1. Business Intelligence Is Critical In The New Government Economy
Five Reasons Why
Business Intelligence Is Critical
In The New Government Economy
Will Greer – Vice President, SAP
Jason Beal – President, Beal Budgeting

2. What is Business Intelligence?
Discussion Outline
What is Business Intelligence?
As a technology
As a business tool
Why is BI Relevant Now?
Five Reasons Why Business Intelligence Is Critical In The New Government Economy
Who is using BI Effectively Already?
State showcases
Budgeting process impact

3. You don’t really know what BI is, so you can’t answer.
Raise Your Hand If…
You or your office is an owner or sponsor of a Business Intelligence project.
You are aware of BI projects, but they are being handled by the IT department or agency.
You don’t really know what BI is, so you can’t answer.

4. What Is Business Intelligence?
Analytics
Data Management
Data Warehouse
Executive Dashboards
Decision Support
Business Intelligence

5. The average organization maintains 14 separate unique data sources.

6. Top Public Sector Data Challenges
What Is Business Intelligence?
Top Public Sector Data Challenges

7. What Is Business Intelligence?
Data Collection
Information
Assembly
Insight
Delivery
Source: Aberdeen Group

10. Five Reasons Why Business Intelligence Is Critical In The New Government Economy

11. Investment in integrated transactional systems is at a 20-year low
Five Reasons Why Business Intelligence Is Critical In The New Government Economy
Investment in integrated transactional systems is at a 20-year low
How many of your states have active ERP projects planned?
Vendor investment in transactional areas (especially non-ERP) has slowed.
Your data will be sitting in siloed locations for the foreseeable future.

12. External pressure for transparency and accountability
Five Reasons Why Business Intelligence Is Critical In The New Government Economy
External pressure for transparency and accountability

13. Program Cut Justifications
Five Reasons Why Business Intelligence Is Critical In The New Government Economy
Program Cut Justifications
What goals across government is the program contributing to?
What impact does the program have on achieving those goals?
Does the program work well with other programs to maximize collective impact and minimize duplication?
How cost effective is the program compared to others?
Is the program well run? Have there been delays or cost overruns?
Does the program learn from experience and improve in response?
(Source: Center for American Progress)

14. BI addresses critical operational issues in new ways
Five Reasons Why Business Intelligence Is Critical In The New Government Economy
BI addresses critical operational issues in new ways
Memphis: BlueCRUSH (Criminal Reduction Using Statistical History)
Plots crime activity geographically to enable area targeting
Replaced manual, non-repeatable spreadsheet analysis
38.8% reduction in crime
Average annual benefit $2.7 million

15. After clicking on one of the balloons, a description will appear of the specific crime.

16. BI is a critical component of effective budgeting
Five Reasons Why Business Intelligence Is Critical In The New Government Economy
BI is a critical component of effective budgeting
Tight budgets mandate deeper, more complex , ‘what if’ analysis and modeling
Real-time information is essential to iterative decision-making throughout the budget cycle
Greater emphasis on linking budgeting to strategy and performance
Increased demand for budget transparency

17. Common BI Applications for Budgeting
Report on budgets with supporting documentation, justifications, strategic goals and objectives, and performance information
Track budgets/plans to actuals and quickly identify issues
Automate the publication of camera-ready budget books with dynamically compiled content including budget schedules, text, graphics
Analyze impact on personnel costs for budget preparation, execution, and collective bargaining
Optimize Allocation of Public Resources
Provide policy-makers with the real-time fiscal impact analysis to support decision-making
Review and prioritize funding requests throughout budget lifecycle
Quickly assess the impact of budget proposals
Link budgets to supporting information , justifications, etc.
More Efficient Budget Process
Eliminate time-consuming data manipulation and duplicate entry to support budgetary analysis and reporting
User-defined reports and analysis reduce IT support cost
Automate budget book publishing
Improve Organization Performance
Link budgets to strategic goals and objectives and performance information
Budget Book Publishing
Managing Personnel Expenditures
Budget Reporting
PBF differentiators include: text and publishing, robust personnel expenditure budgeting, Flexible forms and process controls, best of class analysis and reports (BOBJ)
Budget Monittoring
Expenditure and revenue forecasting, modeling , and analysis
Analyzing, Modeling & Forecasting 17

18. Wake County, North Carolina BI for Montitoring Budgets

19. Wake County, North Carolina BI for Monitoring Budgets

20. You’re still trying to get your arms around what BI is.
Raise Your Hand If…
You understand BI better now and can see how it might help your agency.
You understand BI better now, but it still doesn’t seem relevant, or seems like an IT thing.
You’re still trying to get your arms around what BI is.

21. Business Intelligence Is Critical In The New Government Economy
Five Reasons Why
Business Intelligence Is Critical
In The New Government Economy
Thank You.
Will Greer – Vice President, SAP ,
Jason Beal – President, Beal Budgeting ,