• Why BI is critical to the future success of any organisation
• What are the steps necessary to achieve a world class BI infrastructure
• What are the quantifiable benefits for an organisation that embraces BI through real world examples
• How BI will allow a company to evolve from a “product-silo” to a client-centric organisation

• What do senior management want from their BI solutions?
• What issues are end users trying to address with their current BI solutions?
• Identifying current BI projects being implemented and their benefit to the business
• Highlighting problems with the cost of implementation
• How to ensure optimal ROI on BI projects
• Where does the future of BI lie, can it really deliver on its promises?

        ·         Identifying the right criteria for forming an effective BI team

·         Forming a long term BI strategy with realistic timescales and goals

·         Segmenting your BI strategy in to a phased approach

·         Integrating the whole business in to an effective system

• Managing data extraction to provide a range of ‘Business Intelligence’
• Combining financial and physical reporting for management
• Creating board and senior leadership team reports
• What does the data extraction team not do and what are the exceptions?
  
  

• Using business intelligence tools to link and analyse data to create one accurate version of the truth
• Assessing the ROI and soft benefits of migrating the informational requirements of the Safety area to a BI platform from a variety of sources
• Identifying the benefits of reporting out of a single portal
• Looking to the future: identifying further categories to “slice and dice”

• Where are we now?
• What are the technology deficiencies?
• Where do we want to go?
• What technology will get us there?

Speed networking is an exciting, quick and non-pressurized way to meet fellow conference attendees and industry peers in one 45-minute session. These brief meeting are the starting point for conversation and networking throughout the conference. This is where long-lasting and profitable business relationships begin.

• Meet…move on…meet…move on…meet
•  Form long-lasting and profitable business relationships
• Exchange business cards with fellow conference attendees and industry peers
• The best 45 minutes networking session you’ve ever experienced
  

• Identifying the human aspect of BI"
• Making sure you ask the right questions
• Convincing employees of the benefits of BI with real business scenarios
• How do you collect data from different sources effectively?
  

• Facing the challenges of implementing an effective BI strategy with a limited budget
• What are the biggest challenges to implementation and integration?
• Are there any benefits of having a limited budget?
• Meeting the expectations of senior executives, when they are not certain of what their expectations should be 

• Flaw 1: creating data warehouses with little or no business involvement
• Flaw 2: hiding behind spreadsheets and manipulating numbers to satisfy company politics
• Flaw 3: failing to recognize the importance of data quality
• Flaw 4: accepting your enterprise application vendor’s solution and ignoring specialty vendors
• Flaw 5: building limitations in to a new system that will inhibit success   
  

• How to turn data in to profitable information
• Enabling directors to make informed decisions
• Technology traps to avoid
• When is a data warehouse not the best solution?

• Dealing with data quality duplication and silos
• Maintaining quality whilst integrating more data sources
• Applying analysis tools to financial systems and further business functions
• Addressing data integration and tool selection challenges

• Reporting solutions to meet business requirements
• Getting executive sponsorship for a reporting solution
• Pro-typing the solution to gain acceptance and show the benefits of BI
• Identifying a strategy for enterprise roll-out

• How to implement an effective reporting infrastructure
• Dealing with data quality
• Achieving effective business performance management
• Assessing your position on the BI maturity scale
  A selection of speakers from day two of the conference

• The convergence of BI and application integration
• Moving to “real time” reporting
• Optimising today’s integration technologies
• Outlining an effective implementation strategy for a new BI infrastructure 

• Why a dependable solution is important
• The foundation of a dependable data warehouse
• Improving reliability and performance using an integrated approach
• Planning an architecture to support future growth
  

• Measuring how BI has benefited your employees
• Providing end-users with more information to increase their efficiency
• Assessing whether lead times have been reduced
• Enabling directors to make more informed decisions
    

• What are the true business benefits of BI?
• What are the BI technology dynamics?
• Where does cultural change fit in?
• How important is a new BI infrastructure?
• Where are the key areas for development in BI?
  A selection of speakers from throughout the conference