Enterprise MS BI for Everyone Indika Ariyasinghe

Speaker Profile Associate Architect at Virtusa BSc(Eng), Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya 11+ Years in IT MS BI Technology tracks

Journey So Far Mobile Readiness Cloud Readiness Virtusa is a rapidly evolving company with diverse business intelligence needs spanning all level of the organization; from CxOs to Engineers (numbering around 8000 employees); from mobile devices to public area dashboards. This will cover challenges faced and how we have over come them so far, and plans for beyond future. Business Domains Finance Resource Management Social Platform Delivery Platform Employee Performance Current user base is more than 8000 (entire company) and everyone has access to cubes and reports with data level security High Performance Data Availability for day to day Management Reporting Mobile Readiness Cloud Readiness 3 | 2/19/2019 | Enterprise MS BI for Everyone

My Score KPI Dashboard 4 | 2/19/2019 | Enterprise MS BI for Everyone

Mobile BI - DATAZEN Mobile Platform DATAZEN for Team Collaboration Web Windows iOS Android Team Collaboration DATAZEN for Web Mobile iPad etc 5 | 2/19/2019 | Enterprise MS BI for Everyone

BI Architecture 6 | 2/19/2019 | Enterprise MS BI for Everyone

Issues Overcome So Far Performance of ETL Incremental Data Load Increase usage of Temp tables Introduce Columnstore Indexes Performance of Cube Processing Cube Partition Introduce Columnstore Indexes in Data Marts Data inconsistency in Source systems ETL Failures Cube Failures Backdated Master Data Recap Looped Type-II data load 7 | 2/19/2019 | Enterprise MS BI for Everyone

Issues Overcome So Far Performance of 2 second response time for My Score dashboard Use SSAS Cube as data layer Connected SharePoint Provider Hosted App with cube Used KPI to reduce MDX calls Build cube cache to improve dashboard access Step by step performance gain through code improvement Minimize network delays Mobile Readiness Microsoft tool stack was not fully supported on mobile Analyze most of dashboard tools PowerView Power BI SSRS Other Vendors Decided to purchase DataZen for Dashboard/ Leaderboard which support mobile devices After few weeks, Microsoft acquired DataZen 8 | 2/19/2019 | Enterprise MS BI for Everyone

Issues Overcome So Far – Cont.. TV Leaderboard SSRS with SSAS cube SSRS report cache used to reduce dashboard load time < 1 second load time Social Platform Extract Yammer feeds through Python using Web Services APIs Extract all IIS logs, system engagement data from internal application usage Build company level measures to track employee social engagements Design should (Business change mind) Extensible Maintainable 9 | 2/19/2019 | Enterprise MS BI for Everyone

Open Issues So Far Cube Cache required to build at each individual level when data level security applied Working with Microsoft Premier Support team to find a solution for this DATAZEN for TV Dashboards Cloud Readiness With SQL Server 2015, enable Power BI to access on premise cubes (As per Microsoft roadmap) Planning to move source system to a cloud and move BI also to cloud Go for SaaS 10 | 2/19/2019 | Enterprise MS BI for Everyone

Technology So Far T-SQL SSIS SQL Server 2012 SP1 SSAS SSRS SharePoint 2013 DataZen PowerView Provider Hosted App (.Net) Cloud PaaS Windows Server 2012 11 | 2/19/2019 | Enterprise MS BI for Everyone

Q&A 12 | 2/19/2019 | Enterprise MS BI for Everyone

Thank yOU 13 | 2/19/2019 | Enterprise MS BI for Everyone

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