TechNet Event: Solutions for Business Intelligence and Performance Management
How to Go From Data to Decisions
How to Go From Data to Decisions
7 May 2009, Utopolis, Mechelen
Learn how to turn data into valuable asset in tough economic times
Business intelligence is even more important during these tough economic times. People have to make really important decisions and critical strategic moves.
In this one-day seminar, Rafal Lukawiecki aims to show IT Managers and BI practitioners how to improve decision making and getting the valuable business insight by using Microsoft solutions. This seminar will look at an end-to-end approach to building and delivering a Microsoft BI solution, from automated data integration and consolidation to delivering insight in reports, scorecards, and Excel. To make this seminar easier and more pleasant to follow we structured it so that the first half focuses on the goals of BI, performance management, and the knowledge worker. The second half will stress the underlying technologies and the development and deployment processes.
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In his role as Strategic Consultant at Project Botticelli Ltd, Rafal is responsible for analyzing and forecasting trends in the field of Information Technology. Rafal works closely with teams of up to 150 software developers, as well as with investors and their boards of directors, to practice the best principles of the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Microsoft Operations Framework. He has helped to build and restructure software development houses and IT consultancies to promote best efficiencies and productivity while stimulating excellent team spirit across organisations. He specializes in several areas: IT architecture models, statistics and more recently business intelligence and data mining, security and cryptography, and management of solution delivery. Rafal is a frequent and popular speaker at Microsoft events having presented at prestigious Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer conferences across Europe, Middle East and Africa. His uniquely energetic speaking style should keep you engaged no matter how complex the subject.
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Agenda of the day
| 09:15 – 09:30 | Welcome by Microsoft and Introductions of the Day |
| 09:30 – 10:50 | Improving Insight and Decision Making Using Microsoft Business Intelligence and SQL Server 2008 |
| 10:50 – 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15 – 12:30 | Delivering BI Through Microsoft Office System 2007 |
| 12:30 – 13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:30 | Aggregating Knowledge in a Data Warehouse and Multidimensional Analysis |
| 14:30 – 14:50 | Coffee break |
| 14:50 – 15:50 | Finding Hidden Intelligence with Predictive Analytics of Data Mining |
| 15:50 – 16:30 | Business Intelligence with Microsoft – Summary and Q&A Session |
Topics covered:
- The importance of Business Intelligence and Performance Management
- Concepts and terminology
- Common scenarios and applications for decision makers – reporting, ad-hoc analysis, performance management
- Fundamental process for data integration and data warehousing
- Basics of multidimensional modelling and analysis
- Using predictive analytics based on Excel and SQL Server 2008Technology product roadmap covering Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Office 2007, and other systems
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