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Business Analyticswith SAP and SAP BusinessObjects BI
27 - 29 October 2014 Crown Promenade, Melbourne
Mastering
PACKAGES & PRICESINCLUDES entry into conference and exhibition, lunches, refreshments and networking drinks, electronic access to content and the participant contact list. Team bookings are encouraged to accelerate the spread of knowledge across your organisation.
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35+ PRESENTATIONS | ENGAGING USERS | PROMOTING THE VALUE OF ANALYTICS TO THE BUSINESS
SELF-SERVICE REPORTING | DATA MANAGEMENT | MOBILE ANALYTICS | COMPLEX ANALYTICS
PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS | DATA VISUALISATION | SELECTING THE RIGHT TOOL | AGILE ANALYTICS
TEAM STRUCTURES & SKILLS | REQUIREMENTS GATHERING | IMPROVING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
THE REAL SAP HANA | ANALYTICS IN THE CLOUD | THE FUTURE OF ANALYTICS
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HOT TOPICS70 people from 50 companies collaborated and debated in round table discussions in Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney to base the agenda on these 16 important topics.
ENGAGING USERS• Creating an inspiring analytics vision to bring your users
on the journey
• Modern approaches to improve relationships between analytics teams, IT and users
• Examples where analytics teams have forged strong partnerships with the business
• Techniques to build interest from you biggest critics
• Inspiring users with “the art of the possible”
• Understanding the new psyche and expectations of users
• Tips and tricks to appeal to users’ hearts and minds
• Communication strategies and language that will appeal to business users
• Tailoring your training program to specific needs
• Strategies to keep users interested post go-live
• Developing analytics user communities rather than hierarchies
• Engaging users for disruptive technologies such as HANA and predictive analysis
PROMOTING THE VALUE OF ANALYTICS TOTHE BUSINESS
• Creating an analytics strategy that’s appealing to any business
• Aligning your strategy with key organisational objectives
• Practical ways to make analytics more relevant in your organisation
• Proven ways to champion analytics to executives
• Understand what makes your business profitable and building analytics to support this
• Ensuring analytics is creating maximum ROI for the business
• Examples of exploiting analytics to drive business improvement
• How to identify and take advantage of analytics opportunities
• Where analytics should sit within the organisational design for optimal outcomes
• Mapping stakeholders and sustaining their interest for the long term
• Communicating what analytics can offer business units and what’s available
• Exploiting your existing data to obtain real business value with little investment
• Measuring and celebrating the value of analytics for sustainable business support
SELF-SERVICE REPORTING
• Unwrapping the possibilities of self-service - volume, variety and velocity
• Real examples of leveraging self-service reporting to increase user adoption
• Identifying and assessing the tools available to guide self-service report development
• How to develop a compelling strategy for self-service
• Examples of organisations that have implemented SAP BusinessObjects Explorer and Lumira
• Critical success factors for self-service
• Understanding the skills required for each analytics tool and which tool best suits your user community
• Best ways to train users for self-service reporting
• Balancing flexibility and control - governance considerations
• Managing the use of unstructured data brought in by users
DATA VISUALISATION• How to deliver a user interface that requires no training
• Understand which dashboard tools you should use for which use case
• Best practices for SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio dashboard design
• Integrating SAP BW with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
• A common set of dashboarding design rules that are tool agnostic
• When to use colour to differentiate content and focus your users on what is important
• Understand the properties, strengths and differences of SAP’s new basic colour chart palettes
• What makes a good (and bad) dashboard
• Identifying the role of SAP Lumira and its real-life applications
• An introduction to LAVA, the design language behind SAP’s next-generation analytics products
• See how you can use LAVA’s cutting edge techniques today in SAP’s current tools
• Tips and tricks to improve the performance of dashboards and getting them to the user faster
ROI Self-Service
Data Management
Future Roadmap
User EngagementMobility System Performance
Requirements GatheringPredictive Analysis
Agile
Team
Tool Selection Visualisation
Cloud
Complex Analytics HANA
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MOBILE ANALYTICS• Creating a mobile strategy for your organisation
• What to put on-device and what to keep on-premise
• How mobile analytics has evolved
• Pros and cons of various mobile platforms available to you
• Creating a device management strategy and assessing BYOD
• Security considerations and how other organisations are dealing with them
• Real-life examples of rolling out mobile analytics to field operations
• Customer experience of mobile analytics and HANA going hand-in-hand
• User adoption strategies specific to a mobile implementation
PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS• Defining predictive analytics and its capabilities in
layman’s terms
