Beyond the Platform: Enabling Fluid Analysis
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When the analysts aren’t happy, no one is happy. That’s because these days, practically every aspect of the business is driven by insights. And because information architectures are increasingly complex, any number of issues can cause a slowdown in queries, or even basic reporting. How can your organization ensure that all systems are go? Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from veteran Analyst Dr. Robin Bloor as he explains the common roadblocks to successful BI and analytics. He'll be briefed by Stan Geiger of IDERA, who previously demonstrated how his company’s SQL BI Manager can optimize platform health and performance. In this episode, he will dive deeper into how IDERA’s solution resolves resource constraints, user activity and capacity issues, making tiresome troubleshooting a thing of the past.
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Beyond the Platform: Enabling Fluid Analysis
- 1. Grab some coffee and enjoy the pre-show banter before the top of the hour! !
- 2. The Briefing Room Past the Platform: Eliminating BI Bottlenecks
- 4. u Reveal the essential characteristics of enterprise software, good and bad u Provide a forum for detailed analysis of today s innovative technologies u Give vendors a chance to explain their product to savvy analysts u Allow audience members to pose serious questions…and get answers! Mission
- 5. Topics January: ANALYTICS February: BIG DATA March: CLOUD
- 6. Happy Workers = Busy Workers u Speed matters u Speed will always matter u Bottlenecks undermine analysis u Languishing issues damage culture u Speed always matters!
- 7. Analyst Robin Bloor is Chief Analyst at The Bloor Group [email protected] @robinbloor
- 8. IDERA u IDERA offers a wide variety of database management and development solutions u Its products focus on performance monitoring and workload analysis u IDERA’s SQL BI Manager delivers comprehensive monitoring and reporting over the BI environment
- 9. Guest Stan Geiger is Senior Product Manager for BI at IDERA
- 10. © 2016 IDERA, Inc. All rights reserved. Proprietary and confidential. PAST THE PLATFORM: ENABLING FLUID ANALYSIS Monitoring the Microsoft BI Stack
- 11. 11© 2016 IDERA, Inc. All rights reserved. Proprietary and confidential. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE
- 12. 12© 2016 IDERA, Inc. All rights reserved. Proprietary and confidential. MICROSOFT PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE § Source Data • Relational Databases (SQL Server, Oracle, etc.) • NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, Hbase) § Data Storage and Aggregation • SQL Server Database • Azure Data Warehouse • Analysis Services (SSAS) § Presentation/Analytics • Excel • Reporting Services (SSRS) • PowerBI
- 13. “ 13© 2015 IDERA, Inc. All rights reserved. Proprietary and confidential. You don’t know what you don’t know. Noam Chomsky
- 14. 14© 2016 IDERA, Inc. All rights reserved. Proprietary and confidential. PLATFORM MONITORING § Availability • Resource Availability (up/down) • Root Cause Identification § Performance • Server level performance metrics • Resource level performance • Identify bottlenecks § Utilization • User Sessions • Requests (queries, reports, etc.)
- 15. “ 15© 2015 IDERA, Inc. All rights reserved. Proprietary and confidential. When you need it, and don't have it... you sing a different tune. Bert Gummer, Tremors 2
- 16. 16© 2016 IDERA, Inc. All rights reserved. Proprietary and confidential. AVAILABILITY AND PERFORMANCE § Is the platform available? • Is the platform accepting requests? § Is the platform performing under acceptable parameters? • Performance Bottlenecks • Resource Bottlenecks • Application Contention § ETL Status and Performance • Did the ETL process complete? − Where did it fail? − Why did it fail? • Did the ETL process perform under acceptable parameters?
- 17. 17© 2016 IDERA, Inc. All rights reserved. Proprietary and confidential. BI ACTIVITY § Users connected § User activity • Queries and requests • Tasks being processed • Reports executing § Utilization • Most active Reports • Object utilization
- 18. 18© 2016 IDERA, Inc. All rights reserved. Proprietary and confidential. Examples
- 19. 19© 2016 IDERA, Inc. All rights reserved. Proprietary and confidential. THANKS! Any questions? You can find me at: [email protected]
- 20. Perceptions & Questions Analyst: Robin Bloor
- 21. BI Bottlenecks Robin Bloor, PhD
- 22. The Role of BI BI is the feedback loop for corporate systems
- 23. The Driving Force: Insight = Analytics And Optimization?
- 24. The Begetting of BI Desire for knowledge begets user requests User requests beget analytics projects Analytics projects beget data lakes Data lakes + analytics beget insights Insights beget BI
- 25. A Full BI Platform (Simplified)
- 27. Disruptive Dynamics u Data volumes u Data sources u Streaming & speed of arrival u Unstructured data u Social (unclean) data u Data provenance u Compute power (parallelism) u Machine learning u New analytic workloads Bi is not a static situation.
- 28. Potential Bottlenecks u Availability (of all components) u Data flow integration/automation u Resource bottlenecks (The Iron) u Ingest issues u Database performance (CPU/Memory/ Disk) u Contention for data The issues in summary:
- 29. About BI Monitoring… Unless the BI SERVICE is dependable and timely it isn’t a SERVICE
- 30. u Does your software tend to influence how BI is deployed (or is it already too late in most cases as you enter after it is already set up)? u How long does it usually take to bring a BI implementation under control? u What are the typical bottlenecks you encounter? What are the most common mistakes people make? u Do you cater for streaming BI/analytics? If so how big is the demand for this?
- 31. u How many of your customers (roughly) are building predictive analytics apps? u Do you tend to be deployed in very large BI implementations? What are the largest configurations you encounter, both in terms of data and in terms of variety of BI applications? u Which companies/technologies do you compete with directly?
- 33. Upcoming Topics www.insideanalysis.com January: ANALYTICS February: BIG DATA March: CLOUD
- 34. THANK YOU for your ATTENTION! Some images provided courtesy of Wikimedia Commons