1. Powering Network Rail with the Oracle Business Intelligence Platform
Antony Brown – Head of Corporate BI Systems & Support
Network Rail
26-Apr-17

2. Program Agenda Network Rail – background in brief
Where does BI fit into the mix
Key Challenges
Our data & information
BI Strategy
Oracle BI Platform footprint (the simple version)
Our journey since last year
Corporate Services
Asset Management (ORBIS vision)
Summary
NETWORK RAIL

3. Insert hyperlink to video behind “Network Rail”
Insert NR video (file to big & can’t download it)– hand to Jagdish on Sunday 25th Oct
Insert hyperlink to video behind “Network Rail”
NETWORK RAIL

4. Where does BI fit into the mix?
Given the Key challenges
Government under pressure to reduce level of funding
Demand growth in Passenger & Freight Traffic
Find new ways to increase capacity
Enhancing & renewing an aging Network
Whilst not just running but improving train performance
And reducing Operating Costs
We need to deliver more for less - We are striving to become more intelligent as a business. 4

5. Why is data important to Network Rail?
Network Rail is a business which relies on fact based decision making.
We collect, store and manage, petabytes and petabytes of data for this purpose.
As technology has advanced so has the ability to capture, manage, process and correlate huge quantities of data
We are capturing it at an alarming rate – 90% of the worlds data has been created in the past 2 years
Where do we capture data?
Measurement Train
Timetable
Corporate Offices
Intelligent Infrastructure
Track Inspection
Train Performance
Supply Chain
Assets
Capturing and storing all this data is great, but data is not information…

6. Our BI Strategy (in a picture)
…this is where our BI Strategy comes in
Information = “Data processed in such a way that it is to be meaningful to the person who receives it”
Our BI Strategy (in a picture)
A high level view
Circa 1,300 transactional / source systems
3 major warehouses
Corporate Services
Asset Management
Network Operations
Combining to create our corporate information model
BI Server
Corporate
Services
Finance
Supply Chain
Procurement HR
Projects
etc
Asset
Management
Maintenance
Condition Monitoring
etc
Network
Operations
Time Table
Access
Signalling
etc
Extract Transform & Load
NETWORK RAIL 6

7. Our BI Strategy (in a picture)
…Using the Oracle BI Platform
Our BI Strategy (in a picture)
Our footprint
Corp Services
Analytics on top of eBusiness.
Out the box modules
+ other bespoke star schemas on top of data outside of eBusiness i.e.
MINT
LINK UP
Horizon
Assyst
ETL - Informatica (circa 25% extensions)
BI Server
Corporate
Services
Finance
Supply Chain
Procurement HR
Projects
etc
Asset
Management
Maintenance
Condition Monitoring
etc
Network
Operations
Time Table
Access
Signalling
etc
Extract Transform & Load
NETWORK RAIL 7

8. Our BI Strategy (in a picture)
…Using the Oracle BI Platform
Our BI Strategy (in a picture)
Our footprint
Asset Management
July 2015 Asset Data Store went live.
Delivered on the Enterprise platform
Bespoke ETL built using Informatica
“Decision support tools” exposed through dashboards
New functionality (i.e. Geo spacial)
BI Server
Corporate
Services
Finance
Supply Chain
Procurement HR
Projects
etc
Asset
Management
Maintenance
Condition Monitoring
etc
Network
Operations
Time Table
Access
Signalling
etc
Extract Transform & Load
NETWORK RAIL 8

9. Our journey since last year
Corporate Services
Technology j
Expected
Actual
benefits j
User adoption l
Changing to role based access model
Targeting audiences with robust roll out plans

10. The Cost Centre Manager
At each of our launch sessions we remind them…
Your responsibility as a Cost Manager is primarily to manage the resources and associated costs within the confines of an agreed budget during any given financial year.

11. The Cost Centre Manager dashboard

12. The Cost Centre Manager dashboard

13. Our journey since last year – Asset Management
ORBIS
(Offering Rail Better Information Services)
At Network Rail We need to understand how our £53bn asset base is performing. To do so we need better information and insight on our assets to ensure that we are managing it in the most effective way possible.
The short video that follows, set in 2018, shows how the capability ORBIS is delivering helps to address these challenges by placing quality asset information at the heart of decision-making in Network Rail.
It shows how the way Network Operations and Infrastructure Projects work will change by 2018 – how information, insight and intelligence enables us to deliver a safer, more reliable and cost-effective railway, fit for the future.

14. Our journey since last year
Insert ORBIS video (file to big & cant download it)– hand to Jagdish on Sunday
Insert ORBIS video

15. Our journey since last year – Asset Management
At a Programme level
The vision
6 decision support tools
Strategic tools of choice are in play
ETL – Informatica
Dashboards - OBIEE
New Star Schemas
New functionality – Geospatial
At an Enterprise BI level? Some challenges…
Latching onto the new functionality. Corp Services & Geospatial
Integrating the model
Data Governance, on an Enterprise scale.

16. Example of data & design issues
A good thing? Or
A bad thing?

17. We are powering our organisation through the Oracle BI platform.
In summary
Operational level - we are becoming excellent with our analysis, user adoption is increasing
Tactical level - we are driving real business change, providing self service, eradicating the middle man and inefficient manual process.
Strategic level - our board report or excom pack, still lives in the world of PDF. We have a desire to gradually move it across onto the strategic toolset, but the journey there remains unknown, analytics alone does not deliver completely.
As we expand across the enterprise, we are having mixed success, but we are bringing our integration problems up a layer and exposing them.
We are identifying our data governance issues and have a programme of activity in its infancy to address them.
We don’t stand still, we are constantly improving. Our vision is clear, and the next few years are full of opportunity to improve.
We are powering our organisation through the Oracle BI platform.