Financial Information Management DBMS and Operations, BI, and Analytics Stefano Grazioli

Critical Thinking  Last unit of the DB/BI segment  Easy meter

You do the talking  Name, major  Learning objectives  Things you like about the class  Things that can be improved  Attitude towards the Tournament

Financial Information Management BI tools Pivot tables

Welcome to ACME!  You are an analytic consultant at ACME Inc., a multinational company with a global presence.  It is year-end and the CFO wants to better understand the differences between budgeted costs and actual costs throughout the year.

Let’s look at the data  On a remote RDBMS

Back To The Big Picture… Source: TDWI Smart Companies Report sg edits O PERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT ACME Departments (across the globe) Accounting Europe Human Resources Acme Budget Table Pivot Table YOU

Using a Pivot Table  A pivot table is a BI tool to summarize large amount of data difficult to understand in raw format.  Must be possible to group the data  Powerful, intimidating, valuable skill

Financial Information Management WINIT What Is New In Technology?

Pivot Architecture UserUser Pivot Cache (in memory) Remote DBMS Pivot Table (on screen) Excel ADO.NET Objects

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