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Best Practices 1 Best Practices for Data Quality: Putting Your Best Data Forward Vincent Deeney, Information Builders Jakub Bartak, Bartak Consulting Maintaining clean, error-free data to drive growth and enhance key business processes remains an elusive goal for many organizations. In this session, you will learn strategic steps within the data quality management process to ensure the integrity of your organization's most critical information assets. Join us to see how to improve data quality within your organization, where to begin your initiative, guidelines and methodologies for implementation, and how our customers are combating bad data.

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Best Practices for Establishing Effective Business Goals and Metrics David Cook, Information Builders Performance Management Framework (PMF) makes it easy to automate the management of your goals and metrics by providing dynamic agility to respond to changing business needs. But how do you make sure your goals and objectives are attainable, within your control, and measurable? How do you make sure that the measure doesn't have unintended results? This session will explore examples of good and bad strategies and measures, and provide guidelines to help you make decisions on what goals and metrics will be best for your needs.


Big Data: When to Use Production Data vs. Data Marts Justin Guthrie, AutoZone Inc Todd Jones, AutoZone Inc. Why isn't there a 'one size fits all' big data solution? When does it make sense to connect directly to a data source for a report and when does it make sense to use a focmart? We will explore why AutoZone still uses proprietary focmarts instead of direct connections.


Data Governance Turns Information Into a Trusted Corporate Asset Mark Hipskind, Information Builders In the information age, data is king, but only if it's managed well. For those who want to harness its potential, data governance is critical. Information Builders can help by providing a comprehensive information integration and data governance platform that ensures only trusted information is delivered to users and applications. In this talk, Mark Hipskind discusses what you need to know about Information Builders' Information Asset Management Platform and Implementation Approach. It's a comprehensive platform and approach that delivers an industry-leading portfolio of products, services, and best practices.


WebFOCUS 8 Performance: Part 3 Vashti Ragoonath, Information Builders Mark Nesson, Information Builders This session will combine the capabilities of Information Builders' Scalability Tool and established process for performance and scalability testing to benchmark core product features including Reporting Server, InfoAssist, and data growth in the WebFOCUS 8 repository.


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WebFOCUS Charting and Visualization Dan Weingart, Information Builders Attend this session for a look at the new visualization capabilities in WebFOCUS 8.06 and 8.1, including geographic information system (GIS) maps, matrix charts, bullet charts, sparklines, and much more. We'll also take a look ahead at new HTML5 visualization capabilities that will soon be appearing in WebFOCUS.


Best Practices 2 WebFOCUS 8 Performance: Part 1 Vashti Ragoonath, Information Builders Mark Nesson, Information Builders This session will walk customers through Information Builders' established process for performance and scalability testing that can be executed at customer sites. We will show how this process was used to derive Information Builders' published benchmark baselines using the our Scalability Tool.


WebFOCUS 8 Performance: Part 2 Vashti Ragoonath, Information Builders Mark Nesson, Information Builders The WebFOCUS Scalability Tool is Information Builders' standard for executing our established process for performance and scalability testing, which is covered in Part 1 of this series. This session is a must for WebFOCUS Administrators and will include a live demonstration of how it can be used to gather benchmark statistics as well as to troubleshoot and isolate bottlenecks.


WebFOCUS Security and Administration Update Jim Thorstad, Information Builders The WebFOCUS 8.1 release includes many enhancements to simplify administration and make WebFOCUS more responsive to your organization's security needs. Come learn about the new WebFOCUS Administration Console, and important security enhancements to WebFOCUS, ReportCaster, and the Reporting Server.


Best Practices 3 A Guide to Developing and Styling Active Technology Reports Maryann Federico, Information Builders Mona Baker, Information Builders This presentation provides tips and techniques that will enable users to review existing WebFOCUS Active Technology reports and develop new ones that adhere to site standardization requirements. Attendees will learn how to control the styling of certain or all elements in an Active Technology report using the WebFOCUS StyleSheet feature and cascading style sheets.


Synonym Editor and DataMigrator Update Clif Kranish, Information Builders DataMigrator is the extract, transform, and load (ETL) tool that shares metadata with WebFOCUS, providing an easy way to stage data for analysis. This presentation will cover the new features in Release 7.7.06 of Synonym Editor in the Data Management Console and DataMigrator.








Best Practices 4 CRISP-DM: Project Management for Predictive Analytics via WebFOCUS and RStat Bruce Kolodziej, Information Builders Getting started with predictive analytics requires a project plan that can be followed to track progress, and keep the effort moving forward. Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) is the process to follow for ensuring project success. This session will provide a step-by-step review of CRISP-DM, covering business and data understanding, data preparation, modeling, model evaluation and deployment, and how WebFOCUS and RStat address these steps.


Effective Data Visualization and Dashboard Design Workshop Sandy Chiang, Information Builders Yash Shrestha, Information Builders Participants will learn and apply data visualization fundamentals and user interface design best practices to increase user adoption and drive the success of their next dashboard initiative.


Unraveling the Mysteries: Don't Migrate It! Use Change Management! Mona Baker, Information Builders Kishor Rao, Information Builders This presentation will highlight techniques and best practices of the WebFOCUS 8 Change Management tool through discussion and demonstration. We will discuss what Change Management is, what it can do for you, and how it is different than migration. We will walk through the manual process as well as the automated process, and what the differences are. We will also discuss what to be aware of, enabling you to have a more rewarding Change Management experience when running at your site. Our goal is for you to leave this presentation feeling more confident in using Change Management in your environment.


Case Studies 1 Leveraging Oracle's Aggregate Awareness From WebFOCUS Elias Gorsky, MasterCard Worldwide Michele Mazzola, MasterCard Worldwide During our conversion from BusinessObjects (BO) to WebFOCUS, we architected a WebFOCUS solution to use Oracle's Aggregate Awareness in place of BusinessObjects Aggregate Awareness. The resulting WebFOCUS/Oracle solution provided better aggregate awareness selection and more functionality, being able to replace eight BO universes with one WebFOCUS Master File. In a nutshell, the solution uses Oracle's Query Rewrite and Materialized View functionality to allow queries written against the single WebFOCUS Master File to automatically access the appropriate and most efficient one of 100 aggregate Materialized views. Furthermore, the base table on which the one WebFOCUS Master File is built and against which WebFOCUS generates the query can actually be empty.


Principal Financial Group: eStatement Application Joel Elscott, Principal Financial Group April Casteel, Principal Financial Group The Interactive eStatement application enables Principal's external users to view, manage, and interact with their defined contribution plans. This external customer-facing application features many out-of-the-box WebFOCUS functions, and houses custom coding methods, such as jQuery, JavaScript, HTML5 charts, CSS, and a responsive web design via Bootstrap.







