Join Albert for his presentation which will focus on key emerging trends in Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics. He will identify ways in which an enterprise can organize capacities for successfully leveraging continually advancing tools and technologies in the Analytics space with the goal of developing and deploying optimal business value in the most effective and efficient manner. Lexmark International achieved operational excellence and order of magnitude efficiencies in reporting performance and user satisfaction by integrating data from various functional silos with disparate BI standards into SAP HANA (High Performance ANalytic Appliance) and then leveraging BusinessObjects BI 4.0 for meeting complex BI analytics, report development, and end-user requirements.
N. Albert Khair is a Business Intelligence, Enterprise Architecture and Data Warehousing expert and has worked in Information Technology (IT) for more than 25 years and is currently employed by Lexmark International headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky. Albert’s work experience within the continental U.S. and abroad spans both public and private sectors, including government, insurance, consulting, airlines and high-tech electronics industries. Albert's functional areas of focus include: Oracle ERP, SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BusinessObjects BI4.0, Supply Chain, Finance, Sales and Distribution, SAP BW, SAP HANA/RDS. Albert has been published in Information Week, a magazine for business and technology managers, and has presented at SAP Insider and ASUG (Americas SAP Users Group) at their national and regional conferences.
Enterprise Analytics: Serving Big Data Projects for HealthcareDATA360US
Andrew Rosenberg's Presentation on "Enterprise Analytics: Serving Big Data Projects for Healthcare" at DATA 360 Healthcare Informatics Conference - March 5th, 2015
Health Information Analytics: Data Governance, Data Quality and Data StandardsFrank Wang
The document discusses key concepts related to health data governance, including data governance, data quality, data standards, and master data management. It provides definitions and explanations of these topics, as well as their importance in enabling effective health information analytics. It also discusses different roles and responsibilities in data governance committees and outlines approaches to master data management.
Big Data Analytics for Healthcare Decision Support- Operational and ClinicalAdrish Sannyasi
This document discusses using big data analytics for operational and clinical decision support in healthcare. It outlines how analytics can help optimize decisions for patients, administrators, providers and policy makers by analyzing structured and unstructured data from various sources. The document proposes creating an operational decision support center and clinical decision support center to help coordinate patient care, anticipate needs, detect bottlenecks and support clinical decisions with data-driven insights. The goal is to move from rule-based systems to more precise, predictive and transparent decision making approaches.
This webinar will focus on the technical and practical aspects of creating and deploying predictive analytics. We have seen an emerging need for predictive analytics across clinical, operational, and financial domains. One pitfall we’ve seen with predictive analytics is that while many people with access to free tools can develop predictive models, many organizations fail to provide a sufficient infrastructure in which the models are deployed in a consistent, reliable way and truly embedded into the analytics environment. We will survey techniques that are used to get better predictions at scale. This webinar won’t be an intense mathematical treatment of the latest predictive algorithms, but will rather be a guide for organizations that want to embed predictive analytics into their technical and operational workflows.
Topics will include:
Reducing the time it takes to develop a model
Automating model training and retraining
Feature engineering
Deploying the model in the analytics environment
Deploying the model in the clinical environment
The document discusses open data in clinical research and how it relates to big data. It notes that open data means data that can be analyzed and used by anyone through linkages and evidence-based applications. The document outlines key principles for open data, including clarity of use, data quality, and managing data reuse. It describes benefits like crowd-sourcing analysis, data linkage insights, and improved data quality. Finally, it summarizes that for clinical research, open data is a way to securely analyze and apply insights from big data.
Seeing Is Believing: How Clinical Trial Data Transparency is Changing How an...d-Wise Technologies
This document summarizes the changing landscape of clinical trial data transparency in the pharmaceutical industry. It discusses how patient-level clinical trial data was previously kept private but is now being shared more openly. Major players in the industry have implemented different approaches to sharing historical trial data through independent review boards. While the EMA supports more transparency, the FDA has not taken an official position and views data sharing as between companies and patients. Overall the industry is moving towards greater openness, though approaches and eligible trials vary by company.
Enabling Better Clinical Operations through a Clinical Operations StoreSaama
Srini Anandakumar, Senior Director of Clinical Analytics Innovation for Saama, presented at the Big Data and Analytics in Pharma in Philadelphia, November 1, 2017.
Big data in healthcare refers to large, diverse, and complex datasets that are difficult to analyze using traditional methods. The healthcare industry generates huge amounts of data from sources like electronic health records, medical imaging, and fitness trackers. Analyzing this big data can help improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, and advance personalized medicine. However, healthcare also faces challenges like data silos, privacy concerns, and resistance to change. Opportunities include disease prediction and prevention, reducing readmissions and fraud, and optimizing care through remote monitoring. Some organizations are starting to see benefits from big data initiatives focused on areas like evidence-based treatment and integrated health records.
Enterprise Analytics: Serving Big Data Projects for HealthcareDATA360US
Andrew Rosenberg's Presentation on "Enterprise Analytics: Serving Big Data Projects for Healthcare" at DATA 360 Healthcare Informatics Conference - March 5th, 2015
Health Information Analytics: Data Governance, Data Quality and Data StandardsFrank Wang
The document discusses key concepts related to health data governance, including data governance, data quality, data standards, and master data management. It provides definitions and explanations of these topics, as well as their importance in enabling effective health information analytics. It also discusses different roles and responsibilities in data governance committees and outlines approaches to master data management.
Big Data Analytics for Healthcare Decision Support- Operational and ClinicalAdrish Sannyasi
This document discusses using big data analytics for operational and clinical decision support in healthcare. It outlines how analytics can help optimize decisions for patients, administrators, providers and policy makers by analyzing structured and unstructured data from various sources. The document proposes creating an operational decision support center and clinical decision support center to help coordinate patient care, anticipate needs, detect bottlenecks and support clinical decisions with data-driven insights. The goal is to move from rule-based systems to more precise, predictive and transparent decision making approaches.
This webinar will focus on the technical and practical aspects of creating and deploying predictive analytics. We have seen an emerging need for predictive analytics across clinical, operational, and financial domains. One pitfall we’ve seen with predictive analytics is that while many people with access to free tools can develop predictive models, many organizations fail to provide a sufficient infrastructure in which the models are deployed in a consistent, reliable way and truly embedded into the analytics environment. We will survey techniques that are used to get better predictions at scale. This webinar won’t be an intense mathematical treatment of the latest predictive algorithms, but will rather be a guide for organizations that want to embed predictive analytics into their technical and operational workflows.
