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| Best Practices Workshops | Whether you are a newcomer to BI or PM, or a master of these initiatives, it’s always beneficial to share ideas and best practices. This track includes a series of workshops addressing some of the key BI and PM challenges facing organizations today. Specifically designed to be highly interactive, these workshops will facilitate peer to peer exchange and networking — combined with the expert advice of Gartner analysts and guest presenters.
Please Note: These workshops are for end-user organizations only. Pre-registration is required and attendance is on a first-come, first-served basis as numbers are limited. | BPW |
| Maturity Level: Advanced | If you are an advanced practitioner of BI, these sessions are designed to take your initiatives to the next level. | A |
| Maturity Level: Essentials | If you are at the early stages of your outsroucing and IT services initiatives or you are a newcomer to this space, these sessions will help you navigate through the necessary steps. | E |
| Track 1: Evaluation — Services, Technology and Tools | As Business Intelligence matures, and performance management and analytics become more business process oriented, organizations will increasingly leverage more sophisticated and seamless solutions to make smarter decisions. This track will help technologist roles look in detail at available services, established technologies like data warehousing, BI platforms, analytic applications, data integration and data quality tools, and will also consider the impact of newer technologies. | T1 |
| Track 2: Execution — Best Practices and Approaches | Leading companies align business and IT by combining people, processes, methods and solutions within management frameworks. This track for BI evangelists and leader roles explains how the right organizational structure brings business users together with IT to drive greater adoption of BI, and highlights best practices for justifying, establishing and managing a BI program. | T2 |
| Track 3: Business Value | Most organizations have already deployed BI, many have performance management applications, and recently we have seen increased emphasis on advanced analytics. BI is increasingly becoming a strategic enterprise-wide solution and yet many organizations still struggle with fragmented BI initiatives, proliferation of BI tools and silos of departmental analytic applications. This track for business centric roles will help companies plan for and use BI to improve operations, reduce inefficiencies, and enhance business performance. | T3 |
| Track 4: Emergence — Trends and Futures | Organizations must separate the hype form the reality that will drive their future investments. The rise of advanced analytics, alternative licensing and delivery models combined with transformational technology such as in-memory, columnar storage, appliances, and visualization highlight the dynamic nature of this market. This track for BI evangelists and technologists provides a deeper understanding of the root cause of market shifts — and provides an outlook on emerging technology and insight into the way that the market will continue to develop over the next five years. | T4 |