Reporting Objects: Empowering Powerful Ad Hoc Reporting for Less Data-Savvy Users Terry Constable, Black Knight Financial Reporting Objects allow developers to give less sophisticated users the ability to build their own reports in a more controlled environment. Reporting Objects allow the creator to predefine joins, defines, and WHERE statements, but give the user nearly all of the power of InfoAssist for great reports.


Self-Service Report Instrumentation Steve McGuire, Elavon Amarnath Panyam, Elavon This presentation will provide an overview of how we built a generalized instrumentation framework for capturing performance metrics every time a report is run. Output is used to identify performance problems, manage development resources, and provide feedback to the business about how the application is being used.


Case Studies 2 Becoming Data Driven in a Fragmented Systems Environment Ben Windling, Grand River Hospital Kathleen Lavoie, Grand River Hospital Grand River Hospital has followed a "best-of-breed" IT strategy. This has its benefits, but also creates a fragmented system environment, limiting our aspirations to be data-driven organization. To overcome this, we embarked on a data warehouse project with Information Builders. In this sessions, we will share our project experience, its successes, challenges, and future potential.


Changing Boring Data Into Dynamic Information Wayne Meier, Stephen F. Austin State University Stephen F. Austin University (SFA) wanted to increase the information available in the institution's fact book while making it easier to use. Join us as we show you JackFacts, our new public-facing WebFOCUS dashboard, which has more than 400 reports with almost one million records from SFA's Office of Institutional Research. We've been able to release data to the public faster, more efficiently, and with greater accuracy. This presentation will cover the basics of how this dynamically changing dashboard was created and the benefits it has brought to SFA.


Controlling WebFOCUS via EXCEL to Create Amazing Spreadsheet Steven Burke, Siemens Energy This session will show you how to use EXCEL Macros to run WebFOCUS programs and use the output created by WebFOCUS to populate EXCEL. It's easier than using templates; users don't even need to know they're using WebFOCUS. VBA Code examples will be provided.


Empowering Self-Service BI: A Case Study From Fordham University Ryan Green, Fordham University Want to hear how this four-year institution is using dashboards and portals to make life easier for their users? In this session, Ryan Green from Fordham University will speak to how the institution is resisting the urge to build custom reports, and opting for an enterprise approach to BI using WebFOCUS 8. Topics will include best practices, summary analysis with drill-downs to details, and using Stephen Few principles for data visualization.







Finger on the Pulse: A Healthcare Manager's Toolkit Laks Padmanabhan, Lehigh Valley Health Network Come to this session to get an overview of some of the applications that have become essential tools in helping Lehigh Valley Health Network's managers to perform their duties, including Network Goals, which display metrics measuring the network's fiscal year goals; Executive Dashboard, a one-screen view of critical operational metrics; Labor Productivity Scorecard, to monitor labor productivity ratios against budget; and Census/Occupancy.


Integrating WebFOCUS and Ellucian Banner at a Medium-Sized Community College George Sullivan, Delaware County Community College This session will discuss the implementation of WebFOCUS at Delaware County Community College (DCCC). DCCC acquired WebFOCUS to be used as its BI platform and general report-writing tool. The session will review some of the initial challenges that were faced and overcome using Ellucian Banner, the school's enterprise resource planning tool, as the driving force for user authentication and access rights. The concept was to use Banner roles, BEIS (Banner Enterprise Identity System), and Novell's Identity Management System to control usage and access. The session will also review progress made so far using WebFOCUS to develop and display institutional performance / key performance indicators, budget analysis, and timely purchasing information not readily available in Banner.


Kronos and WebFOCUS 8: A SaaS Implementation Kevin Marshbank, Kronos Inc This session will provide an overview of the business requirements and subsequent design decisions in implementing WebFOCUS 8 in a large, multi-tenant, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environment. Attendees will gain an understanding of the concerns that need to be addressed in order to deliver a SaaS reporting solution and how Kronos used WebFOCUS 8 to satisfy those concerns.


Maintain Cures Budget Woes at Tenet Healthcare Brad Scherzer, Tenet Health System Mark Derwin, Information Builders Tenet owns a proprietary software product called Tenet Innovate Budget System (TIBS) for internal use to develop a detailed budget at the general ledger account level as well as quarterly high-level forecasts. The TIBS application is written entirely in WebFOCUS and relies on Maintain for its user input and transaction processing. Users interact with TIBS to input data, revise data relationships, and even create their own data relationships. Data can be changed at the data element level, or across ranges of accounts and even globally. This presentation will review how TIBS supports multiple facilities, multiple years of data for a facility, and multiple versions within a fiscal year. Also see how TIBS uses modeling capabilities to develop fixed and variable relationships among volume-based data and related financial data.


Renown Health: Herding a Menagerie of Requests Diane Hatfield, Renown Health Renown Health built a reporting system in WebFOCUS to meet the financial and regulatory needs of its business partners and sub-license clients. Once on mainframe FOCUS, this data has been migrated to WebFOCUS on Windows, which accesses a menagerie of data sources. The reporting system provides reports for all management personnel responsible for departmental salary information, HR Business Partners and Accountable Group Leaders, the Business Office, and the Disbursement Department.






ReportCaster is also used to deliver reports, including exception reports such as 'Missing Punch', 'Missing Approval' and 'Exceeding Max Accrual'. Attend this session to see the creative solution delivered through our reporting system, including our reporting security environment, along with insights into our migration from the mainframe, challenges in accessing some of these sources, current architecture, applications, and report distribution models.


Security and Your Students: University of Nebraska and Kansas Board of Regents Dwayne Dvorak, University of Nebraska Patricia Biggs, Kansas Board of Regents Attend this session to hear two WebFOCUS customers discuss FERPA security at the state level, and Peoplesoft security at the university system level. Dwayne Dvorak from University of Nebraska will share how its Nebraska Student Information System, NeSIS, shares one WebFOCUS server amongst seven campuses, as well as the security structure designed to decentralize the WebFOCUS administration. An understanding of WebFOCUS security roles and groups is recommended. Patricia Biggs from Kansas Board of Regents (KBoR) will follow, addressing how researchers protect personally identifiable information in accordance with FERPA legislation. Hear about dynamic, small-cell suppression, deployed by the KBoR in partnership with Information Builders' Professional Services.


Subqueries in WebFOCUS Bob Zinn, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro A subquery provides an alternative approach to a traditional query. Its power lies in the relationship where one query depends on the result of another. This presentation will discuss a number of techniques to create simple and advanced subqueries in WebFOCUS. Topics will include the use of JOINs and HOLD files to create advanced subqueries as well as new features available in WebFOCUS 8. WebFOCUS code will be presented.


