Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Event on "BI in the Cloud", 18th November, Hyderabad

Event Name : Business Intelligence in the Cloud
Event Date : 18th November 2010
Venue : Microsoft Campus, Gachiblowli, Hyderabad
Time : 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM (IST)

There is a great deal of confusion over the definition of cloud computing and its benefits to organizations. Many analysts even feel that it has yet to live up to the hype. However, few argue about the cloud’s potential to change the way computing resources are delivered. We not only discuss the different definitions of the cloud but also the potential benefits and challenges of architecting BI solutions in external, virtual computing architectures. We will also share lessons learned and the best practices and pitfalls of BI in the cloud.

From To Activity Speaker(s)
1:30 2:00 Registration TDWI India Chapter/Microsoft
2:00 2:10 Inaugural Address Mr. Sreenivas Simhadri, Microsoft
2:10 2:40 Keynote: Microsoft IT Cloud Story Mr. Raj Biyani, Microsoft
2:40 3:00 What is the Cloud? Mr. Prabhakar Kasu, Ortus Consulting
3:00 3:30 Break
3:30 3:50 Cloud vs. Conventional BI Mr. Ramesh Loganathan, MD, Progress Software
3:50 4:20 Building BI Solution on Cloud Mr. Ramesh Kumar Koona, Mahindra Satyam
4:20 4:40 Cloud BI Case Study Mr. Bhavin Raichura /Mr. Amit Dayal, Infosys
4:40 5:00 Closing Keynote Mr. Subbu Venkatraman, Vice President, CA
5:00 Closing TDWI India Chapter/Microsoft

Registration:
Registration are mandatory to attend the event. Register for this event through: http://tdwichapters.org/pages/india/event-registration.aspx

This event for FREE for all Professionals . For clarifications, e-mail tdwi.india@gmail.com

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Facets of BI - Inaugural event in Pune July 2010

Event Overview

In the rich canvas of the BI, there are many facets - technological, business value creation and execution aspects that come to fore. We will explore this canvas. This event focuses on various areas related to BI: Real-time, Agile, Operational, Cloud and other latest trends in BI. There will be sessions by CIOs and practitioners, experts who will deliberate the initiation and adoption strategies as well as explore the architecture for building global Business Analytics infrastructure from multinational businesses.

Agenda

From To Activity
13:30 14:00 Registration
14:00 14:20 Inaugural address: To B or not to B, what can I do?
14:20 14:40 Key Note: BI – Technology Perspective
14:40 15:10 Instituting BI in Real world
15:150 15:30 BI Patterns of a Global Enterprise
15:30 16:00 Tea/Snacks
16:00 17:15 Panel: BI Best Practices for Real ROI
17:15 17:30 Delegate Activity: Quiz
17:30 Closing

To B or not to B, what can I do? - Arun Gupta, Group CIO, K Raheja Group

Business Intelligence means different things to different people. Some global case studies claim 1000+% ROI, while Research analysts claim that 80% of these initiatives fail to deliver. In India, the practice and adoption has been growing by multiples rather than percentage. The discussion based on personal experience is to explore various facets of BI reality in the Indian context and benchmark with global best practices.

Instituting BI in the Real world - Anil Khopkar, CIO, Bajaj Auto

This session provides a direct customer perspective to BI. We hear from a business leader, who has successfully harnessed the power of BI to drive business results. The leader shares the heightened challenges faced in today’s business environment and how BI needs to shape-up to these demands. This is a ‘listening to the customer’ session; giving us insights into the expectations from IT functions, consulting organizations and platform providers. This session will also touch upon the real life challenges IT leader faces in terms of securing the buy-in from the business sponsors and increasing the adoption.

BI Patterns of a Global Enterprise - Mr. Chandu Mukkavalli, BI Leader, Deloitte

In the current digital age where organizations are globally spread, managing and maintaining quality of data is an important challenge to address. This challenge is more significant for Global BI Systems (GBIS) because maintaining the Global Business Rules (GBR) and Local Business Rules (LBR) in the same system will be very difficult. To design the GBIS, this paper presents additional decision parameters to decide the appropriate architecture for GBIS, and to maintain data quality for global and local requirements. This paper presents four different types of organization scenarios and associated architectures which can be implemented within organizations, enabling top management to have actionable intelligence.

BI: Technology Perspective - Venkat Iyer, BI Head, Capgemini

The dimensions of growth - new products, new markets and big acquisitions were put on leash during the global recession of 2009. Fortunately, technology innovation have not stalled in ‘BI & PM’ space, which has undergone extensive advances across the breadth of ‘BI stack. Real-time, Agile, Operational, Cloud and other latest trends in BI. we will explore key trends that are reshaping BI/ IM and discuss the power of ‘information, intelligence & insight’ in helping enterprises leverage BI in their ‘transformation’ journey.

BI: Best Practices for the real ROI

Armed with techno-business perspective, our panel of thought-leaders and practitioners, explores best practices for enhancing business capability and maximize the value of BI. They will discuss BI and Business Alignment – Challenges and opportunities, How is value created or measured, How is value created or measured, How to create new capabilities to help drive business performance and share the biggest lessons they have learned.

