Smart companies know that business intelligence surfaces insights. With complex analytics, data mining and everything in between, it takes many moving parts to serve up the big picture. The key is to provide full-stack visibility into the entire BI environment, ensuring solid service and system performance. Learn more at http://www.insideanalysis.com

1. Grab
some
coffee and
enjoy the
pre-show
banter
before the
top of the
hour!

2. H T Technologies of 2016

3. HOST:
Rebecca Jozwiak
@rebeccajozwiak

4. THIS YEAR is…

5. THE LINE UP
ANALYST:
Dez Blanchfield
Data Scientist,
The Bloor Group
ANALYST:
Robin Bloor
Chief Analyst,
The Bloor Group
GUEST:
Stan Geiger
Senior Product Manager,
IDERA

6. INTRODUCING
Robin Bloor

7. Monitoring BI
Robin Bloor Ph D

8. The Role of BI
BI is the feedback loop for corporate
systems

9. The Driving Force: Insight = Analytics
And Optimization?

10. The Begetting of BI
u Desire for knowledge begets user
requests
u User requests beget analytics projects
u Analytics projects beget data lakes
u Data lakes + analytics beget insights
u Insights beget BI

11. A Full BI Platform: Much Simplified

12. Corporate Reality

13. BI Disruption
u Data volumes
u Data sources
u Streaming & speed of arrival
u Unstructured data
u Social (unclean) data
u IOT data
u Data provenance
u Compute power (parallelism)
u Machine learning
u New analytic workloads
Bi is not a static situation.

14. The Internet of Things
Event-driven
Architectures
Real-time Everything
The Future BI Landscape Includes…

15. BI: Of The User, By The User, For The User
u Data flow integration/automation
u Performance/timeliness (overall)
u Data coverage: data sources, also
structured/unstructured data
u Data cleansing
u Data access skills
u Visualizations
u Shareability
u Actionability
The issues in summary:

16. About BI Monitoring…
Unless the BI SERVICE is dependable
and timely, it isn’t a SERVICE

17. INTRODUCING
Dez Blanchfield

18. @dez_blanchfield
Maintaining & Monitoring Healthy B.I. pla4orms

19. @dez_blanchfield
modern B.I. pla.orms have
many complex moving parts

20. @dez_blanchfield
Modern Business Intelligence pla.orms are made up of many
complex moving parts, it’s not just about keeping the lights on.
§ Availability & Quality of data sources
§ Databases & Data Warehousing
§ System Admin & Management
§ Pla4orm Security & Governance
§ User & System Access Controls
§ User Interfaces & PresentaFon
§ AnalyFcs Pla4orms & Tools
§ ReporFng, Monitoring & Dashboards
More than just keeping the lights on..

21. @dez_blanchfield
the challenge of managing
B.I. pla.orms at any scale

22. @dez_blanchfield
Business Intelligence is o@en the lifeblood of an organizaBon,
any B.I. pla.orm performance hits will impact the boDom line.
§ Loss of a B.I. pla4orm = flying blind
§ Poor performance impacts adopFon
§ Access issues impact everything
§ Decision making company wide
§ Accurate & Timely reporBng
§ Capacity to run the business
§ Staff performance & moral
§ Compliance & Governance
B.I. pla4orms demand performance..

23. @dez_blanchfield
a single performance issue can
impact the enBre ecosystem

24. @dez_blanchfield
As with so many things, the Rumsfeld Conundrum applies,
known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns..
§ Core Business System Performance
§ Sales, MarkeBng, Finance
§ HR, OperaBons, LogisBcs
§ Planning, ForecasBng, ReporBng
§ Back end systems & pla4orms
§ Response Bmes & load averages
§ Workloads / Batches / Backups
§ Maintenance / Updates / Patching
§ Misc. manual system admin
§ Manual Data Imports or Exports
Core areas that can impact performance..

25. @dez_blanchfield
complex systems require smart
tools to manage performance

26. INTRODUCING
Stan Geiger

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Proprietary and confidential.
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
PLATFORM HEALTH
Monitoring the Microsoft BI Stack

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE

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MICROSOFT PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE
§ Source Data
• Relational Databases (SQL Server, Oracle, etc.)
• NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, Hbase)
§ Data Storage and Aggregation
• SQL Server Database
• Azure Data Warehouse
• Analysis Services (SSAS)
§ Presentation/Analytics
• Excel
• Reporting Services (SSRS)
• PowerBI

30. “
30© 2015 IDERA, Inc. All rights reserved. Proprietary and confidential.
You don’t know what you don’t
know.
Noam Chomsky

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PLATFORM MONITORING
§ Availability
• Resource Availability (up/down)
• Root Cause Identification
§ Performance
• Server level performance metrics
• Resource level performance
• Identify bottlenecks
§ Utilization
• User Sessions
• Requests (queries, reports, etc.)

32. “
32© 2015 IDERA, Inc. All rights reserved. Proprietary and confidential.
When you need it, and don't have
it…you sing a different tune.
Bert Gummer, Tremors 2

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THANKS!
Any questions?
You can find me at:
stan.geiger@idera.com

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