Taking the Next Step in Embedded BI: Adding Predictive Analytics Joby George, Sparta Systems Matthew Kopecky, Sparta Systems Join us for an overview and demonstration of TrackWise Analytics, Sparta's advanced ad hoc reporting and analytics solution delivered via embedded WebFOCUS technology. We will look at a real example of how TrackWise Analytics is being leveraged to drive business outcomes at a leading pharmaceutical company. The discussion will include current usage and future plans, as well as the value TrackWise Analytics has brought to the organization. Then, we'll discuss the use of WebFOCUS RStat to provide TrackWise Analytics with advanced predictive analytics capabilities, which enables our customers to harness existing data to predict the likelihood of an event occurring, such as a device failure or a recall.


The BRAIN: Halifax Health's Business Intelligence System Tara Olsen, Halifax Health Halifax Health has very successfully launched WebFOCUS, branded as BRAIN. In its first 18 months, BRAIN has been established as a valuable resource that helps our employees make better decisions. Staffing for the application has been very small, but the amount of information has been large, from our premiere emergency room dashboard to data exports which support a joint venture to government compliance reporting. This presentation will discuss what we are doing and how we got there.







Case Studies 3 How FirstCare Leveraged WebFOCUS 8 for Operational Claim Processes in Less Than 90 Days John Dowd, Firstcare Southwest Health Alliances Attend this session to see how we were able to quickly build a portal that includes the following objects: Visual Discovery, detail guided ad hoc, ranked guided ad hoc, key performance indicators, charts, and drill-down reporting.


Implementing the Insurance Performance Foundation Christina Rodriguez, United Group Underwriters Dean Kozlowski, United Group Underwriters United Automobile Insurance Company will cover the challenges it was facing which created the need for a data solution, the necessary project team, and significant obstacles it encountered during implementation. A demo featuring highlights of the finished product will also be covered.


Land of Misfit Toys: Building Your BI Team From Existing Resources Rob Fosnaugh, Brotherhood Mutual Insurance This presentation will outline how to build a business intelligence development team from existing IT resources as well as savvy techie business people. To truly get the most out of your data requires a culture change not only in your business, but also within your BI development team .


Performance Management Framework Realized at the City of Irving, Texas Aimee Kaslik, City of Irving As a 2012 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winner, a key component of our success is our customer focus and use of data to make business decisions. Attendees can learn how we use Performance Management Framework (PMF) in our quest for excellence, including how we organize and present data to staff, council, and customers.


Practical Applications to Improve Performance by Child Support Services Barbara Perkins, Oklahoma Department of Human Services See how the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OK DHS) uses WebFOCUS to measure, manage, and optimize outcomes. OK DHS was recognized with a CSS 2012 Computerworld award for its implementation of WebFOCUS to help case workers, staff managers, program executives, and administrators get a better understanding of how their programs and personnel are performing, automate compliance reporting, measure usage, analyze data, and improve outcomes. See a live demonstration of their application, hear why they have standardized on WebFOCUS in their enterprise, and how it has evolved.


Sales Improvement Monitoring Using Performance Management Framework Joe Beydoun, Lipari Foods Michael Hegarty, Lipari Foods, LLC Roger Panfil, RDC Business Solutions






This presentation provides an overview of Lipari Foods' implementation of WebFOCUS, Performance Management Framework (PMF), and DataMigrator. PMF was chosen for its close out-of-the-box fit for Lipari and its ability to be implemented quickly. Following a successful product trial, the scope of the ultimate deliverable was expanded to include a data warehouse that could be accessed for reporting and analysis by power users with WebFOCUS InfoAssist.


The Successful Implementation of WebFOCUS 8 at Wendy's Matt Chapin, Wendys International Nora Cordial, Wendy's International Attend to session how Wendy's made the upgrade from WebFOCUS 7 to WebFOCUS 8. You'll see how the corporation modernized its dashboards into portals, implemented an integrated security model with LDAP to entitle users to WebFOCUS and its portals, helped pioneer the migration/modernization process, and customized and branded the WebFOCUS environments to its business. Wendy's will also discuss its need to move to WebFOCUS 8 and how it has simplified its business, as well as some of the technical issues it encountered during the migration.


Traffic-Lighting Current WebFOCUS System Volume Tim Brynda, Ace Hardware Corporation Steve Hodos, Information Builders Do you ever get tired of answering the question, "Is the system slow right now?" We did. So we created a quick "Current WebFOCUS System Snapshot" with a traffic light graphic to illustrate current system volume and database CPU usage to our Managed Reporting end users. Attend this session to see what we developed and learn how to implement it at your location.


Using business intelligence to drive organizational strategy execution Fernando Vallejo Lazaro, Globalvia Adopting a business intelligence solution implies integrating many information sources coming from different countries, businesses, subsidiaries and departments. This process should not only be aligned with the existing structure deployment but also oriented to reinforce the objectives of the company strategy and drive change to support the challenge of building the desired culture.


Complementary Solutions 1 Achieving Accountable Care: The Data Integration and Analytics Challenge Maury DePalo, Edgewater Consulting This session will examine the challenges and experiences of several of our health system clients as they strive to implement enterprise-scale data integration and management solutions to meet the evolving demands of healthcare reform and related analytics. We will describe the emerging needs and objectives pertaining to changing business models and delivery processes, new metrics, the need for increased collaboration across the continuum of care, changing models for shared accountability and shared risks, and the types of analytics these organizations are putting in place to guide them through these challenges. We will outline some of the technical capabilities that support these initiatives, with the emphasis on how these organizations are using business intelligence, multi-source data integration, and self-service analytics in their pursuit of new models for accountable care.







IBM Systems: Advantages for WebFOCUS Troy Peterson, IBM STG ISV Solutions Mark Nesson, Information Builders IBM Systems provide unique advantages for running WebFOCUS. In this session we will discuss the performance, RAS, and deployment advantages of running WebFOCUS on IBM PowerLinuxTM. We will also present benchmark results that illustrate the power and speed of WebFOCUS on IBM Systems Reference Architecture.


The Convergence of Data Management, BI, and Financial Planning Eric Estes, Axiom EPM Leading-edge organizations are improving performance and decision-making by building a comprehensive strategy for data integration, operational reporting, budgeting and forecasting, and profitability measurement. In this session, you'll learn how to execute on a comprehensive performance management initiative leveraging Information Builders' iWay and WebFOCUS solutions, along with Financial Performance Management technology from Axiom EPM, one of Information Builders' newest partners. See a brief demo of Information Builders' technology integrated with Axiom EPM's budgeting and forecasting solution.


Complementary Solutions 2 Leap Into the BI Portal With Dynamic Self-Service and BI Reports From a Template Carol Sashi, Leap Ahead Solutions LLC Leap Ahead templates generate perfect HTML and WebFOCUS code to deliver a fully functional self-service and BI environment accessible in the new WebFOCUS BI Portal in minutes. Attend this session to see the benefits of bundling the best WebFOCUS techniques, practices, and standards with powerful functionality and capabilities in templates to dramatically reduce your ad hoc requests and empower everyone in your organizations for any industry.


