Self-Service Data Assurance for BI and Analytics

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1 Corporate Headquarters 300 Concord Road, Suite 200 Billerica, MA USA (978) Self-Service Data Assurance for BI and Analytics Europe, Middle East, Africa Theale Court High Street Theale RG7 5AH UK +44 (0) Germany, Switzerland Trillium Software GmbH Otto-Lilienthal-Straße Böblingen Germany Australia Office C Toorak Rd Toorak VIC 3142 Australia

RG7 5AH UK +44 (0) 118 940 7600 trillium.uk@trilliumsoftware.

2 Is poor data quality impacting your business intelligence and analytics? For business intelligence and data analysts, the success of any analytics initiative depends on how much positive impact it brings to the business. But it s not simply about collecting and using raw data. It s about refining and turning it into actionable insight. Turning data into actionable insight has become a time-critical factor for many businesses. Data and the information and insight derived from it is vital to decision making in many different applications regulatory compliance, financial audits, revenue and cost analysis, customer analysis and insight, business performance, stock and inventory management and sales effectiveness. Access to relevant and high quality data and the ability to make informed decisions from it are critical factors that drive operational improvements. Self-Service Business Intelligence With the latest business intelligence and analytic tools, users are now able to directly access and interrogate data without the barriers and limitations of IT-delivered solutions. However, a critical factor still needs to be met the quality of the underlying data. Data Quality The Missing Factor With self-service business intelligence, business teams, analysts, information support teams and decision makers, are now able to directly access source data. But attempts to integrate and make sense of data retrieved from multiple systems become a major challenge due to different standards, different formats, definitions and levels of accuracy. With the volume of data constantly increasing, this becomes a major hurdle to the success of self-service BI. Business teams cannot rely on guesswork or make assumptions about the data when the processes they run and decisions they make are of vital importance to business operations. Good data must be assured by those who demand it most and understand its context, purpose and value. To achieve this, intuitive tools are needed that easily access source data and provide the means to explore and validate it. Self-Service Data Assurance Trillium Software s Self- Service Data Assurance capabilities empower business and information analysts to take full control of their data, enabling them to deliver analysis and insight on trusted data. 2

But it s not simply about collecting and using raw data. It s about refining and turning it into actionable insight.

3 With a visually-rich, user-friendly Self-Service platform, business analysts can now access, validate, analyze and monitor critical data elements with minimal involvement from IT or operations. Accurately identify data gaps, develop new insights, quantify business impact, and develop remediation programs. By avoiding delays associated with large and complex IT initiatives, Trillium s Self Service Data Assurance capabilities deliver value in a fraction of the time and at a lower cost. Access Validate Analyze Monitor Access critical source data on-demand and develop rich, insightful data stores with minimal involvement from IT and operations Ensure data quality and relevance by designing, creating and executing on business rules based on subject matter expertise and use case knowledge Explore all data elements to quickly improve accuracy of decision-making, pinpoint unforeseen risks and identify opportunities to improve performance Design and create monitoring and reporting facilities to support businessas-usual processes Navigating the data landscape Our technology can be applied to different types of data financial, risk, customer, marketing, sales, products, inventory and assets. Via an intuitive interface, users are able to access data sources, merge data, create and validate business rules and verify the data meets objectives. Data quality issues are automatically identified, minimizing the time and effort required to locate problematic data. Rules may be customized and applied to multiple data elements with complete impact analysis and lineage. Data defects and failing conditions are automatically identified. Ongoing automated monitoring and governance processes enable users to monitor inbound data as a scheduled business-asusual process. A central repository stores information describing data definitions and formats, sources, values, quality indicators together with a powerful business rule checker. 3

$By avoiding delays associated with large and complex IT initiatives, Trillium s Self Service Data Assurance capabilities deliver value in a fraction of the time and at a lower cost.$

4 Data Quality dashboards showing business rule compliance Data Quality trends provide ongoing monitoring Visualizing Data Quality Status Indicators Trillium Software employs a dashboard interface which automates and intelligently seeks out inaccurate, incomplete or inconsistent information. Statistics and charts provide business insight into unacceptable data conditions. Comprehensive metrics, alerts and indicators, business rule and compliance test results point users to problematic data that can be explored to any level of detail providing immediate assurance of quality. Familiar visualization tools such as Qlikview, Tableau, Tibco Spotfire and Excel are also supported for reporting Trillium data quality analytics. Accelerating BI and Analytics deployments For the first time, business teams and analysts are able to embrace the power of an enterprise data assurance solution for their own business intelligence and analytics Trillium Software s Self-Service Data Assurance for BI and Analytics enables users to access, investigate, detect, flag and implement processes to remediate the data. Supplied business rules, views, charts and trend functions enable users to gain a quick start into their data quality analysis. Trillium s data quality processes can be integrated into existing data and application systems enabling users to efficiently manage data, ensure robust data governance processes and work with cross departmental colleagues in a collaborative environment to resolve highlighted issues. 4

Comprehensive metrics, alerts and indicators, business rule and compliance test results point users to problematic data that can be explored to any level of detail providing immediate assurance of

5 Trillium Accelerates BI and Analytics deployments with: Business Analyst Support Business rule compliance Data consistency Data accuracy Data integrity Data quality dashboards Issue and case management Data Quality Repository Data access Data statistics Business rule library Exception reports Trends and alert management Drill-down to data rows Best Practice Data Quality Checks Minimum/Maximum Values Value frequency and distribution Data types and definitions Uniqueness Duplications Relationships Trillium s technology and our experts are ready to support your business intelligence and analytics needs. Trillium Software A Trusted Partner By choosing Trillium Software, you have an experienced partner to assure data is aligned to your business needs, supporting your objectives. Over the past 20 years, we have helped globally recognized companies identify data defects that create bottlenecks in business processes, introduce corporate and financial risk, and impair insight to make decisions. We help solve these challenges by deploying governance programs and solutions to improve data quality to meet business objectives. Trillium Software offers an integrated suite of enterprise data quality software and data governance services to support the implementation and management of enterprise applications, business intelligence, data integration, data warehouse, on premise and in the cloud deployments. Our experienced advisors and industry leading technologies assess, quantify and control data quality across your enterprise. Over 1000 organizations worldwide rely on Trillium Software s data quality solutions, including leading global brands such as AT&T, Barclays Bank, British Airways, Canon Europe, FedEx, HSBC, Marriott, Microsoft, Porsche, United Utilities.

Minimum/Maximum Values Value frequency and distribution Data types and definitions Uniqueness Duplications Relationships Trillium s technology and our experts are ready to support your business

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