Every IT Manager's Key to Better Data Management
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The document discusses strategies for IT managers to enhance data management through improved productivity, user empowerment, and security measures. It highlights the process of handling information requests and the tools available for business analysts to access and analyze data efficiently. Additionally, it addresses challenges in data reporting and the importance of having a centralized and secure environment to ensure data accuracy and trustworthiness.
Every IT Manager's Key to Better Data Management
- 1. Every IT Manager’s Key to Better Data Management
- 2. Mike Stegeman Sr. Data Access Consultant Introductions Heath Kath Sr. Data Access Consultant Today’s speakers:
- 4. Productivity
- 6. Business users need information Request made to IT department IT decides how to access data IT gathers data into report IT delivers data to analysts Typical information request life cycle Productivity
- 7. Business users need information Request made to IT department IT decides how to access data IT gathers data into report IT delivers data to analysts Productivity Typical information request life cycle
- 8. Analysts need information • For a particular date or date range • For a particular customer or product Analysts run reports • From a desktop icon or dashboard • From a browser en route to customer site Analysts transform data into information • Report prompts for requested input • Analysts decide on output format Productivity More efficient process
- 10. A Remote database access Access data through your IBM i system on: – SQL Server – Oracle – MySQL – Any DB2 database – Most other relational databases Write ad hoc queries Consolidate data onto a single server Drill from data on one platform to data on another Productivity
- 11. PC file creation Excel + PDF + RTF + CSV + Text + Custom + More… Interactively • Display in Excel from ViewPoint • From Excel 2010+ as Add-In • Export to Excel • Save Results As… Any PC File Format • Emailed Scheduled View or Script • Emailed • FTP • IFS Folder From a browser • Save As PC File • Emailed Your PC FILE only a click away Productivity
- 12. User chooses dates at run time Dates can have floating default To Date variable default value = current date – 7 days Empower business users Empowerment
- 13. User enters customer number User selects states at run time Empowerment Empower business users
- 14. Empowerment
- 15. SEQUEL Web Interface Abc123…………. Data deployment Empowerment
- 16. Output options Display PC file Email Archive Report Print Empowerment
- 17. New look Colors Download to PC Email Browser access “Play” with data Automatic reports HTML Modernization Empowerment
- 18. Security
- 19. Security Centralized repository Secure by user or group Department/ functional libraries One version of the truth Run-only, modify, create controls in SEQUEL Record level security* * Version 11.3 - Nov 2015
- 20. Inefficient collaboration GL summary (Excel) Summary sales by customer/brand Profitability extract Summary sales by region Purchasing extract (MS Access) ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ Joe downloads this manually via Client Access every Monday… except when he’s on vacation or out with the flu! Mary wrote this extract. She left last year and no- one knows how it works. The Net Sales calculation in this extract is different than Mary’s. No one has yet realized that this is loaded incorrectly. The auditors will be the first to discover the problem. These reports don’t balance with each other. These reports don’t balance with each other. No one trusts this report. John spends 5 days every month generating this and massaging the numbers until he thinks it is correct. Security A chaotic reporting environment! Sales FinancialsPurchasing
- 21. Security 55% lower than Oracle 49% lower than SQL Server Cost of ownership
- 22. SEQUEL Demo • SEQUEL Dashboard - Graphs and Gauges • SEQUEL View - Prompt - Dynamic Drill Down • SEQUEL Client Table
- 23. • Productivity -IT staff -Business users • Empowerment • Security Summary
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- 25. Every IT Manager’s Key to Better Data Management We are ready for your questions! Mike Stegeman Sr. Data Access Consultant Heath Kath Sr. Data Access Consultant Today’s Speakers:
- 26. Thank You for Joining Us Today! Website: www.helpsystems.com/sequel Phone: 800-328-1000 or +1 952-933-0609 Email: mike.stegeman@helpsystems.com heath.kath@helpsystems.com