B.I. Fast Tracksm

Providing Accelerated Business Intelligence Roadmaps & Previews

The Microsoft 2010 BI Stack

SUPPORTINGBUSINESS

USERS

BUILDINGTHE DATA CENTER

OF THE FUTURE

JUST SOLVEMY PROBLEM

EFFORTLESSLYCONNECTED

& IN CONTROL

REWIRINGTHE ECONOMY

Agenda

• B.I. Fast Track Engagements• Why & How• Roles & Responsibilities• B.I. Roadmap• B.I. Fast Track I• B.I. Fast Track II• Rapid POC Pilot Server

Requirements• Q & A

Why & HowWhy?

• To Provide MSFT BI customers with best-practices architectural assessments & planning solutions

• To Provide MSFT BI customers with low-risk previews of the stack’s end-to-end value using their own datasets

• To Provide Deliverables that Kick-Start the preview’s real-world project counterpart

• To Prove B.I. Voyage’s Expert Competency

How?• Rapid Architectural Roadmap Engagements• Mini Solutions Developed using your data sets• Deliverables are good for previews but are not

enterprise-ready solutions

Roles & Responsibilities

• Roles• Customer Subject Matter

Experts (SMEs)• B.I. Voyage Architects

• Responsibilities• SMEs provide B.I. Voyage

Architects with valuable source system & business rule knowledge

• B.I. Voyage Architects provide design & development of the Deliverables

B.I. Roadmap

Overview• Kick-Off your BI solution using best-practices

requirements gathering techniques• In-depth source system data profiling sessions• Results in the B.I. Voyage Business Intelligence

Roadmap report

B.I. Roadmap Schedule

Preliminary• Workstation & Network Access • Source System data access or Sample data

Provisioned

Week 1• Day 1 - Kick-off and project sponsor

meetings • Day 2 - Review existing artifacts and

technical environment • Day 3 - Conduct business unit

interviews• Day 4 - Data profiling sessions• Day 5 - Creation of B.I. roadmap report

B.I. Roadmap Deliverables

Custom B.I. Roadmap • Business requirements identified• Technical requirements identified• Solutions to meet business requirements• Prioritized B.I. roadmap

B.I. Fast Track I

Overview• Low-Risk, Rapid Business Intelligence Preview• Constructed with your Data Sets• Helps Communicate & Demonstrate the Business

Value obtained from modern-day BI Solutions• Valuable for BI projects still in early phases

B.I. Fast Track I Schedule

Preliminary• Server Provisioned• Trial or Enterprise Software Licenses • Workstation & Network Access to Sample Data

Week 1• Day 1 - Requirements Meeting & Finalization Pilot

Server Configuration• Day 2 - Mini Data Mart Designed & Built ETL

Processes Designed & Built• Day 3 - OLAP Cube Designed & Built• Day 4 - Operational Report and Corporate

Dashboard designed and built• Day 5 - Self-Service Dashboard Built and

Presentation

B.I. Fast Track I DeliverablesData Mart (Repository)

• 1 Fact Table• 4 Dimensions

ETL Packages• Mini ETL Packages that initialize the Data Mart

Tables

OLAP Cube• Mini Cube built from the Data Mart Schema

Portal• Mini, Single SharePoint BI Portal

Reporting (3 Total Insights)• PowerPivot Dashboard• PerformancePoint Dashboard• Reporting Services Report

B.I. Fast Track II

Overview• Expanded Deliverables • Additional Dimensions Developed• Additional Reporting & Visualization

Artifacts Constructed including Data Mining

B.I. Fast Track II SchedulePreliminary

• Server Provisioned• Trial or Enterprise Software Licenses

Provisioned• Workstation & Network Access for on-site

portions• Sample Data Provisioned

Week 1• Requirements Meeting & Finalization• Pilot Server Configuration• Mini Data Mart Designed & Built• OLAP Cube Designed & Built

Week 2• Mini SharePoint Portal Built• PowerPivot Samples Built• PerformancePoint Samples Built• Data Mining Samples Built

B.I. Fast Track II DeliverablesData Mart (Repository)

• 1 Fact Table• 8 Dimensions

ETL Packages• Mini ETL Packages that initialize the Data Mart

Tables

OLAP Cube• Mini Cube built from the Data Mart Schema

Portal• Mini, Single SharePoint BI Portal

Reporting (10 Total Insights)• PowerPivot Reports• PerformancePoint Dashboards• Excel Data Mining Analyses• Reporting Services Reports

B.I. Fast Track Pilot Server Requirements

Hardware|SoftwareComponent

Required Recommended

CPU AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon 64, Intel Xeon with Intel EM64T support, Intel Pentium IV with EM64T support

Dual or Quad Core Architecture

Memory 4 GB 8 GB +

Operating System Windows Server 2008 SP2 or R2 (64-bit)

Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) +

SharePoint 2010 SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise (64-bit)

SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise (64-bit) +

SQL Server 2008 R2 SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise (64-bit)

SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise (64-bit) +

Office 2010 Office 2010 Standard (64-bit)

Office 2010 Professional Plus (64-bit) +