There is currently a disconnect between Enterprise Information Integration (EII) and Business Intelligence (BI) technologies. EII has been identified as a solution for aggregation of stove-piped data, such as creating a single view of customer data that is spread across multiple databases and applications, while BI focuses on analysis of large volumes of data across many dimensions. These two solutions are natural complements, but not without some additional work.
Business Intelligence is a critical imperative for organizations to drive performance improvements. This panel of business intelligence experts will cover key BI topics and best practices including: applying BI in operations, enterprise reporting, dashboards and scorecards, end user adoption and BI standardization. In addition, expect lively discussion on BI market direction, user and server performance/scalability and technology innovation.
Competitive and profitable companies in the next decade will focus their business and IT investments on improving performance. BI is a critical component to provide an organization the information required to understand optimize, and align business. This keynote will provide a blueprint and a roadmap for addressing the business issues and leverage Business Intelligence to improve business and operational performance. The critical imperative to align business and IT to improve performance requires rigor and knowledge of best practices to ensure an optimal outcome.
Effective meta data management is no longer an option, but an absolute requirement for corporations and government agencies. Companies have realized that without meta data their IT departments cannot manage their systems and their systems are not providing true value to the business end user. Organizations are implementing managed meta data environments (MME) to provide them an enterprise meta data management solution. What You Will Learn:
This presentation will give an overview of the Managed Meta Data Environment at Allstate Insurance with a focus on the utilization of meta data in the Business Intelligence environment. Allstate is a previous winner of the Wilshire Award for Best Implementation of Meta Data in a Data Warehouse environment.
Businesses today are trying to be more effective in their day-to-day operations to optimize results. Though millions of dollars of investments into ERP systems have automated transactions, organizations still cannot manage themselves by the very capability by which the business operates business processes.
Unfortunately, ERP has been designed and implemented for system level integration and provides little to no business process support for management.
Any initiative attempting to improve business productivity requires the documentation of “as-is” business activity. All the attributes, resources and relationships that characterize modern business processes can be stored in ARIS. But what is the best process for capturing these attributes, resources and relationships? Internal consultants at Sears, Roebuck and Co. have documented the key processes of its Dallas accounting services. This presentation describes the methods the Business Process Consulting team employed to capture and report on Sears’ accounting processes.
Get introduced to a proven approach that will help your organization improve their processes and productivity through the use of structured, facilitated work sessions. As a result of attending this session, you will:
- Understand the differences between performing process design and facilitating it.
- Get techniques for facilitating process definition.
- Get “Do’s and Dont's” from companies successfully using this approach.
Businesses today are trying to be more effective in their day-to-day operations to optimize results. Though millions of dollars of investments into ERP systems have automated transactions, organizations still cannot manage themselves by the very capability by which the business operates business processes. Unfortunately, ERP has been designed and implemented for system level integration and provides little to no business process support for management.
This presentation will present highlights of recent research including insight on the extent to which:
- Firms are developing increasing skill in improving and managing large cross-functional business processes
- Leaders are prepared to manage the firm’s enterprise business processes
- There is progress in overcoming the major obstacles in deploying BPM
- The right [customer oriented] performance metrics are in place