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Focus: Business
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Sessions geared toward business leaders, or IT professionals who need to understand the challenges and opportunities from a business, organizational, or cultural perspective
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B
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Focus: IT
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Sessions that address technical concepts, details, and analysis
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IT
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Focus: Strategic
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Sessions focusing on the high level insight supporting the development and implementation of your strategies
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S
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Level: Tactical
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Sessions providing information that can be used straight away, with a focus on “how to”, do’s and don’ts, and best practices
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T
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Level: Visionary
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Sessions focusing on emerging trends, concepts, or technologies that will help you with your future planning and decisions
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V
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Maturity: Advanced
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If you are an advanced practitioner, these sessions are designed to take your initiative, or understanding, to the next level
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A
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Maturity: Foundational
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If you are at the early stages of your initiative, or are a newcomer to this space, these sessions will give you the needed understanding and first steps
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F
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Suggested Agenda: Alumni
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This suggested agenda has been specifically chosen for Alumni and offers the best of what’s new for returning delegates.
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AA
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Suggested Agenda: Business Agenda for non-IT people
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This suggested agenda takes a business-centric look at the content and will assist delegates with a particular focus on analytics.
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BA
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Suggested Agenda: Tough Times
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To enable you to explore the business intelligence opportunities arising from these challenging times we’ve designed a suggested ‘Tough Times’ agenda.
Cost, risk, regulation, efficiencies and compliance
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TT
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Track A: Data and Information Management
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Getting the data and information right is key to delivering BI and analytics. This track for technologists looks in detail at how to best use capabilities like data warehousing, BI platforms, data integration and data quality tools, to build the right foundation.
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TA
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Track B: Organization and Strategy
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This track for BI leaders explores how non-technical factors, like having the right organization structure and strategy, are critical in bringing business users together with IT to drive greater adoption of BI. It also highlights best practices for justifying, establishing and managing a BI and analytics program.
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TB
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Track C: Performance Management
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This track takes a business-centric view to help companies use BI, analytics and corporate performance management to improve operations, reduce inefficiencies, and enhance business performance. It has a particular focus on the needs of Finance teams, a key user and sponsor of BI and analytics in many organizations.
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TC
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Track D: Analytic Trends and Futures
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This track looks towards the future. It provides a vision into the market trends, emerging analytic technologies, new approaches and external factors impacting how organizations use information for business value. It will assist architects and strategists when considering their roadmaps and give business leaders a view of the ‘art of the possible’.
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TD
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Virtual Track: Big Data
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Once you get past the hype it’s evident that “Big Data” represents tremendous opportunity to those organizations that can unlock its business value. Analytics applied to Big Data assets of greater diversity and depth than previously possible promises to fuel innovation and transform industries. To deliver on this promise however “Big Data” demands increased information governance competency as the benefits cannot be realized unless efforts are anchored by clear understanding, quality and trust of the data. This virtual track will help business and IT leaders understand the concepts, benefits, technology impacts and challenges associated with the “Big Data” phenomenon across BI, analytics and MDM.
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BD
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