saas data access & integration best practices for business intelligence
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Chances are, you’re using more SaaS applications and services than ever before. In fact, Gartner has identified Cloud as one of 2013’s four biggest technology trends. According to a recent survey by Dimensional Research, 92% of IT executives agree that cloud solutions and services offer clear business benefits – saving time and money for capturing vital enterprise data, while enhancing flexibility. But, what happens when you want to collate and analyze that data for competitive advantage? The same research report found that 88% of IT executives are experiencing significant challenges with managing different SaaS business applications or services. And, 67% report issues integrating data between SaaS applications. The point? An overwhelming majority of enterprise IT executives are concerned that their SaaS data is trapped in silos, unable to be accessed and integrated to provide business users with the unified and timely analytics they need to make crucial business decisions. Sound familiar? This presentation - SaaS data access & integration best practices for Business Intelligence – demonstrates how to easily access your SaaS data in the Cloud for advanced reporting, from any source, in real-time. Provide your business users with the right insights, at the right time, via a self-service BI environment – minus the complex, lengthy and expensive data migration and integration processes.TRANSCRIPT
SaaS data access & integration best practices for BI
Presenters:
Cameron Deed Senior Consultant, Yellowfin Murray Dunn Vice President, The Connection Cloud
Today’s agenda
• The adoption of SaaS and volume of SaaS data is rapidly increasing…
• What are the challenges this creates for business?
• Why are we challenged with Access to SaaS data?
• How can we better address these challenges?
The volume of SaaS data is rapidly increasing…
We’re entering the age of ‘Big Data’
To the moon and back…
Big Data = SaaS data?
Why is this a potential problem?
Why is the ability to access and integrate your SaaS data vital?
Traditional challenges when accessing your SaaS data…
• Crea%ngreportandAnalyzingdatafrom• Mul%pleSaaSapplica%ons• CloudandOn‐premiseapplica%ons
• Snapshotswhenyouneedit,real‐%mewhenyouneedit• Extendingthecapabili%esofSaaSapplica%onrepor%ng• FormaBngdataincludingchartsandgraphs• Analyzinglargedatasets(BigData)
So, how do companies solve this challenge today?
• The.CSVfileshuffle
• TheDataWarehouseProject
• DataReplica%on
The .CSV File Shuffle
The .CSV File Shuffle
The .CSV File Shuffle
The .CSV File Shuffle
The On-Premise Data Warehouse Project
The Data Warehouse Project
The Data Warehouse Project
The Data Warehouse Project
The Data Warehouse Project
The Data Warehouse Project
The Data Warehouse Project
The Data Warehouse Project
Data Replication
Data Replication
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Zuora
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Zendesk
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NetSuite
DATA
Eloqua
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Data Replication
Salesforce
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Zuora
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Zendesk
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NetSuite
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Eloqua
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Data Integra:on / Data Synchroniza:on
Data Replication
Salesforce
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Zuora
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Zendesk
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NetSuite
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Eloqua
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Data Integra:on / Data Synchroniza:on
SaaS Access & Integration
Best Practices for BI
Best Practice #1
Keep it in the Cloud
Integrate in the Cloud
Best Practice #2
Maintain One Source of the “Truth”
Maintain One Source of the “Truth”
Best Practice #3
Time to Value
Deliver immediate value to your business users
Time to Value: How long does it take to deliver actionable data to your business?
Best Practice #4
Use Standards When and Where They Exist
Use Standards Where They Exist
Use Standards Where They Exist
SSL SQLODBC JDBC
Best practice #5
Cloud Data Virtualization
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Cloud Data Virtualization
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So, how can you make these best
practices a reality?
Solution: Connection Cloud & Yellowfin
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Solution: Connection Cloud & Yellowfin
Solution: Connection Cloud & Yellowfin
Solution: Connection Cloud & Yellowfin
Demonstration
Summary
• Your number of SaaS applications, and volume of SaaS data is growing rapidly - so how are you going to leverage it?
• Access to SaaS-based data presents new challenges
• Best Practices: • Consider Time-to-Value Delivered as the new measure of
Success • Keep it in the Cloud • One Source of the Truth • Use standards when and where they exist • Cloud Data Virtualization is the Cloud Data Approach
• Yellowfin and Connection Cloud Deliver the Ultimate Time-To-Value solution
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@ConnectionCloud
More information
Yellowfin www.yellowfinbi.com Connection Cloud www.connectioncloud.com Feedback & Questions [email protected] [email protected]
Yellowfin LinkedIn Group Connection Cloud LinkedIn Group
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