We have put together an exciting event themed "Information Management for a Smarter Enterprise", a whole day event, our first!! There is a spectacular roster of Speakers and Panelists ( who have created some time on their busy schedule to make it to the event) assembled to share their insights, experience and knowledge to benefit BI Community in India. The agenda is :
From To Activity
10:00 10:30 Coffee & Reception
10:30 10:45 Inaugural address
10:45 11:30 Key Note
11:30 12:45 IM: Creating Business Value
12:45 14:00 Lunch
14:00 14:15 IM Quiz
14:15 15:15 Invited Lecture
15:15 16:30 IM:Opportunities, Challenges
16:30 Closing & Tea
Inaugural address by Subu Goparaju, Head, SETLabs, Infosys
Key Note by C V G Prasad, CIO ING Vysya
Invited Lecture by Prof. Jayant Haritsa, IISc.,
The Panelists for "Creating Business value thro Information Management" are :
1. Pawan Kumar, BI Head, Wipro
2. Rajagopal Kishore, BI Head, HCL
3. Sandeep Karmongikar, IS Head IM, SETLabs, Infosy
4. Sundaram Ganapathy, BI Global Delivery Head, Infosys
5. Viros Sharma, BI Head, ITC Infotech
6. V C Srikanth, Director, ZREY Consulting
The Panelists for " IM: Technology, Opportunities and Challenges" will be :
1. Harsh Deshpande, BAO CoC leader, IBM
2. Abhinav Agarwal, BI Product Leader, Oracle
3. Vinod Kumar, Technology Evagelist, Microsoft
4. Rajesh Ramaswamy, BI Head, Marslabs
5. Vinod Shankar, Infosys
6. Narasimhan Balakrishnan, Key Analytics Leader, Mahindra Satyam.
There will be goodies to be won in an interesting IM Quiz......
Register for this FREE event at :
http://tdwichapters.org/pages/india/event-registration.aspx
Be there! Donot miss this opportunity, which is meant for your career advancement and learning!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
LinkedIn Group and Twitter accounts
We are please to announce that, we have set up a twitter account to microblog on our activities and a Linkedin group called "TDWI India Chapter". Please join us at these connect points.
Volunteers needed to maintain these sites. Please let us know if you can maintain these.....by mailing us at tdwi.india@gmail.com
Volunteers needed to maintain these sites. Please let us know if you can maintain these.....by mailing us at tdwi.india@gmail.com
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Upcoming TDWI Chapter event in Bangalore
Close on the heels of a successful event in Hyderabad, TDWI takes its campain to the heart of Indian silicon valley, Bangaluru.
The event is on 19th December. Venue is Infosys Campus in the electronic city.
We will have an eminent thought/practice leaders from Infosys, Wipro, HCL, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM participate in the Panels.
This event is FREE, as usual. The registration link for the event is :
http://tdwichapters.org/pages/india/event-registration.aspx
Await additional details.
The event is on 19th December. Venue is Infosys Campus in the electronic city.
We will have an eminent thought/practice leaders from Infosys, Wipro, HCL, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM participate in the Panels.
This event is FREE, as usual. The registration link for the event is :
http://tdwichapters.org/pages/india/event-registration.aspx
Await additional details.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Indian School of Business highlights TDWI India Chapter
Indian School of Business has been working with us in promoting CIO event, to be held in February of next year.
They have recently interviewed Mr. Arun Gupta, CIO for K Raheja Group and our Chapter President.
http://www.isb.edu/Blog/?tag=/arun+gupta
We are pleased at the gestured of Indian School of Business.
They have recently interviewed Mr. Arun Gupta, CIO for K Raheja Group and our Chapter President.
http://www.isb.edu/Blog/?tag=/arun+gupta
We are pleased at the gestured of Indian School of Business.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Press Coverage for TDWI Hyderabad Event
I am pleased to share that the press has taken interest in our event. This is a recognition to the community of Business Intelligence and Datawarehousing fraternity and their growing influence in Business.
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/08/stories/2009110859220200.htm
http://www.fullhyderabad.com/profile/events/37025/2/tdwis-india-chapter-event-building-an-edw_review
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/12/stories/2009111260160400.htm
Drop us a line tdwi.india@gmail.com to contribute your time for building a stronger community in India.
