1. MDEP BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (BI) PROJECT KICK-OFF John Gagnon OIT Senior Programmer / Analyst John.R.Gagnon@Maine.gov “Introduction”

2. Who’s excited about attending a three hour BI presentation?

3. What is Business Intelligence? Business Intelligence transforms raw data into meaningful and useful information in order to increase knowledge and support the decision making process.

4. Ross Perot

5. Hans Rosling

7. “Let My Dataset Change Your Mindset” (TED Talks – June 2009)

8. What are the attributes of ‘good’ BI? Meaningful & Useful Timely Accurate Consistent Accessible Flexible GOAL: Support the decision making process

9. Who is using BI Systems? Finance Sales & Marketing Manufacturing Maine Office of the State Controller Maine Department of Health and Human Services Maine Department of Transportation Maine Department of Education

11. Q: So why does the DEP need BI? A: Because we have questions that will be difficult to answer without BI.

12. The DEP has a lot of data spread over several systems

13. ATS EFIS Gravel Pits L&W PBR MDEP Application Tracking Systems 58,395 apps 13,301 apps 55,341 apps 934 apps

14. ATS EFIS Gravel Pits L&W PBR Add a Data Warehouse 58,395 apps13,301 apps 55,341 apps 934 apps 127,040 total applications (as of 5/6/2013)

15. Restructure the data using BI tools & methods

16. Voilà! The transformation from raw data to actionable information is complete!

17. The Many Business Domains Within DEP

18. The Many Electronic Systems Within DEP (Partial Listing) EFIS ATS EGAD Compliance Enforcement MAIRIS Scores of MS Access Databases Countless MS Excel Spreadsheets AECTS eDMR CTS PBR Manifest Tanks SSTS RESCOM TOXSCAN DETOX Common Billing Labworks Gravel Pits Solid Waste Others SWF CBI Institutional Controls