Education: Advanced Advanced Dialogue Manager Techniques: Add Some Muscle to Your App Joel Starkman, Information Builders In this session, we will take Dialogue Manager beyond the basics of application flow and into the realm of sophisticated control. The presentation explains what basic dialogue manager commands are maintainable using the GUI, but will concentrate on showing advanced dialogue manager coding techniques maintainable through the text editor. Examples will be used to drive home these advanced techniques, and attendees get access to the Dialogue Manager code for a game giveaway at the end.


Filtering, Selecting, and Wheres, Oh My! Fraser Knox, Information Builders Emily Duensing, Information Builders WebFOCUS provides many ways to select data for reports and charts. Which method you choose may depend on your tool, your metadata access, your data, or your depth of knowledge. Selecting data can range from the simple to the complex. This session aims to introduce many of the methods for filtering, selecting, and employing techniques for these purposes. Come and tame the dizzying amount of options





you have, and walk away with solid exposure to the various methods and abilities as allowed by WebFOCUS tools, language, and metadata.


Introduction to Data Source Security (DBA) Maryann Federico, Information Builders Mona Baker, Information Builders This presentation will introduce the Database Administrator, also known as DBA, which is used to secure Master Files. The syntax and essential guidelines will be covered, as well steps for creating simple and more complex examples. All examples will be created manually, via a FOCEXEC and the Synonym Editor.


Education: Basic Basics for Building a WebFOCUS Application David Denst, Information Builders In this educational session, we will demonstrate how a simple WebFOCUS application is built by setting up the metadata, creating security rules, building simple reports, and integrating the reports into a BI Portal.


Demystifying iWay Service Manager Variables for Reusable Components Michael Florkowski, Information Builders Rob Mace, Information Builders iWay Service Manager allows numerous variables to be defined. This can be somewhat confusing if you are not sure where and when they used. We will review Registers, Special Registers, the Properties file and Property Manager, and then discuss how to create these variables for use throughout many of the Service Manager components.


Introduction to Maintain Mark Derwin, Information Builders Mark Rawls, Information Builders This hands-on lab introduces Maintain and the Maintain development environment to clients who have not used it before. Attendees will be able to create a simple update/include/delete application, and see how other organizations are using Maintain.


Maximizing Your Report Distribution Solution With ReportCaster 8 Susan Trommer, Information Builders Gerard Snyder, Information Builders This presentation will provide an overview of ReportCaster 8 using the WebFOCUS Business Intelligence Portal and ReportCaster Restful Web Services. Workflow and best practices will be discussed, to provide an understanding of the internal and external considerations for report distribution. In addition, the highly requested new feature for multiple distribution destinations for a single task schedule, as well as usage of run-time variable values for schedule settings, such as the filename distributed, will be demonstrated.








Using Variables Everywhere Walter Blood, Information Builders At the heart of Dialogue Manager are global and local amper variables, which are central to building complex requests, such as guided ad hoc queries. Recently, amper variables have also shown up in the Master File, and with the advent of the MFD Profile, they now play a role almost everywhere. This session will explore the use of amper variables, from the navigational Dialogue Manager to the DBA generating possibilities of the Master File Profile.


WebFOCUS 8 Security for Developers Emily Duensing, Information Builders Fraser Knox, Information Builders With WebFOCUS 8's new security framework, everything is tied to security. Administrators who were not involved in creating the security model may have a limited understanding of this new framework. This session will provide a better understanding of security for non-administrators. We'll walk through several scenarios involving security situations, showing what is happening, and demonstrating how to work through it.


Emerging Technologies and Innovations 1 Developing a Location Analytics Strategy Chris Ovens, ESRI Maps are ubiquitous in our world today, but not in our analytics. This discussion will highlight how organizations are taking a strategic approach to incorporating maps and location information with their key analytics. In doing so they gain new insights and can achieve a comprehensive view across the entire organization. Attendees will understand where to start in developing and implementing a location analytics strategy for their organization.


InfoAssist: General Updates for WebFOCUS 8.1 Vicky Lozovsky, Information Builders WebFOCUS InfoAssist continues to deliver the most comprehensive reporting solutions to business professionals. Attend this session to learn key features and updates for WebFOCUS 8.1.


Introduction to InfoDiscovery Kevin Quinn, Information Builders Data discovery is a new market for tools that let you quickly access, blend, prepare, and visually analyze data. At Summit 2014, Information Builders introduces InfoDiscovery, the first thin-client workbench, allowing business analysts to visually explore their data and share the results with other users. Come learn why InfoDiscovery is a revolutionary new way to understand your data and help you answer pressing questions.


iWay Roadmap Inessa Gerber, Information Builders Jakub Bartak, Bartak Consulting Don Bowers, Information Builders This session will discuss new features in iWay 7 Integration Suite, Data Quality Suite, and Master Data Management Suite. It will review key functions and product roadmaps, as well as customer






implementations and market trends that have driven expansion and new developments within the product lines.


WebFOCUS InfoApps: Interactive BI Applications for All Users on All Devices Peter O'Grady, Information Builders During this presentation you will see how to create highly stylized and interactive InfoApps that run on any device and any platform. We will demonstrate various InfoApps running on a variety of devices and show how to create them as well. Additional topics will include tips and techniques, styling guidelines, GUI creation, and mobile deployment considerations.


WebFOCUS Roadmap Kevin Quinn, Information Builders This session will cover the latest and greatest in WebFOCUS business intelligence,analytics, and data discovery. Find out what is new and what is coming, via PowerPoint slides, demonstrations, and business use cases. Participants will be asked to bring their own ideas to influence future directions.


Emerging Technologies and Innovations 2 Achieving Better Operations and Analytics Through MDM Tom Lovell, Information Builders With master data management (MDM), you can create a golden record from your organization's information assets and enable better reporting. MDM facilitates more informed and accurate decision-making for a better-run business. Join us as we discuss current industry trends, including operational and analytical MDM, big data, cloud applications, and business process improvement initiatives, and how they are reflected in the iWay Master Data Suite and Omni applications.


Big Data and Visualization: How Much Is Enough? Jim Lollar, Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company undertook a project to modernize the look and feel of its complex data reports to an O-Click environment. Multiple iterations of the solution were completed in a short time frame, exemplifying the use of Agile Methodology. Join in this session as we discuss this process, and the resulting customer-facing, business-to-business app, which is used by all Ford / Lincoln Dealerships worldwide. We learned that visualization can be overkill and can dilute the simplicity of analysis.


Big Data Trends: In-Memory Computing and WebFOCUS Hyperstage Robert Newell, Information Builders In this session we will review the in-memory computing options used today to support high-performing business intelligence applications. The presentation will also include a deep dive into the in-memory capability of WebFOCUS Hyperstage, as well as a scalability demonstration.