• Strategies to help users understand what’s possible - common use cases
• Transforming a business mindset of fire-fighting to fire prevention
• How to create business models that can be used to predict the future
• Real examples of predictive analytics capabilities expanding businesses
• Understanding SAP’s roadmap for analytics tools and functionality
DATA MANAGEMENT• Understanding data quality’s role in successful
analytics projects
• Harnessing data quality to improve user adoption
• How to communicate the value of data to the business
• Promoting data as an asset and managing it as such
• Proactive and reactive approaches to improving data quality
• Governance scenarios - fixing data you don’t own
• Proving the data and protecting it fiercely
• Data governance strategies in self-service environments
SELECTING THERIGHT TOOL
• Gain an understanding of the broad set of tools available to you
• Find out which tools are not appropriate for certain scenarios
• An approach to measure your business requirements against the pros and cons of various tools
• How SAP’s tools can be integrated to complement each other
• Prioritising which tool to use when you can only use one
• Hands-on experience with SAP’s latest BusinessObjects BI 4 tools
• Discover which SAP BusinessObjects tools work best with SAP HANA
• Choosing the right end-user tool to satisfy the need for aptitude and appetite
AGILE ANALYTICS• Identifying potential benefits of agile methodologies
• Where you’ll find value in implementing an agile approach
• Overcoming agile’s “bad reputation”
• How to adapt the best bits of any agile methodology for your own business scenario
• Understanding how your organisation has to change to embrace agile analytics
• How to get an Agile Data Warehousing (ADW) project started
• Identifying the characteristics of a successful ADW delivery
• Balancing time-to-market with warehouse sustainability in ADW
• Understand what agile won’t help you with
TEAM STRUCTURES & SKILLS
• Critical skills for successful analytics professionals today
• Finding the right balance between business and IT skills
• Identifying the skills mix required for a BI team to work at its best
• How to foster communication and stakeholder management skills within the team
• Proven methods for motivating team members and retaining skills and knowledge
• How to ascertain where the analytics team should sit within the organisational design
• Latest developments in analytics operating models that blend domain, statistical and technical skills
REQUIREMENTSGATHERING
• Deciding who to involve in requirements gathering
• Mapping requirements to key strategic business goals
• The importance of talking the user’s language - common examples and tips
• Attaching values to requirements to prioritise features and functions
• Essential skills for your analytics team members to translate requirements effectively
IMPROVING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
• Learn how to improve system performance with better universe design
• When to use multi-source universes rather than the data warehouse
• Step-by-step guide to embracing multi-source universes, context, alias use and data profiling
• Dashboard design tips to improve performance for the user
• How to automate and eliminate paper-based change control processes for your analytics transports
• Pros and cons of using SAP Solution Manager CHaRM for BW change control
THE REAL SAP HANA• Honest appraisals of HANA from companies who have
already deployed it
• Creating a HANA business case and demonstrating ROI
• The difference between out-of-the-box and outside-of-the-box HANA
• Real-life challenges of HANA implementations and how they were overcome
• Examples where HANA has been applied in finance
• Understand what to do with your legacy data
• Leveraging HANA against ECC, BW and other data sources
• Find out which SAP BusinessObjects tools work best with HANA
• Options for architecture and their implications for tool choice
• How to harness the power of HANA and its new geospatial features
• Change management strategies for HANA implementations
COMPLEX ANALYTICS• Defining complex analytics and its implications
• Understanding the disruptive challenges ahead and how complex analytics can help
• Examples where organisations have achieved business improvement through operational analytics
• How to start to create a culture for complex analytics
• Embedding analytics in work applications and business processes
• Identifying skills that are required to take your analytics team and users towards more complex analysis
ANALYTICS IN THE CLOUD
• Defining cloud and the differences between SaaS and PaaS
• Understanding the future opportunities in cloud for business analytics
• Defining SAP’s products and roadmap for cloud tools
• Licensing options and business models for cloud solutions
• Assessing technical architecture possibilities in the cloud
THE FUTURE OF ANALYTICS
• Skills that will be required from the analytics professional of the future
• What you need to know about “big data” and its implications
• Identifying the next industry innovation cycle
• Understanding SAP’s roadmap
• An insight into the new design methodologies affecting SAP’s next-generation tools
• Identifying where to invest now for the future
• How to set up your analytics organisation for future success
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Peter O’Donnell
Lestor Meadow
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Gary Hooker
Ingo Hilgefort
Joshua Fletcher
Are you working for your data, or is your data
working for you?
