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EXCLUSIVE INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE PRESENTATION (DAY ONE)
INMON VS KIMBALL – ARCHITECTURE REDUX
For years there have been discussions and debates about the different approaches for building the data warehouse – the dimensional model approach versus the DW 2.0 model. But there has never been a discussion in public on the two approaches – until now!
The Kimball, dimensional modeling architecture is good for producing fast reports. The Inmon DW 2.0 architecture is good for producing corporate data where there is a single version of the truth. While there are some similarities, there are some important differences. This presentation addresses the places where each architectural approach fits - and discusses where the different architectures do not fit well.
Based on the white paper: A TALE OF TWO ARCHITECTURES, Inmoncif.com – this presentation is being given in the Southern Hemisphere for the first time ever – exclusively for Enterprise IQ.
BILL INMON Principal
INMON CONSULTING SERVICES (USA)
CLICK HERE to download the white paper - "A Tale of Two Architectures" courtesy of Inmoncif.com
EXCLUSIVE INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE PRESENTATION (DAY TWO)
THE RISE OF TEXTUAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
First there was the data warehouse. Then came Business Intelligence. Then organisations discovered that they could meaningfully and usefully place textual data inside a data warehouse. And with the placement of text inside a data warehouse came the revelation that classical Business Intelligence worked on some text and not on other text.
This presentation addresses a new form of Business Intelligence that is designed specifically for an unstructured data warehouse.
BILL INMON Principal
INMON CONSULTING SERVICES (USA)"The Father of Data Warehousing"
Bill Inmon, world-renowned expert, speaker and author on data warehousing, is widely recognised as the “father of data warehousing.” He is creator of the Corporate Information Factory and the Government Information Factory and more recently DW2.0. He has over 35 years of experience in database technology management and data warehouse design, and he is known globally for his seminars on developing data warehouses. He has been a keynote speaker for many major computing association and many industry conferences, seminars, and trade shows.
He has published more than 40 books and 1,000s of articles on data management and data warehousing, and his books have been translated into nine languages. Computerworld Magazine has rated him as one of the "Top 10 Most Influential People in the First 40 Years of the Computer Industry".
Bill consults with a large number of Fortune 1000 clients, offering data warehouse design and database management services. He has worked for American Management Systems, Inc. and Coopers & Lybrand. Bill received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Yale University, and his Master of Science degree in Computer Science from New Mexico State University. He makes his home in Colorado.BILL WILL ALSO BE PRESENTING A BRAND NEW, SEPARATELY BOOKABLE, FULL-DAY MASTER CLASS ON "DEEP DIVE: BUILDING THE UNSTRUCTURED DATA WAREHOUSE" ON THE 27TH OCTOBER. For more information about the Day Three course, please CLICK HERE
INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE PRESENTATION (DAY ONE)
MODELLING THE DATA WAREHOUSE FOR ENHANCED AGILITY
Today the industry continues to focus more energy on addressing data warehouse agility. There are several approaches currently being developed and applied to address different forms of agility requirements. In this presentation Hans will cover the definition of agility, the types of agility, provide an overview of a number of current approaches, and also include observations from the field.
In this session Hans will also discuss the concept of hyper-agility the benefits, risks, and other considerations. As part of this session, additional topics will also be covered including operational data warehousing, operational bi, agile project management techniques, agility oriented tools, and operational integration
THERESE AHLSTAM Senior Consultant
TOP OF MINDS (Sweden)
(Please note, Hans Hultgren has been forced to withdraw from the Summit for health reasons. His colleague Therese Ahlstam will be presenting in his place. Enterprise IQ would like to wish Hans a speedy recovery and look forward to Therese being part of the program)
Therese Ahlstam has worked within the IT industry for 13 years, the majority of them with database architecture, modelling and development for various clients within the retail, finance and gaming industries. She has extensive experience with large data volumes and high performance database solutions, both in operational and data warehouse solutions.
Therese is a certified Data Vault Architect and highly experienced in working with 3NF-modelling and star schema mart design.
