8.45 to 9.20 AM:
Registration
9.20 to 9.30 AM:
Welcome Note
9.30 AM to 10.30 AM: Opening Keynote
Emerging Trends and Technologies in the Business Intelligence Market
Business Intelligence is undergoing an evolution. Get to know the key trends that will drive BI in organizations, as well as the most important emerging BI technologies, and which vendors will provide them. Also learn discuss how organizations can begin to meld emerging trends into existing architectures. For those who like to stay ahead of the curve, and want to help shape the future, this keynote address focuses on the future of Business Intelligence.
Speaker:
Siva Lakshmanan, CEO & Co-founder, Aldea Infotech
10.30 AM to 11.00 AM: Networking/ tea Break
11.00 AM to 11.45 AM:
Integrating Business Intelligence into Line-of-Business Applications
Find out how to create business intelligence systems easier than ever. In addition to using those systems for reporting and analysis, it is now possible to utilize that collected business knowledge within line of business systems. This session presents practical examples of ways to utilize multidimensional and data mining data sources within transactional systems. Examples includes no-code data validation, fuzzy-logic look up and grouping, and predictive analysis.
Speakers:
Muniswamy Rajakumar, VP, Practice Head - BI and EAI, Polaris Software Lab
Ramesh Babu A, Principal Consultant - BI practice, Polaris Software Lab
11.45 AM to 12.45 PM:
Metadata Management
This session will introduce you to concepts of metadata, its evolution and various approaches to build robust organizational metadata based DWBI environment. The session aims to equip you with the practical knowledge on Metadata projects and program management from delivery and business standpoints encompassing workflows involved, roles and responsibilities, processes and user adoption strategy required to build and proliferate metadata across the enterprise.
Speaker:
Sriram Sankaran, Director - Delivery, Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.45 PM to 1.30 PM: Lunch
1.30 PM to 2.15 PM:
Best Practices for Data Warehousing
How to improve performance, scale, and manageability in data warehousing? This session gives insights into performance improvements, partitioned table parallelism improvements, enhanced loop join parallelism, partition-aligned indexed views, data compression, backup compression, resource governor, and other enhancements. This talk explains how to use these features together, along with good data warehouse design principles, to solve your high-scale data warehouse problems most effectively.
2.15 PM to 3.00 PM:
Implementing MDM for BI and Data Integration
In this session, learn how the existing methods and practices in place with the data warehouse can be expanded to support (and strengthen) Master Data Management (MDM). Learn how the MDM and BI combination makes sense and where the combination presents risk. When done right, not only can the data warehouse strengthen an MDM effort, but MDM can breathe new life into your data warehouse. You also get to learn the "hidden gems" of the data warehouse - how to leverage existing development practices for MDM success and the different approach to data quality, data correction, and integration in an MDM and DW environment.
Speaker:
Kabir Makhija, Senior Consultant, Hexaware Technologies
3.00 PM to 3.30 PM: Tea/ Coffee
3.30 PM to 4.15 PM: Tips & Tricks
Here's a session that can serve as a convenient best practices reference for BI architects/ developers. Six attendees, chosen by way of voting, will be given opportunity to present for 10 minutes. They share tricks of trade and their experiences. You can learn hands-on from the people who have did it themselves.