Cloud Business Intelligence
Vendor Research
Supervisor - Gary Lau
Presented by Dujin Choi
Contents
• Introduction
o Understanding BI(Business Intelligence)
o Issues with Traditional BI
o Cloud BI for SMB(Small to Medium Size Business)
o Project Background and Goal
• Approach
o Build Evaluation Framework
o Research Cloud BI vendors
o Select top 3 Cloud BI vendors
• Conclusion & Future Work
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Understanding Business Intelligence
From my experience,
we called this EIS/DSS
Extract
Transform
Load
Operational System
(ERP, CRM, Flat files etc)
Main Frame
Report Server
DBMS
Query
Report
Analysis
Unix
Data Warehouse System
Unix / RDBMS
EIS: Executive Information System
DSS: Decision Support System
End Users
Management
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Traditional BI and Its problem
• Expensive to implement and maintain (3 cost centres)
• Long time to implement (17 months) but likely to fail
• Not handle unstructured data
• Focus on large enterprises
3 cost centres : Software, Hardware and Consulting/Development
Project Success Rate : 31%
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Cloud BI for SMB
• Issues with SMB
o Rely more on “guesswork”
o No data-driven decision making process
o Business environment is changing quickly
• Cloud BI can be a solution for SMB
o Pay as you use - BI solution as a service (No initial cost)
o Focus on SMB market
o Designed for easy implementation or quick delivery (Cost saving)
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Project Background and Goal
• Project Background
o MQ uses a BI solution installed on its premises
o IT staff in MQ maintains hardware, software
o MQ looks for a new BI solution in Cloud as alternative
• Project Goal
o Create a framework to evaluate Cloud BI vendors and their solutions
o Identify top 3 Cloud BI vendors for SMB
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Approach
1. Extract evaluation items
2. Research Cloud BI vendors currently on the market
3. Choose important items on each category
4. Select the top 3 vendors for SMB
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Extract Evaluation Items
• Data integration/ETL (Data loading, Performance, Design …)
• Data storage (Data control, OLAP, Data quality …)
• Reporting/Analysis (Security, Report generation, Report Consumption)
• Cloud service (Cost, Service)
• Company (Financial stability, Reputation, Reference)
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Vendor Research
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Research vendors who focus on Cloud BI business
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Review technical documents, video demos and questionnaire
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Research Other Cloud BI vendors
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Choose Items to Evaluate
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Choose important items on each category (4-5 items each)
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ETL functions – Database connectivity, Scheduling/Auto update
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Database/OLAP functions – Real time update, Drill-down
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Reporting – Report Template or wizard
o
Cloud service – Cost per month
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Company – Reference in Australia
Are they responsive to our inquiry?
OLAP – OnLine Analytical Processing
Drill-down - Moving from summary information to detailed data
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Vendor Selection
• 5 vendors meet basic requirements
o Bime, Birst, KPILibrary, Gooddata and Birt on-demand
• Bime - has limited ETL functionality, focuses on small business only
• Gooddata – is not responsive, needs extra effort to develop APIs
API – Application Programing Interface
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Top 3 Vendors
• Birst
o Responsive, Good reputation in Cloud BI, Large number of Clients
• KPI Library
o Many users in Australia, KPI based approach, Strong at Reporting
• Birt on-demand
o Open source based – Price advantage with full functionality
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Business to Vendor Matrix
Business / Environment
Vendor or Solution (Cloud BI business only)
Small company (affordable cost)
BIME, Zoho Report, Birt on demand
Salesforce.com users
Express and QlikView, Indicee
Report only purpose
Zoho Report
Bigdata analysis
1010data
Focus on Finance or procurement
Rosslyn Analytics
For MS solutions -MS SQL etc
Panorama – Novaview
Complex ETL process required
Birt on demand with Talend
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Conclusion and Future work
• What we have achieved
o Understood of current Cloud BI market , Technology
o Understood of method to evaluate Cloud BI vendors
o Selected top 3 Cloud BI vendors
• Future work
o Simulate more details with real 3-5 set of business data
o Look more into “PivotLink” who has recently been added and seems to be a good solution
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Thank You !!!
Any Questions or Comments?
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