Keynote - Towards an Integrated Information Architecture
Jon Page, VP EMEA, Oracle Business Intelligence and Warehousing
Oracle offers a huge variety of tools, applications and software
infrastructure. this presentation will show how these critical elements
can be combined in one integrated and effective 'Information Architecture'
- at last delivering the 360 degree customer view
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Management Reporting within GE using OFA
Ian Starkey, Finance Systems Manager, GE Life
This presentation will discuss the use of OFA for management reporting
within a GE business. It will cover the benefits of using OFA, the
lessons learnt during the implementation, and will demonstrate some
of the unique features of the implementation that have improved the
efficiency of the OFA administrator and OFA users.
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Qubeview - Intelligent Performance Management
with Oracle BI Beans
Julian Ford, Plus Consultancy
Qubeview is a complete suite of tools for reporting and analysis
on Oracle 9i OLAP technology. Qubeview aggregates the Oracle BI BeansTM
component architecture to provide three integrated products to analyze,
model and publish enterprise information, from operational reporting
through to the Executive Dashboard.
The Qubeview Suite comprises:
This presentation and live demonstration illustrates how Qubeview
can help you to build a complete enterprise Business Intelligence
solution using the latest Oracle OLAP technology.
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Discoverer next generation - Release preview
Andy Osborn, Vice President Discoverer Product Development , Oracle
From the next major release, Oracle Application Server Discoverer
becomes the first adhoc query, analysis and publishing tool to seamlessly
integrate OLAP with Relational data access, eliminating the need to
use different tools for different Business Intelligence technologies.
From the product development group, Andy Osborn presents a preview
of OLAP/relational integration in Discoverer as well as a sneak look
at new features in reporting, ease of use, portal publishing and much
more from the upcoming release of Discoverer, code named 'Drake'.
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Accelerated Reporting for Oracle Applications
Evan Schulz, Regional Sales Manager UK/EMEA
Finding it challenging to get meaningful data from Oracle Applications
and other data sources? Learn how Noetix can accelerate the delivery
of your business intelligence strategy while enhancing your current
investment in business intelligence technology including query and
reporting tools, dashboards and portals, and ETL tools.
Presenter Bio: Evan Schulz is the Regional Sales Manager for
Noetix Corporation with over 10 years of extensive technology experience.
His past professional background includes positions as an ERP Applications
consultant, Business Development Specialist and Education Area Director.
Evan majored in Business/Near Eastern Languages & Civilization
at the University of Washington.
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Is your Organisation Watertight
Julian Kaine - Solutions Marketing Manager
How often have you said to yourself "It should be easier than
this to get the data?"
Access to information and lack of common understanding of information
are major sources of lost productivity within organisations. Several
customers who have deployed Cognos Analytic Applications say eliminating
these time-wasting issues is the software's overarching value. They
also noted that implementing a Cognos Analytic Application is akin
to benefiting from the talents of a team of business consultants and
data warehousing specialists. So if you need to plug the leaks and
stop money draining form your organisation attend this presentation
to see how.
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Data Mart Consolidation & KPI Reporting at
Barclays Financial Planning
Lyn Alexander, Business Intelligence Manager, Barclays FP
Barclays Financial Planning (BFP), Part of the Barclays Group, offer
personal or corporate financial planning advice predominantly to Barclays
and Woolwich customers. Based in Maidstone, Kent, BFP had previously
built a data mart for analysing consultant activity, and now wished
to introduce KPI reporting to help them better analyse sales quality
and risk. This presentation explains how BFP built a KPI reporting
system, detailing how the KPIs are calculated and delivered using
Oracle 8i, Oracle 9iAS and Oracle Discoverer.
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The Finance Function Under Pressure
Mike Bonaventura, General Manager, DecisionPoint Applications Europe,
Inc.
"We want the day-to-day mechanics of finance to be a given,
allowing us to engage in the strategic consulting role that our lines
of business are demanding".
Head of Finance Systems, Global Telecommunications Company
In speaking with both Finance and IT professionals over many years,
DecisionPoint has learned that many companies feel an increasing pressure
to quickly, consistently, and easily monitor, analyse and report on
financial performance across their enterprises. This is ever more
true as the finance function grapples with the dual mandate to provide
both financial and management reporting and is looking to technology
to help.
DecisionPoint Applications is a software solution provider specialising
in Financial Performance Management (FPM), helping companies maintain
fine grain control over their business, releasing key decision makers
from time consuming tactical interventions and helping them focus
instead on the consultative aspects of strategic business planning.
This presentation will look at the requirements for FPM, review a
number of recent studies that illustrate how the finance function
is responding, and illustrate how the DecisionPoint solution delivers
industry leading time-to-value.
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