Andrew Mayes - Decision Support Analyst Team Lead, Pick n Pay Retailers (RSA)
SPEAKERSA diverse mix of SAP practitioners, thought leaders and experts - carefully chosen by the Mastering Business Analytics Advisory Team. Empowering and arming you to fully realise the benefits of SAP in your business.
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Good people are out there, they just don’t want to work for you:
What to do about it
Tim Hays - Vice President, Information Technology,
Animal Health (USA)
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Learn basic best practices for how to
use colour in analytic displays
John Armitage - Chief Product Designer, Visual
Analytics, Business Intelligence Technology,
SAP (USA)
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Mico Yuk
Matt Grygorcewicz
Eric Schemer
Rafaela Salzer
Harj Chand
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Celebrating 10 incredible years of serving and building your community into a close, collaborative and committed network of seasoned peers across Australia, New Zealand and beyond. Mastering Business Analytics 2014 promises to be a very special occasion.
To help mark this extraordinary milestone, this year’s event will feature 10 of the most popular presenters rated by you over the past 10 years. This important group of people has made an outstanding contribution keeping the community energised and enthralled.
Be involved in brave, important conversations with some of the world authorities on Business Analytics and SAP.
CELEBRATINGYEARS
A solution for the business that is accessible globally, scalable, flexible,
deployed to any device and is consumed using
a cloud mode
Elizabeth Harper - CIO, GHD
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Our journey of Agile Data Warehouse adoption
so far and the work still to be done
Mark Giesbrecht - Senior Manager, Business Intelligence,
Canadian National Railways (CAN)
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Improved analytics and insight through the implementation of SAP
BusinessObjects Suite on HANA
Ben Gray - Director of Financial Operations,
SingTel Optus
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Make your data visualisations more
intelligent, actionable and useful
Mico Yuk - Founder, BI Brainz Group (USA)
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Driver-based financial planning: Budget surgery
using SAP BPC
Nicole Bright - Systems Accountant, UnitingCare Health
Cherry-picking best practice to deliver on the
HANA promise
Corey Adams - Manager - Business Intelligence Centre of Excellence, Foodstuffs North
Island (NZ)
How Southern Cross created a BI vision, strategy
and implementation plan which aligns with the
business objectives to deliver value
Adele Marshall - Business Intelligence Manager, Southern Cross Health Care Society (NZ)
How data quality became the key enabler
to increasing user adoption of analytics
Jack Steele - BI Program Lead, British American Tobacco
Cloud is not just the future, it is the present for
SAP analytics solutions
Chetan Khimjee - Senior Solution Architect - Business
Analytics & Andreas Kral - Senior Solution Advisor,
Embedded Solution & Platforms, SAP (AUS)
We managed to successfully implement
an iterative release methodology which was our
way of delivering agility
Rafaela Salzer - Global Delivery Manager -
Business Information, British American Tobacco
How to automate and eliminate paper-based
change control processes for your BW transports
Gary Hooker - SAP System Administrator, Corporate
Systems Branch, Department of Immigration and Border Protection (SAP Mentor)
Explore how your company can ride a new wave of engagement,
productivity and innovation that leaves competitors for dead
Craig Davis - Adjunct Professor, University of
Technology Sydney
The success of predictive analytics is
often determined more by the people and processes
than the technology
Tim Noonan - Director - Finance and Performance Management, Deloitte
“ “Thought-provoking demonstrations
communicating the “art of the possible”
Taygan Rifat - User Experience Specialist, AGL Energy
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BI is not about delivering information,
it’s about enabling the business
Martin Rennhackkamp - CIO, PBT Group
Detailed step-by-step material which can be applied right away as
part of your next dashboarding project
Ingo Hilgefort - Senior Director, Solution Management,