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/08/stories/2009110859220200.htm
http://www.fullhyderabad.com/profile/events/37025/2/tdwis-india-chapter-event-building-an-edw_review
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/12/stories/2009111260160400.htm
Drop us a line tdwi.india@gmail.com to contribute your time for building a stronger community in India.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
What are TDWI India Chapter Events about?
TDWI India Chapter events generally will include leaders representing Industry, IT Service providers, Captive units, Academecians.
The event generally will have Keynote address, Featured speakers, Panel discussions and fun events such as Quizzes and Raffles.
For example, in one of the latest event we conducted on November 10th, there was a Business Analytics Quiz - An Audio-visual quiz, like never seen before (with open participation of the delegates) with instant Fun Prizes!!
These event are good for :
1. Hearing some great throughts from eminent speakers
2. Great mentoring opportunities.
3. Certificates of Participation.
4. Networking opportunities
5. With your TDWI Chapter Event registration, you also gain unrestricted access to many other resources on our main site, TDWI.org, such as: Best Practices Reports, Webinars, White Papers and Many additional TDWI publications.
6. It is FREE :-)
The event generally will have Keynote address, Featured speakers, Panel discussions and fun events such as Quizzes and Raffles.
For example, in one of the latest event we conducted on November 10th, there was a Business Analytics Quiz - An Audio-visual quiz, like never seen before (with open participation of the delegates) with instant Fun Prizes!!
These event are good for :
1. Hearing some great throughts from eminent speakers
2. Great mentoring opportunities.
3. Certificates of Participation.
4. Networking opportunities
5. With your TDWI Chapter Event registration, you also gain unrestricted access to many other resources on our main site, TDWI.org, such as: Best Practices Reports, Webinars, White Papers and Many additional TDWI publications.
6. It is FREE :-)
Process to join TDWI India Chapter
There is no membership process to join the India Chapter. It is open to all professionals. However, to make things easy for communication on the events that we conduct, we encourage people to register for any of the events in the TDWI site. The registration link is :
http://tdwichapters.org/pages/india/event-registration.aspx
We maintain a LinkedIn group, which is also a good source of happenings of the Chapter. Search for "TDWI" in the LinkedIn groups, you will locate us easily.
http://tdwichapters.org/pages/india/event-registration.aspx
We maintain a LinkedIn group, which is also a good source of happenings of the Chapter. Search for "TDWI" in the LinkedIn groups, you will locate us easily.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Why should you attend the Event in Hyderabad?
Here is why you should encourage you/your team to attend this event :
1. Keynote on "Challenges of Building an EDW" with a keynote from Jim Walch - General Manager of Microsoft IT. Hear some great thoughts.
2. Business Analytics Quiz - An Audio-visual quiz, like never seen before (with open participation of the delegates). Fun Prizes!!
3. Practice Heads for Microsoft, MahindraSatyam, Infosys, Capgemini, Novartis and Abacus Concepts on the Panels. Great mentoring opportunities.
4. Certificates of Participation. Get involved with the biggest brand in DW Education in the world!!
5. It is FREE :-)
With your TDWI Chapter Event registration, you also gain unrestricted access to many other resources on our main site, TDWI.org, such as: Best Practices Reports, Webinars, White Papers and Many additional TDWI publications.
1. Keynote on "Challenges of Building an EDW" with a keynote from Jim Walch - General Manager of Microsoft IT. Hear some great thoughts.
2. Business Analytics Quiz - An Audio-visual quiz, like never seen before (with open participation of the delegates). Fun Prizes!!
3. Practice Heads for Microsoft, MahindraSatyam, Infosys, Capgemini, Novartis and Abacus Concepts on the Panels. Great mentoring opportunities.
4. Certificates of Participation. Get involved with the biggest brand in DW Education in the world!!
5. It is FREE :-)
With your TDWI Chapter Event registration, you also gain unrestricted access to many other resources on our main site, TDWI.org, such as: Best Practices Reports, Webinars, White Papers and Many additional TDWI publications.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
TDWI's CBIP Program in India?
