1. Microsoft Business Intelligence: Strategy and Platform
Maciej Pilecki Senior Consultant, Microsoft Certified Master
Project Botticelli

2. Acknowledgments & Notes
This seminar is based on a number of sources including a few dozen of Microsoft-owned presentations, used with permission. Thank you: Michael Tejedor, Chris Volckerick, Tara Seppa, Morris Novello, Bryan Bredehoeft, Chris Dial, Donald Farmer, Sabrena McBride, Peter Sprague, and Diwakar Rajagopal.
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3. Status and Evolution of BI
Agenda
Status and Evolution of BI
Balancing Your Needs
Microsoft BI
Future

4. State of Business Intelligence
Only 28% of potential BI users have any meaningful access
32% of Excel users are comfortable with using it for “Advanced Analysis” e.g., PivotTables
31% of all BI initiatives partially meet or don’t meet the business goals originally set
– Business Intelligence Purchase Drivers and Adoption Rates, Gartner
– Excel Segmentation Research
– BI Survey 9, BARC
Knowledge workers spend too much time looking for, not enough time analyzing the information.
Lines between producers and consumers of information have largely disappeared.
Requirements change way too fast for IT and traditional technology to keep up.
Agile BI Out of The Box, Forrester Research, Inc., April 22, 2010

5. ? Evolution of BI Traditional BI Self-Service BI
End Users
Analysis
Reports
Dashboards & Scorecards
Provision
Spreadsheets
Specialized Tools
Analysis
Cubes
Data Warehouse
Data
Staging
ETL/Data Quality ?
Existing Data
LOB Applications
Files
Data Marts
IT Pro
IT has been busy keeping up with the growing demand for BI…
Is it possible to balance Control with Agility?
Rapidly breaking down the barriers of Control with Self-Service BI!
Harvesting existing data, cleaning it and staging it …
To provision reports, dashboards & scorecards to meet End User demand.
But business is outpacing IT and End Users are demanding Agility …

6. Microsoft BI: Balance Agility with Control

7. Delivering the next generation of BI Agility with IT Oversight
Provision
Manage
Empower
Evolution of BI
Traditional BI
Self-Service BI
Niche Startups
Delivering the next generation of BI Agility with IT Oversight

8. Microsoft a Leader in Gartner BI Platform Magic Quadrant
[Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, Rita L. Sallam et al, January 27, The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

9. Easily Provision Data Access

10. Provision Access to Information Built to be Mission Critical
Manage
Empower
Provision
Provision Access to Information Built to be Mission Critical
Heterogeneous Connectivity
Connect to data across your heterogeneous environment
LOB Apps
Teradata
Data Integration and Data Quality
Integrate data and ensure data quality across your organization
1TB of data transferred in under 30 minutes
Data Staging and Modeling
Prepare data and build models for end-user access
#1 OLAP vendor for the last 5 years
– BI Survey

11. Mediterranean Shipping Company
22 Tb stored in SQL Server
396,907 transactions per minute
210 billion transaction per year
Supertanker Scale BI

12. Built to be Mission Critical Yahoo!
Events per Day
3,500,000,000
Data Load per Day
1.2TB
Files per Hour
60 x 50GB
Analysis Services Cube
12TB
…It has to be information at the speed of thought…we were able to achieve less than 10 seconds of query time against a 12TB Cube

13. Empower Users

14. Empower End Users Familiar and Flexible Tools
Manage
Empower
Provision
Empower End Users Familiar and Flexible Tools
Find and Access
Quickly search and find information in reports, dashboards, and scorecards
– Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology, 2009
Leader in information access technology
Mash-up and Analyze
Mash-up and analyze data in the familiar Excel environment
Most broadly adopted productivity suite
Share and Socialize
Share and collaborate for better decision making
Fastest growing collaboration platform

15. Familiar and Flexible Tools Mediterranean Shipping Company
Mash-up of data from internal and external data sources (U.S. Customs)
33M rows
1.7GB compressed
Built-in 3 hours
The new tools in Office 2010 help everyone be more productive… We work faster and smarter than the competition
– Andre Simha Chief Information Officer, Mediterranean Shipping Company

16. Demo
Self-Service Business Intelligence

17. Manage BI Assets

18. Manage
Empower
Provision
Manage from the Desktop to Datacenter For Traditional and Self-Service BI Assets
Insight and Oversight
Gain visibility and manage end user created content
“…when coupled with SharePoint and SQL Server, there is a significantly greater amount of IT control possible over PowerPivot workbooks..”
– What is SQL Server PowerPivot, July 2010, Rita Sallam, Gartner
Seamless Scale & Pervasiveness
Scale from the desktop to the datacenter with Vertipaq
From 100 million rows in Excel to 100 TB’s with PDW
Frictionless Deployment
Simplified deployment on-premise and in the cloud
“…SQL Azure delivers the most innovative, integrated, and flexible solution.”
– SQL Azure Raises the Bar on Cloud Database, Nov 2, 2010, Noel Yuhanna

19. CareGroup Healthcare System
HIPPA compliant patient data
3.5m patient EMRs
High-performance reporting
Mission critical data

20. CareGroup Healthcare System
Administrators’ audit dashboard
20GB source data = 1.5MB workbook
Built in a week
Accessible self-service BI

21. Demo
Delivering IT Insight and Oversight

22. Striking A Balance Control Agility IT Professional End-User
Connect & Provision
Find & Access
Monitor & Manage
Mash-up & Analyze
Deploy & Future Proof
Share & Collaborate
Control
Agility

23. Microsoft Business Intelligence
SharePoint
Scorecards
Excel
Workbooks
PowerPivot Applications
Search & Dashboards
Most Broadly adopted Productivity & Collaboration Tools
Analysis
Services
Reporting
Integration
Master Data
Most widely deployed EIM & BI Platform
Odata
Feeds
LOB Apps

24. Direction SQL Azure (now) Backbone of BI in the Microsoft Cloud Cloud
Parallel Data Warehouse (now)
Business Decision Applicance
Appliance
Empowering, PowerPivot-style analytics for every kind of your data
Innovation in Reporting
Powerful Analytics

25. Build on What You Already Know
Most broadly adopted productivity suite
Fastest growing collaboration platform
Most popular DW, OLAP, and reporting platform

26. Thank You maciej@projectbotticelli.com @DrHouseOfSQL