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Thursday, 19th November 2009
09:00hrs	Registration
10:00hrs	Introduction & Welcome Tim Noble, Managing Director, SAP UK & Ireland
10:10hrs	Business Intelligence Journeys - the Roadmap for Change Howard Dresner, President, Dresner Advisory Services, LLC Howard Dresner is President of Dresner Advisory Services, LLC, an independent advisory firm, and is a well known authority and thought leader in the areas of Business Intelligence and Performance Management. He is the author of two books: The Performance Management Revolution: Business Results through Insight and Action (John Wiley & Sons - November 2007) and Profiles in Performance - Business Intelligence Journeys and the Roadmap for Change (John Wiley & Sons - October 2009).
11.10hrs	The Past, Present and Few…ture David Shaw, GTxP Manager, The Guinness Trust
11:40hrs	Coffee Break
12.10hrs	The Full Spectrum of Business Intelligence Richard Neale & Chris Darvill, SAP BusinessObjects Overview of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence. During this session we will take you on a journey from data to analytics, highlighting how solutions can help you address business critical issues.
13:00hrs	Lunch & 'Test Drives'
	Focus Sessions
	Focus on BI	Deep Dive on BI	The Business Value of BI
14:00hrs - 14:40hrs	A-Z of Business Intelligence Phil Wood, SAP BusinessObjects An overview session for the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio, which will show in detail the key solutions available to drive forward your business intelligence strategy, including: Query, Reporting & Analytics, Dashboard & Visualisation Tools and Search & Exploration.	Practical Dashboard Design Techniques Varik Torsteinsen, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards present information in a unique and powerful way. Successful dashboards focus on the fundamental goal of communication. This session focuses on practical ways to design more effective dashboards, avoid the pitfalls associated with poor dashboard design, and allow dashboard consumers to understand them plainly, unmistakeably and swiftly.	Building a Value Case for BI Kalim Khan, SAP BusinessObjects This session will include an overview of the methods and tools used by SAP Value Engineering to assess business and technology pain points associated with BI and the potential value to be gained from investing in BI solutions. Along with example value cases, there will be an overview of SAP’s benchmarking capabilities in BI/Analytics, the SAP Value Lifecycle Manager tool and the SAP Value Academy for Customers.
14:40hrs	Afternoon Tea
15:00hrs - 15:40hrs	Introducing Information Management David Pugh, SAP BusinessObjects An introduction session to the SAP BusinessObjects Information Management portfolio, which includes Data Integration, Data Quality Management, Data Services, Metadata Management and Master Data Management.	Managing Your Data Like a Strategic Asset Mark Todd, SAP BusinessObjects Hear how you can use SAP BusinessObjects solutions to manage information as a strategic asset to achieve efficiency, gain insight and maintain flexibility. Learn how companies can integrate and improve, consolidate and rationalise, govern and maintain data to enable strategic decision making; and manage the information life cycle to support governance.	Standardising on Business Intelligence: How to Deliver Excellence John Dunne, SAP BusinessObjects Attend this session to learn how an organisation can use BI to deliver enhanced competitive and business value. We will review the concept of a BI Competency Centre and how these can be strategically planned for BI to act as a service to the business.
15:50hrs - 16:30hrs	What's in the latest version of XI? Matthew Shaw, SAP BusinessObjects Track, understand and manage your organization's information on a single enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) platform. With BusinessObjects™ XI, you get a complete suite of performance management, information management, reporting, and query and analysis tools built on a flexible, scalable, service-oriented architecture. BusinessObjects XI simplifies the way your decision-makers access, use and share insight across the organisation. Understand the latest additions and innovation.	Enhancing the Business Warehouse Environment with SAP BusinessObjects Adrian Simpson & Stewart Faith, SAP BusinessObjects SAP BusinessObjects can add further value to the Business Warehouse environment. Understand the integration and value that you can add to your business.	The Business Value of Pervasive BI Andy Hirst, SAP BusinessObjects As the landscape of BI solutions matures, more companies are able to deliver analytical tools and dashboards to their entire workforce. A well executed pervasive BI strategy can deliver substantial performance results to an organisation. With more employees involved in the decision-making process and more departments being able to touch information relevant to them, decision-making becomes quicker and more effective. Attend this session to hear about the latest SAP BusinessObjects solutions that have been designed with the business user in mind including Workforce Optimisation, Customer Analytics, Crime & Threat Control, Stimulus Reporting & Analytics and Supplier Risk Management. Industry specific examples will also be presented for Financial Services, Public Sector and Manufacturing.
16:30hrs	Close

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