Microsoft partners, opensky Data Systems, highlight the benefits of Financial Business Intelligence Solutions by Microsoft. BI in Finance comes to agility, adoption and cost.

1. Ronan Gavin
BI Solution Lead
Microsoft Ireland
Self Service BI for Finance
Some Useful Principles

2. EPG | MICROSOFT CONFIDENTIAL
Key Opportunities for Finance
Agility = Competitive advantage
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“By 2015 businesses that build a modern information
management system will outperform their peers
financially by 20 percent”
Top 20% Performing Org’s
Employees spend 1.2 Hrs per
week searching for Info
Bottom 30% Performing Org’s
Employees spend 6 Hrs per
week searching for Info
Strategic Relevance
“We’ve reduced the time to produce
accurate insights by over 50% with our
Microsoft BI solution.”
Finance is spending a substantial portion of
time influencing business strategy and
operational priorities
Finance is more focused on ensuring current
initiatives deliver results than on selecting/
aligning new initiatives

3. * “The Deciding Factor: Big Data & Decision Making” – Capgemini, Business Analytics | The way we see it
..And #1 Blocker to Achieving Expanded Insight
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“The inability to access & analyze critical data, via existing tools…”
85%
Of business users listed the inability to
analyze data critical to their role, within
their existing tools & processes, as the
#1 obstacle to increasing insight
89%
of these users identify Excel as their
primary analytic tool….

4. Business Insight: The key skills needed for Finance
“People don’t want data, they want information & the goal is to tell stories”
– Marc Reguera, WW EPG Finance Director, Microsoft