implement such solutions and now leads the business intelligence practice at Armanino. John has expert knowledge of the business intelligence marketplace, having implemented solutions incorporating SAP BusinessObjects, IBM Cognos, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle & QlikView. AMLLP All Rights Reserved 2

3 Learning Objectives During today s webinar, participants will: Receive an explanation to the question: Are You Data Rich & Information Poor? Gain a broader understanding of the Business Intelligence software vendor marketplace Learn about the strengths & weaknesses of stack and best-of-breed BI vendors Understand the benefits of combining both stack and best-of-breed technologies to form your own more complete and successful BI solution AMLLP All Rights Reserved 3

Presentation Overview Are You Data Rich & Information Poor o If so, Why? o What is BI and what does the marketplace look like? o Traditional Stack Vendor vs.

4 Presentation Overview Are You Data Rich & Information Poor o If so, Why? o What is BI and what does the marketplace look like? o Traditional Stack Vendor vs. Best of Breed Overview QlikView Business Discovery o Fast, Mobile, Collaborative Decision Support o Augments Microsoft Integration & Reporting Services Solution Demo o Case Study: Global Manufacturer Gets Results o Demos: Sales, Finance and Operations AMLLP All Rights Reserved 4

5 Are you Data Rich & Information Poor?

7 Are You Data Rich & Information Poor? Yes o Vast Data Volumes (Digital Content to increase by 50% in 2012 to 2.7bn Tb) o BI Software remains widely un-adopted (The perfect solution for decision support is still emerging) AMLLP All Rights Reserved 7

8 What is BI? (Traditional BI Architecture) Dashboards / Scorecards ERP Data warehouses OLAP Cubes Reports Users ISV solutions Data marts Excel, Access MS Excel MS SharePoint Source data Data Integration Presentation AMLLP All Rights Reserved 8

10 What is BI? (14 Capabilities - according to Gartner) Information Delivery o Reporting o Dashboards o Ad-Hoc Query o Microsoft Office Integration o Search-Based BI o Mobile BI AMLLP All Rights Reserved 10

11 What is BI? (14 Capabilities - according to Gartner) Analysis o On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) o Interactive Visualization o Predictive Modeling & Data Mining o Scorecards AMLLP All Rights Reserved 11

12 Gartner 2012 BI Magic Quadrant Stack Vendors Microsoft Oracle IBM (Cognos) SAP (BusinessObjects) Best of Breed QlikView Tableau Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms: February 2012 AMLLP All Rights Reserved 12

13 Traditional Business Intelligence Data & IT Centric o Focus on Data Provisioning (DWH, Metadata, Cube, Semantic Layer, Query Tool) Static Historical Financial & Operational Reports Changing User Requests = Developer Effort Conclusion: BI Implementations remain widely un-adopted AMLLP All Rights Reserved 13

14 The Business Discovery Difference

15 Business Intelligence vs. Business Discovery Business Discovery User-driven Business Intelligence Business Intelligence IT-driven project Top Down Approach OLAP cube-based More components involved Longer Deployment Time Report / Grid / KPI Monitoring Business Discovery Business user-driven project Bottom Up Approach In-memory based Less components involved Rapid & Agile KPI / Visualization Analysis AMLLP All Rights Reserved 15 15

17 A New Kind of Software Company U.S.-based company, founded 1993 in Sweden Broad Base of 25,000 Customers 25,000 customers in 100 countries 1,400 global partners 1,100+ employees across 28 offices in 23 countries NASDAQ: QLIK High Customer Success Rate (96% according to IDC Survey) AMLLP All Rights Reserved 17

19 What makes Business Discovery unique? Ease of Use User Centric Google-like (fast, search) Simple and intuitive Self-service & addictive Rapid time to value Speed Scalability Associative AMLLP All Rights Reserved 19

22 What makes Business Discovery unique? Ease of Use Speed of thought analysis Patented in-memory technology No cubes / data warehouse Rapid time to value Speed Business Discovery Scalability Associative AMLLP All Rights Reserved 22

26 Traditional Business Intelligence vs. Business Discovery? Stack Vendor vs. Best of Breed? o Why not both? Armanino McKenna / Client Stack o Microsoft Integration (SSIS, Master Data Services) o Microsoft Reporting (SSRS) o QlikView Dashboards, Analytics & Ad-Hoc Query AMLLP All Rights Reserved 26

27 Dynamics AX Business Discovery Case Study

28 Business Discovery Case Study - Background Haws Corporation is headquartered in Reno, NV Leader in: o drinking fountains o electronic water coolers o hydration stations o emergency equipment Global manufacturing facilities (US, Singapore, Switzerland and Brazil) Deployed Microsoft Dynamics AX - multiple legal entities, international, financial, distribution, and manufacturing Leverage AX reports & custom Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS) for reporting Have been trying to get the Role Center and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) to work for some time with their AX partner Search for a better way of performing analysis AMLLP All Rights Reserved 28 28

29 Business Discovery Case Study - Solution Evaluated BI environment and maturity SSAS, SSRS, Role Center Business Discovery solution proof-of-concept with their own data within days With PoC, 80% of the actual business requirements met Amazed with the result Using QlikView Business Discovery as part of their BI initiative Leverages QlikView along side SSRS and AX Reports Stack & Best of Breed BI technologies working in perfect harmony AMLLP All Rights Reserved 29 29

30 Business Discovery - Solution Demo

Contact Us Armanino McKenna LLP Certified Public Accountants & Consultants John Horner phone: 925.

32 Contact Us Armanino McKenna LLP Certified Public Accountants & Consultants John Horner phone: Geoffrey Wayong phone:

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