CBIP is a coveted credential to adorn any BI professionals' resume'. We have been working with TDWI US to bring to India. We would like to know the interest levels for this certific ations in India, so that we can give a projected CBIP certification that can be done based in India.. This will help us work out the logistics for Proctoring, registrations and setting up centres for conducting these tests.
Let us know by dropping us a mail @ tdwi.india@gmail.com
Let us know by dropping us a mail @ tdwi.india@gmail.com
A TDWI India Chapter - Activities
India Chapter is a non profit and volunteer driven organization. Our Chapter officers are spread across India.
Arun, our President is based out of Mumbai
Amrita, our advisor is in NCR
Surya and Radha is in Hyderabad
Nikhil is in Pune
Ashok is in NCR.
All of us have full time jobs and volunteer to build a community of BI professionals and create an exciting platform where we can plan various professional activities, create a strong network where there is a free flow of information and knowledge. We also envisage a forum that can be leverage for career advancement and guidance.
Support us in our endeavors to do ourselves a world of good.
Thanks,
TDWI India Chapter team
Arun, our President is based out of Mumbai
Amrita, our advisor is in NCR
Surya and Radha is in Hyderabad
Nikhil is in Pune
Ashok is in NCR.
All of us have full time jobs and volunteer to build a community of BI professionals and create an exciting platform where we can plan various professional activities, create a strong network where there is a free flow of information and knowledge. We also envisage a forum that can be leverage for career advancement and guidance.
Support us in our endeavors to do ourselves a world of good.
Thanks,
TDWI India Chapter team
TDWI India Chapter - Report of 2008
The India Chapter conducted 4 events in the last year. The events were held in different cities of India. Details of the events are given below:
1. Mumbai, 01 Dec 2007
This was the very first event. It was sponsored by Accenture and over 20 BI professionals from Mumbai attended. The venue was Hotel Rodas. There were 2 sessions. Vivek Bhatnagar, Director Ingres gave a talk on Data Appliances. Another is a session on ETL-P by Soumendra Mohanty, Head of IM, Accenture.
2. Hyderabad, 17 Jan 2008
Close on the heels of the first event, the second meeting was held in Hyderabad. This was the biggest event with over 80 attendees from all major IT firms in the city. Majority of the chapter officers were present. The meeting started with a case study on BI at Bharti Airtel by Amrita Gangotra, CIO who is also the chapter president. This was followed by a session on Business Analytics by Viswanathan, Professor at the Indian School of Business. After the sessions, we had a very lively panel discussions on Future Trends in BI. On the panel were chapter officers Surya and Anoop along with Ram Chinta, VP Genpact, Ravi Nalluri, COO of Orpine technologies. The panel was moderated by Soumendra Mohanty of Accenture. The venue for the event was the Country Club.
3. Bangalore, 31 May 2008
The 3rd event was held in Bangalore, the IT hub of India. The event was sponsored by and was held in the campus of Infosys Technologies. Most of the chapter officers were present. There were 2 sessions – first by Prof. Shalini Urs, Executive Director ISIM, Mysore on Information Management. The second session was on Hadoop by Chid Kollengode, Director Yahoo! Research. The sessions were followed by a panel discussion on Next Generation BI. On the panel were BI practice heads of Infosys, Wipro, Price water Coopers and the discussion was moderated by chapter officer Surya Putchala. The event was well attended with over 70 participants.
4. Mysore, 04 and 05 Oct 2008
A 2 day workshop on DW/BI and Data Mining was organized for the post graduate students at the ISIM, Mysore. The sessions covered basic and advanced topics including ETL, Reporting, Data Modeling, Architecture, Data Mining and Methodology. The sessions were led by chapter officers Surya and Anoop along with Dr. Radha Krishna of Infosys. The class size was 35 and the sessions were very well received by the students.
1. Mumbai, 01 Dec 2007
This was the very first event. It was sponsored by Accenture and over 20 BI professionals from Mumbai attended. The venue was Hotel Rodas. There were 2 sessions. Vivek Bhatnagar, Director Ingres gave a talk on Data Appliances. Another is a session on ETL-P by Soumendra Mohanty, Head of IM, Accenture.
