2. DATA ANALYTICS Russell Ridley

3. INFRASTRUCTURE Compliment your Existing Structure Production, Development, and Quality Environments Think Virtual Disk Space, Disk Space, Disk Space

4. DESIGN Business Needs (Risk, Finance, Operations, Sales) Know your Data Metadata User Interface Defining Dimensions and Avoiding a Snowstorm

5. Data Visualization Tools Intuitive User Interface Columnar Vs OLAP (It’s all about Speed Vs Complexity) Scalability Pricing Model

6. TRANSFORMATION Transactional System to the Warehouse Creating Dimensions Latency of the Data Automation of New Dimension Elements

7. SUPPORT Training Business Analysts in using the Tool Training End Consumers of the Data Visualization Faulty Logic -- Average of an Average and other Adventures

8. BI Tools We Watch: Tableau Qlik Microstrategy BI Tools We’ve Tried Over the Years: Brio Business Objects Inet Software SiSense Microsoft Power Pivot Information Builders SSRS

9. CURRENT BI PLATFORM Microsoft SQL 2012 moving to 2014 SSRS SSIS SSAS User Interface is primarily JAVA Data Visualization is Highcharts http://www.highcharts.com/demo

10. FINAL THOUGHT

12. Russell Ridley Director of IT 713-580-3081 rridley@gsfsgroup.com