Leveraging Cloud for Business Intelligence

Presented By

Aashu Aggarwal
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Agenda

01

Business Intelligence

02

Business Intelligence on Cloud

03

Pros and Cons

04

ROI Metrics

05

On-premise vs Cloud ROI

06

Running BI on AWS

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Business Intelligence

Set of tools and techniques to get useful

information for business analysis purpose.
Examine historical data and trends to set metrics
benchmark.
Consists of
ETL
Data Warehouses
OLAP

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Cloud Computing

01

On Demand

02

Pool Of Resources

03

Rapid Provision

04

Access From Anywhere

05

Reduced Management Cost

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BI in the Cloud
SaaS

PaaS

Data Visualization (SAP

Business Object etc.)

Data Warehousing
(OCO, Panoroma, etc.)

Data Analytics (SAP

Business Objects,
Microsoft, LucidEra etc.)

Data Integration (IBM,

etc.)

Performance
Management(SAP
Business Object etc.)

Hosted BI Platform
(Microsoft Azure, SAP
Business Object etc.)

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Database (Vertica, etc.)

IaaS
Data storage and
Processing power
(Amazon EC2 etc.)

Pros
Low Setup Cost
Reliability and Scalability
Easy Access
Easy Maintenance
Flexible
More Focus on Core activities

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Cons
Transfer large data sets
Geographical Constraints or
Regulations.
Limited services by established BI
vendors.
Integrating on-premise data with
cloud components

ROI Metrics

Financial
Payback Period
Net Present Value
Internal Rate of Return

Non Financial
Consumer Satisfaction
Ratings by Independent Agencies
Better Decisions and Time Utilization

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On-Prem vs Cloud based ROI

Hardware Costs | License Costs | IT Services Costs | Support Costs | Upgrades
Cashflow Calculation Worksheet

Cost Component

On Premise

Vs On cloud/Hybrid

Year 0

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 0

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Capex-Hardware

140270

122

122

122

30270

57

57

57

Capex-Software

251

56

56

56

251

56

56

56

66000

66000

66000

66000

Capex- IT Services

100

30

Opex-AMC (Annual Maintenance

225

225

Contract) for TCO period

63

40

AMC-Hardware for TCO Period

128

128

141037

186

186

186

96944

66122

66122

66122

Savings

190

102000

102000

102000

6140

157000

157000

157000

Revenue

40

40

Total Inflow

230

102000

102000

102000

6180

157000

157000

157000

-140807

101814

101814

101814

-90764

90878

90878

90878

Outflow

Capex-Cloud Licenses

Total outflow
Inflow

Cashflow

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On-Prem vs Cloud based ROI

ROI Metrics
Payback Period
Net Present Value (NPV)
Internal Rate of Return (IPR)

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Formula

Values (in Years)

Cloud

On Premise

No of years when Total Inflow = Total Outflow

0.99

1.4

The value of future benefits restated in term of todays money

$122,941.94

&102,172.14

The benefits restated as an interest rate

85%

13%

The world of
Reporting

Information
Access

Enterprise
Information

The Intelligent,
Agile
Enterprise

Performance
Management

ROI($)

Events
detection

Enterprise
dashboard
Propensity
modeling

Risk management

segmentation

Data quality

reports

Manual
spreadsheets

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KPIs
Data
marts

Financial
management
Profitability
OLAP
Enterprise data
warehouse

Relationship
optimization

Amazon Web Services

01

Easy To Use

02

Flexible

03

Cost-Effective

04

Reliable

05

Scalable and High Performance

06

Secure

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Why run BI on AWS

01

Managing databases is painful and difficult

02

SQL databases does not scale well

03

Difficult to deploy and manage Hadoop

04

Data warehousing solutions are costly, complex

and slow
Streaming data is difficult to capture

05

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Databases
RDS

Analytics
EMR
Kinesis

DynamoDB
Machine Learning
RedShift

ElastiCache

Quicksight

Elastic search
Data Pipe Line

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Work Flow
Redshift
Kinesis
Streams

EMR
Cluster Engine
RDS

6
4
2
0
Series 1

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Series 2

Series 3

Thank You
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Contact for further details at aashu@bluepi.in