Empower Users and Control Data Visibility with SEQUEL
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View this slideshow to learn how you can empower your users with self-service data access. Watch the on-demand webinar on HelpSystems.com: http://www.helpsystems.com/sequel/events/recorded-webinars/tired-endless-data-access
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Empower Users and Control Data Visibility with SEQUEL
- 1. Tired of Endless Data Access Requests? Empower Your Users
- 2. Heath Kath Sr. Data Access Consultant Mike Stegeman Sr. Data Access Consultant Today’s speakers: Welcome!
- 5. Empower your users Translate data into information Control visibility to critical information SEQUEL overview demo Today’s Agenda
- 8. Empower Your Users Run-time Prompts Select multiple
- 9. Empower Your Users Browser Access
- 10. Empower Your Users Data Access in Excel
- 11. Empower Your Users Data Access in Excel
- 12. Empower Your Users Data Access in Excel
- 13. Empower your users Translate data into information Control visibility to critical information SEQUEL overview demo Today’s Agenda
- 14. Translate Data Into Information Simple Data Complex Data
- 15. Translate Data Into Information Targeted Data for Business Users Dynamic Drill-down Defined Path Drill-down OLAP Tables Multiple Data Sources
- 16. Translate Data Into Information Convert to Date Char to Num Num to Char Substring Concatenate Conditional Logic Grouping And more… Common Functions in SEQUEL
- 17. Views Colors Totals Translate Data Into Information
- 18. Views Conditional Quick Sum Translate Data Into Information
- 19. Translate Data Into Information Deployment Three interfaces System IBM i centric Remote Data Access other systems
- 20. Excel + PDF + RTF + CSV + Text + Custom + More… Your PC File Only a Click Away Translate Data Into Information
- 21. Empower your users Translate data into information Control visibility to critical information SEQUEL overview demo Today’s Agenda
- 22. Control Visibility to Critical Information
- 23. Control Visibility to Critical Information
- 24. Control Visibility to Critical Information IBM i Security Level 30 up Object Level SEQUEL Security Object Level Lib/File/Field SEQUEL Advanced Security Row Level Protects Data Levels of Access and Control
- 25. Empower your users Translate data into information Control visibility to critical information SEQUEL overview demo Today’s Agenda
- 26. Dashboard access from a browser Drill into data Prompts OLAP table GUI designer SEQUEL Overview Demo
- 27. Charts & Graphs Pivot Tables Remote Database Access Custom Reports Scripting Browser Access Executive Dashboards Report Distribution Queries & Views Drill-Down Data Analysis Easily Access and Share Data SEQUEL Data Warehouse
- 28. Summary • Empower your users • Translate data into information • Control visibility to critical information SEQUEL is the solution!
- 30. Mike Stegeman Sr. Data Access Consultant mike.stegeman@helpsystems.com Heath Kath Sr. Data Access Consultant heath.kath@helpsystems.com We are ready for your questions! www.helpsystems.com/sequel
- 31. Thank You for Joining Us Today! Website: www.helpsystems.com/sequel Phone: 800-328-1000 or +1 952-933-0609 Email: mike.stegeman@helpsystems.com heath.kath@helpsystems.com support.sequel@helpsystems.com
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- Heath: Hello everyone and welcome to today’s webinar – Empower your business users with SEQUEL. In this 30 minute webinar we will touch on some of the powerful and sometimes overlooked solutions from SEQUEL.
- HEATH: My Name is Heath Kath. I am a Senior Data Access Consultant with Help Systems working for Sequel Software Division out of the US office located in Eden Prairie, MN. I have been using Sequel for n years. Coming from IBM before that. I will be your host for today’s webinar. Our presenter today will be Mike Stegeman. Mike would you like to tell us about yourself? MIKE: Hi Heath, sure. I am a Senior Data Access Consultant with Help Systems’ Sequel Division working in the Schaumburg, IL office outside of Chicago. I have worked with the IBM i since its inception as the AS/400. I am not a programmer though but a data guy. I have worked in a variety of positions from support to management, including managing a small IT department. HEATH: Excellent Mike. A little housekeeping about today’s session, if you have questions during the session, please use the CHAT feature and send a message to All Panelists, and we will address those questions during our Q&A at the conclusion of the webinar. I am also recording the webinar and we will follow-up with you with a link to the recording within a day or two.
