Managing Power BI Deployment and Usage in a

Managing Power BI Deployment and Usage in a Large Organization Rodrigo Patrianova MAR-2019 ES Enterprise Solutions Schlumberger-Private

Objective Provide an overview of the Power BI Deployment in Schlumberger • Why deploy Power BI? • Deployment approach • Challenges • Take away Schlumberger-Private

Why deploy Power BI? Schlumberger-Private

Why deploy Power BI? • Schlumberger had(has!) a multitude of technologies to support its Business Intelligen • Need to consolidate and converge to reduce TCO (support, licenses, processes, traini • Early signs of self-service BI has proven to be fruitful (Tableau) • Decision to move to a more robust, modern and scalable BI Platform with Azure + Pow Schlumberger-Private

Power BI deployment approach Schlumberger-Private

Three phases • Pilot (6 months – H 2 2017) • Limited Power BI Pro licenses and limited Power BI Premium capacity (Top current users) • Yammer group consolidation / establishment • Inner Circle (Geographies, functions and product lines) – place to bounce ‘green’ ideas • Stealth-Launch (Q 1 -2018) • Establishment of the processes • License acquisition • Internal recharges • Premium capacity assignment model • Support team in place • No communication • Official Launch (Q 2 – 2018) • Communication plan / channels using the Office 365 footprint • Official launch to the entire company (Articles, Videos, Webinars, Signage “coffee area”) • Hypercare mode – Every question is a valid one – dedicated team for it Schlumberger-Private

Communication plan • Story based – use case oriented • “Avant-première” with • • GM IT Managers Product Lines IT minded people Office 365 champions Global Service Desk • Main channels • • • “SPAM” for 80 K employees Intranet “hub” articles Wiki for essential questions Community (Yammer) with dedicated resources Weekly webinars with Power BI basics Schlumberger-Private

One last thing • Power BI & corporate data = real self-service • October 2018 - Deployment of all Corporate Models via Azure Analysis services Schlumberger-Private

Power BI adoption Monitoring Schlumberger-Private

Power BI adoption Monitoring • Success criteria = end of 2019 au pair with current usage of Tableau • In-house monitoring tool • Audit Logs + Employee information = Insights • Available to all, as an app & a tabular model • Community “cherry picking”, bringing the most active people to participate on the community content. Schlumberger-Private

Challenges Schlumberger-Private

Challenges Challenge Actions Ever changing application - Seat at Microsoft table (Power BI enterprise voice) - Technical articles for the community with new functionalities Global deployment 80+ countries / multi layered company - Champion network - No such thing as over communicate - Community, community Training - Webinars only go so far - Establishment of a train the trainer network (TBD) - Webinar + classes Lack of “admin grade” tools - Custom built monitoring apps and governance Schlumberger-Private

Take away Schlumberger-Private

Take away • Define what success looks like up front and build from it • PILOT, you will learn a lot from it • Setup an inner circle with some of your key end users to bounce some of the early ideas • Build a strong community, it’s a self-healing organism • Dedicate people to take good care of it • Keep content accurate, relevant • Use internal cases • Have a single GO TO place for the key information • Overcommunicate (multi channels) – Use Microsoft Material! • Monitor and be open for change Schlumberger-Private

Thank you Feel free to reach out to me: Rodrigo Patrianova rpatrianova@slb. com https: //www. linkedin. com/in/rpatrianova/ Schlumberger-Private