Therese consults in the areas of data warehousing, ETL development, database modelling, data vault and performance tuning and works closely with Hans Hultgren as part of Top of Minds in developing the next generation of agile data warehousing solutions. Therese is also co-opted as a guest speaker in the MBA- and doctorate programmes at a Swedish university.GLOBAL AWARD WINNING CASE STUDY
CREATING AN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CULTURE DRIVEN ORGANISATION – A CASE STUDY OF A P&C INSURER
This case study demonstrates how a Greenfields P&C organisation started its operations by undergoing transformation from being process and technology driven to becoming an information management-centric culture driven organisation. The session will focus particularly on:
- Getting information management sponsorship at the senior executives and Board level
- Building the Business Intelligence Competency Centre
- Defining and implementing information centric business processes
- Defining and implementing Enterprise Data Model
- Defining and implementing Enterprise Business Thesaurus
- Data Quality and Master Data Management
- Rewards Program for quality data entry and management
- Information Management and Quality Metrics for Performance Measurement
- IT solution architecture that is information management centricThis presentation will be useful to organisations that are struggling to figure out where, when and how to start introducing a data governance program. It also discusses about all the strategies that need to be considered when developing an IM culture in the organisation and this includes BI, DW, DQ, MDM, and Data Governance.
RAM KUMAR Group Chief Technology Officer & Chief Information Officer Asia
INSURANCE AUSTRALIA GROUP
Ram Kumar was recently appointed Chief Technology Officer & Chief Information Officer Asia for Insurance Australia Group. For the past 3 years, he was the IAG liaison with the State Bank of India for the establishment of a new General Insurance Business Company in India called "SBI General Insurance Company Limited", as a joint venture between the two companies.
The joint venture project was recently presented with the “2011 Enterprise Architecture Global Award” – awarded by a panel of international judges.
Ram has over 23 years of commercial experience in the field of IT covering areas such as Information and Data Management, e-Business, Artificial Intelligence, Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, IT Planning, IT Strategy, IT Program and Project Management, and IT Governance. He has consulted to various organisations in India, Australia, New Zealand,
USA, China and Thailand. Some of the organisations include Fujitsu, Telecom New Zealand, CSIRO Australia, Platinum Technologies USA, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, NSW Police, OASIS USA, Insurance Australia Group and State Bank of India.
eIQ THINK TANK – EXPERTS PANEL DISCUSSION
BUSINESS IN THE BIG DATA AGE – DRIVING BUSINESS SUCCESS WITH BI & DW2.0
“Big Data is about getting creative – it’s about leveraging the technology, and it’s everywhere… There are methods to harness this data in productive ways. I’ve found tremendous demand out there at the Executive level for leveraging this.” John Webster, Co-Author “ INESCAPABLE DATA”
In May 2011, McKinsey Global Institute released a major research report titled - “Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition and Productivity”. The report found that Big Data is rapidly becoming a fundamental basis for business competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation and consumer surplus. Leaders in every sector will now have to grapple with the implications of Big Data – not just a few data-oriented managers. The report went on to forecast that “the increasing volume and detail of information captured by enterprises, the rise of multimedia, social media and the Internet of Things will fuel exponential growth in data for the foreseeable future”.
In the first of the eIQ Think Tank sessions, our panel of experts will consider and discuss the key implications, challenges and opportunities for business innovation, competition and productivity in the Big Data Age. Particular attention will be paid to the role of Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Analytics – and how these technologies and practices will be fundamental to current and future business success.
PANEL MODERATOR:
MARK JONES Director FILTERED MEDIA
PANELLISTS:
BILL INMON Principal INMON CONSULTING SERVICES (USA)
STEWART ROBERTSON Senior Manager, Global Data Warehouse WESTFIELD
ADAM MCGUINNESS Senior Business Intelligence Solutions Architect CGU INSURANCE
MARK KORTINK Chief Architect, Information & Corporate Systems TELSTRA
JO GURRY Head of Business Services, Business Intelligence COMMONWEALTH BANK
STEVE HITCHMAN Founder & Managing Director MIP
MARK JONES Director
FILTERED MEDIA
Mark Jones is a technology and business journalist, commentator, podcaster and public speaker. As director of digital media content agency Filtered Media, he produces multimedia and website content for clients including the Financial Review, SBS, the ehealth portal ehealthspace.org. He is the only freelance journalist to produce video interviews with business leaders for Financial Review TV - tv.afr.com.
Mark also appears regularly at industry events as a keynote speaker, MC and panel moderator. He has worked in the media and technology industry for 15 years, with former roles including IT Editor of the Financial Review, managing editor of MIS Magazine, executive news editor of San Francisco-based InfoWord, and editor-in-chief of ARN.
