Sponsors, Exhibitors and Perspective Sessions

Perspective Sessions

acuma 22 October 17:30 - 18:00 Establishing True Business Intelligence Competency Matthew Plant, Account Manager, Acuma
The demand for Business Intelligence solutions continues to grow as globalisation, mergers, acquisitions and constant re-structuring drive the need for greater business insight. But organisations often fail to achieve this insight. This presentation shows how organisations that gain most from BI are those that have established true BI competency, capable of co-ordinating the many components needed to achieve success. It demonstrates that, whilst technology is important, key success factors also include effective management of business components like Corporate Strategy and Sponsorship as well as analytic components like Information Strategy, Requirements Interpretation and Source Data Identification.

Avellino 21 October 13:20 - 13:50 Automating data quality analysis - Now you can integrate, migrate and manage your data accurately Ed Wrazen, VP of Marketing, Avellino
According to the Standish Group, as many as 88% of data integration and migration projects will significantly overrun planned time and costs, or will eventually be cancelled. Why? because organisations are often forced to rely on inaccurate metadata and out-of-date documentation, resulting in assumptions about the quality of source data, rather than a thorough understanding. Identifying data related problems such as inconsistencies, duplicates, redundant data, missing and incorrect values, invalid keys, invalid relationships from the outset, will enable you to plan and deliver your project successfully. But how can you do this effectively when you have hundreds of source files and millions of records to analyse - Automation is the answer!

Infoshare 21 October 17:50-18:20 Achieving and Maintaining a Single View of Risk Across a Large Bank Adrian McKeon, MD, Infoshare
The 1988 Basle Accord established minimum solvency standards to ensure banks honour obligations when losses occur. Given the financial abuse at Enron, Global Crossing, and AIB, pressure to prove compliance is growing. Yet financial institutions have tried for 15 years without success to achieve and maintain a single view of creditors/debtors to prove conformity. Whilst many have achieved a point in time single view, data degradation has made sustaining it almost impossible. This case study shows how a bank came to achieve and sustain a single view of its solvency position by focusing on data quality instead of IT. and how it can now prove regulatory compliance on demand. Definition of the problem and issues of data quality across multiple systems Creation and maintenance of the data map to resolve data quality problems Exploiting the map to meet regulatory obligations and discussion of other uses going forward.

Innovative Systems 23 October 08:15-08:45 Birmingham Midshires Case Study Jane Beddows, Customer Information Manager, Birmingham Midshires Mike Healy, Chief Marketing Officer - Innovative Systems, Incorporated


Kalido 22 October 12:50 - 13:20 Spend more time using your data - less preparing it Steve Mutch, DW Team Leader, Shell UK Exploration & Production on behalf of Kalido
Shell Expro's problem included: Masses of data in multiple systems No one set of the 'Truth' numbers Cumbersome and very manual to combine data from different systems with different structures and codes evolved over 20-30 years Lack of flexibility via standard SAP reporting and bespoke reports expensive to produce and requiring specialist skill set. This session will explain how Shell Expro solved (and are still working to solve) these problems, putting the power in the hands of Business and Asset analysts as well as the leadership team to analyse and act on the end to end automated output. It will also describe The Kalido tools used to achieve this, why and integration experiences.

Popkin 21 October 17:50-18:20 System Architect - Aligning Business and I.T. Alan Burnett, Senior Consultant, Popkin Software
A recent survey of e-business and IT practises concluded that the number one problem facing IT and a primary factor in the lack of e-business success was poor alignment of business and IT. The problem is in essence a lack of shared knowledge and understanding across the entire enterprise. The information exists but in multiple formats, differing terms and without reference to an overall perspective. This presentation shows that only by investing in an enterprise architecture, structured within a framework and utilising a shared repository can alignment between business and IT ever be achieved.

Similarity Systems 22 October 17:30-18:00 Eircom CRM and Data Quality Gary Moroney, CEO, Similarity Systems
This session will explain how a major utility have implemented an end-to end data quality process for both customer and asset data. Critical phases include the generation of the business case facilitated by a data quality scorecard process and the use of a configurable set of enterprise data quality products used by inhouse data analysts to support the changing data environment of CRM and datawarehouse process maintenance.

Trillium 22 October 12:50 - 13:20 Return On Investment - Hewlett Packard Market Intelligence EMEA Success Story Greg Larsen, Larsen Consulting Tom Scampion, Vice President - Europe, Trillium Software
Creating a single customer view is hard enough if the data you have comes from just one country and the data formats are within your control. Hewlett Packard EMEA faced the challenge of grouping and matching data from over 90 countries from more than 300 different external suppliers. In this session, hear how Trillium Software System® was used to power the application that created a single customer view, enabling over a dozen internal applications to understand, evaluate and reward Hewlett Packard partners and delivering exceptional return on investment.