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Keep Up With The Demand for Data!

Solutions for the Busy Business Analyst

© 2009 Quest Software, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


About the speaker: Amit Parikh
Amit Parikh is a manager of solutions
architects based out of the North American HQ
in Aliso Viejo
Viejo, CA
CA.

He has been with Quest since 1999 working in


Applications and Database Management
product areas and has over a decade of
experience working with RDBMS related
technologies.
technologies

Amit was a speaker at the Oracle Develop


2007 in Bangalore and has enjoyed sharing
his experience with customers at tech
conferences, user groups and seminars
worldwide
worldwide.

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Keeping
p g Up
p With the Demand for Data

• The Increased Demand for Data


– The ‘Data Explosion’
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– Data Management In Your Organization
• Challenges to Meeting Demand
– Access to Data
– Understanding Relationships
– Writing Efficient Queries
• Business Analyst Use Case
- Solving Pains With the Right Tools

• Q&A

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The Data Explosion

• 50% annual growth is reported in online


transactional data and repositories
• 27% of enterprises surveyed have 50 or more
terabyte production databases
• 64% of enterprises surveyed have over half of
their databases on costly tier 1 storage
• 20% of data center infrastructure spend is to
support data growth

Forrester Research

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Data Management In Your Organization

Implementing new technologies


9 Business Intelligence
9 Data Warehouses

Where you come in…


9 Experts in your domain
9 Supporting Business
Requirements
9 On-the-fly reporting
& analysis

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Challenges to Meeting Demand
9 Access to Data
- Relying on IT for data
- Data stored on multiple sources
9 Viewing and Understanding Relationships
- Which data do you need?
- How does it “connect”?
9 Writing SQL queries
- Efficient SQL statements
- Heterogeneous
g q
queries
9 Delivering Data
- Manually building and distributing reports

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Challenges to Meeting Demand

What’s the result?

9 Missed deadlines

9 Late deliverables

9 Inaccurate information

9 Your reputation

9 Frustration, long hours and very manual processes!

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Business Analyst Use Case

• Quest Software Business Analyst

• Area of expertise: Marketing

• Main Job Duties:


- Improve business processes across functional areas of
the organization
- Deliver
D li d
data
t fifindings
di tto IT b
based
d on b
business
i
requirements for projects
- Deliver ad hoc reports
p to stakeholders

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Pain #1 – Accessing Data

• No direct access to data


y g on others to deliver data
• Bottlenecks from relying
• Manual processes to manage data

B i
Business A
Analyst
l t DBA

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Accessing Data with Toad for Data Analysts

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Accessing Data with Toad for Data Analysts

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Accessing Data with Toad for Data Analysts

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Pain #2 – Viewing and Understanding Data

• Seeing where data resides


g data relationships
• Understanding p
• Viewing and comparing real-time data

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Viewing and Understanding Data with Toad for Data Analysts

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Viewing and Understanding Data with Toad for Data Analysts

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Pain #3 – Writing SQL Queries

• Writing efficient SQL Statements


y g and merging
• Querying g g data from multiple
p sources
• Writing heterogeneous queries

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Writing SQL Queries with Toad for Data Analysts

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Writing SQL Queries with Toad for Data Analysts

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Writing SQL Queries with Toad for Data Analysts

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Pain #4 – Producing and Distributing Reports

• Manual, time consuming processes


• No automation or easyy wayy to share information

Business Analyst Stakeholders

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Producing and Distributing Reports with
Toad for Data Analysts

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Improve Productivity with Toad for Data Analysts Automation

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Quest Software Business Analyst Use Case

• Gather business requirements


• Communicate requirements to IT
• Deliver ad hoc reports to stakeholders

How Toad for Data Analysts helps:


9 Access data directly at the source
9 View and understand relevant data to support
requirements and projects
9 Easily execute queries, regardless of SQL knowledge
9 Quickly produce and deliver reports
9 Save and schedule queries and reports for automation

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The Right Tools for the “Data Detective”

9 Reduce time spent hunting for information

9 No need for writing SQL

9 Easily import and export data

9 Compare
p and sync
y data across p
platforms

9 Deliver data-related projects faster

9 … and look good doing it!

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Keep
p Up
p With The Demand for Data!

Q
Questions?
ti ?

Thank you!
Amit.Parikh@Quest.com
www.quest.com

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