New Thought Leadership and Technology Conference Brings Together Industry Leaders to Discuss New Era of BI and Analytics.
Siebel Systems will host the inaugural Business Intelligence (BI) Summit, October 3-6, 2004, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The new conference is focused on bringing together thought leaders and participants in the industry to discuss key trends and next-generation requirements for enterprise-wide business intelligence, data warehousing, performance management, customer insight, and analytic applications. The BI Summit will run in parallel with the Siebel User Week conference.
The multiday conference will feature a powerful and content-rich agenda, including feature presentations, panels, and breakout sessions from BI and analytics industry luminaries, senior executives from top BI and data warehousing vendors, prominent industry analysts, and leading-edge companies deploying enterprise BI and customer insight solutions. Hosted by Siebel Systems and co-sponsored by IBM; Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation; Microsoft; and CMP Media’s Intelligent Enterprise, the event will include presentations on the latest BI and analytics technology, applications, and best practices; detailed case studies; “ask the experts” sessions; and an extensive BI Solutions Pavilion.
“Siebel Systems saw a need for a forum that would bring together the leading minds in the industry to focus on the rapidly changing requirements and demands in enterprise business intelligence and focus on how organizations can benefit from a new era of BI and analytics solutions,” said Paul Rodwick, Vice President, Marketing, Siebel Business Analytics. “The Siebel Business Intelligence Summit will provide a single place where people can learn about the latest strategies and techniques for pervading customer and business insight throughout their organizations.”
The conference will include numerous feature presentations and breakout sessions by industry luminaries, covering a variety of topics. Attendees will hear the latest trends and insights from industry experts such as:
— Larry Barbetta, Group Vice President and General Manager for Siebel Business Analytics, who will kick off the event by presenting the trends in next-generation BI and make significant new product announcements
— Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research at The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI)
— Henry Morris, Group Vice President for Applications and Information Access at IDC
— David Stodder, Editorial Director and Founding Editor, Intelligent Enterprise
— Senior executives responsible for BI initiatives and strategy from Microsoft; IBM Business Consulting Services; Teradata; IBM Software Group; HP; Deloitte Consulting LLP; Informatica Corporation; Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Metricsphere and Unisys.
— Numerous BI and data warehousing thought leaders from top research organizations such as Gartner Research, IDC, META Group, and Ventana Research.
In addition, the event will include a number of in-depth case study presentations to help conference attendees learn how other leading edge companies are deploying enterprise-wide BI and customer insight solutions. Representatives from some of the most analytically sophisticated companies such as AXA Financial, Cisco Systems, Compass Bank, Honeywell Aerospace, HP, IBM, LinkShare Corporation, L’Oreal, MCI, Microsoft, Royal Bank of Canada, Sprint, Union Pacific Railroad, UPS, Wachovia and Westpac are expected to present.
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