Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit

Sessions By Type

Workshops

Presented by Gartner or guest experts, these intimate workshops provide an opportunity to drill down on specific "how to" topics in an extended, small group environment. Sessions designed for end users only. Registration required.

Sessions

Interactive Workshop: How to Deliver Self-Service BI

05 February, 2013 (13:45 - 15:15)

This workshop will allow a group of IT leaders to work through classic problems around self-service BI including governance, user skill sets, and the age old battle between an organizational model that is too centralized versus one that is too decentralized.

Interactive Workshop: How to Build an Enterprise Metrics Framework

05 February, 2013 (16:30 - 18:00)

This workshop will help you to establish the role of an enterprise metrics framework within a performance management program. It does this by explaining what a metrics framework is, and more importantly, what it is not using practical, interactive examples of how a metrics framework  is used in strategy development, business planning, budgeting and incentive compensation.

Interactive Workshop: Scoping and Implementing a CPM Project

06 February, 2013 (08:30 - 10:00)

The success of corporate performance management (CPM) endeavors related to planning, KPI creation and management, and the 'financial close' rely on effective project scoping and execution. This session will provide practical guidance for project design, staffing, risks, mitigating steps and remediations for projects in crisis.

Interactive Workshop: Setting Your Customer Analytic Strategy

06 February, 2013 (11:30 - 13:00)

Customer analytics is critical to organizational success, but is one of the most difficult domains in which to establish an overall strategy rather than just a series of disconnected tactical projects. This workshop will provide a “worked example” of the type of workshops and deliverables your organization could undertake to establish a customer analytic strategy that aligns BI and analysis with the business strategy of the organization.

Interactive Workshop: Innovating with Big Data and Analytics: The Art of the Possible

06 February, 2013 (14:45 - 16:15)

The availability of methods for accumulating, curating and deploying information enables organizations to transform their businesses in innovative ways. This session will explore how a variety of novel real-world use cases of big data and analytics can be readily adapted and adopted across industries.

Interactive Workshop: Assessing Your BI Platform's TCO

07 February, 2013 (08:30 - 10:00)

This workshop will help participants evaluate and compare costs and cost drivers across their BI platform technologies. The framework used will also artciulate the drivers of potential benefits. Attendees will learn how to use this approach to optimize vendor selection decisions.