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Next-Generation BI

Date: December 03, 2008

Time: 12:00 pm US Eastern

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Featured Speakers:

Boris Evelson, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research (bio)
Dale Skeen, Ph.D., Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Vitria (bio)

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Moderator:

Beth Gold-Bernstein

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Business intelligence (BI) is not just about reporting anymore. It is migrating from being a back - and middle-office tool for productivity and efficiency gain to being a major, strategic corporate asset used for competitive differentiation. BI technologies, architectures, and approaches are evolving across multiple dimensions. The next generation of BI will involve such technologies as different user interfaces, actionable BI, predictive analytics, alternative DBMS, and data modeling technologies. In this session, we will review all of the major trends in next-generation BI and dive deeper into one of the most significant themes: convergence of the three B’s - BI, BPM (business process management), and BRE (business rules engines). This briefing session will answer the following questions:

• Why is BI front and center of everyone’s priorities?
• What are the key components in next-generation or pervasive BI?
• What are the key components necessary to achieve ultimate enterprise optimization?
• What are the major barriers to enterprise optimization?
• How is the emerging trend of process-centric BI changing market dynamics and the competitive landscape?

  

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Featured Speaker Bios:

Boris Evelson - As a principal analyst, Boris leads Forrester's research into business intelligence (BI): how enterprises and vendors transform raw data into meaningful, useful, and action-oriented information. Boris delivers strategic guidance, helping enterprises define enterprise BI strategies, governance, and architectures, as well as identify vendors and technologies that help them put information to use in business processes and end user experiences. In addition to popular topics like information governance and best practices, his current research focuses on some of the latest trends in BI, such as convergence of process and data intelligence, on-demand BI, convergence of structured and unstructured data intelligence, and implications of ever-growing data volumes on BI.

Boris comes to Forrester with more than 25 years of enterprise software and applications implementation, management consulting, and strategic advisory experience. Most recently, Boris was a managing partner at Textra, a boutique strategic advisory firm serving all information technology constituents: users, vendors, and investors. Boris co-founded Textra after spending several years as a VP and strategic technology advisor at JPMorgan/LabMorgan, where he led many successful internal BI initiatives, as well as advising the bank's large enterprise software clients on enterprise adoption issues and product strategies. Prior to JPMorgan, Boris served as a senior manager of BI and CRM practices at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Boris started his career at Citibank, where, among many other successful projects, he implemented the bank's first global risk data warehouse.

Dr. Dale Skeen co-founded Vitria with Dr. JoMei Chang in 1994, and oversees the technology direction of the company. He is widely credited with inventing distributed publish-subscribe communication with more than a dozen patents in this and related technologies awarded or pending. Dr. Skeen has more than 20 years experience in designing and implementing large-scale computing systems and is well known for his technical contributions in the areas of distributed computing and database systems. Dr. Skeen is also the industry visionary recognized with creating and developing Business Process Integration and Real-time Business Process Analysis, two of the innovative foundations of Vitria's solutions.

Dr. Skeen is also a prolific author, having contributed to ten books and written numerous journal articles on distributed computing and integration technology. Prior to founding Vitria, Dr. Skeen was a co-founder of Tibco, where he served as Chief Scientist. He has held faculty positions at the University of California, Berkeley and at Cornell University.

Dr. Skeen received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley, in distributed database systems. In May 2001, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of California, Berkeley, for "fundamental contributions in publish-subscribe communication." (Previous award winners include Steve Wozniak, founder of Apple, and Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems.)

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