Big Data, Hadoop, and Information Builders Clif Kranish, Information Builders In an effort to handle big data, many organizations have to come to rely on Hadoop, a collection of open source projects managed by the Apache Software Foundation and supported by both specialist companies and major relational database vendors. In this presentation we will look at how this technology is being used today and what changes we can expect to see in the near future. We will also show you how Information Builders can help with your big data initiatives.


Building Dashboard Components for the BI Portal Marc Schluper, Kronos Inc. Building on Matthew Lerner's newsletter article, "Filter Reports Using the Portal," we'll show you how to create dashboard components. You'll see how you can assemble dashboards from a catalog of components. We'll also show you how to configure components with context menus to enable end-users to perform actions on data displayed, e.g. export, print, and drill to detail reports.


Complex Financial Calculations Using WebFOCUS Prathima Bedadala, Geller and Company Computing complex financial calculations such as Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Time-Weighted Rate of Return (TWR) over large amounts of data is difficult with traditional spreadsheet macros. In this session, I will describe how we leverage WebFOCUS to compute TWR for data with a large number of rows, while allowing users the ad hoc selection and sorting flexibility across different asset classes and time periods.


Data Discovery Through GIS: Practical Decision-Making for the BI Expert Mark Winslow, Information Builders BI professionals have long been able to answer questions such as what and how many, but with the advent of integrated GIS systems, they can now answer the "where" question as well. Decision-makers who want to expand their data discovery capabilities with GIS can be baffled by the available choices. This session will compare and contrast various GIS options with WebFOCUS. Attendees will see examples of WebFOCUS integrated mapping, ArcGIS (Esri), and Google Maps to help decide which GIS solution is right for their BI needs.


Integrating WebFOCUS and InfoAssist to Standardize Business Processes Rita Shamlal, Social Security Administration (SSA) The Social Security Administration's (SSA) Division of Management Information and Analysis focuses on innovating new ways to conduct cluster analysis, anomaly detection, and predictive modeling of disability claim appeals. We use current and historical case-level processing data. The team is presently working with WebFOCUS and InfoAssist v8.0.3 to build a portal as an in-house standard analytic tool. In this presentation we will review some of the challenges we've encountered, progress we've made, and the functionality of the tool we believe will help us to achieve our goals.


Self-Service Analysis for Epic Cogito Data Warehouse Jennifer Kwapis, Information Builders Mark Zimmerman, Information Builders






Cogito is Epic's data warehouse that is available now for download for Epic customers. This session will showcase a self-service ad hoc use layer for non-technical users as it relates to common queries across departments related to patient encounters. The Info App solution allows users to run their own analysis while removing issues that traditional ad hoc produces.


The Future Looks Cloudy: Is There a Silver Lining? Larry Eiss, Information Builders The cloud is talked about endlessly. Is it the right choice for your next project? Is security the defining issue some seem to think it is? If you were to deploy WebFOCUS on cloud-based infrastructure, what are the questions you need to be asking? What should you watch out for? If you've ever wondered about the wisdom of deploying WebFOCUS in the cloud or if you already have plans to do so, this session is for you. We'll get past all the jargon and you'll hear lessons learned and expert insights that will help you make your decision with confidence.


YP Analytics Roadmap: A Big Data Journey Using Information Builders, Infobright, and Hadoop. Richard Langlois, Yellow Pages Group Jodye Yates, Yellow Pages Group Yellow Analytics is an application used by advertisers and sales to report on the performance of the products advertisers have purchased. The itinerary for this session includes optimization, replacing an existing user interface (written in Grail/Groovy) with WebFOCUS 8.0.05, and deploying InfoAssist. We'll also discuss issues we faced along the way, such as performance, security, HA, architecture, metamodel, data quality, and look and feel.


Emerging Technologies and Innovations 3 Social Media Analytics 101: Avoid Being Anti-Social Dan Grady, Information Builders It's well recognized that Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels are vital sources of feedback. But most organizations are struggling to understand the impact of social media interactions on their organization. That is because social media analytics in most organization is very "anti-social". This session will introduce you to how solutions from Information Builders can help you access data on social media sites as well as the most effective ways to use the WebFOCUS platform to extract insights from that data. Topics will include: which social metrics actually provide meaningful insight; connecting to and generating metadata for Facebook, Twitter, and other social media networks; applying Information Builders text analytic capabilities like sentiment and word frequency to quantify social conversations; use cases that demonstrate how to maximize the value of social media data.


The Mad Scientist's Dashboard Laboratory Porter Thorndike, Information Builders Next-generation dashboards leverage a wide variety of functionality - from visualization to mapping, parameterization, and exporting to portal functionality and interactivity - that Information Builders is uniquely positioned to support. This presentation will take you inside the mad scientist's dashboard laboratory to look at all of your options for creating a next-generation dashboard.







WebFOCUS Metadata Management Abdullah Nasim, Information Builders This session will provide a solid background in the creation, maintenance, and enhancement of WebFOCUS metadata against any data source. A metadata reporting tool will be applied, to provide insight into the content and structure of data to facilitate report development. Topics to be covered include: Fundamentals of the WebFOCUS Reporting Architecture (WF 7.7x) Data Adapters and Connections Components of Metadata Metadata Creation Master file: DEFINEs, COMPUTEs, FILTERs, and other attributes Hold Files, Format Alpha, and FOCUS...and Why? Reporting from Relational DBs, JOINs Business Views Cluster Joins Impact Analysis Metadata Reporting


Emerging Technologies and Innovations 4 HTML Page Development and jQuery in App Studio David Glick, Information Builders Latha Gunashekaran, Information Builders WebFOCUS App Studio is the forthcoming new development platform for WebFOCUS 8. In this session, learn about the new interface with a concentration on how to develop HTML pages, autosizing for different form factors, mobile design, and the product's automatic use of jQuery to allow users to add their own jQuery code with ease.


Search-Based Applications: Because You, and Your Users, Already Know How Dan Grady, Information Builders When you are at home and have a question, what do you do? Google it, of course. You and your users can have that same experience, with WebFOCUS Magnify. Magnify provides the unique ability to create search-based applications to not only help users find business content across the entire organization but also use business intelligence (BI) to better understand that information. In this session, we will focus on: how merging search with BI creates end-to-end ease of use; how you can get more value out of your unstructured (textual) data using Magnify; how you can use your existing WebFOCUS skills to create Magnify applications; and several practical use cases that demonstrate the value of search-based applications.


Lab 1 App Studio Reporting 101 David Denst, Information Builders In this hands-on lab, you will learn the basics of creating a detail report and an aggregate report with App Studio, the development platform for building WebFOCUS applications.


