Business Intelligence Best Practices:
How to Leverage BI in today's tough Economic Times
Chicago, IL | April 23, 2009
 Now, more than ever, the enterprise must use its information to make the right decisions, whether seeking cost savings to survive the current economic conditions or to create competitive positioning to emerge with strength as the economy gets better. In this practical seminar we'll explore the current best practices in using BI to save money and help the enterprise both in the short term and the long term.
Join us and learn:
- How to achieve immediate value from your BI system while positioning for future success.
- How to use your BI system to help your company get things done quicker, with less expense.
- The best ways to leverage your BI system during tough economic times.
- The five top ways to save money using BI immediately.
- How area enterprise companies are leveraging their BI systems to weather the storm as they prepare for better economic times.
All corporate member attendees can receive a Certificate of Completion for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit.
Sponsorships still available. Contact Tina
Sieben at 847-837-3900, x2 for information.
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Event Logistics |
| 1:00-1:15 |
Welcome & Introductions |
 Rates:
$150 Members
$175 Nonmembers
Thursday, April 23, 2009
1:00–5:00 PM
Union League Club
Crystal Room
65 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL
Professional Business Casual Attire Required
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| 1:15-1:40 |
Achieving Short-Term Value While Building Toward Your Long-Term BI Strategy
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Mark Sarros, Executive, Crowe Horwath
Mark has more than 17 years of consulting experience in the areas of performance management, cost management, and helping clients improve their overall business productivity and profitability. He has designed and implemented successful programs at clients in the automotive, consumer electronics, food service, insurance, healthcare, life sciences, utility, and general manufacturing industries. Some of his clients include: Advocate Health Care, Alcoa, Allstate, AM General, AutoNation, Caterpillar, Kimball International, First Energy, Lexmark, McDonalds, Pfizer, and Timken. |
| 1:40-2:05 |
Action-Based Business Intelligence: An Approach to BI that Keeps the Focus on Getting Things Done
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Jim Vaselopulos, Vice President and Partner, PSC Group
Jim is a seasoned business executive with domain expertise in Financial Services, Marketing, Manufacturing and Service Industries. Jim works closely with many firms to help align business needs and technology for competitive advantage. His many roles include Vice President and Partner at PSC Group, LLC, Interim CIO at several organizations and strategic business consultant to many others.
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| 2:05-2:30 |
Break
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| 2:30-2:55 |
BI in Tough Economic Times
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Brad Peterman, Director - Enterprise Client Deployments, QlikTech Inc.
Brad has provided business solutions as a manager of corporate reporting and business intelligence over the past 15 years, managing metrics teams that design and produce executive dashboards and scorecards at companies including St. Paul Pioneer Press and Target Corporation. His workable knowledge base includes C#, VB Script, C++, ASP.NET, Visual Basic and ASP, to name a few. |
| 2:55-3:20 |
5 Ways to Save Money Inside Your BI Infrastructures
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Pankaj Agrawal,
Chief Executive & Technology Officer,
Compact Solutions
Mr. Agrawal is Compact Solutions’ founder and Chief Executive and Technology officer. A recognised authority in the field of high-performance information management technology, he has amassed over 20 years of experience designing and architecting solutions to solve the most complex data challenges of Global 1,000 organizations. Prior to founding Compact, Mr. Agrawal was a Senior Principal with Knightsbridge Solutions where he architected and managed many large data warehouse engagements. He is one of the primary authors of “Ab Initio Best Practices” and is a sought-after speaker on information management topics. |
| 3:20-3:45 |
Break |
| 3:45-4:35 |
Keynote Panel:
How to Leverage BI in Today's Market of Tough Economic Times
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Moderator: Aaron Lowe, Senior Consultant, Magenic
Aaron is an innovative, solutions-driven Database Professional with over 10 years of experience ranging from single server to comprehensive, enterprise-level data solutions. He has architected business intelligence strategies, designing and developing data warehouse models, extract, transform and load processes as well as reporting. He also has a strong background in advanced administration, including security and auditing techniques, replication, performance optimization, migration strategies and business continuity. |
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Sridar Peyyeti, Enterprise Architect, Allstate Corporation
Prior to joining Allstate, he was Director of Strategic Services at i2 Technologies and a Senior Manager with Accenture. Over the past 15 years, Sridar Peyyeti has been responsible for business strategies for multinationals, technology architectures, large global SAP programs and value engineering practice. |
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Greg Hubbard, Director, Application Development,
Q Interactive
Greg is a technology professional with achievements in small and large organizations, from dot-com startups to Fortune 1000 companies. He is currently the Director of Application Development for Q Interactive (formerly CoolSavings Inc.) one of Chicago's premier online advertising companies, where he's responsible for resource management and technology research. Greg also serves as software architect for one of Q Interactive's business lines. He previously held technology positions at CNA Insurance and Trans Union Corp. |
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John Watters, Vice President of Operations and Information Technology, Snap-on Credit, LLC
Over the past 18 years in the financial services industry John has worked in credit, collections, accounting, project management, IT and operations. He has an extensive track record of utilizing technology to automate functions, streamline processing and implement dynamic reporting. In his current role at Snap-on Credit, he manages all operations and information technology associated with the origination and servicing of a billion dollar portfolio as the finance company for Snap-on Tools. Previously, John was involved in the start-up of Dell Financial Services while working for Newcourt Credit Group and held numerous other management positions. |
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Subject Expert: Jacqueline Coolidge,
Sr. Manager, Product Marketing,
IBM Software Group
Jacqueline is accomplished BI industry professional with more than 20 years experience in the enterprise software industry with vendors including Cognos Inc. and Computer Associates. She has worked in a range of technical and marketing roles ranging from application development to product marketing and management. Jacqueline has also worked as a Research Director at both IDC and AMR Research where she covered data warehousing and business intelligence. Her market research and analysis has been referenced by numerous high technology vendors, buyers, media and investment professionals. |
| 4:35-5:00 |
Meet the Speakers Networking Reception |
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