Landscape Orchestration, SAP (CAN) (SAP Mentor)
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How significant organisational change has prepared AGL for
the data race
Harj Chand - Head of Data Analytics, AGL Energy
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Self-service access to data that is simple to explore and simple to
gain insight from
Lestor Meadows - Business Partner, Business Intelligence,
Kimberly-Clark Asia Pacific
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How to best ride the “wave” of change
that we are currently experiencing
Peter O’Donnell - Lecturer - Decision Support
Systems Laboratory, Monash University
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CN’s mobility journey so far, architectural and deployment approaches
and challenges with BYOD and security
Mark Giesbrecht - Senior Manager, Business
Intelligence, Canadian National Railways (CAN)
How SAP Design Studio and SAP Lumira bridge the
gap between your corporate and end-users’ needs
Eric Schemer - Senior Director Product Management,
SAP (GER)
A transformational project which finance
undertook to revolutionise the way we work and make
SAP more than just the central hub
Aaron Nitschke - Manager Finance Systems and Business Improvement, EnergyAustralia
Turn the HANA conversation from
“technology play” into “business play”
Jan Drosselmeyer - SAP Analytics Capability Lead,
Accenture
What you need to do to make predictive analytics
work in the real world
Seb Jezierski - Director, Decision Science
and Analytics, Deloitte
Best practices for universe design in BI 4,
including live demonstrations such as multi-source universes,
context and alias use
Joshua Fletcher - Independent SAP BusinessObjects Expert
(SAP Mentor)
Harness the power of SAP HANA and its new geospatial features to open up a new way of
visualising data
Mark Villazon - BI & Analytics Practice Manager, UXC Oxygen
Creating compelling data visualisations for
better engagement
Matt Grygorcewicz - Senior SAP BI/BW Consultant,
SA Power Networks
A general-purpose, coherent method for analytic consumption
John Armitage - Chief Product Designer, Visual Analytics,
Business Intelligence Technology, SAP (USA)
Understand the options for
adopting HANA
Muhammad Imran - SAP Analytics Consultant,
Accenture
Predict future outcomes and make
decisions appropriately
Peter Grainger - Executive Advisor Business Analytics, & Sanjiv Bansal - Solution
Specialist Predictive Analytics, SAP (AUS)
Practical “back to BI basics” ideas to make business intelligence
more relevant in your organisation
Andrew Mayes - Decision Support Analyst Team Lead, Pick n Pay Retailers (RSA)
Understanding what makes your business
profitable and building your analytics and
reporting to reflect those driving forces
Leon Gordon - Business Improvement Analyst,
Sealanes
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Match your business requirements to the
strengths and weaknesses of the BI products
Ingo Hilgefort - Senior Director, Solution
Management, Landscape Orchestration, SAP (CAN)
(SAP Mentor)
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Selling SAP HANA to the C-Level - how the ROI on an SAP HANA investment can and should be justified
Tim Hays - Vice President, Information Technology,
Animal Health (USA)
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“Defining the BI in B-I-G
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Mico Yuk - Founder, BI Brainz Group (USA)
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Sunday 26 October 2014
6.00 PM Pre-Conference Registration
6.30 PM JumpStart Session
7.30 PM Networking Welcome Drinks
OVERVIEW
8.30 AM Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing
9.00 AM Keynote Presentation: Defining the BI in B-I-G Data VisualisationMico Yuk - Founder, BI Brainz Group (USA)
10.00 AM Keynote Presentation: Self-Service BI With SAP Business Objects Explorer and LumiraLestor Meadows - Business Partner, Business Intelligence, Kimberly-Clark Asia Pacific
11.00 AM Morning Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing
TRACK 1 TRACK 2 TRACK 3 TRACK 4
11.40 AM Deep-Dive: Understand Your Requirements and Pick Your BI ToolIngo Hilgefort - Senior Director, Solution Management, Landscape Orchestration, SAP (CAN) (SAP Mentor)
Deep-Dive: Recruit and Retain Top BI Talent: Strategies for Identifying and Keeping the Best PeopleTim Hays - Vice President, Information Technology, Animal Health (USA)