Build an Engagement Platform With the WebFOCUS 8 BI Portal Gary Cliff, Information Builders Kevin Kratzer, Information Builders This hands-on session will introduce attendees to the new WebFOCUS BI Portal, which provides users with a single entry point to all WebFOCUS features, a common user interface, and the ability to build complete, modern websites with just a few clicks. After a thorough walk-through of the end-user experience, participants will build a full portal from scratch.







Building Content for Mobile Arin Lipman, Information Builders David Glick, Information Builders Using the App Studio HTML canvas, you'll learn how to build content that is designed for mobile devices. You'll see new features in App Studio that remove the confusion of developing content for multiple platforms and screen sizes.


Creating Powerful Infographics With WebFOCUS 8 Ira Kaplan, Information Builders Nicholas Zavalkov, Information Builders In this lab, see how to combine WebFOCUS and the open source D3 JavaScript data visualization library to produce engaging charts. Using amper variables and HTMLFORM, we will create reusable chart templates for word cloud, calendar view, and chord diagram. We'll also discuss time-series bubble charts, deployment for self-service applications and BI Portal, Notepad++ for WebFOCUS and JavaScript editing, and debugging in the web browser.


Decisions to Go: Activate Your Analytics Kevin Kratzer, Information Builders Mark Winslow, Information Builders WebFOCUS Active Technologies is a game changer for any organization, providing analytical capabilities inside your existing reports, whilst simultaneously extending the ability to explore information to individuals who are connected or disconnected from the network. This keeps your mobile workforce informed and ready to answer questions when they need to. Active Technologies empowers users to analyze information in different ways without the need for multiple reports or dashboards. These flexible, single documents provide the agility needed to Sort, Filter, Rollup and Chart, and much, much more in any browser, on any device, and in any location.


Deliver High-Powered Information With Lightweight Maps Dan Weingart, Information Builders Mithu Datta, Information Builders In this session, you will learn about the new, lightweight geographic information system (GIS) and map capabilities built into WebFOCUS 8.06 and 8.1. Users will walk through real-world examples of the GUI in InfoAssist to build location-based visualizations, such as Chloropleth and Bubble Maps. Additional tips and tricks will also be discussed, including defining your own map layers and using multiple tile layers.


Designing Snazzy HTML Pages With WebFOCUS App Studio David Glick, Information Builders Larry Braun, Information Builders Today's HTML pages need to work on various desktop browsers and mobile devices. They also have animation, styling, and JavaScript. WebFOCUS App Studio's HTML Canvas is chock full of features to make web page design and creation easy. Come to this session to learn about the many new features in HTML Canvas and how they lend themselves to the creation of content.







Don't Build an App, Design It! Brian Carter, Information Builders Cindy Suriel, Information Builders You've built your application, now how do you make it appealing? How do you pick and apply the right palette so all of your reports, charts, and dashboards are consistent and come together? In this lab, you will learn tips and coding techniques so you can apply the latest design trends to your WebFOCUS apps. You will walk away from this lab with all of the tools you need to add design appeal to your app.


InfoAssist Reporting 101 David Denst, Information Builders In this hands-on lab, you will learn the basics of creating a detail report and an aggregate report with InfoAssist, the browser-based user platform for building reports, charts, documents, and Active Technology reports and dashboards.


Magically Filter Reports in the New BI Portal Gary Cliff, Information Builders Kevin Kratzer, Information Builders In this lab, you will learn how to take BI Portal to the next level by doing what was previously impossible. You will use App Studio to build a launch page that has no knowledge of the reports it will run. You will then build reports in InfoAssist that have no knowledge of the launch form. Finally, you will put them together in the BI Portal and learn the secrets to what seems like magic.


More Hidden Gems Hands-On Walter Blood, Information Builders Experiment with some of the techniques discussed in previous "Hidden Gems" presentations. Attendees will get a chance to create indexes to provide the fastest data retrieval, work with multiple data instances at the same time, work with McGyver and file connections, and explore the effects of various SETs and uses of structured holds.


Multi-Fact Star Schemas in Self-Service Reporting With InfoAssist Vicky Lozovsky, Information Builders Tony Hurrell, Information Builders This lab will cover the creation of WebFOCUS metadata, representing a multi-fact star schema, and enhancing the metadata layer with OLAP structures superimposed on top of the star schema. We will then switch over to WebFOCUS InfoAssist to see how the metadata that we've built is presented to the end user.


Top-of-the-Line Charts in InfoAssist Vicky Lozovsky, Information Builders Jennifer Lalik, Information Builders In this lab you will learn how to create and design persuasive charts to communicate information effectively. You will explore why charts are important to your data analysis and how to build them using InfoAssist, our powerful ad hoc tool.








Lab 2 3i Mini Series - Integration, Integrity, and Intelligence at Your Fingertips Louis Deturris, Information Builders Anand Maheshwari, Information Builders Inessa Gerber, Information Builders Jeff Paoletti, Information Builders Walter Zublionis, Information Builders Cleansing all dashboards! Business intelligence and analytics platforms often pull multiple types of data from disparate sources, leading to questionable validity, inconsistency, and poor data quality. Flawed data leads to flawed analysis, which leads to impaired decision-making and lost revenue. Mitigate risk associated with blemished data through implementing an effective data quality strategy using the Information Builders product suite. Join us for the first portion of the 3i Mini Series, a three-for-one lab session. You will learn how to prepare and leverage data for smarter business intelligence, analysis, and best performance. There will be tips and best practices to configure iWay Service Manager and iWay Data Quality Suite. On Friday, you'll be invited to join us from for a bonus session: a Q&A roundtable with the iWay panel of experts. We guarantee you'll go home with tips you can implement upon your arrival back to the office.


Configuring WebFOCUS for External Authentication/Authorization Jim Thorstad, Information Builders Maria Trofimova, Information Builders In this lab, you will configure WebFOCUS to authenticate and authorize users to Active Directory and use the Reporting Server access control feature to authorize users to application directories. This makes it possible to tightly integrate WebFOCUS into your organization's infrastructure for an installation that's more secure and easier to administer.


Configuring WebFOCUS Row-Level Data Security Jim Thorstad, Information Builders Maria Trofimova, Information Builders In this lab you will configure WebFOCUS to dynamically filter reporting data based on user entitlements defined in an SQL table. This will introduce you to DBA Security, MFD profile and DB_INFILE. You will also configure Reporting Server Access Control privileges to properly secure Application directories according to the user?s role.


Deliver High-Powered Information With Lightweight Maps Dan Weingart, Information Builders Mithu Datta, Information Builders In this session, you will learn about the new, lightweight geographic information system (GIS) and map capabilities built into WebFOCUS 8.06 and 8.1. Users will walk through real-world examples of the GUI in InfoAssist to build location-based visualizations, such as Chloropleth and Bubble Maps. Additional tips and tricks will also be discussed, including defining your own map layers and using multiple tile layers.