2. Hyderabad, 17 Jan 2008
Close on the heels of the first event, the second meeting was held in Hyderabad. This was the biggest event with over 80 attendees from all major IT firms in the city. Majority of the chapter officers were present. The meeting started with a case study on BI at Bharti Airtel by Amrita Gangotra, CIO who is also the chapter president. This was followed by a session on Business Analytics by Viswanathan, Professor at the Indian School of Business. After the sessions, we had a very lively panel discussions on Future Trends in BI. On the panel were chapter officers Surya and Anoop along with Ram Chinta, VP Genpact, Ravi Nalluri, COO of Orpine technologies. The panel was moderated by Soumendra Mohanty of Accenture. The venue for the event was the Country Club.
3. Bangalore, 31 May 2008
The 3rd event was held in Bangalore, the IT hub of India. The event was sponsored by and was held in the campus of Infosys Technologies. Most of the chapter officers were present. There were 2 sessions – first by Prof. Shalini Urs, Executive Director ISIM, Mysore on Information Management. The second session was on Hadoop by Chid Kollengode, Director Yahoo! Research. The sessions were followed by a panel discussion on Next Generation BI. On the panel were BI practice heads of Infosys, Wipro, Price water Coopers and the discussion was moderated by chapter officer Surya Putchala. The event was well attended with over 70 participants.
4. Mysore, 04 and 05 Oct 2008
A 2 day workshop on DW/BI and Data Mining was organized for the post graduate students at the ISIM, Mysore. The sessions covered basic and advanced topics including ETL, Reporting, Data Modeling, Architecture, Data Mining and Methodology. The sessions were led by chapter officers Surya and Anoop along with Dr. Radha Krishna of Infosys. The class size was 35 and the sessions were very well received by the students.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Biographies Supplement of the EDW Panel
Jim is a 26-year veteran of the IT industry with experience designing and building large database systems at IBM, San Diego Gas and Electric, and TRW Information Services. He has been a product unit manager in the Windows Enterprise Management Division, and GM of architecture, regional development and database operations within Microsoft IT. He has led the development of several critical applications, and is now responsible for leading the delivery of key data warehouse and business intelligence systems. He has presented information about implementations of Microsoft SQL Server at several conferences and numerous enterprise customers on how Microsoft has developed sales and marketing systems.
Dinesh manages Microsoft Dynamics Practice. He has over 15 years of experience in IT around designing and building business applications like ERP, CRM, and HIS and deploying these applications working with clients across APAC, Europe and US. He has worked with clients in various verticals like manufacturing, e-commerce, utilities, hi-tech, healthcare, banking and financial services. At Infosys, he is responsible for creating micro-vertical business solutions on the Microsoft Dynamics platform for clients in specific verticals leveraging the base capabilities of the COTS package by extending functionality around industry specific processes, workflow, BI and integration.
Balaji is an experienced thought-leader and a certified management consultant. He specializes in bringing a unique blend of strategy, process, technology and change management to drive tangible value to enterprises in their business transformation efforts. He is passionate about extending Information Technology to enable better decision-making. In his recent role, as a BI Competency leader, he is working across breath of BI in further BI as a differentiator for Mahindra Satyam.
Venkat manages the BI practice with responsibilities of Revenue, profitable growth, new customers and initiatives and delivering large programs. He Advocates the use of Business Intelligence solutions to clients enabling them to gain competitive advantage and increase their speed and accuracy of decision making. he has extensive experience across enterprise global solutions for clients in the Retail, Manufacturing, Telecom, Logistics and Technology industries. His experience spans working with clients in different regions and geographies including North America, Europe, Australia and Asia
Sudheer is a quintessential Database engineer. His expertise is in design, administration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, High Availability and disaster recovery. He has authored two books on Oracle9i with Oracle press. He is an Adjunct faculty at Columbia University teaching advanced Oracle topics (Oracle tuning, Oracle High Availability, Advanced Oracle Administration). He has consulted for many fortune 500 companies in Media, Telecommunication, pharmaceutical, Insurance and dot com industries.