JO GURRY Head of Business Services, Business Intelligence
COMMONWEALTH BANK
Joanna Gurry is Head of Business Services within Business Intelligence at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. She has been at CBA for eight years in various finance and technology roles. She has also had international experience in London and New York with KPMG and BearingPoint.
Jo has had key roles in IT Strategy, data warehouse systems management, reporting and analytics and master data management, and enjoys assisting business teams work through the technology required to help them achieve their goals.
STEWART ROBERTSON Senior Manager, Global Data Warehouse
WESTFIELD
Stewart Robertson is currently the Senior Manager, Global Data Warehouse at Westfield Group, the world's largest listed retail property group by market equity capitalisation.
He has worked in Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse leadership and management roles for 15 years across a variety of industries including Property, FMCG, Direct Marketing and Utilities.
MARK KORTINK Chief Architect, Information & Corporate Systems
TELSTRA
Mark Kortink has worked in the IT Industry since 1985. Mark is currently the Chief Data Architect at Telstra. His past experience includes being CIO of a bank, running large projects, managing the information management division of the consultancy Simsion Bowles, and extensive experience in many and various consulting assignments.
Mark has extensive experience in such areas as data and information management, data warehousing, knowledge management, and systems architecture and design.
STEVE HITCHMAN Founder & Managing Director
MIP
Steve Hitchman is a founding member and the Managing Director of Management Information Principles (MIP) - an organisation established for 16 years in Australia and specialising in Data Management and Data Warehousing. With 20 years’ personal experience in delivering successful Management Information and Business Intelligence Systems, Steve has developed considerable expertise on all aspects of the underlying Data Warehousing and Data Management concepts, principles, best practices, architectures and technologies required to deliver these types of solutions across a broad spectrum of client industries.
Steve is a leading authority on Data Warehousing, he has presented many white papers on this and related subjects, and regularly speaks at industry events such as Business Intelligence forums, The Data Warehousing Institute and other related industry events and conferences.
One of Steve’s strengths is the ability to identify current issues in Australia within his field of expertise, explore new technologies from around the world to address these issues, pick out the best with particular relevance to the Australian Marketplace, and introduce these new and innovative technologies to our country.
ADAM MCGUINNESS Senior Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
CGU INSURANCE
Adam McGuinness has worked in data warehousing and business intelligence over the last fifteen years mainly in the insurance sector, and is currently the lead Business Intelligence Architect at CGU Insurance.
Having spent his formative years at the coal face, Adam now focuses on ensuring BI implementations not only align to business strategy, but also remain sustainable and flexible. This is achieved through the creation of frameworks which include rigorous and accurate ETL processing, SDLC methodologies, scale-able platforms, associated assessment and selection of technologies required to meet defined and agreed objectives, along with supporting road maps.
Always watching industry innovations to identify business benefits, Adam has recently been instrumental in establishing a data warehouse implementation built and maintained using the Agile methodology, and is an active member of the Melbourne TDWI chapter.
CASE STUDYNEXT GENERATION BI & DW – ECHO ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
In June this year, Tabcorp Holdings split off their casino businesses. The demerger provided an opportunity for the newly formed company Echo Entertainment Group to create a future-ready DW & BI environment designed to harness the emerging opportunities presented by Big Data. The new company sought to utilise Data Warehousing to build new levels of customer intimacy.
Through the application of social marketing, advanced analytics and social analytics the company is seeking to use text-mining and unstructured data semantics to add richness and texture to the data contained in the warehouse.
Echo Entertainment Group is driven by the relentless pursuit to make happy happen to each and every guest in each and every destination and the new DW & BI environment is key to achieving that aim.
PAUL ORMONDE-JAMES Director of Business Solutions & Insights
ECHO ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
Former Head of Global Intelligence THE WORLD BANK
For over 25 years, Paul Ormonde-James been employed by global companies to drive integrated intelligence and cultural change for enhanced decision making. In his most recent position, Paul is Director of Business Solutions & Insights for Echo Entertainment Group.
