Gartner Business Intelligence Summit

Gartner Opening Keynote: Cu vi Parolas Business Intelligence?

Despite many years experience of BI in most organizations, it seems that business users and IT still speak a different language. This means BI is not pervasive in most organizations and the full potential benefits are not being realized. Even worse, IT has to understand the various languages spoken by different parts of the business in order to make sense of their requirements. This keynote session will give Gartner's perspective on the challenges facing BI, analytics and PM initiatives and how to build a common understanding to drive greater BI success.

• Andreas Bitterer
• Research VP

• Nigel Rayner
• Research VP

Nine Emerging BI Technologies to Bolster Performance, Guide Users and Empower Analysts

The seemingly mature BI space is undergoing extensive innovation and transformation, with numerous technologies triggering a signifi cant re-architecture of most BI platforms. BI leaders need to plan now to include these innovations in their BI and PM strategy.

Key Issues:

• How can organizations empower analysts with data mining, what-if modeling, data mashups, and analytic MDM?
• How can casual users be guided with prompted reports, interactive visualization, BI integrated search, and applying wikis to BI content?
• How will in memory analytics, data warehouse appliances, columnar databases, and cloud based services improve BI technology performance

• Kurt Schlegel
• Research VP

Who's Afraid of Analytics?

The term "analytics" is used arbitrarily for all kinds of purposes, creating hype, misinterpretation and confusion abound. This presentation describes the current state of play, the technology components, and highlights a few end-user case showcases that benefited from integrating analytics into business processes.

Key Issues:

• What does the term analytics mean and what scenarios exist?
• How does it relate to BI, performance management and business applications?
• What technologies are required for analytics?

• Andreas Bitterer
• Research VP