- HEATH: Before we begin we would like to ask our audience a couple of quick questions. If you can take a moment to respond and remember to press the submit button after you have answered the questions. <Heath can elaborate on the questions – plan for about 1 - 1.5 minutes max>. Mike, the floor is yours.
- Mike: Thanks Heath. Here is our agenda for today’s session. First we’ll touch on delivery of data to empower users to get real time data for real time decisions. Next transforming data into information. Then we’ll touch on Securing visibility to critical information. And we’ll end with a brief overview of SEQUEL from the users point of view.
- What exactly does it mean to empower your users? A majority of business users and analysts would not be adverse to being more self sufficient. This way they don’t have to rely on their IT department to get them. They would become more efficient if they could get the data they want when they want it, no waiting. But the IT concerns include knowledge of the database and security of sensitive data. There is a line that must be drawn between giving users access to data and giving them the keys to the castle.
- Let’s start with prompts. Run time prompts can empower the user. The business user can easily select the date or date range for example, to access the information they need. They would not have to open the definition in design and change the value. Simply run the SEQUEL View, select or enter the values needed and you can let the analysis begin.
- Any values can be prompted to get the data to the user for analysis: regions, states, item numbers, account numbers, customer names or numbers, vendor, invoice numbers, just about anything.
- How about access from a browser? The business user does not have to have any additional software installed on their PC. Browser access to real time data is available with SEQUEL. Prompted views as well as the ability to download to PC files, move columns add subtotals, print and email all are part of SEQUEL Web Interface. Data presented in summary or grouped format can dynamically be drilled into by the user to uncover previously unseen data or to investigate apparent data anomalies. Conditional highlights can assist the instant discovery. Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari all supported browsers so tablets can unchain the user form their desk and monitor.
- Everyone uses Excel. How empowering is it to start in Excel, get prompted for data, get real time data and stay in Excel the whole time? And the data can come from your IBMi db2 database, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL or other remote data configured in SEQUEL. An add-in to our GUI interface View Point gives you access to your Views, Tables and Scripts. Selecting ‘Refresh data’ means the user can, upon opening the Excel spreadsheet, get current data.
- The column selection from the Excel add-in gives the user the ability to select their own fields from the view. It’s very similar to our template feature directly in View Point. A master view designed with many fields lets the user at run-time select the fields they want.
- The real time data from your system i is now in Excel. Once there, you can use any Excel function you want.
- Now let’s get into translating the data into information
- Not all data is information. Data is the path to information. Sometimes that path is easily recognizable and accessed. It may have all of the markings you need to reach your goal. Data can be simple. If your tables are relatively straight-forward and understandable. Data can be confusing, misleading, skewed, even wrong. Industry knowledge is needed to differentiate the bad data from data that is not yet understood. But presenting your business user with timely data can give them a leg up on the competition. Data that is positioned and presented correctly, empowers users to seek answers to previously unasked questions and potentially to information that was untapped. A centralized source where everyone is presented with timely data leads to better, more useful information.
- Targeted data is the effective and efficient path to information. Letting the business user select the date or date range, the account number, the customer, the vendor, the invoice gets them from data to information faster. Let them see and analyze via drilling to provide increased transparency to the data. Dynamic drilling allows the user to decide the drill path, each time they look at the data. Defined path drilling with a SEQUEL Application takes the business user on a trip through the data to explore more details. Calculated fields are extremely useful. In older tools like Query/400 you are limited in what you could do as far as creating new fields. SEQUEL expands that ability. In what would take Query/400 several iterations, SEQUEL can handle in a lot less.
- The number of calculated fields in SEQUEL is quite large. These are some of the more common: convert data to a true date format, convert character to numeric and vis-a-versa, substring and concatenation, use of CASE-WHEN-THEN for conditional logic, grouping with sum-min-max-average and count, and too many more to get into here.
- Colors and totals can be added for modernized look to your data.
- Conditional highlighting guides the analyst to data that may need attention right away. And quick sum can give fast and easy counts and totals simply by highlighting data.
- Installation and upgrades are fast and generally uneventful. Often being completed before you’ve finished your first cup of coffee. Access to the data using the IBMi SQL Query Engine or SQE returns the results to the users faster than the traditional CQE or Classic Query Engine used in Query. And with the newer operating systems on the i, IBM has continued to improve the speed and efficiency of the system that is highly dependable. Deployment to business users with zero footprint and browser access with SEQUEL Web Interface gives quick access to data. All before your second cup of coffee.
