Why Attend

Benefits of Attending

Key benefits the Summit will provide:

• Understanding the business forces that will affect IT leaders of BIIM initiatives
• Insight into the future scenarios facing BI leaders
• Techniques in making the right innovation choices at the right time
• Improved decision-making responsibilities for BI investment
• Evaluation of the market dynamics when making investment decisions
• Approaches for melding emerging technologies with existing tools and infrastructure
• Development of ROI and cost allocation models that impact the business case
• Linking of CPM to strategic planning, budgets and operational activities to aid strategy execution
• Improved decision-making through BI initiatives and techniques

Who Should Attend

Both Gartner clients and non-clients attend this event, from large and medium-sized organisations. Senior business and IT professionals with a brief to grow the business and drive innovation will benefit from the BI Summit, including:

• Head of Business Intelligence Competence Centers, BI Managers
• Data Warehouse Managers
• Performance Management Directors
• Data Quality and Data Integration Managers
• Business Development Managers
• Application or Information Architects
• CIOs, COOs, IT Directors/Managers
• CFOs and Senior Finance Managers
• Project Managers and Technical Specialists

As well as representatives from leading suppliers of BI solutions, products and services.

Who Attended Last Year?

View a sample of last year's attending organizations. Download the PDF.

What to Expect from a Gartner Summit

Listen and view presentations from the last Summit.

Comparing the Mega Vendors: How Do IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Stack Up?
Speakers: Andreas Bitterer, Neil Chandler, Donald Feinberg, James Richardson
Moderator: Bill Hostmann

The mega vendors have been investing aggressively in their business intelligence, performance management and data integration products. See how Gartner compares these vendors.

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Gartner Keynote: Overcoming The BIg Discrepancy: How You Can Do Better With BI
Nigel Rayner

The theme of this Summit is the "Big Discrepancy" - that is despite the wide range of skills and technology available to support BI and performance management, many organizations still struggle to deliver success in this area. This presentation will summarize the advice given across the entire Summit program and ensure attendees are well equipped to return to the office and achieve greater things with their BI and performance management initiatives.

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Summit Value

Every Gartner Event is designed to give you practical, relevant, and immediately applicable ways to lower IT costs, deliver more business value with IT, and achieve greater returns from every IT investment - including the one you make with us to attend.

Justification Kit

With these justification tools, we've made it as convenient as possible to justify your investment to attend and present the ROI you've received post-event.


Pre-Conference

• Customizable Letter to Your Manager: A Word template with a cost/benefit analysis.
• Top 10 Reasons to Attend a Gartner Event

During the Conference

• ROI Worksheet: A Word template for productive note-taking onsite for your sessions, Analyst One-on-One Briefings and Face-to-Face Sponsor Meetings.

Post-Conference

• Customizable Trip Report: A Word template to help you easily report your ROI from the conference.
• Post-Event Brief: A PDF that highlights what was new and notable, key takeaways, what attendees asked about, interactive polling results, exhibit showcase highlights and more.