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Embedded BI Best Practices
What is embedded BI? 
What is embedded BI? 
Business Intelligence inside an application
Why Embed Analytics?
Added Value to Customers 
Added Value to Customers
Grow Revenue 
Grow Revenue
Expand your customer footprint 
Expand your customer footprint
Costly 
Costly 
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Money 
Personnel / Time 
Ongoing support and maintenance
Longer time to market 
Longer time to market 
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Longer build time, less functionality 
Lack of agility (what happens when needs 
change?) 
Lose focus on core competency
Customer Experience 
Customer Experience 
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Best Practices 
Rebranding 
Evolving User Demands
Before you embed
Who is my customer? 
Who is my customer? 
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What are your customers biggest problem? 
Can the data you generate help solve them? 
What questions can the data answer? 
How do your customers consume data? 
How will you sell this to them? 
Analyst vs pre-defined reports?
How will you go-to-market? 
How will you go-to-market? 
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SaaS or On Premise or Combination 
Embedded revenue generating or add-on 
Embedded give-away 
Stand-alone white label 
Basic visualization embedded
Data Access 
Data Access 
Where does the data live? 
Do people need to edit the data? 
Business calculations? 
Data workflows? 
Query Performance?
Focus on Content and Insight
Your value is out-of-the-box content 
Your value is out-of-the-box content 
Start with the top 5 things each users 
needs to know everyday 
85-90% of customers' needs should be 
met by content your team builds 
Do a little deep customisation as 
possible 
Lock down your default reports 
Tell a story
Tweet History Last 90 Days
Select Based on Functional Fit
The functional checklist 
The functional checklist
It's all about User Experience
What to look for in UX? 
What to look for in UX?
Users want to engage with their data 
Users want to engage with their data 
Drill down 
Drill through 
Drill anywhere 
Analytic filters 
Time sliders 
Series Selection
No ugly 
Lets not make it ugly!
Small footprint and 
platform/device independent
Technology Changes 
Technology Changes
Any platform, any device 
Any platform, any device
Choose the level of UI thats 
right for you
Demo 
Demo 
Javascript API 
Rebrand 
Tight Integration
Rebrand to increase user 
adoption
Seamless Integration
Single Sign-on 
Single Sign-on
Web Services Integration 
Web Services Integration 
Demo
Maintain the integrity of your 
data security
Report Security 
Report Security 
The BI App should not create any security gaps
Plan for multi-tenancy 
Plan for multi-tenancy 
Reuse content across clients, but partition data
Prepare data for reporting, not 
transactions
Optimize for reporting 
Optimize for reporting 
Ensure your reports are 
fast with the appropriate 
data schema.
Embedded Architecture 
Embedded Architecture
Data Quality Matters 
Data Quality Matters
Make it easy for your clients - 
prebuilt the metadata layer
Ship with out of the box metadata 
Ship with out of the box metadata 
Get the foundations right
Plan your deployment strategy
The deployment checklist 
The deployment checklist
Skillset Checklist 
Skillset Checklist
Your BI Partner
Pick your BI Partner Well 
Pick your BI Partner Well 
Its a relationship, not a transaction
Embedded BI Best Practices
Embedded BI Best Practice Summary 
Embedded BI Best Practice Summary 
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Focus on Content and Insight 
Select based on Functional Fit 
Its all about the end user experience 
Small footprint and platform/device independent 
Choose the level of UI thats right for you 
Rebrand to increase user adoption 
Seamless integration with your app 
Maintain the integrity of your data security 
Prepare your data for reporting, not transactions 
Make it easy for your clients - prebuilt metadata layer 
Play your deployment strategy 
Pick your BI partner well
Embedded BI Best Practices: Webinar slides
Embedded BI Best Practices: Webinar slides

Embedded BI Best Practices: Webinar slides