1. THE ENTERPRISE ANALYTICAL JOURNEY
Wouldn’t it be cool if???

2. DATA GOVERNANCE The best money spent is on standardizing data
Unstructured data is more costly to analyze and less accurate to build on
Data governance must be woven into systems so standardization becomes part of the process

3. INFORMATICA Data integration and management (iPaaS)
Extract-Transform-Load
Connect disparate data sources into single data lake

4. DESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS
Used to analyze what has happened in the past
Identify trends over time periods
Support business case assumptions on known factors
Anyone in the business with analytical/statistical skills can master

5. EXCEL: THE WORLDS MOST USED BI TOOL
Easy to learn, impossible to master
Quickly dissect data, perform governance on the fly
PivotTables provide powerful analysis
Dealing with larger amounts of data can be challenging

6. PERISCOPE Quickly turn SQL queries into powerful visualizations
Develop Departmental or process related scorecards to track information by Day/Week/Month/YOY

7. PRESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS
Provide Decision Support
Move decision making to the front line
Eliminate gut instinct from decision-making
Create Autonomous Systems based in analytics

8. SALESFORCE ANALYTICS STUDIO
Suite of analytics tools from Salesforce.com
Quickly slice and dice data
Drill down through transactional detail
Real time information with live connection to data source

9. PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
Use past history with educated assumptions to predict future information
Use algorithms and statistical techniques like regression and cluster analysis
Larger datasets required to predict results
Employ a data scientist or consultant! (Look for statistics or actuarial experience)

10. R & PYTHON Open source languages with large support communities
Many open source libraries like TensorFlow to assist with machine learning modeling and tasks
Image recognition, text analysis, pattern discovery

11. WHAT’S NEXT? Natural language processing AI (Watson)
In-Line analysis of unstructured data
IOT analysis

12. Questions?