TDWI India Chapter

Big data : Technologies and Perspectives

2011-07-13T22:58:00.000-07:00

Saturday, July 23rd 2011, 10:00 - 5:00 pm (IST), Infosys Campus, Gachibowli, Hyderabad

Agenda

To Topic Speakers
09:00 10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:00 10:15 Welcome Address - Srinivas Prabhala, CTO, Financial Services, Infosys
10:15 10:45 Data Deluge: Opportunities and challenges N T Arun Kumar, Managing Director, UBS IB (India & China)
10:45 11:45 Technical Challenges of Handling big data Ramesh Bhashyam, CTO, Teradata (India R&D)
11:45 12:45 Hadoop and No SQL Approaches Nagaraj Kulkarni, Chief Architect, Compegence
12:45 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 14:45 ‘Big data’ appliances Satyanarayana Ranganatha, Sr. Manager, EMC
14:45 15:30 Innovations in Analytical Databases Vivek Bhatnagar, Country Director, Ingres
03:30 03:45 Tea Break
03:45 05:15 Panel: Some Perspectives on Big Data Sreenivas Simhadri, Development Manager, Microsoft
Ajit Nema, Director, Deloitte
Suresh Donepudi, CIO, ITC Bhadrachalam
Manish Bhide, Master Inventor, IBM Software Labs
Gurpreet Singh, CEO, DEFTeam
KVSN Sastry, Principal Architect, Infosys
5:15 5:30 Closing Keynote - Subbu Venkatraman, Vice President, CA

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

This event is FREE. For clarifications, e-mail tdwi.india@gmail.com

Bangalore, 5th February 2011 - "BI in the Cloud"

2011-01-26T19:15:00.000-08:00

We are very pleased to extend announce TDWI India Chapter event on "Business Intelligence in the Cloud" hosted by Intel in Bangalore on February 5th (Saturday) 2011. It is a day-long event between 9:30 am - 5:30 pm.

To help us with the logistics, request please pre-register at the URL below:

http://tdwichapters.org/pages/india/event-registration.aspx

Cloud computing changes the way computing resources are delivered. It is disruptive as well as transformational. We will discuss and deliberate potential benefits and challenges of BI in external, virtual computing architectures, the future of cloud for BI, its applicability and availability of technology at present.

We have the following topics and speakers:

ü Welcome/Inaugural Address - Narendra Vaze, Country Manager, Intel IT

ü Intel IT Cloud Story - Aravind Doss, Head, Cloud Computing, Intel IT

ü What is BI on the Cloud? - Hari Devarapalli, Head, BI/PM Service Technology Office, TCS

ü Cloud Computing for BI/DW - Rohit Chattar, Architect, Yahoo

ü DW Infrastructure for Cloud -Praveen Hebbagodi, Director, Akamai Technologies

ü Cloud for BI: A Business Perspective - Mukesh K L, Chief Operating Officer, TATA Sky

ü Perspectives: Transformational impact of Cloud on DW/BI

· Rajesh Shenoy, BI Head, Intel

· Nat Malupillai, BI Head, Target

· Raghuram Mutya, Lead, BI CoE, Dell Services

· Arup Dastigar, Senior Vice President, Citibank
Moderated by Vijay Ramachandran, Chief Editor (CIO, Computerworld)
ü Big Data Applicances on Cloud- Mr. Satyanarayana Ranganatha, Head, DW Appliances, EMC

ü Advanced Analytics on the cloud - Mr. Arindam Bhattacharjee, Chief Architect, SAP Analytics.

ü Closing Key Note - Susheela Venkataraman, Managing Director, Internet Business Solutions, Cisco

As you are aware, our chapters are meant for knowledge sharing and are sales pitch free, vendor neutral, unbiased and always FREE. Here is the Pre-registration link for your quick reference :

http://tdwichapters.org/pages/india/event-registration.aspx

We are Looking forward to your presence and participation in the event. We also invite you to be active volunteers for the Bangalore Chapter event, moving forward.

Please contact Surya.Putchala@wyzx.in or shibuchako@hotmail.com or Nagaraj.Kulkarni@compegence.com for active volunteer participation

Drop a mail to tdwi.india@gmail.com for any clarifications

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

2010-11-02T02:28:00.000-07:00

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

Facets of BI - Inaugural event in Pune July 2010

2010-07-01T08:03:00.000-07:00

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
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Information Engineering & Analytics – Learnings from a complex domain

2010-05-24T03:24:00.000-07:00

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

Business Analytics : Better Insights, Better Descisions

2010-04-18T23:38:00.000-07:00

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 .

TDWI Event at Bangalore on December 19th Details

2009-12-01T06:02:00.001-08:00

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!

LinkedIn Group and Twitter accounts

2009-11-25T23:03:00.000-08:00

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

Upcoming TDWI Chapter event in Bangalore

2009-11-19T02:48:00.001-08:00

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.

Indian School of Business highlights TDWI India Chapter

2009-11-18T00:38:00.000-08:00

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.

Press Coverage for TDWI Hyderabad Event

2009-11-17T05:49:00.000-08:00

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.

What are TDWI India Chapter Events about?

2009-11-15T20:24:00.000-08:00

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 :-)

Process to join TDWI India Chapter

2009-11-15T19:01:00.001-08:00

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.

Why should you attend the Event in Hyderabad?

2009-11-02T02:35:00.001-08:00

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.

TDWI's CBIP Program in India?

2009-11-01T02:21:00.000-08:00

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

A TDWI India Chapter - Activities

2009-11-01T02:12:00.001-08:00

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

TDWI India Chapter - Report of 2008

2009-11-01T02:03:00.000-08:00

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.

Biographies Supplement of the EDW Panel

2009-10-28T07:16:00.000-07:00

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.

Event on "Building an EDW" on November 10th 2009

2009-10-28T06:16:00.000-07:00

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

TDWI Chapter Board

2009-10-28T05:47:00.000-07:00

Arun Gupta
President

Amrita Gangotra
Advisor

Surya Putchala
Vice President

Ashok Barman
Chapter Secretary

Nikhil Data
Chapter Secretary

Dr. P Radha Krishna
Chapter Secretary

About TDWI India Chapter

2009-10-27T23:16:00.000-07:00

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.