Self-Service BI Solution Architecture for Dynamic Reporting Rakesh Parida, Ashwin Rao Karavadi Microsoft IT India

Self-Service BI Solution Architecture Why? End to end changeability of a BI solution by BI power user Continual changes due nature of business being supported Changes impacting complete solution due to snowballing effect of changes on any part of the architecture Significant time required to implement solution change

Typical BI Solution Architecture Data Sources WarehouseWarehouse Data Marts/Cubes ReportingReporting ETL / Data Flow

Self-Service BI Solution Architecture How? Primary Components – Metadata Backbone – Dynamic ETL framework – Dynamic Reporting framework – Extensible relational database structures

Self-Service BI Solution Architecture How? Metadata base contains – Complete data flow information for a dynamic ETL based data flow system – Reporting information such as data column mapping, formatting, calculations for the dynamic reporting framework Extensible relational database structures able to absorb addition of new database objects/schema

Self-Service BI Solution Architecture Benefits Easy and quick absorption of changes to solution Automation of change management of the solution Enabling business users to realize real-time reporting enhancements

Self-Service BI Solution Architecture Typical SDLC with Self Service BI Gather requirements Sample reports Imagine Create Proof of Concepts Evangelize reports Design Add metadata Execute basic ETLs to load data Create

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