Business Agility Must Be Based on a New Flexible and Agile Data Approach

© 2015 Denodo
Craig LeClaire
VP, Principal Analyst
Megan Burns
VP, Principal Analyst
Cory Munchbach
Analyst
Holger Kisker, Ph.D.
VP and Research Director
Session 1
CIO’s Must Enable Business Agility
via Modern Data Management in the
Age of the Customer
Session 2
Understanding the Customer
Experience Ecosystem to Succeed in
the Age of the Customer
Session 3
Build a Contextual Marketing
Engine and Fuel it with Data
Session 4
Business Agility Must Be Based
on a New Flexible and Agile Data
Approach
Data Virtualization for Business Intelligence and
Business Agility in the Age of the Customer
Four sessions providing insights and best
practices for the Age of the Customer
WEBINAR SERIES featuring FORRESTER RESEARCH

© 2015 Denodo
Suresh Chandrasekaran
Senior VP, Denodo

© 2015 Denodo
Business Agility Must Be Based on
a New Flexible and Agile Data
Approach
VP and Research Director
SESSION 4

Making Leaders Successful
Every Day

Business Agility Must Be Based
on a New Flexible and Agile Data
Approach
Vice President & Research Director

Data initiatives are the most important tech
investments
Source: Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2013
Base: 2,074 technology executives and technology decision makers
57% of decision
makers rank data
projects the most
important
investment in
their company
7%
16%
15%
18%
20%
24%
5%
12%
18%
17%
16%
33%
Social related projects
Mobile related projects
Cloud related projects
Systems of engagement
applications
Systems of record
applications
Data related projects
2nd Priority
Top Priority
Please rank the following technologies according to their
importance and investment within your firm?

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The main driver is to better decisions
What are the most important goals/drivers your organization considers when planning or
orchestrating your business intelligence strategy?
10%
21%
27%
28%
29%
37%
42%
43%
53%
Achieve better business transparency
Develop better products and services
Improve business planning
Gain competitive advantage
Ensure compliance and reduce risks
Improve data quality and consistency
Improve customer interaction and
satisfaction
Monitor, improve, and optimize process
performance
Make better informed business
decisions
Base: 249 North American business decision-makers
Respondents answering “don’t know” are not shown
Source: Global Data and Analytics Survey, 2014
Business
growth
drivers
Technical
& control
drivers

Turn Data Into Business Insights
More Deeper For Everyone

Deeper Insights
More Data
For Everyone

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Culture
• Data treated as
an asset
• Data-driven
• Data shared
across silos
Capabilities
• Advanced data
management,
delivery and
analysis
Competency
• Technology skills
• Analytical skills
• New approach to
data governance
• Agile processes
Success
Ingredients To A New Flexible And Agile Data Approach

Culture
• Data treated as
an asset
• Data-driven
• Data shared
across silos
Competency
• Technology skills
• Analytical skills
• New approach to
data governance
• Agile processes
Capabilities
• Advanced data
management,
delivery and
analysis Success
Ingredients To A New Flexible And Agile Data Approach

Choose The Appropriate Data Management Technology
Highlytopolystructured
Batch to real time
Velocity
Variety
Scalable NoSQL
In-memory
Streaming
Standard SQL
apppliance
Structured
historical data
Int./ext.
polystructured
data
In-time
dynamic data
Real-time data
in motion

Not all data needs to fly First Class
Front
Rear

Data
Science
Workbench
Hadoop
Streaming
SQL
Datawarehouse
Application
In-Memory
Datawarehouse
Any Data
Sources
A new approach to architecture –
hub-and-spoke (example)

Advanced data analytics for
deeper Insights
Advanced data management
technologies to use more data
Advanced data delivery technologies
to leverage & share insights

Data About The Future Is The Most Valuable!
10%
14%
13%
15%
14%
18%
18%
23%
18%
21%
28%
29%
37%
31%
27%
28%
31%
5%
7%
8%
7%
10%
8%
12%
11%
17%
15%
22%
22%
26%
36%
41%
44%
53%
Unstructured external data
Social network data
Consumer mobile device data
Weblog data from publically facing sites
Sensor data other than mobile devices
Video, imagery & audio
Partner data
Third party data sets
Scientific data
Log data from corporate systems
Product data
Unstructured internal data
Home-grown data stored in spreadsheets or other…
Transactional data from corporate custom build apps
Customer data
Transactional data from corporate packaged apps
Planning, budgeting, forecasting data
4 5. very important
Base: 634 Business Intelligence users and planners
“How important are the following data types to your firm's overall business strategy?”
Answers 4 and 5 on a scale where 1- not at all important and 5 – very important
Source: Forrsights BI/Big Data Survey, Q3 2012
Data value
$$

Traditional Reporting
Predictive Analytics

You know nothing about your customer

Deeper Customer Insights With Advanced
Analytics
Why did he buy our product?
What is he going to need next?When will he need support?
Where is he right now?

