Real-time Analytics

with Azure,
DataZen, PowerBI
& Stream Analytics
Rui Quintino

Data Platform Airlift

21 de Outubro \\ Microsoft Lisbon Experience
Real-Time Analytics & Business Intelligence
• Why?
• How?
Real-Time Analytics in Microsoft Data Platform:
#Azure
#PowerBI
#StreamAnalytics
#Datazen #SqlServer
#SignalR #EventHubs #ServiceBus
(note: also very relevant , but not covered : AzureML, APS,
Storm, Spark, HDInsight,…)
• Q&A
Slideshare
Transformative opportunity
Information Shift to cheaper, Increasingly
explosion, faster computing, data-savvy
new insights on demand workforce

90%
of the world’s data has been created
45% 5X
of total IT spend will be Companies that use analytics
over the last two years alone1 cloud-related by 20202 are 5x more likely to make decisions
faster than competitors3

1. IDC. 2. Josh Waldo Senior Director, Cloud Partner Strategy, Microsoft. 3. Bain & Company, The Value of Big Data: How Analytics Differentiates Winners, 2013.
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The ROI of Data
Key Opportunity $674
Areas Productivity
Includes strategic
planning, human
billion
Operations $486
The formula
Organizations can realize
billion [data + analytics + people ]
capital management, Includes demand
Return on Data in several IT optimization and supply chain
key areas… Return
management,
logistics Return

@
on Data on Data

speed

$1.6 trillion
$235 Customer
Return on Data
Innovations
Includes service,
billion Facing $158
Includes customer
billion
research and
development Return acquisition, retention,
innovation on Data support and pricing
Return
on Data

Source: IDC Study: Realizing the Data Dividend, 2014.

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What are customers wanting to do?
Who is using Real-Time Analytics

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Microsoft Botnet Analytics – Architecture
Certs

ISPs

Others

Partners / Subscribers

Internet with Azure Azure

[Sinkhole] Machine Learning HDInsight
billions of devices SQL Server

Microsoft
Analytics Visualizations
Platform System Excel & Power BI & insights

• Processing 200M+ transactions per day and growing

• 566,773,255 calls a day from over 25 million distinct IP address
• Query results returned in under 2 seconds
 Real-Time Analytics at Microsoft
Microsoft Xbox team enhances game for HALO customers

The situation The solution The benefits The process

The HALO contest promotion Non-technical employees The team quickly uncovered and Analyze raw data
team wanted to use data to processed & analyzed raw data in addressed the unexpected
create a better gamer experience Real-Time to answer their (cheating), while also using 
for customers playing the new questions, using familiar and insights to update and improve Identify trends
HALO 4. powerful tools gamer experience.

Make updates

Improve CSAT

The tools
Excel SQL Server

Windows Azure HD Insight

1-Real-time Analytics with #Azure #Datazen
• Elastic Scale & Load
• the *amazing* Azure platform
• Datazen platform
• Powerfull /easy to build Dashboards
• Public viewer available
• Multi platform /device render engine
• Licensing
• Challenges
• Closed product, no Real-time support, scale
2-#PowerBI real-time dashboards
• #PowerBI-State of art analytics platform
• Rest API enabled
• Near zero-development realtime dashboards
• Low throughput scenarios,
• ~hundred/rows /sec
• Team/Enterprise-no public sharing (yet)
3-Real-time #PowerBI #Azure #StreamAnalytics
• IoT
• Huge capacity for ingestion: event hubs
• Huge capacity for live stream analytics
• Rapid Development, configure in minutes
• Elastic scale with Azure, Fully managed
• Realtime dashboards with PowerBI
• Realtime dashboards with SignalR/HTML5
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