This document summarizes key topics from a business intelligence best practices summit, including emerging trends in BI like geospatial analytics, embedded advanced analytics, big data, and the evolution of business analytics from descriptive to predictive to prescriptive. It also notes that empowering more users with BI tools while also ensuring proper governance and security of large, diverse datasets will be a key focus area in 2014. Breaks were provided and slides and videos from the sessions would be made available to attendees after the event.

1. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BEST PRACTICE SUMMIT
Martin Kratky

8. House Keeping
30min Session 5 Minute Q&A
Breaks
Mobile Phone
Wi-Fi available
Slides and Videos Available to Attendees

13. What’s happening in BI?

14. TRENDS
“Accelerated transformation from BI systems used primarily for measurement and reporting to those that also support analysis, prediction, forecasting and optimization”
Gartner 2014

15. Geospatial and Location
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cx60BWpjv4#t=55

16. Embedded Advanced Analytics (e.g. r libraries)

17. Business User Data Mashup and Modelling

18. Big Data

19. Evolution of Business Analytics
Descriptive
“What’s going on”
Predictive
“What will happen”
Prescriptive
“What should we do about it”

20. Powered By Data Science

23. Empowerment / Governance a Contradiction?
“It is very likely that 2014 will be a critical year in which the task of making "hard types of analysis easy" for an expanded set of users, along with ensuring governance, scale and performance for larger amounts of diverse data, will continue to dominate BI market requirements.”
Gartner 2014

24. Evolution of BI

25. Challenges & Risks

26. Effectively Analyse Millions of Records

27. Standards?

28. Security

29. Constant Innovation Imperative