Wayne Eckerson
Director
TDWI Research
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The Secrets of Creating an Agile, Adaptable BI Environment
The key to delivering sustainable business value is to create a flexible development and deployment environment that minimizes the temptation for business users to build their own analytical shadow systems, and enables BI teams to rapidly respond to new business requests. But creating a nimble and adaptable BI environment is not easy. It requires organizational and technical strategies, ranging from governance programs and super user networks to rapid development techniques and service-oriented architectures. This presentation will present a practical framework for creating agile BI environments that can drive your BI program to the next level.
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Ken Collier, Ph.D
Founder and President
KWC Technologies
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Katabatic Winds of Business Intelligence
The katabatic winds in Antarctica are the most powerful winds on earth, caused by air tumbling down from higher elevations. Scientists and researchers who live and work in these winds constantly monitor them and adapt their lifestyles in response.
Today’s business intelligence environments are much like these katabatic winds. Business environments, users’ data needs, and corresponding business rules are constantly shifting and changing, and BI professionals must quickly adapt.
This keynote examines the complexities of classic BI architectures and approaches, and explores the difficulties of responding to change. We will examine agile BI methods as a key for rapid response to change, and also discuss several new and emerging business intelligence approaches, including BI in the cloud, the no-SQL movement, adaptive architectures, and other techniques designed to enable more rapid response to the katabatic changes in corporate BI environments. |