Business Intelligence Strategies & Trends
Webinar Track
 Join us and discover the latest trends in Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Analytics (BA).
Explore BI practices for collecting data, measuring performance and supporting improved business planning and decision making. We'll look at the latest trends in reporting, OLAP, analytics, data mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, and predictive analytics.
We'll also focus on how to use BA to develop new business insights and variable business models to provide a more thorough understanding of business performance. Where BI tell us 'what' happened, BA relies on statistical and quantitative analysis and explanatory and predictive modeling to dig deeper and tells us 'why.'
All corporate member attendees can receive a Certificate of Completion for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit.
Call for Speaker/Sponsors: Contact Tina Sieben at 847-837-3900, Ext. 2 for information.
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March 31, 2010
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- Business Intelligence Project Management 101
- 8 Ways that Business Intelligence Projects are Different And How to Manage BI Projects to Ensure Success
- Monetizing Business Data With Frontline Data Warehouses
- The Future of Business Intelligence Roundtable
- Next-Generation Data Warehouses: Considerations for Scaling Your Analytic Infrastructure
- Information Command and Control
- MDM Components & The Maturity Model
- National Fast Food Chain Case Study: Extracting POS Data Nightly from Over 2,000 Locations to Solve a Reporting Problem
- Nationwide Market Leader Case Study: Reporting Services Allows for Consistent View of Enterprise Information
- Major National Retailer Case Study: Innovative Data Analysis Techniques Lead to Increased Share of Wallet for Retailer
- AgriBusiness Leader Case Study: Improved Data Management Yields R&D Leap Forward
- Empowering Business Users: ERP optimization
- Five Steps to More Valuable Enterprise Data
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Rick DeMare, Midwest Director, Aster Data Systems
Sponsored by Analytics8
Rick has spent the past 12 years focused on large scale data warehousing and analytics, including some of the largest production Enterprise Data Warehouses in the world. My customers have won number industry awards across several industry verticals; including Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Telecommunication, and Internet based companies. I have also been a featured speaker at numerous industry events on the subjects of Business Intelligence, Advanced Analytic Techniques, Balanced Scorecard Methodology, and Large Scale Data Warehousing. |
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May 5, 2010 |
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June 2, 2010 |
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July 28, 2010 |
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September 15, 2010 |
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November 3, 2010 |
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Completed Webcasts
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| Dec 2, 2009 |
Impact of Enterprise 2.0 on BI
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Jennifer Hanniman, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Analytics and Performance Management, IBM
As organizations continue to explore and adopt new Enterprise 2.0 technologies, this session focuses on the potential impact of Enterprise 2.0 on Business Intelligence. Discover how to engage the business with a dynamic, collaborative Business Intelligence experience that includes both structured and unstructured data and extends the reach beyond the enterprise to include external data sources. This session discusses how technologies such as search, collaboration and mashups will change Business Intelligence solutions today and in the future. |
| Nov 18, 2009 |
BI and the Business Process
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Jim Vaselopulos, Vice President and Partner, PSC Group
There have been a lot of changes this year in the world of Business Intelligence (BI) - new products, tools, and technologies. We now need to turn our attention on how to apply BI to better run the business. Businesses are more dependent than ever on the effective use of the information that is part of their everyday operations. BI is part of the command and control that information makes that it even more useful. |
Sep 23, 2009
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Got Good Data? Five Ways To Improve the Quality of Business-Critical Information
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Mark Cheaney, Senior Account Executive, DataFlux Corporation
Learn how data quality solutions can help you:
• Analyze the current state of your data and make decisions on where to make significant improvements. now.
• Improve the information you have and create a data quality "firewall" to catch bad data as it enters your applications.
• Control data quality over time to maintain high levels of data integrity. |
| Aug 26, 2009 |
Business Dashboards - Developing a Culture of Intelligent Execution
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Dan English, Business Intelligence Principal, Magenic
In the current economic climate it is more important than ever for business stakeholders to have a pulse on what is happening in their organization. Implementing an Executive Dashboard allows company executives, managers, and stakeholders at all levels to view critical and role appropriate metrics in a dashboard setting, with the ability to drill down within the dashboard and view those metrics at any level. |
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| July 22, 2009 |
Tracking BI Trends: A Pragmatic Look
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George Haenisch, Senior Manager, KPMG Advisory
Thomas Maratelli, Manager, KPMG Advisory
What are now common components of enterprise BI -- Web GUI's, dashboards, drill-down and master data management programs -- were just appearing in the market place 5 years ago. Explore the latest technologies, trends and emerging ideas that are shaping BI for the next 5 years. Learn what the future of BI looks like and how your company may be able to take advantage of the latest applications such as data visualization, predictive analysis, the integration of structure, semi-structured, and unstructured data (including social media), and techniques for rationalizing your organization onto a single BI platform. |
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| June 24, 2009 |
Filling the Knowledge Gap – Big DATA and Rich Computation
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Rick DeMare, Midwest Director for Aster Data Systems
Sponsored by Analytics8
Join us for a discussion as to how companies such as Myspace, ShareThis, and SpecificMedia have leveraged this next generation of database technology available from Aster Data Systems and their implementation partner, Analytics8, to access, analyze and provide the insight necessary to monetize the data available to companies today! |
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| Apr 29, 2009 |
Business Intelligence Opportunities for a Down Economy
Many enterprise organizations have launched Business Intelligence projects to help manage their business and guide executive decision making. However, these projects often fail to demonstrate an acceptable return on investment at best, and at worst are viewed by the CFO as candidates for cost cutting. This would be most unfortunate, as BI programs are generating value for organizations. The problem has been a difficulty in identifying, quantifying and communicating the gains.
The good news is that smart IT leaders can prove the value of their firm's business intelligence efforts. In today's call, the listener will learn why this is important, where to start, and how to communicate the value and benefits of Business Intelligence. The listener will learn:
• With prior investments in BI, which best practices are (and are not) adding business value?
• Where does the investment come from, and why does it matter?
• What are the five elements that drive business value from business intelligence investment?
• What does today's smart IT leader need to do to start proving the value of BI? |
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Octavio Perales, Practice Leads, Business Applications Laurus Technologies
Smart IT leaders can prove the value of their firm's business intelligence efforts. In this webcast, the listener will learn why this is important, where to start, and how to communicate the value and benefits of Business Intelligence. |
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Larry Overstreet, Parter, Resource Management Professionals
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| April 1, 2009 |
Understanding the Hosted BI Marketplace
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William Pascoli, Sr. Product Manager, Hosted BI Platform, Intersect
Companies across the globe are scrutinizing their investment
decisions more than ever. Customers are looking
for investments with high returns and minimal expense
outlay. In these challenging economic times, effective use
of Business Intelligence can make or break organizations. More... |
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| Dec 17, 2008 |
2009 Business Intelligence Trends and Enterprise Performance Management
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Alan Wernke, Practice Director, Enterprise Data Services, Magenic
The Top 10 BI trends are discussed by industry expert Alan Wernke. He begins with problems and opportunities that BI presents, moves through the industry perspective and concludes with the top trends. As a bonus Mr Werneke presents a discussion on driving business performance by enabling your people to perform intelligently. |
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