Topics will include:
Reducing the time it takes to develop a model
Automating model training and retraining
Feature engineering
Deploying the model in the analytics environment
Deploying the model in the clinical environment
The document discusses open data in clinical research and how it relates to big data. It notes that open data means data that can be analyzed and used by anyone through linkages and evidence-based applications. The document outlines key principles for open data, including clarity of use, data quality, and managing data reuse. It describes benefits like crowd-sourcing analysis, data linkage insights, and improved data quality. Finally, it summarizes that for clinical research, open data is a way to securely analyze and apply insights from big data.
Seeing Is Believing: How Clinical Trial Data Transparency is Changing How an...d-Wise Technologies
This document summarizes the changing landscape of clinical trial data transparency in the pharmaceutical industry. It discusses how patient-level clinical trial data was previously kept private but is now being shared more openly. Major players in the industry have implemented different approaches to sharing historical trial data through independent review boards. While the EMA supports more transparency, the FDA has not taken an official position and views data sharing as between companies and patients. Overall the industry is moving towards greater openness, though approaches and eligible trials vary by company.
Enabling Better Clinical Operations through a Clinical Operations StoreSaama
Srini Anandakumar, Senior Director of Clinical Analytics Innovation for Saama, presented at the Big Data and Analytics in Pharma in Philadelphia, November 1, 2017.
Big data in healthcare refers to large, diverse, and complex datasets that are difficult to analyze using traditional methods. The healthcare industry generates huge amounts of data from sources like electronic health records, medical imaging, and fitness trackers. Analyzing this big data can help improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, and advance personalized medicine. However, healthcare also faces challenges like data silos, privacy concerns, and resistance to change. Opportunities include disease prediction and prevention, reducing readmissions and fraud, and optimizing care through remote monitoring. Some organizations are starting to see benefits from big data initiatives focused on areas like evidence-based treatment and integrated health records.
HIMSS Analytics, with a goal of helping healthcare organizations understand and advance healthcare analytics, has developed the Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity (AMAM) published here on www.SlideShare.net for healthcare industry reference.
This 8 stage international prescriptive analytics oriented maturity model offers an easy assessment and a detailed industry specific road map to help healthcare providers interested in analytics advance their capabilities.
For further information please see www.HIMSSAnalytics.org
The document discusses advanced analytics and big data in healthcare. It notes that while there is a large amount of healthcare data being generated, less than 10% of organizations are focusing on analytics. It then covers various types of data in healthcare, challenges with data integration and sharing across different systems, and the value of analytics in improving outcomes. It provides examples of using analytics for quality improvement, care coordination, and other areas. Finally, it discusses recommendations and limitations for various stakeholders in utilizing big data and analytics.
Building a Data Quality Program from Scratchdmurph4
The document outlines steps for building a data quality program from scratch, including defining data quality, identifying factors that impact quality, best practices, common causes of poor quality data, benefits of high quality data, and who is responsible. It then provides recommendations for getting started with a proof of concept, expanding to full projects, profiling data, analyzing and fixing issues, monitoring, and celebrating wins.
This document is a presentation by Raymond Gensinger on data analytics in healthcare. It discusses examples of analytics used in baseball to improve performance, the different types of analytics including descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive. It also covers how analytics have evolved, organizational readiness for analytics, and key factors for analytics success including data, enterprise integration, leadership, targets, and having the right analysts. The presentation provides a framework for healthcare to apply analytics and examples of how different types of analytics could be used.
This document discusses data quality and its importance for business decision making. It defines data quality as ensuring information is fit for its intended purpose and helps data consumers make the right decisions. Poor data quality can significantly impact business performance, with 75% of companies reporting financial losses due to low quality data. The document outlines different data quality needs and metrics for various use cases and decision makers. It also presents examples of companies that have benefited financially from implementing thorough data quality management programs.
CTO Perspectives: What's Next for Data Management and Healthcare?Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst's Chief Technology Officer, Bryan Hinton, shares his perspective, thoughts, and insights on new and emerging trends for data management in healthcare. Bryan offers a brief presentation on what hospitals and healthcare systems can expect, followed by an extended Q&A.
Late Binding in Data Warehouses: Desiging for Analytic AgilityHealth Catalyst
Listen to Part 2 of the Late-Binding (TM) Data Warehouse webinar, a separate webinar focused on answering detailed follow-up questions generated from the first Late-Binding (TM) Data Warehouse webinar.
This document discusses advanced analytics and big data in healthcare. It notes that while there is a large amount of healthcare data being generated, less than 10% of organizations are focusing on analytics. It then covers various big data techniques that can be used like predictive modeling, data mining, and text analytics. Examples are given around using analytics for quality of care, coordination of care, customer service, and other areas. The document concludes by discussing limitations, implementation considerations, and providing recommendations for different stakeholders in healthcare around priorities for using big data and analytics.
This document discusses data quality and provides facts about the high costs of poor data quality to businesses and the US economy. It defines data quality as ensuring data is "fit for purpose" by measuring it against its intended uses and dimensions of quality. The document outlines best practices for measuring data quality including profiling data to understand metadata and trends, using statistical process control, master data management to create standardized "gold records", and implementing a data governance program to centrally manage data quality.
Strata Rx 2013 - Data Driven Drugs: Predictive Models to Improve Product Qual...EMC
Like most of healthcare and life science, pharmaceutical companies are undergoing a data-driven transformation. The industry-wide need to reduce the cost of developing, manufacturing and distributing drugs while bringing to market new products is not a novel concept or challenge. However, the ability to process and analyze large amounts of data using cutting-edge massively parallel processing (MPP) technologies means innovation can be found not only in the traditional hypothesis-driven approaches we have come to expect. New technologies and approaches make it possible to incorporate all available data, structured and unstructured. At Pivotal, it is the goal of our data science practice to demonstrate the capabilities of the technologies we offer. We focus on building predictive models by combining the vast and variable data that is available to elicit action or generate insights. In our talk we will focus on a use case in pharmaceutical manufacturing, wherein we created a predictive model to produce more consistent, high-quality products and drive decisions to abandon lots with expected poor outcomes. In addition, we demonstrate how we used machine learning to cleanse data and to improve efficiencies in data collection by identifying low information-content measurements and incorporate under-utilized data sources in manufacturing. Beyond this use case, we will discuss our vision of using machine learning in all areas of the industry, from research through distribution, to drive change.
Access the webinar: http://goo.gl/p08pTz
These slides were presented in a webinar by Denodo in collaboration with BioStorage Technologies and Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and Regenstrief Institute.