Sundar Balasubramaniam, Director, Capgemini
Sanjay Raj, Global Practice Director(BI), Syntel
Yogesh Bhatt , IM Consulting, SETlabs, Infosys
Aabid Abbasi, BAO Leader, IBM
Monark Vyas, Sr Consultant, SAS
Sirish Gariba, CIO, Elbee Express

Delegate Activity: Quiz – Surya Putchala, GM (BI), HCL Technologies

For who wants to be challenged on their knowledge, experience and skills, there will be a tool agnostic quiz that will have problems on IM, BI/DW, Analytics, technology trends and more…. There will be no teams, but open to all delegates, the one who answers correctly will get instant reward. This quiz is FUN !!


Registration
Registration are mandatory to attend the event. Register for this event through: http://tdwichapters.org/pages/india/event-registration.aspx
This event for FREE for all Professionals . For clarifications, e-mail tdwi.india@gmail.com

Monday, May 24, 2010

Information Engineering & Analytics – Learnings from a complex domain

Saturday, May 29th 2010, 2:00 - 5:30 pm
Danube Auditorium, Mahindra Satyam Campus, Hi-Tec city, Hyderabad

Registration : Registration is mandatory to attend the event. Registration is FREE for all. For clarifications, e-mail tdwi.india@gmail.com. Register for this event through:
http://tdwichapters.org/pages/india/event-registration.aspx
Traditional methods of BI such as OLAP and preliminary data analysis yielded significant benefits in terms of efficiencies to the business over the years. Application of BI and Analytics to the realm of public domain is fascinating and could yield even more benefits if applied in the delivery of services that affect our lives. It gets more complex when applied in public domain such as urbanization, which has conflicting goals, multiple stakeholders and enormous undertakings. Studying complex systems provides an opportunity to explore application of various quantitative techniques that existed for a long time, mostly confined to academics.
With the maturity of information leverage and evidence based approaches in decision making, there is a constant pursuit to apply innovative techniques, methods and frameworks that results in better business outcomes. It becomes imperative that, the exposure of practitioners of to the numerous other methods available be mastered and added to their repertoire. This event provides:
 An overview about eclectic quantitative techniques.
 Use cases of various methods as applied in urbanization
 Exposure to complementing technologies to BI and Analytics
 Know the state of the Analytical capabilities of the Software
 Some trends that the enterprises are adopting in BI&PM space

Program at a glance
From To Activity Speaker
13:00 14:00 Coffee & Reception
14:00 14:15 Welcome Mr. Rajan Natarajan, Mahindra Satyam
14:15 14:45 Information savvy for better city living Mrs. Karuna Gopal, Foundation for Futuristic Cities
14:45 15:15 Overview: Analytical Techniques and Methods Mr. Sushil Anand, SAS
15:15 15:30 Tea/Snack Break
15:45 16:15 Technology : Addressing "Quality of life" Prof. K S Rajan, IIIT, Hyderabad
16:15 16:45 What is "State of the Art" in BI and Analytics? Mr. Girish Venkatachaliah, IBM Software Labs
16:45 17:15 Spotlight - BI, PM, IM: Current Market Dynamics Mr. Balaji Thiruvenkatachari, Mahindra Satyam
17:15 17:30 Preparing for the future Prof. Uday B Desai, IIT, Hyderabad
17:30 Vote of Thanks Mr. Ashok Barman, GE Money
Anchor: Mr. Surya Putchala, HCL Technologies

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Business Analytics : Better Insights, Better Descisions

The next frontier for Business Intelligence is Analytics. Analytics is both rigorous and overarching discipline. We will explore this subject with an introduction, use cases and a case study. Experience first hand great insights on this hot topic.

When: Saturday, April 24, 10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Where: Flint Auditorium , Tower 20, Wipro Technologies, Electronics City Bangalore

Registration are mandatory to attend the event. Register for this event through: http://tdwichapters.org/pages/india/event-registration.aspx

Registration is Mandatory. Bring photo ID on check-in. Park in guest parking(Ample Parking available).

Agenda :
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Arrivals and Networking
10:30– 11:00 a.m. Welcome and Inaugural address: "Powering BI with Analytics"by Pawan Kumar, VP,Wipro Technologies
11:00 - 11:45 a.m. “Introduction to Analytics” by Deepak Ramanathan & Manish Desai, Practice Manager, Technology Practice ,SAS Asia Pacific

11:45 - 12:30 a.m. “Analytics: Use Cases” by Girish Venkatachaliah, IBM India Software Labs
12:30 - 13:30 p.m. Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:15 p.m. “Case Study: Analytics in Banking” by Arup Ghosh Dastidar and Dinesh Chawla, Sr. Vice President, Citigroup
14:15 - 14:30 p.m. TDWI 2010 Plan and overview by Surya Putchala, VP, TDWI India Chapter
14:30 - 15:00 p.m. Delegate Activity
15:00 - 16:00 p.m. Panel discussion “Use of Analytics in Business” by
Alok Agarwal , Director, Analytics, Dell , Iqbal Kaur,Senior Group Manager, Analytics & Reporting, Target, Ramasubramaniam Sundararajan Lead Engineer, General Electric’s Global Research Centre, Avik Sarkar, Architect ,Nokia Siemens Networks,
Manisha Banthia,Head, Analytics CoE, Knowledge Services,Infosys
Prem Swarup, BI Head Wipro Technologies
16:00 Vote of Thanks by Shibu Chacko, Secretary, TDWI India Chapter .