Agenda

08.15AM - 09.15AM: Registration

09.15AM - 10.00AM: Inaugural 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.
Ravishankar P H, Practice Head -  Business Intelligence, Coromandel Infotech India

10.00AM - 10.30AM: Session 1
Innovative Data Integration - Foundation for Business Intelligence
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.
Venkatesh Babu, President and CEO, Tiara Consulting

10.30AM - 11.00AM: Session 2
Best Practices in Building an Interactive Dashboards
Building effective and visually-appealing dashboards is easy. Learn best practices for initial dashboard design. This session will demonstrate the latest advances in tools that facilitates for dashboard creation.
Joseph S Raj, Solution Architect, Aditi Technologies

11.00AM - 11.30AM: Morning Break
A chance to meet up with your friends and have a cup of coffee on the house!

11.30AM - 12 Noon: Session 3
Applied BI and Analytics in Retail and Consumer Goods industry
Vadiraj Muthya, Global Practice Head, Wipro

12 Noon - 12.30PM: Session 4
Advanced Analytics: The Next Wave in Business Intelligence
Shankar Radhakrishna, Senior Solutions Architect, HCL Technologies

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

02.00PM - 2.45PM: Keynote Address
Business Intelligence : Vision & Strategy
Rao Yerramilli, Principal, Capgemini India

02.45PM - 03.15PM: Session 6
BI challenges for the SMEs
The need of BI tools are growing for the SMEs. However there is lack of simple and afordable solution. There are two main chalenges for SMEs: How to adapt their analyses and reporting requirements without waisting financial technical ressources? And how not to overload IT department with end-users reporting requirements? Therefor the solution is to empower end users, so they can be free from technical and IT dependencies by adapting BI tools to most widely used softwares like MS Excel.
John Soliveres, Managing Director and Co-founder , Quick Report Software

03.15PM - 03.45PM: Session 7
Generic ETL Design for OLTP/OLAP
Varadarajan V, Senior Project Manager, Polaris Software

03.45PM - 04.15PM: Afternoon Break
Some time out for you to grab another coffee and a well earned rest.

04.15PM - 04.45PM: Session 9
Best Practices for Data Warehousing
This talk will use real life experiences from large datawarehouses built, along with good data warehouse design principles, etc. Some hints to improve performance, scale, and manageability of datawarehousing will be discussed.
Raman Govindarajan, CEO, perfSYSTEMS