BioStorage Technologies, Inc., Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, and Regenstrief Institute (CTSI) have joined Denodo to talk about the important role of technological advancements, such as data virtualization, in advancing biospecimen research.
By watching this webinar, you can gain insight into best practices around the integration of biospecimen and research data as well as technology solutions that provide consolidated views and rapid conversions of this data into valuable business insights. You will also learn how data virtualization can assist with the integration of data residing in heterogeneous repositories and can securely deliver aggregated data in real-time.
Drive Healthcare Transformation with a Strategic Analytics Framework and Impl...Frank Wang
This document discusses driving healthcare transformation through developing an analytics strategy and implementation plan. It covers developing an analytics framework that aligns analytics capabilities with enterprise goals. The framework includes business context, stakeholders, processes/data, tools/techniques, team/training, and technology. It also discusses assessing the current state, identifying gaps, and executing a strategic plan to ensure analytics support quality improvement and performance goals.
Predictive Analytics - Big Data Warehousing MeetupCaserta
Predictive analytics has always been about the future, and the age of big data has made that future an increasingly dynamic place, filled with opportunity and risk.
The evolution of advanced analytics technologies and the continual development of new analytical methodologies can help to optimize financial results, enable systems and services based on machine learning, obviate or mitigate fraud and reduce cybersecurity risks, among many other things.
Caserta Concepts, Zementis, and guest speaker from FICO presented the strategies, technologies and use cases driving predictive analytics in a big data environment.
For more information, visit www.casertaconcepts.com or contact us at info@casertaconcepts.com
Leverage Big Data Analytics to Enhance Clinical Trials from Planning to Execu...Saama
Nikhil Gopinath, Senior Solutions Engineer for the Life Sciences at Saama, spoke at EyeforPharma's Clinical Trial Innovation Summit event in February 2017. These slides are from his "Leverage Big Data Analytics to Enhance Clinical Trials from Planning to Execution" presentation.
( Big ) Data Management - Governance - Global concepts in 5 slidesNicolas Sarramagna
This document discusses data governance and provides an overview in 5 slides. It defines governance as evaluating, leading, and measuring data strategies, policies, standards, and metrics. Governance is important to keep data management under control, increase consistency in decision making, and reduce issues around data discovery, integration, dissemination, insight, management, and security. The document recommends using frameworks like COBIT 5 and the DMBOK to build governance through roles and responsibilities, policies, procedures, business rules, audits, and metrics. It also outlines starting governance through assessment and maturity evaluation, and running governance through issue management, conformance monitoring, and value communication.
A brief introduction to Data Quality rule development and implementation covering:
- What are Data Quality Rules.
- Examples of Data Quality Rules.
- What are the benefits of rules.
- How can I create my own rules?
- What alternate approaches are there to building my own rules?
The presentation also includes a very brief overview of our Data Quality Rule services. For more information on this please contact us.
Microsoft: A Waking Giant In Healthcare Analytics and Big DataHealth Catalyst
In 2005, Northwestern Memorial Healthcare embarked upon a strategic Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) initiative with the Microsoft technology platform as the foundation. Dale Sanders was CIO at Northwestern and led the development of Northwestern’s Microsoft-based EDW. At that time, Microsoft as an EDW platform was not en vogue and there were many who doubted the success of the Northwestern project. While other organizations were spending millions of dollars and years developing EDW’s and analytics on other platforms, Northwestern achieved great and rapid value at a fraction of the cost of the more typical technology platforms. Now, there are more healthcare data warehouses built around Microsoft products than any other vendor. The risky bet on Microsoft in 2005 paid off.
Ten years ago, critics didn’t believe that Microsoft could scale in the second generation of relational data warehouses, but they did. More recently, many of these same pundits have criticized Microsoft for missing the technology wave du jour in cloud offerings, mobile technology, and big data. But, once again, Microsoft has been quietly reengineering its culture and products, and as a result, they now offer the best value and most visionary platform for cloud services, big data, and analytics in healthcare.
In this context, Dale will talk about:
His up and down journey with Microsoft as an Air Force and healthcare CIO, and why he is now more bullish on Microsoft like never before
A quick review of the Healthcare Analytics Adoption Model and Closed Loop Analytics in healthcare, and how Microsoft products relate to both
The rise of highly specialized, cloud-based analytic services and their value to healthcare organizations’ analytics strategies
Microsoft’s transformation from a closed-system, desktop PC company to an open-system consumer and business infrastructure company
The current transition period of enterprise data warehouses between the decline of relational databases and the rise of non-relational databases, and the new Microsoft products, notably Azure and the Analytic Platform System (APS), that bridge the transition of skills and technology while still integrating with core products like Office, Active Directory, and System Center
Microsoft’s strategy with its PowerX product line, and geospatial analysis and machine learning visualization tools
Gain insights from data analytics and take action! Learn why everyone is making a big deal about big data in healthcare and how data analytics creates action.
The Hive Data Virtualization Introduction - Sanjay Krishnamurti, Chief Archit...The Hive
Informatica's Data Virtualization Solution addresses the problems organizations face in getting business data to users in a timely manner. It currently takes weeks or months on average to integrate new data sources, create reports, or change data hierarchies. Data Virtualization creates a common access layer across data sources so data can be accessed and analyzed without movement. It provides reusable data services, advanced transformations, and real-time data profiling and quality checks to help organizations more quickly and directly access clean trusted data. Data Virtualization is a key part of building an agile data platform that can leverage existing investments and infrastructure.
The document discusses the top business intelligence trends predicted for 2016, including governance and self-service analytics becoming more aligned, visual analytics becoming a common language for data analysis, the data product chain becoming more democratized, data integration becoming more exciting with new players and approaches, advanced analytics being used by more than just analysts, and cloud data and analytics adoption increasing.
White paper : the top 10 trends in business intelligenceJean-Michel Franco
Highlights trends in Business Intelligence. though written in early 2010, it is still accurate. I would add Mobile BI and Collaborative Decision Management as complementary trends.
HIMSS Analytics, with a goal of helping healthcare organizations understand and advance healthcare analytics, has developed the Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity (AMAM) published here on www.SlideShare.net for healthcare industry reference.
This 8 stage international prescriptive analytics oriented maturity model offers an easy assessment and a detailed industry specific road map to help healthcare providers interested in analytics advance their capabilities.