Don't Build an App, Design It! Brian Carter, Information Builders Cindy Suriel, Information Builders You've built your application, now how do you make it appealing? How do you pick and apply the right palette so all of your reports, charts, and dashboards are consistent and come together? In this lab, you





will learn tips and coding techniques so you can apply the latest design trends to your WebFOCUS apps. You will walk away from this lab with all of the tools you need to add design appeal to your app.


Enhanced Interactive Reporting With Accordion-by-Row Reports Lisa Scipio, Information Builders Kathy Kendall, Information Builders In this workshop, we will provide tips and techniques on how to build interactive Accordion-by-Row reports that place your sort keys into an HTML tree control to provide the quickest and easiest access to your organization's most valuable information, aggregated at any level. Understanding the details of this key feature will expand your ability to optimize the performance of and visually enhance these interactive reports with your corporate branding.


Excel Solutions: Tips and Techniques Kathy Kendall, Information Builders Terry Whitmore, Information Builders Excel continues to be one of the most popular tools for storing, accessing, and analyzing business information. This hands-on lab provides tips and techniques for building complex spreadsheets that take advantage of the latest in spreadsheet technology. Examples will demonstrate WebFOCUS features available for Excel 2007/2010/2013 (XLSX) and Excel 2000/2003 (EXL2K) report formats.


Let Your Data Talk: How RStat Helps Business Decisions With Predictions David Hall, Information Builders Ali Rahim, Information Builders This lab offers a hands-on tour of RStat's many features and how they can be used together for better decision-making. This includes a review of the Data, Explore, and Test menu tabs. The lab will also cover predictive analytics and the process of creating a predictive modeling and scoring application. Some of the new features that were added to RStat in the past year will be reviewed. The acquired skills will help attendees to better understand RStat, solve real testing problems, and provide decision-makers with easy steps for educated predictions.


Minding Everyone's Business: A Resource Management Update Tony Hurrell, Information Builders In this lab we will look at the changes to the configuration of Resource Management, specifically the collection of messages and the translated SQL for a WebFOCUS request against a relational data source. We will look at some of the new reports that are now available, including Request translation, Optimization messages issued, and Procedures that failed due to errors. Information on the structure and relationship of the Resource Management data will be given for customers who are interested in writing their own reports.


More Hidden Gems Hands-On Walter Blood, Information Builders Experiment with some of the techniques discussed in previous "Hidden Gems" presentations. Attendees will get a chance to create indexes to provide the fastest data retrieval, work with multiple data instances at the same time, work with McGyver and file connections, and explore the effects of various SETs and uses of structured holds.


New in Maintain: Updating Databases via Mobile Devices and More Mark Derwin, Information Builders







Mark Rawls, Information Builders Maintain makes it easy to collect data using mobile devices. In WebFOCUS 8, we give you the ability to easily create applications that update the database even when you are not connected to the Internet. This presentation also discuss new features available in WebFOCUS 8.


Quick Access With Quick Data Dimitris Poulos, Information Builders Kathy Kendall, Information Builders WebFOCUS Quick Data enables users to build reports in Excel and combine information from multiple data sets that can be refreshed with the latest enterprise information each time they are opened, or upon request. Excel workbook features, such as pivot tables and graphs, can be fed from these live data sources. With WebFOCUS 8, Quick Data provides users with the selected functionality of InfoAssist within Excel. In this lab, you will learn how your key business users who work in Excel can add Quick Data to their Excel application, and build and maintain sophisticated workbooks with ease.


Rapid KPIs: Datapoints to Dashboards in 50 Minutes With PMF Bob Ferrante, Information Builders Rob Palmer, Information Builders New capabilities in the Performance Management Framework (PMF) enable business users to quickly list and model key performance indicators (KPIs) and instantly publish them to enterprise-wide dashboards. This hands-on lab will let you follow along as we interview participants and demonstrate how quickly you can use PMF to collaborate and create a comprehensive KPI solution in minutes - even if the data is not ready.


Reporting Server Debugging and Monitoring Maria Trofimova, Information Builders In this lab, you will learn how to monitor your reporting server activities, debug and research user problems, and create alert notifications.


The Power of ETL With DataMigrator Clif Kranish, Information Builders This point-and-click data integration session is for anyone interested in building data warehouses, data marts, and operational data stores, as well as those who want to extract data for application loading and business intelligence. Attendees will see how easy it is, using DataMigrator's graphical user interface, to build complex data flows to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data targets and process flows to control the data flow. The lab has been updated for Release 7.7.06.


Using a Web Service to Integrate iWay Service Manager and Master Data Suite Rob Mace, Information Builders Michael Florkowski, Information Builders






Attend this lab to learn how to send transactions from iWay Service Manager (iSM) to the iWay Master Data Suite (MDS), enabling you to update the master data management (MDM) Repository using a web service call to process Delta.


Tips and Techniques 1 Even More Hidden Gems in the World of Reporting Walter Blood, Information Builders WebFOCUS is a very deep product, with powerful functionality that is sometimes hidden. This session will continue the search for hidden gems in the areas of data description, building powerful expressions, and producing unique outputs. Are you maximizing the functionality that is available from the data description? How can you create variable output dependent on the data you are working with? What are some of the most useful user-created functions we have seen, and can you use them? These and other questions will be explored in detail.


Off to See the Wizard: FOCWizard and Focal Point Art Greenhaus, Information Builders In this session, the FOCWizard will show techniques developed based on support calls, and demonstrate how FOCUS can do whatever you need: simply and easily. We will cover new features in FOCUS, WebFOCUS, and, where applicable, solutions that will work in older releases (if you have not yet upgraded). Special attention will be placed on code, whether entered via a text editor or generated by GUI tools, with emphasis on producing reports with the right data in the most efficient way possible. Tips and techniques posted by Focal Point wizards, who often have a different perspective, will also be shown.


Ready, SET, Go: Quick Problem Solutions Walter Blood, Information Builders There are more than 100 SET commands available to the developer in WebFOCUS, each providing two or more solutions to problematic situations that arise in the development process. This session will explore these switches, and highlight the nature of the problem they deal with, as well as the development opportunities they provide.


Relational Efficiencies, Part I: JOINing It All Together Renee Teatro, Information Builders This demonstration on relational efficiencies will review a variety of WebFOCUS relational queries, concentrating on JOINs. It will help attendees understand how JOIN requests are translated into SQL via WebFOCUS tracing, and what can be adjusted in the queries to ensure optimal performance. Examples will use SQL Server, but the information is applicable to all relational data adapters.


Relational Efficiencies, Part II: Subqueries Renee Teatro, Information Builders






This demonstration on relational efficiencies will review a variety of WebFOCUS relational queries, concentrating on subqueries. It will help attendees get the most from their requests. Examples will use SQL Server, but the information is applicable to all relational data adapters.


