Gartner Business Intelligence BI Summit 2008

Gartner Business Intelligence BI Summit 2008
5-7 February 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, RAI Convention Centre

Overview

Smarter Decisions: BI and Performance Management Take Center Stage

Better decisions, faster. That was the most important reason cited for investing in BI in the Gartner "User Wants and Needs" surveys conducted around the world earlier this year. Our annual CIO Survey showed that Business Intelligence applications remain the highest technology priority for CIOs today.

Yet the biggest problem IT still faces is how to make BI more pervasive and to increase adoption among business users. This shows that investments in BI are not reaching key business users and helping them better measure and manage their performance.

The past year has seen significant changes in the BI market, with BI pure-play vendors acquiring technology and analytic application vendors while the mega-vendors have been increasing their footprint across the whole BI and performance management spectrum. So while CIOs are struggling to deploy BI to a wider business audience, the never-ending round of acquisitions threatens to disrupt their carefully planned BI strategy.

Meanwhile, the convergence of structured and unstructured data, the introduction of search technology, the delivery of BI "as a service", data-warehouse appliances, open-source technology and new 64-bit architectures are all impacting today’s BI environments.

To help you successfully navigate your way through these challenges, the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2008, now in its ninth year, delivers a wide range of analyst presentations, case studies, panels and guru keynotes. Furthermore, you will have the chance to network with and share the collective experience of delegates from all over Europe. It is with great pleasure therefore that we invite you to participate in this flagship event.

Key Topics

• Key steps to making Business Intelligence strategic
• Creating a BI and performance management strategy to widen the use of BI
• The evolving role of corporate performance management
• Role, structure and organization of the BI Competency Center
• Identifying the right metrics to measure performance
• The Data Warehouse in a time of data explosion
• New delivery models: Open Source and BI "as a service"
• The impact of SOA on BI
• Trends in Enterprise Information Management (EIM) and Master Data Management
• Difficult choices in the Data Quality tools market
• Portal strategies for BI integration
• Business Activity Monitoring and the rise of process-driven BI
• Determining the "return on BI"
• Performance management and compliance
• BI market trends and the increasing impact of the megavendors
• Best practices in budgeting, planning & forecasting

Source: For more information, please visit http://www.gartner.com/it/summits/bie9i/overview.jsp#keytopics