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Teaching Business Intelligence. Paul Hawking Victoria University. Why BI?. Motivation Tools Resources. Why Not BI?. Teaching Business Intelligence. Information And Analytics. Implementation. Corporate Performance Management. BI Competency Centre. Data Quality.
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Teaching Business Intelligence Paul HawkingVictoria University
Motivation Tools Resources Why Not BI?
Teaching Business Intelligence Information And Analytics Implementation CorporatePerformanceManagement BI Competency Centre Data Quality Business Intelligence Governance How is my company performing? How do I implement BI best practices across the enterprise? What are the best practices to ensure data quality? How to best implement BI in my company. Business Intelligence Architecture Architecture Extraction Transformation Loading Query Development Performance Mobile BI What objects do I need to create in my BI environment? How do I load and integrate data from different source systems? How do I build efficient queries? How can I improve the performance of my BI environment? How can I make my BI mobile?
Business Intelligence Focus
Business Process Elements • Organisational Units • Sales Area • Distribution Channel • Transactions • Sales Order Creation • Goods Issue • Data • Master Data • Customer • Material • Transactional Data • Sales Quantity • Sales Price Process Indicator
Strategic Success – Tetra Pak Process Performance People Tools
The Result: Workers Lose Productivity from Inadequate Information Access 54%Lose Productivity Other effects: 47% Make Flawed Decisions45% Lose Competitive Agility Source: Economist, ‘Enterprise Knowledge Workers Study; November, 2007
Top 10 Business and Technology Priorities in 2010 Source: Gartner EXP (January 2010)
Business Drivers and Target GroupsReporting Tools for Different User Groups
Business Drivers and Target GroupsReporting Tools for Different User Groups
Crystal Reports • Proven standard for report design • Used by more than over 500 major software vendors • Sophisticated report formatting • Pixel perfect reports • Create multi-page • Multi-query • Templates and wizards to speed • up report creation • Secure, large scale distribution of • reports • Connectivity to any data source
SAP Crystal Reports Access http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/sme/freetrials/index.epx
SAP Crystal Report Resources • Crystal Reports 2011 http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/crystal-reports-elearning?refer=main • Crystal Reports Enterprise http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/crystal-reports-enterprise-elearning?refer=main
Business Drivers and Target GroupsReporting Tools for Different User Groups
SAP Business Objects Dashboard (formerly xcelsius) • Personalised Flash based dashboards • Variety of output mediums • Microsoft Office Documents • Portals • PDF • Empower business users with interactive information • Powerful “what if” analysis with slidersand other controls • Ability to drill down • Pre-built components, skins, maps, charts, gauges, and selectors
SAP Business Objects Dashboard Design Access http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/sme/freetrials/index.epx
SAP Business Objects Dashboard Resources • http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/dashboards-elearning?refer=main
Business Drivers and Target GroupsReporting Tools for Different User Groups
Web Intelligence (Interactive Analysis) • Self service analysis and reporting • Business Users • (Limited) technical expertise (report designers), • business domain expertise • Interactive report creation • Flexible formatted reports with built-in analysis features • Built on any type of data source
SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence Access http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/sme/freetrials/index.epx
SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence Resources • Web Intelligence http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/web-intelligence-elearning?refer=main
Business Drivers and Target GroupsReporting Tools for Different User Groups Analysis (OLAP/Office)
Analysis (OLAP/Office) • Optimized for highly interactive analysis (Ad Hoc) • Explore multi-dimensional data sets • Available for Web based and Microsoft Office focused deployments • Comprehensive range of business and time calculations • Visualization options • Exception highlighting • Ability to drill down into details (Web Intelligence or Crystal Reports)
SAP Business Objects Analysis Resources http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/analysis-office-elearning?refer=product-help
Business Drivers and Target GroupsReporting Tools for Different User Groups Analysis (OLAP/Office)
Business Objects Explorer • Search and navigation tool for casual users to access business data • Ability to search, explore and visualise large data volumes via Business Warehouse Accelerator (BWA) • Guided analysis and smart visualisations • Limited training required
SAP Business Objects BI On Demand Resources http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/ondemand
Interaction Teaching Approaches Tell me, I’ll forget 告诉我,我会忘记 展示给我,我会记住 涉及到我,我会了解 Show me, I’ll remember Involve me, I’ll understand
SAP Community NetworkLeadership in Social Innovation, Social Commerce and Social Intelligence > 2.3 million members strong > 200 countries and territories ~ 20,000 new members / month Members ~ 1.1 million unique visitors / month > 4 million visits @ 20 million pages / month Traffic > 200,000 have contributed (ever) > 99,000 last year w/ 2,000 top contributors ~ 6,000 bloggers … 100+ SAP Mentors … Contributors ~ 4,000 posts / day in 350+ forums ~ 2 million topic threads @ 7M messages ~ 2 million monthly newsletter impressions “SAP Community Network may be the most extensive use to date of social media by a corporation.” Leveraging the Talent-Driven Organization The Aspen Institute - 2010 Momentum ~ 700+ SAP ecosystem solutions Thousands of demos and trials delivered Serving >200 countries @ all industries Impact
BI Community Content – Open to Public • Keycode for 3-month validity (Crystal Reports and Dashboards)
Steps to access UA-members only content • Log on to www.uac.sap.com with user ID and password • On UAC landing page, click this on top right-hand corner : • Select “Business Intelligence” section under UA Library (left-hand bar) • Scroll down to “UA Business Intelligence Curricula”. All BI-related content are available here. • Additional Resources • Check out “Recent BI documents” for additional teaching materials d by other professors • Participate in “BI discussion forum” or post your own questions to start communicating with others in the community UA Program Members Access UA Library Reserve Desk
SAP Crystal Reports & SAP Integration Kit https://cw.sdn.sap.com/cw/docs/DOC-116115 • Step 1: Download slides, case studies and xls files for exercises Step 2: Download softwareswith 6-month validity keycode
SAP Crystal Dashboard Design • Step 1: Download slides, case studies and xls files for exercises Step 2: Download software with 6-month validity keycode
SAP Crystal Dashboard Design -Complete Standalone Kit without going to UCC • Lecture Slides & teaching notes Case studies/exercises Data sources for exercises
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence & Universe Design https://cw.sdn.sap.com/cw/docs/DOC-51386
SAP Business Objects Explorerhttps://cw.sdn.sap.com/cw/docs/DOC-124419
SAP Business Objects Explorer • Lecture slides • teaching notes • Exercises plus data source • Case study based on GBI