Smit is Head of Informatics for Novartis Hyderabad. Smit also co-leads the Novartis Pharma IT Global BI council . Smit has over ten years of experience in the IT Industry. At Novartis, Smit helped establish the Novartis IT group in India as a key shared services site providing leadership in the space of BI & DW, Software quality & process Improvement, Enterprise Web services, Clinical systems, Document management and collaboration etc. The IT group at Novartis Hyderabad contributes extensively to Global strategic programs in Novartis.
Dinesh manages Microsoft Dynamics Practice. He has over 15 years of experience in IT around designing and building business applications like ERP, CRM, and HIS and deploying these applications working with clients across APAC, Europe and US. He has worked with clients in various verticals like manufacturing, e-commerce, utilities, hi-tech, healthcare, banking and financial services. At Infosys, he is responsible for creating micro-vertical business solutions on the Microsoft Dynamics platform for clients in specific verticals leveraging the base capabilities of the COTS package by extending functionality around industry specific processes, workflow, BI and integration.
Balaji is an experienced thought-leader and a certified management consultant. He specializes in bringing a unique blend of strategy, process, technology and change management to drive tangible value to enterprises in their business transformation efforts. He is passionate about extending Information Technology to enable better decision-making. In his recent role, as a BI Competency leader, he is working across breath of BI in further BI as a differentiator for Mahindra Satyam.
Venkat manages the BI practice with responsibilities of Revenue, profitable growth, new customers and initiatives and delivering large programs. He Advocates the use of Business Intelligence solutions to clients enabling them to gain competitive advantage and increase their speed and accuracy of decision making. he has extensive experience across enterprise global solutions for clients in the Retail, Manufacturing, Telecom, Logistics and Technology industries. His experience spans working with clients in different regions and geographies including North America, Europe, Australia and Asia
Sudheer is a quintessential Database engineer. His expertise is in design, administration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, High Availability and disaster recovery. He has authored two books on Oracle9i with Oracle press. He is an Adjunct faculty at Columbia University teaching advanced Oracle topics (Oracle tuning, Oracle High Availability, Advanced Oracle Administration). He has consulted for many fortune 500 companies in Media, Telecommunication, pharmaceutical, Insurance and dot com industries.
Smit is Head of Informatics for Novartis Hyderabad. Smit also co-leads the Novartis Pharma IT Global BI council . Smit has over ten years of experience in the IT Industry. At Novartis, Smit helped establish the Novartis IT group in India as a key shared services site providing leadership in the space of BI & DW, Software quality & process Improvement, Enterprise Web services, Clinical systems, Document management and collaboration etc. The IT group at Novartis Hyderabad contributes extensively to Global strategic programs in Novartis.
Event on "Building an EDW" on November 10th 2009
Venue: Microsoft Campus, Gachibowli, Hyderabad
Time: 2:30 – 6:30 pm
Agenda
From To Activity Lead by
2:30 3:00 Reception TDWI Volunteers
3:00 3:15 Welcome Sreenivas Simhadri, GM, Microsoft (GDC-IT)
Introduction Dr. P Radhakrishna, Sr.Researcher, SETLabs, Infosys
3:15 4:00 Key Note Jim Walch, GM-IT, Microsoft
4:00 4:15 Tea Break
4:15 5:15 Panel Distinguished Panelists
5:15 6:00 BI Quiz Surya Putchala, Vice President, TDWI India Chapter
6:00 Momentos Suresh Donepudi, CIO, ITC Bhadrachalam
Closing Nat Natarajan, Director, Microsoft GDC-IT
Event Anchor: Ram Chiniarlapalla, Director,Microsoft GDC-IT
Panel Discussion: EDW Best Practices
Building EDW is a complex under taking for any organization. There have been a lot of debate in the last decade whether it is feasible to build one. The complexity arises in multiple dimensions, Change management, business buy-in, Time taken to realize, Technology and processes required, requirements gathering (frequent changes), program governance and program execution.
We have assembled a eminent panelists with a lot of experience either building systems with enterprise scale, delivery large and complex delivery projects, evangelizing and building business cases. There several lessons they must have learnt and best practices that they so painstakingly adopted.