Prior to this, he was Head of Global Intelligence with International Finance Corporation, the commercial arm of the World Bank. In this role he was responsible for a 4 year program of cultural change and organisational realignment to leverage information as a competitive advantage. He was responsible for Data Warehousing, Information Architecture, Global reporting, Global analytics, Records and Content management, Predictive Analytics, Knowledge Management, Collaboration, enterprise information dissemination. And delivered information management to 182 locations globally. Paul's accomplishments also include:
- Past president of the Australian chapter of The Data Warehouse Institute
- Spent 10 years on the Board of the Society for Competitive Intelligence Australia
- Guest Lecturer at Universities on applied Intelligence, business Intelligence and strategy
- Presenter at conferences around the World on DW, BI, Intelligence, strategy and cultural change
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
STRATEGIES & SOLUTIONS TO TRANSFORM BIG DATA INTO PERFORMANCE ENHANCING INSIGHTS
Big Data presents enterprises with unprecedented challenges as well as opportunities – forcing them to rethink how best to manage and derive value from the quantum explosion of data in their systems. In this new business paradigm, success will go to those enterprises who are most adept at harnessing and harvesting these assets to generate performance-enhancing business insights. On Oct 12th, Microsoft unveiled SQL Server 2012 together with a roadmap of specific investments supporting Microsoft’s Big Data strategy. The Microsoft and Avanade Alliance extends the mission to provide business insight to all users from any data - including unstructured data that has not previously been activated - ultimately enabling organisations to gain greater business and economic value from their data assets.
This session will delve deep into the roadmap and discuss integrated, cost effective solutions for consolidating thousands of database servers and delivering BI to all users. The roadmap also shows how companies can build scalable enterprise data warehouses that allow them to increase speed of time-to-market and identify highest–value opportunities derived from smart data interpretation.
Lionel Gomes Da Rosa Director, IM and Collaboration APAC
AVANADE
Gavin Russell-Rockliff National Business Intelligence Lead
AVANADE
Shashank Pawar Technology Specialist
MICROSOFT
Lionel Gomes Da Rosa Director, IM and Collaboration APAC
AVANADE
Lionel Gomes Da Rosa is a Director for Avanade Asia Pacific Information Management and Collaboration. Avanade IM&C delivers Data Management, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Portal, Content Management, Collaboration and Digital Marketing solutions to organisation’s worldwide.
Over the last 3 years Lionel has been responsible of growing the IM&C business in APAC. Prior to relocating to Australia, he spent 8 years with Avanade in France and Belgium growing and maturing the IM&C business for the GALLIA region.
Lionel is a former Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and he has been presenting on Information Management topics in many public events both in Europe and Asia Pacific.
MICROSOFT
Shashank Pawar Technology Specialist
A database technology thought leader, with 12 years at Microsoft Corporation. Constantly delivering competitive wins for Tier 1 industry applications on the Microsoft platform, including online banking, retail data-warehouses, enterprise BI and SAP ERP solutions. Also active in the community through participation in local industry events, professional user groups, and the online community. Shashank's specialties include: Database professional with over 10 years’ experience in the support, design, development and usage of SQL Server database technology. His experience covers both OLTP and OLAP applications, with a specialty in high availability, troubleshooting and performance improvement
Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/sqlman
Gavin Russell-Rockliff National Business Intelligence Lead
AVANADE
Most of Gavin's professional life has been spent in helping people get access to data, in some form or the other. Beginning way back with a simple MS Access based ASP.Net page, which helped to call and render SAS reports; right up to sitting with Executives analysing marketing and operations strategies using Powerpivot.
He has had the opportunity to learn, implement, and in some cases, master, all elements of the Microsoft BI stack, SSIS, SSAS, SQL, SSRS, MDS, SharePoint, and of course, Excel. Gavin's goal is to be able to use this experience to help people in business to see opportunities that they hadn't seen before. As well as developing the Avanade business into a team of BI professionals who are masters at what they do.
CASE STUDY PRESENTATION
ACTIONING INSIGHT AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
Macquarie set itself the goal of being recognised amongst the world’s top 200 universities and Australia’s top eight Higher Education research hubs by 2014. To realise this goal, Macquarie needed to obtain a deep understanding of its performance based on key information sets and the ability to share this information with a wide audience of strategic decision makers. These are three key data sets that universities throughout Australia use to report to the government regulators to explain or justify performance, which are directly linked to domestic funding and to student experience. They are also the three most critical data sets for government reporting and for providing the people at Macquarie with the information they need to offer the best services possible and develop winning research, teaching and business strategies.
The challenge at a University is getting this information out to a wide audience, located in many different places, all using different technologies to access information. The solution required a web-based collaborative BI platform that could service any device anywhere in an easy to use and visually interactive way. On the 18th of May 2011, they launched Datamart. This is the first of a suite of products at Macquarie University for data analytics, reporting and collaboration to improve precision, alignment and accuracy.
