health check: maintaining enterprise bi

Grab some coffee and

enjoy the pre-show

banter before

the top of the hour!

H TTechnologies of 2017

HOST:Eric Kavanagh

@eric_kavanagh

THIS YEAR is…

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PANALYST:

Robin BloorChief Analyst, The Bloor Group

GUEST:

Stan GeigerSenior Product Manager,IDERA

Insights Drive Today’s Businesses

Building consensus is critical

Every part of the cycle needs data

Data should be in the DNA

A data-driven culture is critical

Don’t be afraid to look back!

Performance Issues Erode Trust

Patience is a virtue?

Not in the world of IT!

User expectations are changing

Performance is mandatory

40 seconds = 40 minutes

Lack of trust is a silent killer

Once gone, very hard to build

Can Artificial Intelligence Help?

Still Learning to Speak Silicon

If You’re Not Data-Driven?

INTRODUCING

Robin Bloor

Monitoring BI

Robin Bloor PhD

The Role of BI

BI is the feedback loop for corporate systems

The Driving Force: Insight = Analytics

And Optimization?

The Begetting of BI

Desire for knowledge begets user requests

User requests beget analytics projects

Analytics projects beget data lakes

Data lakes + analytics beget insights

Insights beget BI

A Full BI Platform: Much Simplified

Corporate Reality

BI Disruption

u Data Volumesu Data Sourcesu Streaming & speed of arrivalu Unstructured Datau Social (unclean) datau IOT Datau Data Provenanceu Computer Power (parallelism)u Machine Learningu New Analytic workloads

Bi is not a static situation.

The Internet of Things

Event-driven Architectures

Real-time Everything

The Future BI Landscape Includes…

BI: Of The User, By The User, For The User

u Data Flow Integration/automationu Performance/timeliness (overall)u Data Coverage: Data sources, also

structured/unstructured datau Data Cleansingu Data access skillsu Visualizationsu Shareabilityu Actionability

The issues in summary:

About BI Monitoring…

Unless the BI SERVICE is dependable and timely it isn’t a SERVICE

INTRODUCING

Stan Geiger

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM HEALTHMonitoring the Microsoft BI Stack

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE

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MICROSOFT PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE

§ Source Data• Relational Databases (SQL Server, Oracle, etc.)• NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, Hbase)

§ Data Storage and Aggregation• SQL Server Database• Azure Data Warehouse• Analysis Services (SSAS)

§ Presentation/Analytics• Excel• Reporting Services (SSRS)• PowerBI

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You don’t know what you don’t know.

Noam Chomsky

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PLATFORM MONITORING§ Availability

• Resource Availability (up/down)• Root Cause Identification

§ Performance• Server level performance metrics• Resource level performance• Identify bottlenecks

§ Utilization• User Sessions• Requests (queries, reports, etc.)

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When you need it, and don't have it…you sing a different tune.

Bert Gummer, Tremors 2

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THANKS!Any questions?

You can find me at:stan.geiger@idera.com

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