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WELCOME DOMO DEPLOYMENT & SETTING YOURSELF UP TO SCALE: WHAT I WISH I KNEW WHEN I STARTED Joshua Stan Director of Finance, Dal-Tile Corporation Josh.Stan@Daltile.com LinkedIn.com/in/jstan 3 AGENDA Dal-Tiles Journey & Objectives

  2. WELCOME

  3. DOMO DEPLOYMENT & SETTING YOURSELF UP TO SCALE: WHAT I WISH I KNEW WHEN I STARTED Joshua Stan Director of Finance, Dal-Tile Corporation Josh.Stan@Daltile.com LinkedIn.com/in/jstan 3

  4. AGENDA Dal-Tile’s Journey & Objectives with Domo • Initial Hurdles We Overcame • The Basics: Anyone Can Be a Success with Domo • Scoping Use Cases • Connecting to Data and Understanding It • Organizing Domo • Driving User Adoption • 4

  5. USED THROUGHOUT THE PRESENTATION Helpful tips Since we couldn’t go skiing at Domopalooza this year… Warning: Potential Pitfalls Skill Level Required Beginner Intermediate Advanced 5

  6. DAL-TILE OVERVIEW Subsidiary of Mohawk Industries (MHK), the largest flooring manufacturer • in the world Dal-Tile has more than a dozen Manufacturing Plants in the U.S., Mexico • and Brazil Sell through 250+ stores in the U.S. and Canada along with Home Centers • and Independent Distributors throughout North & South America 6

  7. OUR JOURNEY WITH DOMO Pre-Domo: Business analysts lived in excel and manual data • extracts The search for a more efficient solution led us to Domo • Just passed our third anniversary on the platform with ~1100 users • Originally scoped 16 use cases and 20 different data sources • Now: • 60+ data sources connected • Thousands of datasets • Billions of rows of data • Domo is used throughout the enterprise • 7

  8. OUR KEY OBJECTIVES DEPLOYING DOMO 1. Improve Data Availability 2. Automation of Processes 3. Broad Adoption 8

  9. INITIAL HURDLES WE HAD TO OVERCOME Overcommitted on Initial Deployment • Lacked a data connection strategy • Didn’t understand the data • No plan on how to roll out Domo • 9

  10. NO NEED TO BE A DEER IN HEADLIGHTS If 2 finance guys can make Domo a success, SO CAN YOU!!! Wayne 6ft Josh Photo by VITALIY ANOKHIN on Unsplash 10

  11. BASICS TO GET DOMO UP AND RUNNING Minimum Individual that is curious about data – if you can use Excel and PowerPoint, you • can use and administer Domo Access to data you want to bring into Domo • Windows Server for Workbench: If you are uploading Domo from data stored on • premise (non-cloud), then you will likely want a Windows Server We run a 4 core, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD virtual server for 1500 jobs/day without • issue If behind a firewall, Domo IPs need to be whitelisted Recommended Single-sign on for user credentialing will save you a lot of time down the road • Whitelist Domo Email addresses and mail server IPs in your company’s SPAM • filter 11

  12. KEYS TO SCOPING USE CASES Go for Quick Wins Develop Departmental Major Domos • Know your audience (and future audiences) • Data: Sources and Validation Long & wide datasets • are no problem in Domo Ownership: Now and in the Future • Pages Source Datasets in Data Cards Scheduled Reports Data Domo Transforms Alerts Users, Groups, PDP, Page Organization, Access Everyone in your organization can have an ownership stake in Domo – democratize the data and ownership 12

  13. SUCCESS WITH DATA: BE PREPARED Have a Data Strategy Connections: Things to consider • Credentials • Connection On Prem vs. Cloud • Firewalls • API access & licensing • Ownership Credentials IP Whitelisting • Automating your future: • Job Monitoring Limitations on extracts (timing, • • Dataset types, names & tags speed, volume limits) • Naming conventions Building custom connectors • Sharing Frequency Document as you go • We have 60+ data sources connected, Security only 1 remains a manual feed 13

  14. UNDERSTANDING DATA Now you’re connected to the data, but what does the data mean? The GL table in SAP is called what? At Dal-Tile, we connected to 3 FAGLFLEXA different ERP systems. From SAP alone, we have synced Field names didn’t get any easier: over 500 tables to Domo. Fiscal Year: GJAHR • Fiscal Month: POPER • Organization Hierarchy: RBUKRS, SEGMENT & RBUSA • Product Categories: PRCTR • Having someone that understands the You can find major ERP schemas data, can greatly speed your deployment. online, including SAP & JD Edwards 14

  15. CONSIDER YOUR DATA OPTIONS Workbench with an ODBC driver (Append/Replace) Domo assumes all data/time • data uploaded is in UTC Workbench with a custom plug in • Raw Data Upserts • Partitioned Datasets • Connectors • Stacker • Transforms Magic ETL, SQL ETL • Data Fusions • Materialized Fusions • Unlimited Write-Back Connectors • Potential Custom Apps & Connectors • APIs • 15

  16. ORGANIZING DOMO ASSETS Assets Managed Tools to Simplify Your Life as an Online/Workbench Admin Use trusted attributes with SSO Define schemas on production Dataflows SSO • • Active Directory to Assign PDP datasets to help creators Datasets Excel Admin Plug-In • • Manage PDP & Access by Groups Users PDP Tool • • vs. Individual User Groups CLI Tool • • Personalized Data Permissions Domo APIs • • Pages • Cards • Certification • Beast Mode Management • Currently, scheduled report Scheduled Reports & Alerts • owners cannot be changed Develop the Domo Platform with Unlimited Scalability in Mind 16

  17. KEY THINGS TO REMEMBER WITH DOMO ASSETS Naming conventions matter (table, field, DF, beast modes, groups) • Keep a healthy Domo environment with quarterly cleaning • Document as you go • Automate the backend as much as possible • 17

  18. DRIVING USER ADOPTION Executive sponsor that is willing to extensively use Domo • Deliver a unique experience – find the wow factor • Training, training and more training The No. 1 Feedback we get is • there is not enough training Regular Communication & Engagement • Develop departmental major Domos Spread ownership to expand • Domo’s usage Publicize your wins & recover quickly from your missteps • Above all, make it fun and easy to Consume in Domo!!! 18

  19. YOU ARE NOT ALONE – EVEN IF YOU ARE QUARANTINED Resources to Help You Be Successful Domo Resources • Knowledge Base • Dojo • Support • Customer Success Manager (CSM) • Outside Resources • Other Domo Customers • 19

  20. KEY TAKEAWAYS Everyone can be successful with Domo Start small, think big • Develop your data strategy • Find people that understand the data to speed deployment • Democratize data and spread ownership throughout the • organization Document as you go • Make Domo fun & easy • Don’t be afraid to reach out for help if you need it • 20

  21. THANK YOU

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