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Thursday
21 May
4:20pm - 5:00pm
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An
Agile and Intelligent Approach to Business Survival in a Recession
Mike Ferguson, Independent
Analyst
This session looks at how companies can do more with their BI
system infrastructure to rapidly deliver the new intelligence
needed to remain competitive in a recession. It looks at what
companies need to put in place to capture new requirements all
the way through to delivering the intelligence needed to support
the decision making needed in order to survive in this tough
economic climate. In particular the session challenges companies’
agility by probing their ability to:
- Quickly capture new questions associated with business
‘survival’
- Leverage metadata to identify what information is currently
available in existing systems in order to see which questions
can be answered and which ones cannot
- Quickly determine the additional information needed via
information discover of internal and external data sources
- Rapidly make controlled changes to BI systems to capture
additional information
- Deliver new business insight in a timely manner
Having done this, the session then details how companies
can leverage information management and BI infrastructure
to rapidly meet new business requirements.
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Thursday
21 May
5:00pm - 5:30pm
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Unlocking
the Intelligence Captured in Enterprise Applications
Nick Porter, Technical
Director, Silwood Technology Ltd
A leading European sports equipment manufacturer estimated that
20% of their IT spend was used in understanding what information
they had, and where it was stored. Even once they had understood
all the sources of the data, their ability to understand the
data structures in order to integrate that information was hampered
by the closed nature of their ERP system, SAP. This session
outlines how the client integrated this information into their
corporate data model, unlocking previously isolated intelligence.
Given that 90% of all large organisations have Enterprise Applications
like SAP, Oracle Financials, Siebel, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft
in place, the need to understand how to integrate the metadata
from these Enterprise Applications and share this with all the
other systems in the company is critical to achieving better
Business Intelligence for most organisations. |
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Thursday
21 May
5:30pm - 6:00pm
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The
Four V's of BI: Value, Velocity, Visibility, Validity
Andrew de Rozairo, Sybase
The Business Intelligence community must focus on short-term
deliverables addressing key challenges in order to support business
in the current climate:
- Veracity: Business users are not confident about whether
reports reflect the truth. There is a need to restore this
confidence through data lineage solutions
- Visibility: BI environments have become so complex, that
it is difficult to understand what data the company has,
how it is used and who uses it. The infrastructure should
be simplified where possible and made more transparent
- Velocity: How quickly and cost-effectively an organization
can implement the effect of a change to VAT will directly
affect its bottom line; the ability to react in a timely
manner to competitors' tariff changes will determine whether
it wins or loses market share; delivering a BI initiative
in 3 months instead of 6 will provide clear competitive
advantage.
This session will look at examples of how Sybase solutions
help customers thrive in tough times. |
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21 May
6:00pm - 6:15pm
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Q&A
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| Thursday
21 May
6:15pm
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Networking
Drinks Reception
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