Perficient Business Intelligence Analysis and Delivery Options in SharePoint

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Learn about analytical and delivery options, visualization frameworks, for business intelligence via Microsoft SharePoint in this presentation by Perficient's Senior Technical Architect, Duane Schafer. You'll also see a demo of SharePoint's BI component.

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BI Analysis & Delivery Options in SharePoint

SharePoint Fest Chicago

July 2011

Today’s Agenda

• Introduction

• Problem statement

• Analytical and delivery options

• Visualization frameworks

• BI component live demo

• Recap

Introduction

• Duane Schafer – Microsoft BI Practice Manager at Perficient

– National traveling BI practice within Microsoft Competency Center

– Over 15 years of technical implementation and architecture

experience

– B.S. Computer Science, MBA with DSS emphasis

– Primary industry experience in Sales/Marketing, Energy, Healthcare

– Experience with Microsoft, Oracle, Cognos, Business Objects,

Tableau

• Duane.schafer@perficient.com

Audience Poll

• Who is leveraging SharePoint BI?

• Who is planning an upgrade to SharePoint 2010?

• Who is on Business side vs. IT?

BI Umbrella Term—What Does it Imply?

BI Umbrella Term—What Does it Imply?

Problem Statement

• “OK, so I have all of this data, and I have all of these tools.

Now what?”

• “PerformancePoint? Pivot Tables? Puff Daddy? PowerPivot?”

• “How do I decide which technology to give to a specific user

group?”

Delivery / Analytical Options

Traditional BI

IT gathers Data

IT builds cubes

IT builds reports

IT builds dashboards

Self-service BI

Business gathers and models dataBusiness performs

analysis

Collaboration and management

Business shares / Business & IT manage

‘Flavors’ of self-service… Definition?

Analytical & Delivery Options

Traditional BI

IT gathers Data

IT builds cubes

IT builds reports

IT builds dashboards

Management?Power Users?New

Users?

Reports with drill through?

Reports with dashboards?

Dashboards or scorecards?

Pivot tables or cubes?

Excel cubes in memory?

Visualization Framework

Degree of Power User

Business Visibility / Value

Tactical Messaging

Tactical Analysis

Strategic / Operational Monitoring

Advanced Analysis

Predictive Analysis

Subscription-based reports

Controlled ad-hoc analysis

Free-form exploration

Self-service analysis

Problem modeling

Visualization Framework

Degree of Power User

Business Visibility / Value

Tactical Messaging

Tactical Analysis

Strategic / Operational Monitoring

Advanced Analysis

Predictive Analysis

SharePoint 2010

SSRS

Excel Services

PerformancePoint

Visio Services

PowerPivot

Predixion

Subscription-based reports

Controlled ad-hoc analysis

Free-form exploration

Self-service analysis

Problem modeling

Visualization (Capability) Framework

Degree of Power User

Business Visibility / Value

Tactical Messaging

Tactical Analysis

Strategic / Operational Monitoring

Advanced Analysis

Predictive Analysis

SharePoint 2010

SSRS

Excel Services

PerformancePoint

Visio Services

PowerPivot

Predixion

Subscription-based reports

Controlled ad-hoc analysis

Free-form exploration

Self-service analysis

Problem modeling

Demo Time!

Audience Checkpoint

Visualization (Usage) Framework

Degree of Power User

Business Visibility / Value

Tactical Messaging

Tactical Analysis

Strategic / Operational Monitoring

Advanced Analysis

Predictive Analysis

SharePoint 2010

SSRS

Excel Services

PerformancePoint

Visio Services

PowerPivot

Predixion

Subscription-based reports

Controlled ad-hoc analysis

Free-form exploration

Self-service analysis

Problem modeling

Visualization (Usage) Framework

Degree of Power User

Business Visibility / Value

Tactical Messaging

Tactical Analysis

Strategic / Operational Monitoring

Advanced Analysis

Predictive Analysis

SharePoint 2010

SSRS

Excel Services

PerformancePoint

Visio Services

PowerPivot

Predixion

Subscription-based reports

Controlled ad-hoc analysis

Free-form exploration

Self-service analysis

Problem modeling

Visualization (Usage) Framework

Degree of Power User

Business Visibility / Value

Tactical Messaging

Tactical Analysis

Strategic / Operational Monitoring

Advanced Analysis

Predictive Analysis

SharePoint 2010

SSRS

Excel Services

PerformancePoint

Visio Services

PowerPivot

Predixion

Subscription-based reports

Controlled ad-hoc analysis

Free-form exploration

Self-service analysis

Problem modeling

Visualization (Usage) Framework

Degree of Power User

Business Visibility / Value

Tactical Messaging

Tactical Analysis

Strategic / Operational Monitoring

Advanced Analysis

Predictive Analysis

SharePoint 2010

SSRS

Excel Services

PerformancePoint

Visio Services

PowerPivot

Predixion

Subscription-based reports

Controlled ad-hoc analysis

Free-form exploration

Self-service analysis

Problem modeling

Visualization (Usage) Framework

Degree of Power User

Business Visibility / Value

Tactical Messaging

Tactical Analysis

Strategic / Operational Monitoring

Advanced Analysis

Predictive Analysis

SharePoint 2010

SSRS

Excel Services

PerformancePoint

Visio Services

PowerPivot

Predixion

Subscription-based reports

Controlled ad-hoc analysis

Free-form exploration

Self-service analysis

Problem modeling

Visualization (Usage) Framework

Degree of Power User

Business Visibility / Value

Tactical Messaging

Tactical Analysis

Strategic / Operational Monitoring

Advanced Analysis

Predictive Analysis

SharePoint 2010

SSRS

Excel Services

PerformancePoint

Visio Services

PowerPivot Predixion

Subscription-based reports

Controlled ad-hoc analysis

Free-form exploration

Self-service analysis

Problem modeling

Flavors of Self-Service

Degree of Power User

Business Visibility / Value

Tactical Messaging

Tactical Analysis

Strategic / Operational Monitoring

Advanced Analysis

Predictive Analysis

SharePoint 2010

SSRS

Excel Services

PerformancePoint

Visio Services

PowerPivot Predixion

Drag & Drop

Free-form Modeling

Points of Confusion

• Report from a DW or cube?

– Some visualizations need a cube to work

– Drill-downs and cross-drilling are inherent to cubes (no extra coding

is needed)

– Don’t build Time Intelligence into the DW, use TI functions in PPS

• KPIs

– Build in cube or PerformancePoint?

• Pivot Table vs. PowerPivot?

• Is PowerPivot a cube?

Recap

• Approach SharePoint BI decisions with frameworks:

– Capability—what are my users capable of using?

– Usage—what are they likely to use?

• Flavors of self-service

• Points of confusion

– Responsibility of BI Architect