DR NEIL FRASER Director of Information
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
As Information Director of Macquarie University, Neil is responsible for managing Analytics and Memory. These two information teams produce actionable insights to assist the organisation to remain at the forefront of academic and research excellence in Australia.
Before his role at Macquarie, Neil spent 12 years in the international telecommunications industry working at executive levels within Vodafone Australia , Vodafone New Zealand, Singtel Optus and Hutchison 3G Australia. Throughout this time he managed the development and capability of the Business Intelligence & Data Warehouse platforms. As a general manager he managed all key data aspects of regulatory, compliance reporting and core information systems.
He completed a Phd in mathematical modelling in 1996 and was a founding member of a high technology business in the early 90's focused on mineral exploration and oil reservoir management (Gravitec Instruments www.gravitec.co.nz).
eIQ THINK TANK – EXPERTS PANEL DISCUSSION
EXCELLENCE IN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE – DELIVERING BETTER BUSINESS OUTCOMES
The past few years have witnessed an unprecedented explosion in the volume and complexity of business data, a fact that continues to drive extraordinary levels of investment in Business Intelligence software and analytical tools. Organisations continue to turn to BI solutions and projects, in the hope of creating smarter, more agile and more efficient businesses and CFOs are coming to realise the need to more effectively and efficiently manage their companies’ data assets.
At the same time, business users across the enterprise are demanding greater access to actionable data, and easy-to-use tools to improve decision-making capabilities. As always however, the test of success for the adoption of BI tools and projects, are their ability to drive real, tangible business benefits - and it is these business benefits that are the measure of excellence in BI. In this session, our panel of seasoned BI experts will share their thoughts on what is required to achieve excellence in Business Intelligence.
- What are the ingredients of BI Excellence?
- How do you keep BI projects focused on driving real business outcomes?
- Getting buy-in from users and executives – tips and tactics
- Hitting the BI sweet spot – strategies for ensuring success
- Potholes on the road to BI Excellence – how do you identify and avoid them?
Panel Moderator
MARK JONES Director FILTERED MEDIA
PanellistsANGELO KOULOS Chief Financial Officer INTERFLOW
CHRIS KING Corporate Information Manager ACCOR
OLIVER JOHNSTON Head of Enterprise Process Management WESTPAC BANK
HANNE BREDDAM Founder BUSINESS MINDS AUSTRALIA
Chairman TDWI AUSTRALIA CHAPTER
ANGELO KOULOS Chief Financial Officer
INTERFLOW
Angelo Koulos is a senior banking and finance professional with over 20 years of experience in senior positions such as CFO & COO. He has worked with organisations such as Westpac, St George, Alleasing, Credit Union Services and PWC. Angelo has had marked success in managing through significant growth and change - reengineering key processes, developing teams & talent and implementing & enabling technologies. His success has been evidenced by the increasing demand to present his approach and personal successes at both local and overseas forums for industry associations, major corporations, universities and vendors.
Part of his responsibilities at Westpac involved the enterprise deployment of a Finance Datamart, which was being leveraged to produce business intelligence and reporting across 3,500 business users. He also managed the roll-out of planning and forecasting processes and models, to enable strategic and management decision-making across the business. Having worked in organisations that pride themselves for their engaged staff and providing a great customer experience, Angelo has built and managed finance teams that successfully partnered the business and were highly respected for their level of service and value-add.
He now also runs a business called ‘hit your mark’ aimed at assisting businesses deliver success across a number of domains. This is achieved by working together with the client to articulate their requirements and bringing together competency-based professionals to deliver the required results.
HANNE BREDDAM President
TDWI AUSTRALIA CHAPTER
Hanne Breddam founded the business intelligence management consulting company BusinessMinds in Denmark in 1997 and BusinessMinds in Australia in 2006. She has delivered consulting expertise to many large companies in most industries.
Hanne has a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Business Administration and is the Chairman of the Australian chapter of TDWI.
CHRIS KING Corporate Information Manager
ACCOR
Chris heads up the Data and Information Department at Accor which is responsible for managing the company's Data and Information resources, including 140 business units (hotels).
As part of his role, he manages reporting requirements across departments and leads Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence initiatives. Chris holds a Bachelor of Science, Postgraduate Diploma of Commerce and a Masters of Business Administration.