Deep-Dive: LAVA: The Visual Analytic Design Language Behind SAP’s Next-Generation ProductsJohn Armitage - Chief Product Designer, Visual Analytics, Business Intelligence Technology, SAP (USA)
Interactive Fishbowl: Improving Financial Planning With SAP BPCNicole Bright - Systems Accountant, UnitingCare Health & Aaron Nitschke - Manager Finance Systems and Business Improvement, EnergyAustralia
1.10 PM Lunch & Exhibition Viewing
2.10 PM CN’s Journey With Mobile BIMark Giesbrecht - Senior Manager, Business Intelligence, Canadian National Railways (CAN)
Back to Business Intelligence BasicsAndrew Mayes - Decision Support Analyst Team Lead, Pick n Pay Retailers (RSA)
Building and Sustaining Trust in Analytics With Data QualityJack Steele - BI Program Lead, British American Tobacco
Stacking the Odds in Your Favour: Creating Compelling Data Visualisations for Better Engagement Matt Grygorcewicz - Senior SAP BI/BW Consultant, SA Power Networks
3.05 PM The Path to BI Value: Paving the Way With User AdoptionTaygan Rifat - User Experience Specialist, AGL Energy
How SAP Design Studio and SAP Lumira Bridge the Gap Between Your Corporate and End-Users’ NeedsEric Schemer - Director Product Management, SAP (GER)
The Power of Predictive Analytics: Use Cases from the Past, Present and Future Sanjiv Bansal - Solution Specialist Predictive Analytics & Peter Grainger - Executive Advisor Business Analytics, SAP (AUS)
Interactive Fishbowl: HANA in PracticeBen Gray - Director of Financial Operations, SingTel Optus & Corey Adams - Manager - Business Intelligence Centre of Excellence, Foodstuffs North Island (NZ)
3.55 PM Afternoon Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing
4.35 PM Closing Keynote Presentation: What’s Next for Business Intelligence? Big Data Analytics, Hype and All That JazzPeter O’Donnell - Lecturer - Decision Support Systems Laboratory, Monash University
5.35 PM Conference Close
Tuesday 28 October 2014
Wednesday 29 October 2014
8.30 AM Workshop Registration
9.00 AM Workshop 1: Hands-On Experience With SAP’s Latest Tools for AnalyticsIngo Hilgefort - Senior Director, Solution Management, Landscape Orchestration, SAP (CAN) (SAP Mentor)
Workshop 2: BI Dashboard Formula 4.0 Workshop - Dashboard Design Made Easy!Mico Yuk - Founder, BI Brainz Group (USA)
4.00 PM Workshops Close
Monday 27 October 2014
8.00 AM Registration/Arrival Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing
8.30 AM Conference Opening and Chairperson’s Welcome
9.00 AM Opening Keynote Presentation: Conscious Leadership - Turning Traditional Business Thinking Upside DownCraig Davis - Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
10.00 AM Keynote Presentation: Sweating Your Existing Data AssetAndrew Mayes - Decision Support Analyst Team Lead, Pick n Pay Retailers (RSA)
11.00 AM Morning Tea & Coffee/Networking Activity/Exhibition Viewing
TRACK 1 TRACK 2 TRACK 3 TRACK 4 PARTNER THEATRE
11.40 AM Deep-Dive: How to Make Your Data Visualisations More Intelligent, Actionable and UsefulMico Yuk - Founder, BI Brainz Group, (USA)
Deep-Dive: Best Practices for BI 4 Universe DesignJoshua Fletcher - Independent SAP BusinessObjects Expert (SAP Mentor)
Interactive Fishbowl: The Strategy of Planning for and Implementing HANATim Hays - Vice President, Information Technology, Animal Health (USA) & Elizabeth Harper, CIO, GHD
Interactive Fishbowl: Mobile Analytics Strategy and Implementation Led by: Mobile Analytics Experts
Moving to the CloudAndreas Kral & Chetan Khimjee - SAP (AUS)
Business Intelligence As a Strategic Business Enabler Martin Rennhackkamp - CIO, PBT Group
1.10 PM Lunch & Exhibition Viewing
2.10 PM Agile Data Warehousing: Adaptation and AdoptionMark Giesbrecht - Senior Manager, Business Intelligence, Canadian National Railways (CAN)
Chart Colour Palettes UnmaskedJohn Armitage - Chief Product Designer, Visual Analytics, Business Intelligence Technology, SAP (USA)
Why HANA is a Game Changer and How Your Organisation Can BenefitJan Drosselmeyer - SAP Analytics Capability Lead & Muhammad Imran - SAP Analytics Consultant, Accenture
WEB - E (When Evolution Becomes Essential) and Data is Turned Into InformationLeon Gordon - Business Improvement Analyst, Sealanes
Prediction is Difficult Especially If It’s About the FutureTim Noonan - Director, Finance and Performance Management & Seb Jezierski - Director, Decision Science and Analytics, Deloitte
