Evolving Beyond BI

Presentation Summary

Rainbow Di Benedetto and Louise Nelson

IQ began narrowly scoped to deliver summary-level answers to executives via cubes and reports. But campus clamored for access to the valuable transactional data in IQ. We will talk about how and why IQ has been opened up to developers coding in Python and data analysts using stats packages, while still supporting use of traditional BI tools, addressing the challenges and pain points of this transition, as well as the successes it has resulted in and the long-term benefits it will yield