Agenda:

08.15AM - 09.00AM: Registration

09.00AM - 09.45AM: Inaugural Keynote
Business Intelligence: Market Dynamics and Future Directions
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
Bhavish Sood, Research Director, Gartner


9.45AM - 10.30AM: Panel
Business Intelligence: An Insight
  • Muthu Ranganathan, Director - EPM, Global Center of Excellence, SAP
  • Venkata Phani Kumar Veluri, Head-MIS & BI-EDW, IBM Global Technology Services
  • Sai Belaganti, Solution Architect, Dell Services
    • Moderator
  • Bhavish Sood, Research Director, Gartner

    • 10.30AM - 11.10AM: Session
    Social Network & BI
    Social media is interwoven with regular activities. Organizations have recognized the need to integrate social media in to the overall strategy to effectively harness its power.It will encourage organizations to develop holistic approach that will employ collaborative technologies. This will help in differentiating and gaining a competitive edge.
    Speaker
    Chandu Mukkavalli, Director, Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.

    11.10AM - 11.40AM: Morning Break
    A chance to meet up with your friends and have a cup of coffee!


    Business Intelligence: Technical Track

    11.40AM - 12.20PM: Session 1
    Innovative Data Integration: Foundation for BI
    Data Integration involves extracting, transforming and combining data from multiple sources within and across enterprise to build datawarehouse and / or datamart that forms the foundation for Business Intelligence. In this session, we talk about the best practices, lessons learned and hands-on experience in building BI solutions using innovative data integration techniques, tools and cost effective business delivery models such as Cloud based Data Integration.
    Speaker
    Venkatesh Babu, President and CEO, Tiara Consulting Services

    12.20PM - 01.00PM: Session 2
    Enhancing Business Process Effectiveness through Analytics
    Throughout the history of Business Intelligence and analytics IT and business professionals have been challenged with using data and information to not merely as technology but to create business impact. A big part of this has to do with enhancing business process effectiveness and efficiencies. For long, BI and analytics has been “post facto” –generation of reports at the end of the week or month. How can analytics be used real time – to detect fraud, to choose the level of attention to each claim being processed, or to cross sell better?Session will focus on using analytics real time into business processes for better decision making. The speaker will touch on an important trend – enhancing BPM – Business Process Management using analytics. Speaker
    Rajgopal Kishore, Vice President - Business Information Management, Capgemini Financial Services

    01.00PM - 02.00PM: Lunch
    Break for lunch on the house and a chance to catch up with each other!

    02.00PM - 02.40PM: Session 3
    Performance – The Biggest Issue in BI Projects
    Cutting across all surveys, BI users highlight query performance or speed as their biggest fundamental issue in deployment, ongoing maintenance and adoption by business users. This session covers the underlying issues related to performance and the role that purpose-built analytical databases can play to address this issue. Analytical databases now offer performance innovations such as columnar design and on-chip computing or in-memory processing so BI users can dramatically improve the performance of their BI/Analytics while reducing complexity and costs at the same time. Speaker
    Vivek Bhatnagar, Country Director & Global Alliances, Ingres Corporation

    02.40PM - 03.20PM: Session 4
    Building a BI Solution Leveraging Analytical Reporting
    Learn how BI tools enable enterprise reporting from executive management to the managerial level. Learn best practices on report automation and distribution, and how prompt and reliable report generation helps the business focus on strategic decisions and company expansion.
    Speaker
    Srinivas Srimushnam, Consulting Practice Head, Hexaware BI&A

    03.20PM - 03.50PM: Afternoon Break
    Some time out for you to grab another coffee and a well earned rest.

    03.50PM - 04.30PM: Session 5
    “BI for the masses” – Strategic approaches for managing democratization of BI
    Advent of next generation BI capabilities & their induction into the mainstream enterprise business processes is elevating BI & Information management to a mission critical level. Along with this, a highly mobile & analytics savvy workforce is entrenching themselves in the enterprise workplace. In this session you will hear strategic approaches for managing the resultant big data explosion & mission critical analytic capabilities that drive successful enterprise BI initiatives.
    Speaker
    George Philip, Practice Head, Wipro Technologies

    04.30PM - 05.10PM: Session 6
    Single Version of Truth Challenges
    The concept of svot presumes there are no variances. Every individual in the organization should see the same version and hence no conflicts. This is ideal,but is it really possible to achieve, even if we achieve by all means, is it worth the pain.The session addresses the truth behind single version of truth and how to manage client expectations.
    Speaker
    Hari Devarpalli, BI Solution Architect, Tata Consultancy Services

    05.10PM: Conclusion