For further information please see www.HIMSSAnalytics.org
The document discusses advanced analytics and big data in healthcare. It notes that while there is a large amount of healthcare data being generated, less than 10% of organizations are focusing on analytics. It then covers various types of data in healthcare, challenges with data integration and sharing across different systems, and the value of analytics in improving outcomes. It provides examples of using analytics for quality improvement, care coordination, and other areas. Finally, it discusses recommendations and limitations for various stakeholders in utilizing big data and analytics.
Building a Data Quality Program from Scratchdmurph4
The document outlines steps for building a data quality program from scratch, including defining data quality, identifying factors that impact quality, best practices, common causes of poor quality data, benefits of high quality data, and who is responsible. It then provides recommendations for getting started with a proof of concept, expanding to full projects, profiling data, analyzing and fixing issues, monitoring, and celebrating wins.
This document is a presentation by Raymond Gensinger on data analytics in healthcare. It discusses examples of analytics used in baseball to improve performance, the different types of analytics including descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive. It also covers how analytics have evolved, organizational readiness for analytics, and key factors for analytics success including data, enterprise integration, leadership, targets, and having the right analysts. The presentation provides a framework for healthcare to apply analytics and examples of how different types of analytics could be used.
This document discusses data quality and its importance for business decision making. It defines data quality as ensuring information is fit for its intended purpose and helps data consumers make the right decisions. Poor data quality can significantly impact business performance, with 75% of companies reporting financial losses due to low quality data. The document outlines different data quality needs and metrics for various use cases and decision makers. It also presents examples of companies that have benefited financially from implementing thorough data quality management programs.
CTO Perspectives: What's Next for Data Management and Healthcare?Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst's Chief Technology Officer, Bryan Hinton, shares his perspective, thoughts, and insights on new and emerging trends for data management in healthcare. Bryan offers a brief presentation on what hospitals and healthcare systems can expect, followed by an extended Q&A.
Late Binding in Data Warehouses: Desiging for Analytic AgilityHealth Catalyst
Listen to Part 2 of the Late-Binding (TM) Data Warehouse webinar, a separate webinar focused on answering detailed follow-up questions generated from the first Late-Binding (TM) Data Warehouse webinar.
This document discusses advanced analytics and big data in healthcare. It notes that while there is a large amount of healthcare data being generated, less than 10% of organizations are focusing on analytics. It then covers various big data techniques that can be used like predictive modeling, data mining, and text analytics. Examples are given around using analytics for quality of care, coordination of care, customer service, and other areas. The document concludes by discussing limitations, implementation considerations, and providing recommendations for different stakeholders in healthcare around priorities for using big data and analytics.
This document discusses data quality and provides facts about the high costs of poor data quality to businesses and the US economy. It defines data quality as ensuring data is "fit for purpose" by measuring it against its intended uses and dimensions of quality. The document outlines best practices for measuring data quality including profiling data to understand metadata and trends, using statistical process control, master data management to create standardized "gold records", and implementing a data governance program to centrally manage data quality.
Strata Rx 2013 - Data Driven Drugs: Predictive Models to Improve Product Qual...EMC
Like most of healthcare and life science, pharmaceutical companies are undergoing a data-driven transformation. The industry-wide need to reduce the cost of developing, manufacturing and distributing drugs while bringing to market new products is not a novel concept or challenge. However, the ability to process and analyze large amounts of data using cutting-edge massively parallel processing (MPP) technologies means innovation can be found not only in the traditional hypothesis-driven approaches we have come to expect. New technologies and approaches make it possible to incorporate all available data, structured and unstructured. At Pivotal, it is the goal of our data science practice to demonstrate the capabilities of the technologies we offer. We focus on building predictive models by combining the vast and variable data that is available to elicit action or generate insights. In our talk we will focus on a use case in pharmaceutical manufacturing, wherein we created a predictive model to produce more consistent, high-quality products and drive decisions to abandon lots with expected poor outcomes. In addition, we demonstrate how we used machine learning to cleanse data and to improve efficiencies in data collection by identifying low information-content measurements and incorporate under-utilized data sources in manufacturing. Beyond this use case, we will discuss our vision of using machine learning in all areas of the industry, from research through distribution, to drive change.
Access the webinar: http://goo.gl/p08pTz
These slides were presented in a webinar by Denodo in collaboration with BioStorage Technologies and Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and Regenstrief Institute.
BioStorage Technologies, Inc., Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, and Regenstrief Institute (CTSI) have joined Denodo to talk about the important role of technological advancements, such as data virtualization, in advancing biospecimen research.
By watching this webinar, you can gain insight into best practices around the integration of biospecimen and research data as well as technology solutions that provide consolidated views and rapid conversions of this data into valuable business insights. You will also learn how data virtualization can assist with the integration of data residing in heterogeneous repositories and can securely deliver aggregated data in real-time.
Drive Healthcare Transformation with a Strategic Analytics Framework and Impl...Frank Wang
This document discusses driving healthcare transformation through developing an analytics strategy and implementation plan. It covers developing an analytics framework that aligns analytics capabilities with enterprise goals. The framework includes business context, stakeholders, processes/data, tools/techniques, team/training, and technology. It also discusses assessing the current state, identifying gaps, and executing a strategic plan to ensure analytics support quality improvement and performance goals.
Predictive Analytics - Big Data Warehousing MeetupCaserta
Predictive analytics has always been about the future, and the age of big data has made that future an increasingly dynamic place, filled with opportunity and risk.
The evolution of advanced analytics technologies and the continual development of new analytical methodologies can help to optimize financial results, enable systems and services based on machine learning, obviate or mitigate fraud and reduce cybersecurity risks, among many other things.
Caserta Concepts, Zementis, and guest speaker from FICO presented the strategies, technologies and use cases driving predictive analytics in a big data environment.
For more information, visit www.casertaconcepts.com or contact us at info@casertaconcepts.com
Leverage Big Data Analytics to Enhance Clinical Trials from Planning to Execu...Saama
Nikhil Gopinath, Senior Solutions Engineer for the Life Sciences at Saama, spoke at EyeforPharma's Clinical Trial Innovation Summit event in February 2017. These slides are from his "Leverage Big Data Analytics to Enhance Clinical Trials from Planning to Execution" presentation.
( Big ) Data Management - Governance - Global concepts in 5 slidesNicolas Sarramagna
This document discusses data governance and provides an overview in 5 slides. It defines governance as evaluating, leading, and measuring data strategies, policies, standards, and metrics. Governance is important to keep data management under control, increase consistency in decision making, and reduce issues around data discovery, integration, dissemination, insight, management, and security. The document recommends using frameworks like COBIT 5 and the DMBOK to build governance through roles and responsibilities, policies, procedures, business rules, audits, and metrics. It also outlines starting governance through assessment and maturity evaluation, and running governance through issue management, conformance monitoring, and value communication.