3.05 PM Best Practices for Dashboard Design With SAP BusinessObjects Design StudioIngo Hilgefort - Senior Director, Solution Management, Landscape Orchestration, SAP (CAN) (SAP Mentor)
We Don’t Always Do Agile, But If We Do, We Do It Like Waterfall! - How to Implement Agility in a BI Release EnvironmentRafaela Salzer - Global Delivery Manager - Business Information, British American Tobacco
Bringing the Business Into Business Intelligence: How Business Objectives, BI Strategy and People Meet to Deliver ValueAdele Marshall - Business Intelligence Manager, Southern Cross Health Care Society (NZ)
How to Control SAP BW Changes With CHaRMGary Hooker - SAP System Administrator, Corporate Systems Branch, Department of Immigration and Border Protection (SAP Mentor)
There’s Something “Spatial” About HANAMark Villazon - BI & Analytics Practice Manager, UXC Oxygen
3.55 PM Afternoon Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing
4.35 PM Keynote Presentation: The Data Race - Are You Ready?Harj Chand - Head of Data Analytics, AGL Energy
5.35 PM Mastering Business Analytics Community Networking Drinks Sponsored by
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WORKSHOPS PARTNERSPARTNERSPremier Partner
With more than 31,000 SAP-skilled professionals globally and a 30-year history
of working with SAP, we deliver approximately 1,500 SAP projects each year
for the world’s leading companies and public service organisations. These
projects range from niche new products, through technical implementations to
enterprise-wide transformational change initiatives.
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BI DASHBOARD DESIGN MADE EASY
Led by: Mico Yuk - Founder, BI Brainz Group (USA)
Are your requirements gathering sessions turning into a nightmare because your users can’t decide on which KPIs, colours and charts “they want to see”?
If so, then this intense, “non-technical” workshop is for you!
Join thousands of people who have now learned how to successfully plan, scope and storyboard their dashboard projects, using the BI Delivery Formula (BIDF) proven methodology and templates. Experience an unexpected boost in overall user engagement and adoption. This workshop will provide you with the foundation and tools needed to get your dashboard projects off on the right foot! It focuses on the new skills and thinking required to survive in the new business analytics world and arms you with the templates to eliminate guesswork and streamline the process.
SAP’s LATEST TOOLS FOR ANALYTICS
Led by: Ingo Hilgefort - Senior Director, Solution Management, Landscape Orientation, SAP (CAN) (SAP Mentor)
Obtain hands-on experience with SAP’s latest and greatest BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.1 tools!
Want to know which tool does what? Bring your own laptop and explore each of the latest versions for yourself. Learn how to integrate them with SAP data from BW, BW on HANA and SAP ERP for a seamless experience.
Ingo offers expert advice and hands-on tutorials for tools such as Web Intelligence, Analysis, Design Studio, Lumira Desktop, Lumira Cloud, Predictive Analysis and Mobile BI. You’ll leave this workshop with a comprehensive understanding of the products available to you, experience with the tools themselves and all of your questions answered.
Attendees of this workshop are required to bring their own laptop.
Attendees of this workshop are required to bring their own laptop.
Real time analytics powered by SAP HANA
In today’s ultra-connected world, insight is no longer a single light bulb that
switches on. It’s the result of constant engagement with employees, customers
and partners. Deliver unprecedented insight to all types of people. Our predictive
analytics, text analytics and visualisation software make it easy for users to
analyse vast volumes of data at lightning speed. Simplify, combine the leading
analytics solution with a single copy of your enterprise data on SAP HANA.
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Partners
These intensive seven hour workshops offer you an opportunity to focus in on the issues that matter most to you. Led by international business analytics experts, the workshops are limited in number to provide an intimate learning environment with plenty of one-on-one time. Workshops run from 9am til 4pm and are bookable separately to the conference.
Workshop 1
Workshop 2
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