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Business Intelligence - Big Data & Analytics Strategies

Strategies to help leverage full value from your design and implementation of an effective Business Intelligence framework

June 14, 2012

9:00am-5:00pm

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

Register

Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O'Hare) Illinois

Overview

Data is the lifeblood of every business, but to empower the organization, it needs to be used carefully and strategically. How can IT leverage BI initiatives to become a stronger partner and ally to business units? What pitfalls should be avoided?

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference attendees will learn:

• Moving Beyond Business Intelligence – Incorporating Big Data & Analytics into Your BI & Data Strategy

• Implementing Governance, Analytics, and BI in the Era of Big Data

• Big Data Trends and Technologies: What Are They and How Can They Help You?

• How to Design Your BI Architecture to Capitalize on New Technologies

• Testing Big Data Applications: How to Devise a Scalable Approach to Assuring Quality in Big Data Solutions

• How to Partner with the Business to Best Leverage Big Data and Analytics for Operational Benefit (panel discussion)

Conference Program

8:00am - 9:00am - Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am-10:00am

Moving Beyond Business Intelligence – Incorporating Big Data & Analytics into Your BI & Data Strategy

Michael Fahey, Chief Strategy Officer, Clarity Solution Group

The traditional BI strategy has focused on collecting, managing, and reporting on the data we understand. With the advent of Big Data, organizations have access to new tools, techniques, and infrastructure that allow the analysis of data from sources previously considered "inaccessible" or "unusable" to gain new insight and new understanding.

As a result, Big Data changes the way organizations think about data. And, organizations will need to consider how they will incorporate Big Data into their BI strategy. This session focuses on the emerging best practices successful organizations have followed to incorporate Big Data into their BI strategy and to leverage this new way of thinking about data.

In this session attendees will learn how to:

• What is Big Data and why it is different
• How Big Data changes the approach to analytics
• How Big Data can affect your BI strategy
• Best practices for absorbing Big Data in your BI strategy

10:00am -10:30am - Refreshment Break

Emerick

10:30am-11:30am

Big Data Trends and Technologies: What Are They and How Can They Help You?

Mike Emerick, Architect, MapR

There are a lot of buzzwords in BI today, but what do they mean and who is using which technology? How do you make sense of what is right for your organization?

In this session attendees will learn how to decipher between MPP, MDM, Hadoop, MapReduce, In-database analytics, in memory databases, predictive analytics etc.

Topics that will be covered include:

• What are they
• What is the value of each one
• When to consider them
• What verticals are using which technologies

Skriletz

11:30am-12:30pm

Implementing Governance, Analytics, and BI in the Era of Big Data

Richard Skriletz, Global Managing Principal, Business Intelligence & Data Delivery, RCG Global Services

Cloud computing, data streaming, unstructured data, and the Internet of things are changing the fundamentals of data management. The dynamic nature of these information sources will change how to approach data quality, advanced analytics, data governance, and master data management.

In this session attendees will learn how to manage and utilize Big Data inside their organizations, including:

• Where to start with Big Data
• How to determine the level of Big Data that is appropriate for your organization’s specific needs
• How to develop an enterprise standard for Big Data consistent with your existing data management policies
• How to involve stakeholders and align them for success with all data, “big” and “small”, and useful analytics
• Creating dynamic governance for dynamic data from external sources

12:30pm - 1:30pm Luncheon

1:30pm-2:30pm

How to Design Your BI Architecture to Capitalize on New Technologies

Craig Jordan, Business Intelligence Advisor, American Family Insurance

There are great benefits to be found by the BI organizations that leverage new technologies. However, determining which technologies to adopt and when can be challenging. How will a new technology affect your BI architecture? Should you revisit your architecture or the processes that maintain it?

In this session attendees will learn :

• How to decide where to start in terms of revisiting the architecture
• How to incorporate new technologies into the architecture
• How to govern new technology adoption to prevent unnecessary proliferation
• When to abandon a technology adoption

2:30pm - 3:00pm - Refreshment Break

Rago

3:00pm-4:00pm

Testing Big Data Applications: How to Devise a Scalable Approach to Assuring Quality in Big Data Solutions

Al Rago, Director of Data Centric Quality, Analytics8

Do you know how to successfully test Big Data business intelligence projects? Can you take your traditional testing methods and scale them up to the 4 V’s (volume, velocity, variety, and variability) of Big Data solutions? Do your solutions produce information fast enough to meet the needs of your business?

In this session, attendees will learn:

• How Big Data applications differ from traditional BI
• How to adopt a Big Data QA strategy
• What tools and techniques are effective for Big Data testing projects
• How to identify, test, and resolve performance issues

4:00pm-5:00pm

How to Partner with the Business to Best Leverage Big Data and Analytics for Operational Benefit (panel discussion)

Panelists:
Parthiv Sheth, Director, Business Intelligence, Hyatt Hotels Corporation
and other professionals from IT/BI departments

IT's role is changing considerably.  They are both trying to reduce costs and at the same time help drive new business models for the enterprise.  Many IT leaders now feel that business intelligence and analytics will help their organizations become more competitive.

In this session attendees will learn from several IT BI executives as to how they are executing on their missions to reap gold from big data.

Conference Price: $259.00 per person

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

Exhibits

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations.  During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.