A brief introduction to Data Quality rule development and implementation covering:
- What are Data Quality Rules.
- Examples of Data Quality Rules.
- What are the benefits of rules.
- How can I create my own rules?
- What alternate approaches are there to building my own rules?
The presentation also includes a very brief overview of our Data Quality Rule services. For more information on this please contact us.
Microsoft: A Waking Giant In Healthcare Analytics and Big DataHealth Catalyst
In 2005, Northwestern Memorial Healthcare embarked upon a strategic Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) initiative with the Microsoft technology platform as the foundation. Dale Sanders was CIO at Northwestern and led the development of Northwestern’s Microsoft-based EDW. At that time, Microsoft as an EDW platform was not en vogue and there were many who doubted the success of the Northwestern project. While other organizations were spending millions of dollars and years developing EDW’s and analytics on other platforms, Northwestern achieved great and rapid value at a fraction of the cost of the more typical technology platforms. Now, there are more healthcare data warehouses built around Microsoft products than any other vendor. The risky bet on Microsoft in 2005 paid off.
Ten years ago, critics didn’t believe that Microsoft could scale in the second generation of relational data warehouses, but they did. More recently, many of these same pundits have criticized Microsoft for missing the technology wave du jour in cloud offerings, mobile technology, and big data. But, once again, Microsoft has been quietly reengineering its culture and products, and as a result, they now offer the best value and most visionary platform for cloud services, big data, and analytics in healthcare.
In this context, Dale will talk about:
His up and down journey with Microsoft as an Air Force and healthcare CIO, and why he is now more bullish on Microsoft like never before
A quick review of the Healthcare Analytics Adoption Model and Closed Loop Analytics in healthcare, and how Microsoft products relate to both
The rise of highly specialized, cloud-based analytic services and their value to healthcare organizations’ analytics strategies
Microsoft’s transformation from a closed-system, desktop PC company to an open-system consumer and business infrastructure company
The current transition period of enterprise data warehouses between the decline of relational databases and the rise of non-relational databases, and the new Microsoft products, notably Azure and the Analytic Platform System (APS), that bridge the transition of skills and technology while still integrating with core products like Office, Active Directory, and System Center
Microsoft’s strategy with its PowerX product line, and geospatial analysis and machine learning visualization tools
Gain insights from data analytics and take action! Learn why everyone is making a big deal about big data in healthcare and how data analytics creates action.
The Hive Data Virtualization Introduction - Sanjay Krishnamurti, Chief Archit...The Hive
Informatica's Data Virtualization Solution addresses the problems organizations face in getting business data to users in a timely manner. It currently takes weeks or months on average to integrate new data sources, create reports, or change data hierarchies. Data Virtualization creates a common access layer across data sources so data can be accessed and analyzed without movement. It provides reusable data services, advanced transformations, and real-time data profiling and quality checks to help organizations more quickly and directly access clean trusted data. Data Virtualization is a key part of building an agile data platform that can leverage existing investments and infrastructure.
The document discusses the top business intelligence trends predicted for 2016, including governance and self-service analytics becoming more aligned, visual analytics becoming a common language for data analysis, the data product chain becoming more democratized, data integration becoming more exciting with new players and approaches, advanced analytics being used by more than just analysts, and cloud data and analytics adoption increasing.
White paper : the top 10 trends in business intelligenceJean-Michel Franco
Highlights trends in Business Intelligence. though written in early 2010, it is still accurate. I would add Mobile BI and Collaborative Decision Management as complementary trends.
The journey to trusted data and better decisionsFelix Liao
This document discusses the importance of trusted data for decision making. It describes Telstra's journey to establish a data quality firewall to systematically measure and monitor data quality across its systems. The presentation outlines Telstra's initial approach, including selecting a data quality tool, integrating quality checks into processes, and constructing measures to flag issues and ensure proactive identification of problems. It emphasizes that data governance is a holistic effort and the firewall alone is not sufficient, highlighting principles like understanding current status and focusing on business value.
The document discusses facilitation and the roles of facilitators and coordinators. It defines facilitation as a process where a neutral party helps a group work together more effectively. A good facilitator is able to listen, deal with conflict, communicate effectively, and create a comfortable environment. They must structure meetings, encourage participation, and help resolve issues. Coordinators organize events and act as liaisons between groups and project leaders.
BI congres 2016-4: Hoe groei je als organisatie in analytische maturiteit? - ...BICC Thomas More
9de BI congres van het BICC-Thomas More: 24 maart 2016
Waar traditionele BI voornamelijk beschrijft van WAT er gebeurd is, kunnen we met Self-Service BI een stapje verder gaan en een eerste verklaring geven WAAROM iets zich voordoet. Als we echter tot de wortel willen geraken, moeten we gebruik maken van Analytics.
This document discusses big data and business intelligence. It defines big data as large volumes of varied data that is collected and processed rapidly. It outlines different types of primary BI systems including reporting systems, data mining systems, knowledge management systems, and expert systems. It also discusses challenges with raw data and the need for data warehousing to extract, clean, and prepare data from different sources for BI processing and analysis. Finally, it provides an example of how a mountain resort (MRV) could use BI and data warehousing to develop a data storage plan, generate reports on repeat business, identify high-value customers, and analyze equipment usage.
In this webinar, Dale Sanders will provide a pragmatic, step-by-step, and measurable roadmap for the adoption of analytics in healthcare-- a roadmap that organizations can use to plot their strategy and evaluate vendors; and that vendors can use to develop their products. Attendees will have a chance to learn about:
1) The details of his eight-level model, 2) A brief introduction to the HIMSS/IIA DELTA Model, 3) The importance of permanent organizational teams to sustain improvements from analytic investments, 4) The process of curating and maturing data governance, and 5) The coordination of a data acquisition strategy with payment and reimbursement strategies
Real-World DG Webinar: A Data Governance Framework for Success DATAVERSITY
A Data Governance Framework must include best practices, a practical set of roles & responsibilities for Data Governance built specifically for your organization, a plan for communicating with the entire organization and an action plan for applying governance in effective and measurable ways.
Join Bob Seiner for this Real-World Data Governance webinar as he discusses how to stay practical and work within the culture of your organization to develop and deliver a Data Governance Framework to meet your specifications and the business’ expectations.