- In addition to multiple interfaces, there are several options for PC file creation. Select from interactive or scheduled. Click from OUR GUI interface ViewPoint on a PC or in a browser. Your choice of PC files is also large. Excel, PDF, RTF for Word, CSV, TXT, and more. A PC file is only a click away.
- Now let’s get into security and control forgetting into information.
- Controlling visibility is the process of securing your data. Securing outsiders from breaking in, and securing your employees prying eyes from seeing data they should not be privy to. This section is more on the latter. Share information only among the users who should be seeing it.
- The IBM i platform was designed from the beginning for businesses. The database and the operating system are inseparable, making the i the most securable and reliable system ever built. But as Robin Tatum of HelpSystems PowerTech division says, Fort Knox would be less secure if you leave the door open. The right software, settings and policies add to the fact that the IBM i can be as safe and secure as it is reliable.
- Companies need to manage, control and monitor access to operational data. At a minimum, you have the IBM i authority. Most everyone sets this to level 30, 40 or 50. User authentication is required. Users or groups can be granted certain privileges like spool control. The users can be blocked from or allowed to see certain data files, like payroll. Some applications don’t allow you to alter the individual settings but you can still block or allow object access at the object level. This includes the SEQUEL definitions as well. A View or Dashboard over sensitive data can be opened only to those users who are allowed to see it. Users can be blocked from certain fields like salary and social security number with SEQUEL Security, which sits on top of the IBM i authority. It does not bypass it. The same is true for SEQUEL Advanced Security but this can go to the row level and can limit a user to seeing only certain data, like their department or company without having to design separate Views or use an IBM i physical file as a security checker.
- Now for the brief SEQUEL Demo
- This is what I will be covering during the demo (read through).
- MIKE - SEQUEL is a complete tool set, a solution that will help IT Managers break free from BI struggles -- use a single product like SEQUEL that allows you do to most everything – from creation to the distribution of information. You can easily create the views/queries, do drilldowns, pivot data, build custom reports and dashboards and even see data in charts and more. < Alternate text from original slide> SEQUEL is a complete tool set, use a single BI solution that allows you do to most everything, from the creation to the distribution of information. SEQUEL can provide data to analysts in a variety of forms and formats. You have data coming in from your applications, remote databases like an MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, or from a data warehouse like SEQUEL Data Warehouse. SEQUEL can help distribute the information, whether simply displaying the information, emailing, providing summary data for the user to drill into details on demand. And, for those power users, they can easily build powerful views, custom reports, drill-downs, dashboards, build charts, and more – very quickly with our graphical user interface.
- MIKE: In summary, this is what we covered in today’s session. Empowering your Business users by getting data into their hands faster and easier, with short cuts and prompts. Translating data into information by using
- HEATH - HelpsSystems is a diverse company with solutions for system automation, document management, security and business intelligence. This June in Minneapolis, we are holding our user conference. This will give you the opportunity to meet several Help Systems employees and network with other customers. You can gain more product knowledge through a large selection of sessions.
- HEATH: And now we are ready to address your questions. If you haven’t entered one yet and still have a question or two, please use the CHAT feature and send them to all panelists. Please keep in mind that we only just scratched the surface in showing you some of SEQUEL’s capabilities. HEATH: Mike – do you see any questions? Questions - fillers: Does the data in the dashboards dynamically update? What is needed to use the Dashboard, does that come with SEQUEL? Can data displayed in Dashboards from a browser have the data be automatically refreshed? Yes.. Does the OLAP Tabling features come with SEQUEL? Can you run a full client table options with from SWI? How can I get additional information about SEQUEL? Contact us …. Call / email / web …
- HEATH: We hope that you now have a good feel for how SEQUEL can address your business needs by improving your productivity - allowing users not only to access data when they need it, from where ever they are at, but also, to see information in an easy to read modernized format. If you have any further questions, or would like to see more of SEQUEL, give us a call, or email Mike or I – we would be glad to schedule a demonstration with you or your team. We appreciate your time and look forward to seeing you in futures Webinars. This concludes our session on: Empower your business users with SEQUEL Thank you, and have a great day! ** STOP RECORDING