Unintended Consequences: Why Did That Happen? Walter Brengel, Information Builders Have you ever wondered why the code you thought would work is not giving you the results you expected? This session discusses the use of debugging techniques for resolving unintended consequences such as being unable to locate formatting errors in the code, identifying where data is missing/incorrect from multiple table requests in one focexec, fixing a TABLE request returning 0 records, verifying that the amper variables (parameters) are getting the correct values, restricting the number of returned values during development, and ensuring that the DATA column you are styling is really the one you wanted.


Tips and Techniques 2 Compendium of WebFOCUS Techniques Yaniv Lusky, National Futures Association Using the case study learning method, this presentation will discuss and review practical WebFOCUS techniques, originally developed to solve difficult business problems or to improve the user experience. Code samples will be studied in detail, so attendees can leverage these these techniques upon returning to the office on Monday.


Creating a Data Audit Routine Using Data Quality Server Chris Reaves, Mid-Continent Group Learn how Mid-Continent leveraged the iWay Data Quality Server (DQS) inside its new framework to check record counts and premium dollars using some key fields to determine differences during ETL loads. These routines are presented as online services through DQS, so they are universal and can easily be used for multiple tables.


CSC Reporting: The Next Generation Malinda Linegar, Chadron State College With the upgrade to WebFOCUS 8, CSC has completely revamped their reporting environment. See how they are leveraging the portal to deliver data in an environment that is highly visual, drillable and gives the end-user the information they need to make data-driven decisions.


Fine Tuning for Application Performance: Hidden Techniques for Improving Your User Experience Charles Morris, Information Builders






You've reviewed all your code, run traces, and optimized everything you can, but your users still need better response times. Learn about some additional techniques for getting another few seconds of improvement from your WebFOCUS app. We'll discuss redirection settings, compression (especially for downloads), stress testing for concurrency, security and module caching, dealing with very large HOLD files, foccache and edatemp space management, and other tips to get your app "up to speed"!


From Excel to FML Dorota Badiere, CenturyLink In this presentation, attendees will see a collection of Excel reports that have been transformed into a WebFOCUS FML report. These legacy Excel reports existed in different versions across the organization, and consisted of various calculations of sales. Although not exactly a financial statement report, the FML report combines multiple functionalities, including effective color coding and different format setting.


Integrating with Legacy Systems Using iSM Raymond Cooper, Mark Anthony Group Inc. In this session, attendees will learn about two methods for using iWay Service Manager to integrate with legacy systems. One method involves using RPC with Unix scripting, and the other involves using XML data.


iWay Error Handling Walter Zublionis, Information Builders Louis Deturris, Information Builders This session outlines key strategies for iWay Service Manager (iSM) error-handling facilities. We will review the lifecycle of an error, based on methods used by iSM agents and application design.


Things You Can Use on Monday: Part 5 Rob Palmer, Information Builders The fifth installment of the "Things You Can Use on Monday" series will expand on the last four presentations. WebFOCUS offers many things that inform, explain, debug, facilitate, uncover, present, and deliver. You can use them all on Monday. In fact, you can use them all right now.


Trends and Strategies Advanced Crime-Fighting in the Information Age Major Michael Corwin, Kansas City MO Police Dept Dan Mayo, Information Builders Attend this session as the Kansas City, MO Police Department (KCPD) demonstrates the use of WebFOCUS 8 and Storyboarding to support real-time crime-fighting. KCPD will show how it use WebFOCUS 8 to provide an operational support system for officers and arrange information to coincide with the crime-fighting work flow.







Best Practices for Bigger BI Impact Cindi Howson, BIScorecard Business intelligence (BI) is helping visionary companies thrive in a tough economy and beat the competition. What is so different about their approach to BI and how can you apply these secrets to your own program? This presentation highlights how and why BI has made a difference in visionary companies, yet floundered in others. Simply establishing a data warehouse and deploying BI tools is not enough. Success hinges on how the technology is deployed and on organizational aspects companies often fail to tackle, such as the business-IT partnership. These insights and best practices will let you benchmark your BI deployment against the industry and help increase the impact BI has on your company's performance.


Business Analytics 2020 Market Trends Rita Sallam, Gartner This presentation will highlight a number of market tipping points that will drive more pervasive adoption of analytics through 2020.


Business Intelligence: Which Way Forward? Howard Dresner, Dresner Advisory Services, LLC In this session, we review the latest 2014 findings from our recently published, landmark Wisdom of

Crowds� Business Intelligence Market Study. In this presentation we will address the following important questions: ? What are the key Business Intelligence adoption trends? ? Where and why are organizations investing in Business Intelligence? ? What are some of the most critical related technologies to Business Intelligence? ? What is the current ?state of data? related to Business Intelligence? ? How well is the industry responding to customer needs?


Data Discovery: Barrier or Opportunity to Gain Insight From Information Mark Smith, Ventana Research Tony Cosentino, Ventana Research Providing fancy business visualizations and iterative discovery methods on data will not suffice everyone's needs. A more definitive approach must be used to provide information in the right context and format to ensure the best possible value from the growing reams of information assets from big data investments. Best practices from early adopters of big data analytics and information optimization were discovered in two research studies by Ventana Research in 2014. These research insights will help give attendees the real truth on how to use data and visual discovery and exploration software across business and IT roles that, according to our research, has become important to 48 percent of organizations. This never seen before educational session will feature new and exclusive research facts, and help you to be smarter and act more precisely when using discovery and exploration tools.







Supporting Business Agility in the Age of the Customer With BI, Analytics, and Big Data Boris Evelson, Forrester Research The Information Age of interconnected people and computers has arrived and is quickly becoming a commodity. The Age of the Customer (AOC) - where customers rule and the ability to attract and retain them is the only true differentiation for businesses - is now upon us. The AOC demands business agility and flexibility to react to customers who have instant access to you and your competitors products and services. This presentation will define business agility in quantifiable terms; discuss why agile business intelligence, analytics, and big data are key; and cover how technology professionals can support and enable business agility.


The New Analytical Ecosystem: Reconciling Top-Down and Bottom-Up BI Wayne Eckerson, Eckerson Group, LLC For too long, organizations have tried to shoehorn all analytical users and activities into a single, monolithic architecture. Forward-thinking organizations are now augmenting their classic report-centric data warehouses with real-time, analytical, and content-based engines to support any type of user and application. This presentation describes an emerging analytical ecosystem that reconciles top-down and bottom-up intelligence environments, supports a federated business intelligence (BI) organization, and gives business analysts and data scientists a legitimate seat at the enterprise computing table. You will learn the characteristics of top-down and bottom-up BI, the elements of a federated BI organization, a reference architecture for the new analytical ecosystem, and BI tool segmentation




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