Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Connecting to Business Intelligence with Nick Nikijuluw Data Access Europe

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Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Partnerships  IBM DB2 Universal Database  Pervasive Software (“Btrieve”)  Business Objects (Crystal Decisions)  CINTAC ApS

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida CINTAC – A New Partner  7+ Years in Business Intelligence  Dynamic, Relational, On-line Analytical  Made in Denmark

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Overview “Lists & labels” Reports Management reports MIS Dashboards Scorecards Datamining

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Overview, and position  What is “Business Intelligence”?  What’s out there?  Levels of abstraction  Dynamic AI position, goals & purpose

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Business Intelligence  Exploring vast amounts of data - collect information to improve business performance  Quickly get a scope on higher level, tactical or strategic enterprise issues  BI in the past: Reporting, Querying  Introduction of OLAP, Dashboards & Score- Cards…  2005: Users want to access data, Flexible, Intuitive, Easy, Anywhere!

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida What’s out there?  Extract Transform Load (ETL)  Extract data from (ERP) system for aggregation  Prepare to load into data-warehouse/mart

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida What’s out there?  Query & Reporting  Process of querying a data source  Format it to create a report  Share or archive reports

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Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida What’s out there?  Vendors provide:  OLAP Tools  Report & Query Tools  Sometimes: Both  OLAP offers interactive, multi-dimensional, analysis, different levels of details.

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida What’s out there?  Dashboards  Everyone wants them!  Indicators or reports in a very “graphical” way  Example:  A gauge, showing progressive turn- over/activity  A trend line that tracks traded product  Build your OWN Dashboard

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Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida What’s out there?  Business Alert Monitors  Alerts, Informers  Set parameters, boundaries  Notification function (push)

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida What’s out there?  Score cards (BSC, Six Sigma)  Compare a given metric to a set target  Analyze performance versus target  Provide root cause analysis  Provide track accountability  Not individual (like Dashboards) but conform commonly agreed upon metrics

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida What’s out there?  Data Mining  Discover certain patterns in data using specific algorithms  Used for  Predictive analysis  Fraud detection  Customer scoring etc.  Marketing! (today)  Very vendor niche

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Position – BI Scope Reporting ROLAP CPM

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Position – Business Scope Operational Tactical Strategic

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Positioning Sweet spot

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Other considerations…  Fat Client or Browser based  Supported Back-ends / RDBMS  Architecture  Used access methods (ODBC, OLEDB)  Standardized querying methods  Security

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Dynamic AI  100% Browser based - for design & delivery  ODBC / OLEDB, native for industry standard RDBMS  MS-Sql, DB2, Oracle, MySQL, Pervasive, Interbase etc.  Enterprise Edition for Scalability and Security  Complies with German Banking Security demands  Informers notify via SMS, or Dashboard  Very short learning curve, fast & easy to use!

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Dynamic AI  Trend in Business Intelligence:  Web-based, Real-time Analytical  No aggregates / cubes  Fast, intuitive, low TCO (ease of use)  Power Users  Bring Business Intelligence to a rational level!

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access Worldwide June 6-8,2005 Key Biscayne, Florida A Real-time Web-based Business Intelligence tool