Distinguished Panelists
Balaji Thiruvenkatagiri
BI Head, MahindraSatyam
Smit Shanker
Global BI Head, Novartis
Sudheer Marisetti
CEO, Abacus Concepts
Venkat Iyer
BI Head, CapGemini
Dinesh Mohan
Sr. Principal, Infosys
Organizing Committee:
P Radha Krishna radhakrishna_p@infosys.com
Surya Putchala surya.putchala@wyzx.in
Ram Chiniarlapalla ramachin@microsoft.com
Nat Natarajan nat.natarajan@microsoft.com
Registration Process
Register for this event through
http://tdwichapters.org/pages/india/event-registration.aspx
Any BI Professional can attend this event for FREE. For clarifications, mail tdwi.india@gmail.com
Time: 2:30 – 6:30 pm
Agenda
From To Activity Lead by
2:30 3:00 Reception TDWI Volunteers
3:00 3:15 Welcome Sreenivas Simhadri, GM, Microsoft (GDC-IT)
Introduction Dr. P Radhakrishna, Sr.Researcher, SETLabs, Infosys
3:15 4:00 Key Note Jim Walch, GM-IT, Microsoft
4:00 4:15 Tea Break
4:15 5:15 Panel Distinguished Panelists
5:15 6:00 BI Quiz Surya Putchala, Vice President, TDWI India Chapter
6:00 Momentos Suresh Donepudi, CIO, ITC Bhadrachalam
Closing Nat Natarajan, Director, Microsoft GDC-IT
Event Anchor: Ram Chiniarlapalla, Director,Microsoft GDC-IT
Panel Discussion: EDW Best Practices
Building EDW is a complex under taking for any organization. There have been a lot of debate in the last decade whether it is feasible to build one. The complexity arises in multiple dimensions, Change management, business buy-in, Time taken to realize, Technology and processes required, requirements gathering (frequent changes), program governance and program execution.
We have assembled a eminent panelists with a lot of experience either building systems with enterprise scale, delivery large and complex delivery projects, evangelizing and building business cases. There several lessons they must have learnt and best practices that they so painstakingly adopted.
Distinguished Panelists
Balaji Thiruvenkatagiri
BI Head, MahindraSatyam
Smit Shanker
Global BI Head, Novartis
Sudheer Marisetti
CEO, Abacus Concepts
Venkat Iyer
BI Head, CapGemini
Dinesh Mohan
Sr. Principal, Infosys
Organizing Committee:
P Radha Krishna radhakrishna_p@infosys.com
Surya Putchala surya.putchala@wyzx.in
Ram Chiniarlapalla ramachin@microsoft.com
Nat Natarajan nat.natarajan@microsoft.com
Registration Process
Register for this event through
http://tdwichapters.org/pages/india/event-registration.aspx
Any BI Professional can attend this event for FREE. For clarifications, mail tdwi.india@gmail.com
TDWI Chapter Board
Arun Gupta
President
Amrita Gangotra
Advisor
Surya Putchala
Vice President
Ashok Barman
Chapter Secretary
Nikhil Data
Chapter Secretary
Dr. P Radha Krishna
Chapter Secretary
President
Amrita Gangotra
Advisor
Surya Putchala
Vice President
Ashok Barman
Chapter Secretary
Nikhil Data
Chapter Secretary
Dr. P Radha Krishna
Chapter Secretary
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
About TDWI India Chapter
TDWI chapter (India) specifically enable dissemination of knowledge, improving networking and increasing the awareness in BI/DW in India. Due to the emergence of globalization, Indian IT has built substantial knowledge base in implementing BI Solutions. On the flip side, the adoption for domestic players is rather sporadic. This chapter envisages creating a forum where knowledge of the Indian IT and Domestic Industry can synergize. One of the objectives of this chapter is to advocate best practices and make the best information made available to IT professionals and Indian industry. The object of this chapter is to create a strong community and provide a forum in India for BI/DW Professionals, IT User organizations in India (including Captives), IT service Providers, Academicians to network and Share knowledge and best practices. This group is also used for announcements, soliciting opinions from their members. Chapter meetings are open to any BI/DW professional FREE of charge.
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