This session will focus on:
Defining a Non-Invasive Operating Model of Roles & Responsibilities
Clearly Stating the Difference between Executive, Strategic, Tactical, Operational & Supporting Roles
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1. LG Electronics India was established in 1997 and set up a manufacturing facility in 1998 with an investment of 500 crores rupees.
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2) A roadmap for organizations to measure their own progress toward analytic adoption
3) A framework for evaluating vendor products
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Business intelligence and analytics both refer to maximize the value of your data to make better decisions, ALTEN CAlsoft Labs helps
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Manager in the filed of BPMA, providing services in below areas:
- Data Warehousing
- Business Intelligence
- SDLC (Waterfall & Agile)
- Business Analysis
- Project Management
- MIS & Reporting
- CRM development
- Artificial Intelligence
- Production Support
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- System Integration
Skill Set:
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- The Role of Spatial Data: Why spatial data is crucial for your organization.
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👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program:
https://bit.ly/Automation_Student_Kickstart
In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
📕 Detailed agenda:
What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
The UiPath End-to-End Automation Platform
UiPath Studio CE Installation and Setup
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Introduction to Automation
UiPath Business Automation Platform
Explore automation development with UiPath Studio
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About Excel Automation and Excel Activities
About Data Manipulation and Data Conversion
About Strings and String Manipulation
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Excel Automation with the Modern Experience in Studio
Data Manipulation with Strings in Studio
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The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
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Variables and Datatypes
Workflow Layouts
Arguments
Control Flows and Loops
Conditional Statements
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Control Flow in Studio
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CBIG Event June 20th, 2013. Presentation by Albert Khair. “Emerging Trends in BI& Analytics - Organizing for Success".
1. 1 >
Emerging Trends in
Business Intelligence and
Analytics:
Organizing for Success
N. Albert Khair
Lexmark International
Cincinnati Business Intelligence Group (CBIG)
2. 2 >
What we will cover …
• Business Intelligence vs. Business Analytics
• The Lexmark Experience
• Implementing SAP HANA at Lexmark
• Organizing for Success
• Wrap-up
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Yogi Berra:
“If you don't know where you are going, any road will
take you there.”
8. 8 >
Operational Benefits from Investments
in Business Intelligence and Analytics
75%
60%
56%
55%
54%
50%
50%
47%
42%
36%
35%
27%
5%
6%
Improving the decision-making process (e.g. quality/relevancy)
Speeding up the decision-making process
Better align resources with strategies
Realizing cost efficiencies
Don’t know
Other
Sharing information with external users (e.g. customers and suppliers)
Maintaining regulatory compliance
Synchronizing financial and operational strategies
Producing a single, unified view of enterprise-wide information
Improving organization’s competitiveness
Responding to user needs for availability of data on a timely basis
Sharing information with a wider internal audience (e.g. casual users)
Increasing revenues
Source: Computerworld/SAS
Which of the following key benefits does your organization currently derive or would
expect to derive from business analytics software?
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Advance BI / BA Paradigm via Incremental Delivery
Revaluation
BI Initiative
Solution
Deployment
Change
Management
Business
Focus
Strategic
Alignment
Incremental
Value
Delivery
Paradigm
Target High-Value BI
Pain Points
Obtain
Business
Buy-in
Align with
Corporate
Objectives
Ensure Business
Readiness
Implement
Deliverables
Add Value via
Ongoing
Monitoring
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Unified IT Solutions Architecture at Lexmark
Data Source & Application Layer
Semantic & Enrichment Layer
Information Delivery & Presentation Layer
Governance & Collaboration Layer
Maturity & Best Practices Layer
Process&ActivityLayer
Strategy&RoadmapLayer
Organization (Roles & Responsibilities) Layer
SAP
ECC
SAP
SLT
Siebel Usage Orion LSP
External /
Unstructured
Data
SAP
BW
SAP
HANA
OBIEE
Teradata (TD) Enterprise mLDM
(a.k.a. CPDB)
Other
OBIABOBJ BEx
TD Warehouse
Miner
Other
(Portal, etc.)
Tools &
Technology
Governance
COE / CoC
Performance Mgmt.
Programs
Self-Service BI
Development &
Delivery
Subject Matter
Expertise (SME)
Development
Industry Standards
& Best Practices
BI Maturity – From
“Rows & Columns”
to Analytics
Systematize &
Promote the New
BI Paradigm
Enterprise KPI &
Metrics
Management
Mobility
Master Data Management (MDM) Layer
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Critical Drivers for Analytics Solutions Engine
LXK Business
PROBLEM
(To Resolve)
LXK Business
OPPORTUNITY
(To Leverage)
LXK I.T.
INITIATIVE
(To Add Value)
BusinessAlignment/
BusinessArchitecture
TechnicalAlignment/
TechnicalArchitecture
Reporting Perspectives / Time Horizons
Historical
Analysis
Realtime
Analysis
Snapshot
Analysis
Predictive
Analytics
Looking
backwards to
track trends
Monitoring
activity as it
happens
(OLTP, etc.)
Showing
performance at
a single point
in time
Using past
performance to
predict future
performance
Data Movement
Data Governance
Data Presentation
Cannonical /
WebMethods
Data Stage
Interface
Architecure SFTP
Business
Config. Mgmt
EDI / GXS AS2 VAN
Data Management & Storage
EDW /
Teradata
Group
Vendor
Mgmt
BI CoC
Business
Drivers
Partner
Mgmt
Data
Insight
Data
Quality
Data
Hygiene
Data
Profiling
Governance
& Control
Data
Integration
Data
Architecture
Data
Taxonomy
Data
Modeling
Data
Architecture
Physical
DBA
Logical
DBA
Governance
& Control
Enterprise
Data
Warehouse
Staging
Database
Enterprise
Data
Repository
Vendor
Mgmt
BI CoC
Partner
Mgmt
IT Arch
Group
Project
Mgmt
IT Acct
Mgmt
KPI
Management
Strategic
Use of BI
BI Dev. /
Governance
BI Best
Practices
BI Maturity
BO User
Support
BO Config
& Upgrade
BO Security &
Admin
BOBJ
Infrastructure
Support
SAP / Siebel
COE
BI Guidance
Management
Analytics
Operational
Analytics
Vendor
Mgmt
Project
Mgmt
DI CoC
Partner
Mgmt
Vendor
Mgmt
Project
Mgmt
MDM
CoC
Partner
Mgmt
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Analytics Solutions Governance Interaction
Business
SME
Analytics
Solutions
SME
Source System
Functional /
Configuration
SME
Required during
Scoping
Requirements
Functional Design
User Test
Sign-off
Required part-time during
Scoping
Requirements
Functional Design
Technical design
Integration test
Required throughout
the project lifecycle
“This is what can be
done in BI and
Analytics”
“This is what has been
configured in the
source system”
“This is the
requirement”
17. 17 >
SMEs Required in Analytics Solutions Projects
Corporate
Memory
Reports & Analytics Needs
Information
Technology
Business
Units
Data Stewards: Quality &
Integrity
Single Version of Truth
Better Decision Making
Infrastructure &
Applications
Data Governance &
Custody
Analytics Solutions
Group (ASG)
Manage BI
& Analytics
Change
Define BI &
Analytics Vision
Establish Best
Practices and
Standards
Develop
User Skills
Organizational
GovernanceManage
Methodology
Leadership
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Determining Analytics Return on Investment (ROI)
Visualization
Design Patterns
Data
Design Patterns
Metrics
Framework
What data is available?