Visual display and self-service are key
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Image source & copyright: Microsoft

New hub-and-spoke architecture
Data
Science
Workbench
Hadoop
Streaming
SQL
Datawarehouse
Application
In-Memory
Datawarehouse
Any Data
Sources

How Much Hadoop Skills Do You Need?
Very few specific skills:
Using „enterprise-ready“
Hadoop solutions, (e.g.
MapR, Cloudera,
Hortenworks)
Some specific skills:
Leverage OpenSource
Ecosystem (e.g. Pig,
Hive, HBase)
Native Hadoop
integration: Java coding
in distributed file system
with map-reduce

› Advanced analytics apply
data models based on
mathematic-statistical
methodologies & algorithms
• What is the right
algorithm?
• Adjust the model to
reflect business reality
Data Scientist: Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
› Vendors start to close the
skills gap with pre-
packaged solutions and
data services
› A team-based approach is
essential: tech management
& data scientist & business
& other experts

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Build
Integrate
UseShare
Self-
Service
Skills &
Processes

Business outcome
Data sources
Deeper insights
More data
For everyone
What business value
do we want?
Who needs what
insights for this?
What analysis tools
do we need?
How can we
manage all the data
needed?
What data
do we have?
How can
we process that
data?
What can
we learn from this
data?
How
do we deliver those
insights?
Bottom-uptechnology-driven
Top-downbusiness-driven
What business value
can we create?
What data sources
do we need?
There’s no single right way to plan

Data delivers benefits on different levels
Strategic Benefits
(e.g. increased asset value on
balance sheet, reduced risk
exposure, improved
performance, better planning)
LoB Benefits (e.g.
downtime, operational cost,
asset utilization, improved
quality, production
performance)
User Benefits
(e.g. decision support,
reduced search time,
satisfaction, self-service,
mobile support)
IT Benefits
(e.g. data quality, data
utilization, improved models,
real-time, improved SLAs)
„Data Will Become
An Asset On The
Balance Sheet“

Everybody can benefit from big data
Base: 1,077 North American and European
Software decision-makers who are using or
Planning to use big data (20+ employees)
“What groups or departments are currently using big data/planning to use big data in
2014?”
Source: Forrester’s Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2013
Operations
38%
(e.g., supply-demand)
Marketing
34%
(e.g., campaigns)
IT analytics
58%
(e.g., network secure)
Finance
31%
(e.g., risk exposure)
Sales
36%
(e.g., cross-/upsell)
Research
32%
(e.g., simulation)
Customer service
31%
(e.g., segmentation)
Manufacturing
20%
(e.g., process opt.)
GRC
14%
(e.g., auditing)
Product
development28%(e.
g., social feedback)
Logistic and distr.
27%
(e.g., route opt.)
Human resources
19%
(e.g., head hunting)
Procurement
17%
(e.g., best buy)
Supply chain
23%
(e.g., sourcing)
Other
3%
Don’t know
1%

Hadoop
Reporting
Process
Optimization
Data
Management
Data
Processing
Information
Usage
Data
Sources
EDW
Advanced
Analytics
Decision
Support
Engagement
Systems of
Customer
Engagement
In-Memory Streaming
Record
Systems of
Economy
Data

Don’t end up in a (big) data zoo!
Image source & copyright: Teradata

Hadoop EDW Streaming
Engagement
Systems of
Record
Systems ofReporting Advanced
Analytics
Customer
Engagement Economy
DataDecision
Support
Process
Optimization
In-Memory
Data
Management
Data
Processing
Information
Usage
Data
Sources

Data
Sources
Data Virtualization
Data Virtualization
Discovery
Access
Manage
Monitor
Performance

Data
Sources
Data Virtualization
Manage
Unified Data
Governance
• Security
• Privacy
• Quality
• Standards
• Life Cycle
Access
Unified Data
Access to any
• Source
• Application
• Insight
• Employee
• Customer
• Business
Partner
Monitor
Unified Data
Monitoring
• BI on BI
• Compliance
• Health
• Business
Usage
Discovery
Finding the
nuggets
• Sources
• Pattern
• Insights
• Use Cases
• Business
Value
Performance
Optimized Data
Performance
• Workload
Optimization
• Cost
• Availability
• Usability
• Business
Managing the Complexity Of A Modern Data Architecture

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There is no single ‘best’
data Use Case; start your
own road map.
There is no single ‘best’
data technology; see what
fits your needs.
Don‘t create data silos;
think strategically and
put in place a flexible
platform & data
virtualization
Tech management recommendations

Thank you
Holger Kisker
hkisker@forrester.com
@hkisker
+49 69 959 29862

© 2015 Denodo
CDO / CIO new calling - Turn MORE
data into DEEPER business insights
for EVERYONE
Requires new capability, competency
and culture of data as an asset
Capabilities at 3 levels of data,
analytics, delivery of insights requires
variety of best of breed tools
Beware of increased complexities ,
solution silos, replicated data, Big
Data Zoo!
Agile data architecture across layers -
data source, management,
processing, delivery – to abstract,
hide complexity, deliver info faster
Forrester Take Aways Denodo Enablers
Fast data access; Information-as-a-
service; Agile integration
Organize canonical business entities
used across dimensions
Single View of Customer; Data
distribution across channels
Structured & unstructured; Internal
& external; Real-time; Self-Service;
Less replicated; Virtual
Unified data abstraction layer
democratizes access to single source
of truth across and beyond
organization boundaries
Agile Data Architecture – How Denodo drives it

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 Access any source
 Make them look
homogeneous
 Pre-integrated graph of
information for users
 Build very rapidly
 Data services feed many
applications & users
ROI?
“..saved 1000s of
development hours”
“.. exceeded breakeven
expectations – smash through
it!”
“.. tackled business value for
more leverage, not IT cost”
Agile Data Architecture – Capital Markets Firm

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Data Virtualization - Two Approaches to Adopt
Solve
one/more
projects
Prove
value
Expand to
other use
cases
Reusability
and
scalability
Expand
enterprise-
wide
Enterprise
strategic
vision
Design for
scale and
support
Systemic
data
services
High value
use cases
first
Multiple
usage
patterns
Tactical
Approach
Enterprise-wide
Approach
People Process Technology
Hybrid
Approach
Possible

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