Date: 13th November 2018
Location: Self-Service Analytics Theatre
Time: 11:10 - 11:40
Speaker: Shaun Leach
Organisation: ThoughtSpot
About: Enterprise data is complex, but asking ad-hoc questions of your data shouldn’t be. Using an advanced analytical search engine makes it easy for any business person to query complex data models and get 100% accurate results - in seconds.
Attend this session to learn about:
* Introductory data modeling concepts and best practices
* Data modeling challenges and barriers to self-service analytics adoption
* How Relational Search makes querying complex data easy for anyone
11. It’s impossible for experts to anticipate all your questions
Products Plans Transaction
Date
Income
Brackets
LocationX
= Billions of Combinations
X X X
LG G5
iPhone 6
Samsung
Galaxy 10 GB
6 GB
4 GB
Yesterday
Last
Quarter
Last
week
$150
-
300K
$75-
100K
$100
-
150K
New York
Houston
Boston
Unlimited
Last
Month
$300K+ Los
Angeles
iPhone X
12. What would it take for any business user to answer net new
questions about data on their own?
13. Gartner: Search & AI will change the way you ask questions about data
By 2020, 50% of analytical queries will be generated via search,
natural language processing or voice, or will be automatically
generated.
“
Augmented Analytics is the Future of Data and Analytics
July 2017
14. Scales to Billions of Rows
Analyze all your data from multiple data sources
with sub-second performance
Easy Cross-Source Analysis
Easily connect to multiple data sources and analyze
across using a shared metadata model
Lightning Fast Performance
Data automatically indexed in-memory so you can drill
anywhere without cubes, hierarchies, or drill paths
Company-Wide Governance
Granular column and row level access control to a
single, shared data model for every group and user
Search to Analyze Data
Anyone can use search to build reports and
dashboards in secondssales product last month california
2014: The World’s first Relational Search Engine
15. INSIGHTS
AT THE
SPEED OF
THOUGHT
Top jersey age group gender
Gross margin top 10 jerseys
Top Sales by Store State
Top 5 stores west region
Sales Product California Last Month
Answer the “next question” in seconds
16. Any Data Source Embed AnywhereSearch & AI Driven Experience
ThoughtSpot: Next Generation Analytics Platform
Embedded
Relational Search
Embedded
Charts
Embedded
Charts
Embedded
Dashboards
17.
18. Problems that other analytics solutions couldn’t solve
Fixed Granularity of Data Inflated Results
Nov 2017 West 355,000 $5,600,000
Nov 2017 Southwest 240,000 $3,100,000
Nov 2017 Midwest 412,000 $3,400,000
Nov 2017 South 138,000 $4,500,000
Nov 2017 East 445,000 $6,800,000
Monthly Sales & Foot Traffic by Region
What were weekly sales and foot traffic in
October for New York City?
Sales Foot Traffic
1
2
3
1
2
3
19. Definition: Chained Chasm Trap
…
…
A data model consisting of two or more pairs of fact tables that have
one or more shared dimensions.
Fact Fact Fact
Dim Dim
20. F500 telecom marketers search across chasm trap to analyze campaign performance
Use Case: Marketing campaign influence on churn and sales
Scale: 75M monthly customer communications, 5TBs of point-of-sale store data
Subscriptions
Campaign
Performance
POS Systems
Marketing
Campaigns
Customers
gold subscriptions email open rate phone sales 18-29 Apple campaigns