Oliver Johnston Head of Enterprise Process Management
Westpac Banking Corporation
Finance and Business Intelligence executive with broad experience in accounting, finance systems, data warehousing and business intelligence. Oliver is a member of the Australian BI Leadership Forum.
Oliver's specialties include: Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Finance, Finance Systems, Management Information Systems, Shared Services
INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSIONBIG DATA BI & ANALYTICS – CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES & STRATEGIES
Big Data is together a challenge and a huge opportunity for organisations to turn data into strategic information to achieve better than the competition. In any business, regardless of size; cost reduction, speed of time-to-market and identifying highest-value opportunities are critical issues that require smart data interpretation. Join our line-up of esteemed experts in this Panel to discuss the challenges involved with Big Data and the strategies that organisations adopt to support their workforces in extracting, transforming, loading and interpreting Big Data.
Moderator
Mark Jones Director
Filtered Media
PanellistsPaul Ormonde-James Director, Business Solutions & Insights
ECHO ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
Yen Vuong Information Services Manager, BP & IT Global Business Information
FOSTERS GROUP
Lionel Gomes Da Rosa Director, Information Management and Collaboration APAC
AVANADE
Gavin Russell-Rockliff Senior Manager, Business Intelligence
AVANADE
Shashank Pawar Technology Specialist
MICROSOFT
YEN VUONG Information Services Manager, Global Business Information
FOSTERS GROUP
Yen has had 10 years data warehousing experience across support, development and project delivery with PwC, IBM and then CUB. With 7 years at CUB Yen has been responsible for the development and implementation of development and design standards and is now Information Services Lead for CUB.
She leads a team responsible for BI Capability, MDM & Data Quality and Knowledge Systems Capability responsible for project delivery, governance and user support and training. Yen is current project managing the implementation of reporting and analytics data mart.
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE EXPLOSION OF BIG DATA
Big Data has been billed as the “next frontier for innovation, competition and productivity”. In these times of uncertainty, organisations expect that Big Data will help them quickly adapt to the changing environment. Will Big Data live up to the lofty expectations? In particular, how do we combine social media and other interaction data with ever-growing transaction data to achieve the full potential of Big Data? This presentation explores three technology mega trends impacting our marketplace and projects how a data-centric enterprise can take advantage of the nascent opportunities associated with Big Data.
KEITH JASLOW Technical Sales Manager, ANZ
INFORMATICA AUSTRALIAKeith is the Technical Sales Manager for Australia and New Zealand and brings Informatica 15 years of experience covering IT development and management roles. Prior to joining Informatica, Keith was responsible for managing product lifecycles in database and messaging-oriented technologies at Silicon Graphics and PeerLogic.
Based in the Sydney, Keith is responsible for the technical execution and expansion of Informatica’s award-winning data integration software solutions to existing and prospective customers. Keith's primary focus is on strengthening and building the local team to support Informatica customers and to drive success in the region.KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
THE RISE OF MOBILE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Traditional approaches to BI are no longer relevant when it comes to the new generation of data sources. The need for mobility and analytics on demand require a deeper focus on scalability, usability and affordability. This discussion will talk about how the demand for ready access to accurate and timely information within organisations has outstripped the capability of traditional BI solutions. Most organisations today are being more strategic to choose technology partners as their “friends” to provide a common, user owned and operated environment to drive a deeper understanding and drive quicker, better data driven decisions for both their internal and external information consumers. In this session, we will discuss:
- Social Intelligence : Social Media as a very powerful data source and marketing sentiment analysis environment as well as lowest total cost of ownership CRM
- Mobile Intelligence : The ability to access important information anytime, anywhere and from virtually any device whilst eliminating data duplication
- BIG Data – more data , more data sources, more relevancy
- Personal Cloud – why is Excel such a popular analytical environment – because everyone has access to their own little world - Microstrategy Personal Cloud provides a more robust and non disposable staging area from proof of concept right through to production systems.
PATRICK ELLIOTT VP Australia & New Zealand
MICROSTRATEGY
Patrick joined MicroStrategy in July 2008 with more than 20 years of very broad experience in the enterprise application software business, having worked for Computer Associates, Hyperion, Cognos and SAP. Patrick has a significant record of achievements in the Business Intelligence industry. His breadth of experience is impressive, having worked in management, in sales, in pre-sales, and field operations.