What is the cost of acquiring new
data compared to the benefit to
the business?
Of all the possible metrics we can display, which
are the most critical to business?
Who are the audience and consumers of the
analytics being developed?
What are the visualization constraints?
What specific benefits will accrue from the
consumption of the analytics?
Can we actually develop what we
are designing in the time and with
the funds, resources and skillsets
we have available or have been
allocated?
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Analytics Solutions Operational Engagement Model
Executive Steering
Committe
Funtional
Working Group
Individual
Contrubutors
Analytics
Solutions Group
Seeks input
Manages issues and risks
Sets priorities
Implements policy
Consults to
governance body
Champions change
Provides input on
direction
Organizational
commitment
Allocates funding
Manages/accepts risks
Directs and ratifies
direction
Provides operational
support
Manages information
assets
Supports user community
Makes
recommendations
Manages operational
effectiveness
Directs strategy Champions change
Provides input
Champions change
Provides input
Sets policy
Sets priorities
Accepts risk
Sets direction
Reviews status
Reports ROI
Makes
recommendations
Operational status
Project pipeline
Mitigation of issues and risks
Management review
Reviews status
Makes recommendations
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Evolving Lexmark SAP BI Reporting Framework
SAP
(ECC, BPC, APO, etc.)
SAP BW
(v. 7.0)
SAP
(ECC, BPC, APO, etc.)
SAP BW
(v. 7.3)
HANA
Teradata
(EDW)
BEx Query
BEx Query BusinessObjects BI 4.0
SAP Portal / BI 4.0 LaunchpadSCPM
Prior SAP – BI Environment Projected SAP – BI Environment
Pre-July 2012 Mid 2012 Late 2012 – 2013
RDS / SLT / BODS
Crystal / ABAP
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What is SAP HANA In-Memory Technology?
HANA
Database
Technology
TREX
(Text Retrieval and
Extraction) Search
Engine
HANA Studio:
Suite of Tools
Data Modeling
HANA Appliance:
Partner* Certified
Hardware Delivery
Replication Tools
Data
Transformation
Tools
HANA Application
Cloud:
Cloud-based
Infrastructure
Existing SAP
applications
rewritten to run on
HANA
Low-cost
In-Memory Main
Memory (RAM)
Multi-core processors
providing multi-
engine query
processing
Rapid Data
Access via Solid-
State Drives
P*Time
(Menlo Park Transact in
Memory, Inc.) OLTP
RDBMS Technology
MaxDB
RDBMS from Nixdorf via
Software AG for
persistence & data
backup
Current Competitors
Microsoft Parallel Data
Warehouse (Microsoft)
Active Enterprise Data
Warehouse (Teradata)
Exadata Database Machine
(Oracle)
Exalytics In-Memory Machine
(Oracle)
Greenplum Data Computing
Appliance (EMC)
Netezza Data Warehouse
Appliance (IBM)
Vertica Analytics Platform
(HP)
Current
Hardware
Partners
Cisco
Dell
Fujitsu
Hitachi
Hewlett-
Packard (HP)
IBM
NEC
SAP HANA In-Memory Technology
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SAP HANA High-Level Architecture
Leverage SAP BOBJ BI
platform to extract data from
SAP HANA
SAP HANA Studio
Real-Time Data
Replication (SLT)
SAP BusinessObjects
Data Services (BODS)
Calculation and
Planning Engine
Row and Column
Storage
SAP HANA
SAP HANA Database
Other Data
Sources
Other Query
Tools / Products
SQL BICS SQL MDX
Use SLT and/or BODS to
extract, load and transform
data into SAP HANA
Obtain query results
in real-time
Empower SAP NW Business
Warehouse with SAP HANA
SAP Business
Suite
SAP NetWeaver
BW
SAP BusinessObjects
Tools / Products
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HANA Landscape Options
RDBMS RDBMS
SAP ERP SAP ERP
HANA 1.0
SP2
SAP NW
BW
Non-SAP
RDBMS
HANA1.0SP2HANA1.0SP3
RDBMS
SAP NW BW BWA SAP NW BW
HANA 1.0
SP3
SAP HANA 1.0 is an appliance-to-
appliance integration facility/tool/
platform (e.g. integrating with
SAP ECC)
Primary Benefit: Increase the
performance of transactional
reporting
SAP HANA 1.0 replicates/loads
data using replication/ETL tools
(e.g. SLT, BODS, etc.)
SAP HANA 1.0 SP3 is the primary
persistence for SAP NW BW7.3
SP5
All functionality of HANA 1.0 is
part of HANA 1.0 SP3
All features of SAP NW BW are
supported by SAP HANA 1.0 SP3
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SAP HANA System Landscape
Excel
SAP BusinessObjects
BI Clients
SAP
BusinessObjects
BI 4.0
SAP Business
Application
Repository
SQL
MDX
BICSSAP HANA Studio Admin.&Modeling
Authentication
Content Mgmt.
synch
Replication
Agent (SLT)
ERP 6.0
Database
Server
SAP HANA Engine
Replication
Agent (SLT)
JDBC ODBC ODBO SQL DBC
SAP HANA
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HANA Installation and BusinessObjects Integration
ECC
HANA
SLT
BO BI 4.0.X
Prod / Non-Prod
Dell R910
256Gb HANA Solution
Studio / Client Rev. 37
Prod / Non-Prod
Cisco UCS
77 ECC Tables
Replicated to date
(including FAGLL03)
Decide on a suitable installation type dependent on the existing
system landscape
Install the SAP LT Replication Server (SLT)
Configure connection between source system(s) - RFC
connection for SAP sources / DB connection for non-SAP
sources) - and the SLT system
Configure the target SAP HANA system with the SLT system
Setup data replication using the SAP HANA In-Memory studio
Integrate HANA Modeling Studio / Database with
BusinessObjects Enterprise (BOE) modules – infrastructure-to-
infrastructure setup
Report against HANA using BOE/BOBJ tools: Explorer,
Dashboard, WEB-I, Crystal, Analysis, etc.
