Business Intelligence Chicago, IL | April 27th, 2006
 Business Intelligence (BI) has evolved dramatically over the last few years. Most companies thought of BI as standard query, reporting, and OLAP tools that disseminated information to the organization. BI is now used as an important, strategic tool in most corporations – to measure, discover, change, and differentiate their organizations from their competitors. A recent survey of 1,400 CIO’s conducted by Gartner Group found that Business Intelligence has surpassed Security as the top technology priority this year.
That begs the question -- How are corporations implementing BI to share information, innovate and improve their business against the challenge of both more data and increasing user demands? How are product and service vendors helping customers deliver on BI projects, showing value and increasing adoption within and outside their organization? We hope to explore some of these topics and others as part of this session on Business Intelligence.
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Event Logistics |
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Welcome & Introductions |
 $95 Members
$125 Nonmembers
Thursday, April 27th , 2006
1:00–5:15 PM
410 Club
410 N Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL
(located in the Wrigley Bldg) |
| 1:30–2:00 |
Customer Case Study
Sentry Insurance: The Distinction Between Operational and Analytical Data
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Jim Frank, Director of Data Services, Sentry Insurance
Jim has spent the past seven years designing, implementing and supporting Business Intelligence solutions. His industry experience includes energy, pharmaceuticals and financial services. He spent several years as a consultant for both Andersen Consulting and BearingPoint. Jim’s current role within Sentry is Director of Data Services for Sentry Insurance. He has established a formal data warehousing practice and standardized reporting and ETL tools for the enterprise. Jim’s areas of expertise also extend into metadata management and integration with legacy data and applications. |
| 2:00–2:30 |
Achieving The Enterprise Information View by Addressing OPAT
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Scott Moyer, VP Business Intelligence, iGate Mastech
With nearly 20 years of industry experience, Scott Moyer has been responsible for the deployment of some of the most successful Business Intelligence projects in the country. Moyer joined Mastech from Sears, where he was Director of Information Management. Moyer previously served as Vice President of Data Management at GE Capital, where he was a member of the Digitization Steering Committee.
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| 2:30–3:00 |
Wireless Decision Management
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William Boll, President & CEO, Ingenex Corporation
Bill has over 20 years experience in the information
technology arena in enterprise systems automation, architecture,
design, planning and performance mgmt. of large scale IT
computing systems. In addition, he was VP of
Consulting for a private consulting organization where he expanded
revenue six-fold in just over 2 years. Mr. Boll has worked at
industry-leading corporations such as Allstate Corporation, Hitachi
Data Systems, EMC Corporation, LEGENT Corporation, and Candle
Corporation. Mr. Boll is a published author in the
Business Continuance sector.
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| 3:00–3:15 |
Break |
| 3:15–3:45 |
Customer Case Study
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Martina Latimer Manager, Business Intelligence, Blyth HomeScents International
Martina is responsible for Business Intelligence and the data warehouse content for Blyth HomeScents shared service I.T. department. Prior to working for Blyth HomeScents Martina worked for Walgreens and spent 10 years working for Maytag. Martina is also heavily involved with Blyth's Sterno divisions senior leadership team and is the liaison for I.T. for that group.
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Keynote Panel--
The Path to Adoption and Successful Rollout of a BI Solution
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Moderator: Gaurav Issar, EVP - Business Intelligence, Project Leadership Associates
Gaurav Issar co-manages the Business Intelligence practice at Project Leadership Associates (PLA). He previously co-founded NEXUS Consulting Group, a business intelligence firm that was recently acquired by PLA. Through his efforts as a thought leader and successful engagement manager, he has helped build the practice into a leading provider of business intelligence consulting services.
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Steve Benton, Executive Director Knowledge Management,
UBS Investment Bank
Steve Benton is an Executive Director of Information Technology at financial services giant, UBS Investment Bank. He leads a global business service in Knowledge Management and has been with the firm for the past 19 years and in the information technology field for nearly 25 years.
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Andrew Banas, AD Data Warehouse & Telecom Systems, Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Andrew has over 20 years experience in the transportation, telecommunications, advertising/media, and financial industries. His focus over the last 10 years has been primarily on Data Management; i.e. Data Architecture, Data Warehousing and Database Administration.
He established the Data Management groups at Heller Financial, Publicis Groupe, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange He has won a number of company and industry awards for his work in Data Management.
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David La Rue, Director - Business Applications, SIRVA
During a career that spans more than 20 years, David has held senior leadership positions with major corporations and leading strategic consulting firms in the consumer goods, transportation, and financial services industries. In his current position at SIRVA, he’s responsible for delivering a Business Intelligence Portal that will assist in aligning agent performance with strategic goals, while taking advantage of best practices and optimized business processes.
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Christina Rouse, National Practice Director - Business Intelligence, SilverTrain, Inc.
With nearly 20 years of data experience on a broad range of technical platforms, Chris is a seasoned business intelligence solution architect, a statistician by graduate education and a former college professor.
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| 4:45–5:30 |
Networking Reception
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