In 1999, Patrick moved from Hyperion Canada to Sydney to manage the Northern region of Australia. He was promoted to Managing Director of Hyperion Australia New Zealand in 2000 and rapidly grew the business thereafter. In May 2002, Patrick joined Cognos, and was awarded the Applications Sales Award of the Year – Asia/Pacific in 2003. In March 2006, he took on the role of Area Vice-President, Field Operations, Asia Pacific, in Cognos, where he drove synergy in sales, leveraged best practices and improved customer satisfaction. In April 2007, he joined SAP, and as the General Manager, Specialist Solution Sales, he grew the business impressively and over achieved his targets in Australia/New Zealand.
As Vice President of Australia and New Zealand, Patrick is based in MicroStrategy’s Sydney office. He holds a Diploma in Computer Sciences from Cegep de Saint-Jérôme in Canada. Since joining MicroStrategy last year Patrick has been working on taking the MicroStrategy Business to the next level by focusing on strategic industry verticals and continues to develop the Microstrategy Partner network and Ecosystem.
A helicopter enthusiast, Patrick spends his spare time taking pilot lessons as a first step on the road to obtaining his commercial helicopters Pilots license.KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
DQ, MDM & UNSTRUCTURED TEXT - BRINGING "IT" ALL TOGETHER
Data Quality issues have been around since the dawn of data itself, yet it is still an issue that is not properly addressed in most organisations. We will take a fresh look at Data Quality and why now, more than ever, it is crucial to your Data Warehouse, Unstructured Text Integration, Business Intelligence and MDM initiatives.
This session looks into case studies of data quality problems on these cross-functional initiatives, their impacts and how regulatory compliance such as GAMP, HACCP, Privacy and Security are driving improvements to data quality in organisations.
EMY CARR Founder and Managing DirectorTERENCE WALSH Principal Consultant
DAVID NEMIROVSKY Principal Consultant
EC INTEGRATORS
Emy Carr has over 30 years of IT experience. Emy is the founder of EC Integrators and positioned in the industry as thought leader in Business intelligence, Data Warehouse, Data Quality and Data Architecture. During the past 16 years, Emy specialised in Enterprise and Solution Architecture on Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse.
Emy introduced DW and BI tools such as QualityStage, Datastage, ETI Extract, BusinessObjects, Cognos, Metis, Rochade and recently AnalytiX Mapping Manager to Australian clients prior to them becoming industry standard.
Emy has successfully developed enterprise information management and reporting strategies, solution architectures and roadmaps for organisations such as the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, CSL, NAB, Sensis, Telstra and TRUenergy to name a few.
Terry Walsh is a Principal Consultant of EC Integrators Global with over 15 years’ experience working in IT for heavily regulated industries such as Food, Pharmaceutical and general Manufacturing Industries.
With a focus on Quality and Customer Requirements delivery, Terry has applied the principles of Good Engineering and Manufacturing Practices to all aspects of IT work across a range of industries.
Terry has delivered and continues to deliver projects of community and national significance and has extensive skills and working knowledge applying regulated and compliance aspects to projects to ensure the projects are successful and delivered on time and as expected by all stakeholders.
This allows ECI to deliver projects for all with full disclosure to all aspects of their business including regulatory, government agency compliance, quality assurance and business needs.David Nemirovsky is a Principal Consultant of EC Integrators Global. David has over 15 years of experience working in the Information Management industry.
David has consulted and been a trusted adviser to Tier 1 Telco’s, international manufacturing and financial enterprises. David is the only certified IBM Information Management trainer in Asia Pacific.
With a focus on Information Management, David has applied his hands-on knowledge across a range of industries. He holds certifications in all the IBM InfoSphere Information Server products and has worked with the IBM Product Laboratories and Global Support Teams for MDM Server and Information Server. These labs are situated in Sydney, Boston (USA), Little Rock (USA) and Toronto (Canada).
BI EXCELLENCE AWARD
REVIEW OF PROJECTS FROM THE AWARD FINALISTS
The Excellence in BI Award was designed to increase awareness and recognise best practices in using information to create insight for decision makers across Australian organisations. It honours companies that have demonstrated success in establishing, maintaining and using Business Intelligence to drive business outcomes.
The inaugural award was open to projects related to performance management, reporting, advanced analytics, data warehousing and data management, undertaken since the 1st July 2010. This session will review projects from the award finalists, providing an insight into the best projects of the past year.
FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
The finalists for the Excellence in BI Award 2011 have been announced. Enterprise IQ would like to congratulate the following companies on their success.
- Commonwealth Bank
- Deloitte
- IAG
- Macquarie University
- Telstra
- University of Wollongong
Marc Ashworth Executive Manager BIS Solutions
COMMONWEALTH BANK
Marc joined the workforce in 1996 on the Yorkshire Electricity Grad scheme as an Analyst Progammer. Marc first moved in to the area of Business Intelligence as a member of the UK De-regulation of the Electricity and Gas Markets Programme. Marc quickly discovered his passion for this area of specialism which allowed him to exploit his good interpersonal and communication skills and combine with his technical background.
Marc moved to Australia in 2000 and worked as a Business Intelligence Consultant for 18 months gaining experience across several industries and getting an opportunity to work in most of the major Australian cities. In 2002 Marc was involved in a big BI project for Globe Telecom in the Philippines, working in Manilla for 6 months. This was a great experience to see a different culture and the nuances involved in doing business in that environment.
After gaining permanent residency to Australia Marc took on a full time Business Intelligence Specialist role at Coca Cola Amatil where he worked for 4 years and also took his first step on to the management ladder working as a Team Lead of 5 BI specialists.
In 2006 Marc moved to Insurance Australia Group (IAG) as the BI and Data Warehouse Manager for the Direct Insurance Division. This was a great opportunity and changed his focus from being hands on technical to the importance and value of effective leadership and good people management in the BI arena. Marc was fortunate to work closely with some great people and thought leaders during his time at IAG which helped prepare him for his next career move.
Marc started at Commonwealth Bank Australia in March 2011 as Executive Manager for the BI Business Solutions Team. The new role has again removed Marc from his comfort zone and provided a new business to learn and some great opportunities and challenges to drive and resolve.
Andrew Price Partner National Finance
DELOITTE
Andrew Price has been a Partner at Deloitte since 2007. Andrew is currently responsible for the internal finance function of the Australian Deloitte practice leading a team of over 100 staff. Part of his responsibility relates to the various business systems used by the firm, including responsibilities for the internal BI and analytics capability. The business systems team comprises approx 30 staff and contractors who are involved in the development, deployment and support of Congos BI and planning applications.
The Team are currently piloting Cognos Adaptive Warehouse technology and predictive analytics. Prior to joining Deloitte, Andrew held various board and CFO roles in a number of companies, predominantly in mining, engineering and industrial sectors. Andrew is a Chartered Accountant and has a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of NSW.
Richelle Hilton Director, Performance Indicators Unit
UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG
Richelle Hilton is a Business Intelligence and Performance Management specialist. She joined the University of Wollongong in 2009 as Director of the Performance Indicators Project.
The Performance Indicators Project was established in 2006 with the goal of developing an analytic culture throughout the organisation. This culture is designed to make data driven decision making and information analysis and embedded or business as usual activity for the University.
Prior to her engagement at the University of Wollongong Richelle had pursued an extensive performance management consulting career delivering solutions to some of Australia’s largest organisations in a diverse range of business verticals across both the private and public sectors.
Walt Hui Senior BI Manager, Business Intelligence Information Delivery & Data
INSURANCE AUSTRALIA GROUP
Walt Hui has been Senior Manager of Information Delivery and Data Management within IAG for many years. In this time, Walt has delivered reporting solutions addressing the immediate business requirements in a cost effective and timely manner. More recently in supporting major events such as Cyclone Yasi, and floods in NSW and earthquakes in New Zealand, the development of Geographic Business Intelligence (GBI) was very well received by the Claims Management team.
After rapid prototyping the design, the Claims team was impressed by the demonstration and the GBI solution moved quickly to the next stage of industrialisation. Walt has embedded a culture of innovation within his team, constantly challenging the boundaries by continuously improving what is done & to embrace the right technology for the right job at the right time. GBI is a great example of different technologies coming together in a solution exceeding our customers’ expectations.
William Thong Manager BI Platforms & Data
TELSTRA
William Thong started in Telstra Enterprise & Government (TE&G) in 2004. William is currently Manager of BI Platforms and Data, managing the information needs of TE&G Sales Operations and Customer Care.
He has extensive experience in areas such as CRM, business process improvement, automation and data integration.
William is passionate about leveraging information management and automation to improve efficiency and productivity in his organisation.
Dr Neil Fraser Information Director
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
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