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Rocket Discover Self-Service Data Preparation and Visualization for business

users

Doug Anderson, Discover Product SpecialistJulianna Cammarano, Product Marketing BI Director

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Agenda

BI Fundamentals

Rocket Discover

Rocket Discover Demo


What is Business Intelligence & Analytics?Business Intelligence (BI) is the set of techniques and tools used for

the transformation of raw data into meaningful and useful information for business analysis purposes.

The goal of BI is to allow for the easy interpretation of large volumes of data that help to identify new opportunities and insights that lead to an effective strategy with a competitive market advantage and

long-term stability.

BI technologies provide historical, current and predictive views of business operations. Common functions of BI are reporting, online

analytical processing, analytics, data mining, process mining, complex event processing, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, predictive and prescriptive analytics.


Expanding Fundamental BI Capabilities

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Rocket Discover


From Complexity to Clarity: Rocket Discover

A Business Intelligence Solution for Line of Business Managers and Senior Level Executives

who need an intuitive, self-service offering

that empowers them to access any data and create visual interactive dashboards

that expose trends, outliers, historical details, and information

so they’re equipped to share information and make better, more informed business decisions.


End-to-End Data DiscoveryBusiness Need• Connecting disparate data across the

enterprise• A single solution for enrichment &

discovery• No time for data warehouse development• Access to siloed desktop sources

From Desktop toRelational, MultiValue,Mainframe, OLAP, and more

No need to purchaseadditional products

Business Need• Intuitive environment to create dashboards• Easy and quick data exploration &

analytics• Business user solution• Views for trending, outliers, comparison• Proactive notification of issues

Self-service, Guided navigation, Drag-and- drop dashboard creation, One-click drilldown to pinpoint focused data

Proactive pre-built analytic functions

Auto Alerts for proactive action, Intelligent Filters

Business Need• Easily share data views with team• Instant and live discussion within data

portal• Ongoing communication on issues• Share with individuals, team, internal and

external• Templating for reuse and easy adoption

Instant messaging, share dashboards, personal & team annotations

Create and share dashboard templates

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Use Case ExamplesTargeted information at the right time that provides

improved decision-making

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“In manufacturing, pricing and margin analysis is absolutely critical given the low margins and

large numbers of SKUs. Getting quarterly reports on this data is unacceptable.”

“Now we can easily see gross margin, after rebates, product-by-product, customer-by-

customer, everyday and adjust pricing when we need to.”

“In supply-chain management, inventory levels, transportation and order lead time can

make or break us.”

“Now we can see a global view of our warehouses, goods-in-transit, inventory levels, and demand, in one dashboard view.

It’s amazing what we’ve discovered and modified so customers get what they want, when they want it.”

“Hospital leaders today are faced with extraordinary pressures, from regulatory

demands and infection control, to M&A and keeping our doors open.”

“Now department heads can focus on their specific issues. With self-service BI they can blend data sources on their own quickly and easily, then create visualization that allows them to drill-into

the data they care about.”


Connect & Enrich Big Data & High Performance

WHAT Multiple sources, hybrid access; in-memory & live

query

BENEFITIn-memory for fast

response time, live-query for up-to-date data, hybrid

for optimal results


Connect & Enrich Simplified Data Prep

WHAT Data prep is distilled down

to 7 operations

BENEFITGreater return on

investment since data prep & discovery is in one tool, eliminates dependency on database administrators

Data Lineage for Governance

WHAT Easily trace back to the

origin of each field

BENEFITEliminates, weeks/months

of data investigation dictated by compliance and

mandate requirements

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Explore & Discover


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Explore & Discover



Integrated CollaborationShare and Collaborate


Rocket Discover Architecture

**Not all data sources are available in R1.1. Please inquire about specific data sources.

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z Systems Mainframe Cloud or On-Premise

Data PrepRocket Discover

Rocket Data Virtualization

Data Mapping

Map/Reduce

Caching

Data Lineage

Data PrepRocket Discover

Data Prep Collaboration

Data Visualization & Discovery

Data Lineage

Rocket Discover and Data Virtualization

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IBM/TM1/RAVE Focus (Only Review if audience is interested in TM1)


IBM Cognos BI and Rocket Discover

25 Years Together

No Operational Reporting

Driving Revenue for IBM

TM1Increases Cognos BI Retention

OEM Friendly

Partner Led Sales Strategy

Aligns with IBM’s

Architecture

A Strategic and Complementary

Partnership

• An extension of IBM R&D• Over 100 IBM branded products• Access to IBM ‘dot 9’ network

• Discover is focused on data discovery & data preparation

• Intentionally steered clear of functional reporting

• Complete transparency at Rocket IBM BA leadership

• Added RAVE integration as requested by IBM

• Bundling Discover with end-user TM1 licenses

• Native live-query promotes & leverages TM1 value

• Exploits key TM1 features; subset filters, attributes/aliases, hierarchies & text in cross tabs.

• Presents TM1 & non-TM1 data in the same dashboard• Fills gap created by deprecation

of PowerPlay Studio, Query Studio & Analyst Studio

• In discussion with several parts of IBM, who are looking to integrate or OEM Discover

• Designed to be white-labelled

• Go-to-market planned as Partner led Only

• IBM Cognos TM1 resellers are first recruits

• Cloud-ready, mobile-enabled• Supports Linux and Windows• Does not require a desktop

install• Single or multi-tenancy• Responsive-design UI

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Designed to complement the IBM stack

Native Connectivity to IBM Cognos TM1 Cubes and Cube

Views.

Support for IBM RAVE Charts.

Support for IBM Softlayer


TM1 API: Listing TM1 Servers

Action: Press Reconnect/Con

nect

Result: Populates TM1

Server drop-down list

Action: Select a TM1 Server

Result: Shows users a list of Cubes in the TM1 Server


TM1 API: Cube updates, text in Crosstab cells

Cell updates reflected right

awayText in

crosstabs


Support for TM1 and non-TM1 data

Native Mainframe

VSAM connector

(DB2 on z/OS coming soon)

Other data sources (e.g. CSV, DB2 on

LUW, SQL Server, Oracle)

Social Data (Twitter, News,

Blogs)

TM1/TM1 Web


SummaryConnect & Enrich• Multiple sources, hybrid access; in-memory for fast response, live-query for up-to-

date data• Simplified Data Prep for Greater ROI • Data Lineage for Governance

Explore & Discover• Intuitive environment for quick dashboard creation• Pre-built analytic functions for deeper exploration• One-click drilldown to pinpoint issues

Business Need• Easily share data views with team• Instant and live discussion within data portal• Ongoing communication on issues• Share with individuals, team, internal and

external• Templating for reuse and easy adoption

Instant messaging, share dashboards, personal & team annotations

Create and share dashboard templates

Share & Collaborate• Instant and live discussion on dashboard insights for better decisions• Fosters ongoing communication on critical issues for immediate resolution• Real-time data share for proactive planning


Supporting Material

Rocket Discover 30 Day Trial Register for the trial Watch the eLearning Tutorials Join the Conversation on the Rocket Discover Forum

Interested in Learning More Inforgraphic – The Game of Self-Service Intelligence Rocket Discover Brochure Rocket Discover & IBM Cognos TM1 Brochure IDC Dat-a-Glance: Self-Service BI and Data Discovery

Feedback Channel Contact the Discover Team at [email protected]

and share your opinion on Rocket Discover and the 30 Day Trial.

http://info.rocketsoftware.com/DownloadRocketDiscover.html

http://www.rocketsoftware.com/product-families/rocket-discover

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