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Monday
08:45 - 09:00 | |
Monday
09:00 - 10:00 | |
| Information electrifies organizations. Like electricity, information is generated, distributed and consumed. Business analytics is the network supplying this vital information to decision makers. Operational systems, data warehouses and the internet are generators of the content that must be regulated and transmitted hrough this enterprise wide network. BI transformers turn information into intelligence and analytic applications power decisions. In short it’s a complex system that needs careful management. This keynote will explore how practitioners of BI and analytics are the energy suppliers that power their organizations decisions. |
Monday
10:30 - 11:15 | |
| The Gartner BI Excellence Award is returning to Europe in 2012. During this session the three finalists, selected from a wide field of nominees by Gartner analysts, will present their stories. In around 10 minutes each finalist will outline the challenges they faced and overcame, and the outcome of their BI, analytics and performance managemement initiatives. The audience will then vote to choose the winner of the prestigious '2012 BI Excellence Award', with the award being presented on the afternoon of the second day of the summit.
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Monday
11:15 - 12:00 | |
| Building from the Summit theme of Transforming Decision Making, this session will ask thought leaders from leading vendors to share their thoughts on the impact that analytics will have on the future of business. Covering topics such as the significance of “Big Data” and what steps organizations should take to assess its impact, the need for end-user empowerment by making analytics pervasive throughout the organization, which advanced analytic techniques will have the most impact, and how businesses should organize themselves to take advantage of all that analysis can deliver. |
Tuesday
14:00 - 14:15 | |
| So who won and why? This short session will reveal which organization the BI Summit's attendees chose to be accorded the prestigious title of 'Gartner BI Excellence Award Winner' for 2012. The winner will join the ranks of previous winners, including Astra Zeneca, Komercni Bank, Tetra Pak, and Unicredit amongst others. |
Tuesday
14:15 - 15:00 | |
| Learning lessons from a prisoner of war, a celebrity chef, a rebellious colonel and the world’s most incompetent toaster engineer, the writer Tim Harford urges us to face up to the complexity of the world. Harford argues that we over-rate intuition and expert judgement, and dramatically undervalue humility, experimentation and rigorously testing our ideas in the fi eld. He discusses the psychological barriers that lie in wait, preventing us from learning from our errors — and asks why it is so difficult to make good mistakes. |
Tuesday
15:30 - 16:30 | |
| The markets for BI platforms, data warehousing, data quality tools, master data management, corporate performance management and the corresponding service providers are highly dynamic with significant complexity for buyers. Gartner Magic Quadrants (MQ) are a culmination of research in a specific market, giving you a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the market’s competitors. This is your chance to hear Gartner analysts at their best — unbiased, unscripted and unfiltered. It is also your chance to ask the questions that will help you with your investments. |
Tuesday
16:30 - 16:45 | |