Tracks
12 Tracks
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| Track A: Information Foundations | Leaders of business intelligence initiatives face increasing demands to fully and rapidly integrate diverse sources of information to fuel BI tools and analytic applications. New emerging technologies and practices will force CTOs and CIOs to balance the increased capability to deliver information quickly with the necessity of governance. This track will focus on the practices, architectural techniques and technologies for achieving consistent access to and delivery of data to meet the requirements of a diverse set of BI users, analytic applications, and business processes. | A |
| Experience Level: Advanced | Advanced | |
| Track B: BI Platforms & Technologies | BI platforms provide a range of capabilities for building analytical applications. There are many choices and combinations of BI platforms, capabilities and use cases as well as many emerging BI technologies such as in memory analytics, interactive visualization and BI integrated search. The idea of standardizing on one supplier for all of one's BI capabilities is misguided. Increasingly, standardization and more about managing a portfolio of tools used for a set of capabilities and use cases. T his track is focused on the BI program manager that needs to understand: How to develop a BI platform strategy, how to evaluate and exploit BI platform capabilities and technologies; future trends to leverage, how the market will evolve and the skills needed and how to organize them in order to develop the most effective implementations. | B |
| Role: Business | Business | |
| Track C: Analytic Applications | Analytical capability is increasingly being bought as a packaged solution to address specific business process requirements. These analytic applications consist of predefined data and process workflows, and sets of predefined models, analysis and delivery capabilities. An key category of packaged analytic applications is financial performance management applications. But analytic applications must be part of an overall BI strategy rather than left as stand-alone initiatives. And the number and diversity of analytic applications continues to grow and mature; some analytic applications span multiple industries, while many others are unique to specific industries. This track will focus on the trends, best practices and use cases for analytic applications as well as the integration points needed to be considered by leaders of BI and analytical applications initiatives. | C |
| Track D: Integration with Business and Decision Processes | Business intelligence (BI) has become an expected business competency for improving decisions and performance. Traditionally, BI has been used for performance reporting from historical data, and as a planning and forecasting tool for a relatively small number of people in an organization that relies on historical data to plan ahead. Modeling future scenarios permits examination of new business models, new market opportunities and new products, and creates a culture of opportunity. In this way, workers not only see the future, but often create it. This track will focus on the social and organizational science aspects of how enterprises use information and analysis to gain a line of sight into the business operations today, how they plan for the future and the impact on their decisions. | D |
| Track E: Technical Insights: Data Architecture & Design | Data is a fluid, ever-changing, and ever-new river of life for the organization. It is structured, unstructured, quasi-structured. It is inside and outside IT, in the cloud and data center, volatile and inert. BI architecture designs must be fluid, immediate, and unbounded to support enterprises that must adapt to an increasingly democratized, consumerized, and externalized business world. This track presents architecture and design strategies for today's data managers and architects to deploy that will meet modern business challenges. | E |
| Experience Level: Foundational | Foundation | |
| Experience Level: Intermediate | Intermedia | |
| Role: IT | IT | |
| Practical Session | Practical | |
| Strategic Session | Strategic | |
