1. Enterprise MS BI for Everyone
Indika Ariyasinghe

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

3. 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
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4. My Score KPI Dashboard
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5. Mobile BI - DATAZEN Mobile Platform DATAZEN for Team Collaboration Web
Windows
iOS
Android
Team Collaboration
DATAZEN for
Web
Mobile
iPad
etc
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6. BI Architecture
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7. 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
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8. 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
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9. 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
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10. 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
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11. 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
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12. Q&A
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13. Thank yOU
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