Ridgian Business Intelligence in Education

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Cover Sheet
V1.3 29/10/2012
Ridgian
Business Intelligence in
Education
JISC Eastern
19th March 2014
Nigel Hamblin
Steve Lynn

2. The Agenda for today
Agenda
• Introduction
• Typical Issues
• Overview of Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform
• Demonstration
• Business Intelligence Insights Workshop
• Questions and Answers
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• Midlands based Microsoft Partner
with two Gold and three Silver Competencies
• Specialise in SQL Server, SharePoint, Business
Intelligence and Custom App Development
• Information Management Experts
• We have been in business for over 14 years
and are Privately Owned and Profitable
Background
Ridgian Overview

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• Disparate Systems, silos of data and reports
• Uncontrolled use of Excel
• Manually prepared Reports, time consuming
• Fixed data Sources and Queries / Reports
• Not making best use of Microsoft licensing and
platform
Typical Issues
Ridgian Overview

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• Reporting to Analytics
• Security, Scalability, Governance, Reuse of Data
• Data Discovery
• User accessible data
• Natural Language Query and Search
• Mobile
• Cloud Subscription, on Premise
Overview
Ridgian Overview

6. BI Architecture
Data Marts
Extract, Transform,
and Load (ETL)
Middleware
Server(s)
Data
Warehouse
Storage Design and
Visualization
Data Cubes
and Tabular
Models
E
T
L
Reporting
Server(s)
BI and
Designer
Clients
Source
data

7. EE
Microsoft enterprise (classic) BI
SQL Server DB
SQL Server
Integration
Services
(SSIS)
SharePoint (with)
• Excel Services
• PowerPivot for
SharePoint
• SSRS SharePoint Mode
• PerformancePoint
SQL Server
DB
Storage Design and Visualization
SQL Server Analysis
Services
Multidimensional and
Tabular modes
L
SQL Server
Reporting
Services
(SSRS)
Excel
SQL Data Tools
Report Builder
3rd party tools
ETL
E
T
Source
data

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What is Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence
“Dashboards are for Action,
not Information”
“Traditional Reporting, is like
looking in the rear view mirror”

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Dashboard
Business Intelligence

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Geospatial
Business Intelligence

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Social
Conclusion
Social
Unlock valuable data from Social Media activity to
drive Campaigns and Retention strategy

12. Mobile
Arm your employees with Mobile/Tablet apps which
provide them with instant access to critical business
information
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Mobile
Conclusion

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• Q & A
• Close
Questions and Close
Presentation