Gartner Business Intelligence Summit

Summit Tracks

Trends and Futures

This track for BI evangelists and technologists provides a deeper examination of market shifts — and provides insight into vendor dynamics, emerging technologies and the way that the market will develop over the next 5 years.

Sessions

BI, Analytics and Performance Management Market Trends and Dynamics

06 February, 2012 (13:30 - 14:30)

The BI markets are undergoing bigger changes now than at any time in their history. New vendors, buyers and technologies mean new business and consumption models. In the context of a rich set of Gartner statistics, this presentation explores where BI is today and where it’s heading, from a market trends perspective.

Technical Insights: Develop a Big Data Behavioral Analytics System for Business Value

06 February, 2012 (17:15 - 18:15)

Emergent behavioral analytics for big data is a specialized field of mathematical and statistical analysis, which can help to find prospective customers, detect emerging security threats, isolate faulty systems, or discover activities across time and place. This presentation will describe the components of a big data behavioral analytics system.

To The Point: Business Analytics in the Cloud

07 February, 2012 (08:00 - 08:30)

Like it or not, the cloud’s impact on analytics, business intelligence and performance management is formatively changing the way organizations source solutions. Different business models abound with software vendors and service providers jockeying for the lead position. Who wins (or loses) is still up for grabs.

To The Point: In Search of BI Nirvana: Better Decisions

07 February, 2012 (08:45 - 09:15)

Effective decision making separates high-performing companies from low ones, and improving it is by far the Number 1 driver of BI investment. However, despite this, the majority of organizations continue to make poor decisions, without insight into how decisions are made or their effectiveness. This session looks at the spectrum of decision support solutions available to address this challenge.

Extreme Data — Large-Scale Data Warehousing, BI and Analytics

07 February, 2012 (10:30 - 11:30)

The volume of data we manage is exploding; however, the challenge is not just the volume (“Big Data”), but velocity, variety and complexity of the data. Many challenges of information management (in support of BI, analytics, pattern-based strategies) can be addressed with improved understanding and competencies for dealing with extreme data.