Report against HANA using non-BOE productivity tools (e.g.
Visual Intelligence)
HANA SLT Installation &
BOBJ Integration:
EIGHT-Step Process
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How HANA SAP Landscape Transformation (SLT) Works
DB Trigger
Logging
Tables
Read
Modules
Application Tables
Source System
Application Tables
SLT System
(NW 7.02)
SAP HANA
System
WRITE
Modules
Controller
Modules
RFC
Connection
Database
Connection
SLT component
is installed in a
separate system.
This 3-tier
approach is
leveraged when
the source
system is not
compliant with
the required
technical
prerequisites of
SLT.
For data
replication from
SAP sources, it is
recommended to
keep the
productive SLT
instance on a
SAP separate
system.
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Analytics Solutions Governance Models
“Centralized” “Hybrid-Synergistic” “Autonomous”
Degree of Enterprise InfluenceHIGH LOW
BusinessInputLOWHIGH
BusinessInputLOWHIGH
Model Properties
Characteristics
Design
Authority
Business
Authority
Build
Implementation
Support &
Maintenance
Operations
Single design and build
team using highly
structured global templates
Single implementation
protocol using a common
system or frame of
reference
Governance templates are
tightly controlled/managed
Mandated synergies
Global design authority
maintains standards across
all geographies (NA, EMEA,
LAD, APG)
Multiple build and
implementation teams share
knowledge and resources
Coordinated (virtual) support
team è Lexington, Kolkata
Encourages synergies
Multiple and redundant
design, build and
implementation teams
Multiple design, build and
implementation templates
Little or no sharing of
knowledge or skills
Encourages diversity
Synergies are often non-
existent
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Analytics Governance Model: Current State at Lexmark
“Autonomous Development –
Centralized Deployment”
Model Properties
Design
Authority
Business
Authority
Build
Implementation
Support & Maintenance
Operations
This current Governance
structure at Lexmark is based
on a dichotomous
development-deployment
model: the development
authority vests almost
exclusively with the lines of
business (LOB) and only the
deployment aspects leverage
shared IT resources.
Characteristics
Functional and application-
specific design and build
teams
Tightly controlled design
and build templates
Little or no sharing of
knowledge or skills in
design/build phases
Global synergies at
deployment stages only
Development is tightly tied
to siloed business budgets
Almost complete business
ownership of applications
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Analytics Governance Models: “As-Is” vs. “To-Be”
Current BI Model “Hybrid-Synergistic”
BusinessInputLOWHIGH
BusinessInputLOWHIGH
Model Properties
Design
Authority
Business
Authority
Build
Implementation
Support &
Maintenance
Operations
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Applying the “Hybrid” Governance Model
“Hybrid-Synergistic”
Application:
Semi-autonomous and hybrid
Lines of business focus
Operational guidance
Highly leveraged shared processes and resources
Core design based on template(s)
Several-to-many installations
Generally enforceable common rules or guidelines
Some local flexibility
Characteristics:
Ideal for enterprises moving, or have moved, along the
journey to globalization by focusing on cross-divisional,
cross-functional and cross-regional synergies
Enterprises where lines of business (divisions, segments,
profit centers, sectors, etc.) have common products,
customers, vendors, processes, or they interact in the same
Supply Chain model(s)
IT budgets are used to encourage corporate business
agenda
Common issues encountered:
Who owns/drives the common agenda across divisions/
regions/etc.? (CFO, CIO, Business, IT?)
Constant oversight required to guard against divergence
and to push toward synergy
Are the synergies real, practical and repeatable ... or only
apparent, superficial and academic?
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Proposed Analytics Solutions Group (ASG) at Lexmark
Lexmark Proposed Solutions Architecture Ecosystem: Required Roles and Skillsets
Lexmark
BI – Analytics
CoC Executive
Business Unit
Support
EPM
Lead
Visualization
Architect
KPI Analyst
BI Program
Manager
BI Project
Manager
BI
Operations
Manager
Application
Security
Specialist
Business
Application
Owners
LOB
Operations
Analyst
BI Tool
Specialist
Business
Analyst
Data
Steward
Quality
Assurance
BI Applications
APP APP APP
Enterprise
Security
SAP Business
Objects
BI
Development
Roles
Siebel OLTP/ OBIEE
BI
Development
Roles
SAP BW / ECC /
HANA / BWA
BI
Development
Roles
Education
Lead
Training
&
Education
Education
Coordinator
Content
Specialist
Training
Specialist
OCM
Coordinator
Solutions
Architect
Lead
Information
Architect
BI / DW
DBA
Data
Analyst
Data
Integration
Specialist
Data
Modeler
Metadata /
Masterdata
Coordinator(s)
Data
Quality
Lead
LOB
LOB
LOB
LOB
LOB
LOB Sales & Mktg
Srvc & Support
Finance
Supply Chain
Dev & Mfg
Human Resources
???
Legend
Dedicated
Business / Corporate
Non-Dedicated
IT
Business
Hybrid (IT – Business)
PROTOTYPING
(e.g POCs)
Prototyping Projects
(e.g. POCs)
Data
Scientist
Data Mining
Specialist
Statistical
Modeler
Business
Architect
Technical
Architect
BI Advanced /
Predictive Analytics
BI Traditional
Solutions Track
35. 35 >
Executive Sponsorship: Two Alternatives
Director of
Analytics
CFOC – Suite
Director of
BI
CIO
Traditional
IT
Business
Analysis
Business
Functions
Business
Analysis
Business
Functions
Business
Analysis
Business
Functions
Sales Marketing Etc.
BI Role
BI Role
BI Roles
Analytics
Role
Analytics
Role
Analytics
Role
Director of
Analytics
CFOC – Suite
Director of
BI
CIO
Traditional
IT
Business
Analysis
Business
Functions
Business
Analysis
Business
Functions
Business
Analysis
Business
Functions
Sales Marketing Etc.
BI Role
BI Role
BI Roles
Analytics
Role
Analytics
Role
Analytics
Role
Option #1:
Lexmark Analytics
Solutions Group (ASG):
Headed by CFO
Option#2:
LexmarkAnalytics
SolutionsGroup(ASG):
HeadedbyCIO