Proven Strategies for Self Service BI in a Tough Economic Climate
Date:
Jan. 28th - 3:00am PST Business intelligence (BI) is not just about reporting anymore. It is migrating from being a back and middle-office tool for productivity and efficiency gains to being a major, strategic corporate asset used for competitive differentiation.
This Webcast will explore how BI technologies, architectures, and approaches are evolving across multiple dimensions. The next generation of BI will involve such technologies as different user interfaces, actionable BI, visual analytics, alternative DBMS, and data modeling technologies.
Attend and you'll learn:
- Why is BI front and center of everyone's priorities?
- Why is traditional BI complex and expensive to implement?
- What will the next generation of BI look like?
- What are key best practices in BI self service?
Join this live ZDNet Webcast, featuring guest speakers Boris Evelson, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research and Elissa Fink, VP, Marketing, Tableau Software, as they review and take your questions regarding the major trends in next-generation BI and explore one of the most significant themes: BI self service.
Featured Speaker:
Boris Evelson
Vice President, Principal Analyst - Forrester Research, Inc.
Boris serves Business Process professionals. He is a leading expert in business intelligence (BI) — a set of processes, methodologies, and technologies used to transform raw data into meaningful, useful, and action-oriented enterprise information. Boris delivers strategic guidance, helping enterprises define BI strategies, governance, and architectures and identify vendors and technologies that help them put information to use in business processes and end user experiences.
Boris' current research focuses on the practical and actionable best practices for building BI infrastructure and applications, such as BI business cases, architectural options, organizational structures, and vendor selection. Boris continues to explore emerging trends in next-generation BI, such as agile BI architecture and development approaches, in-memory analytics, advanced data visualization, convergence of structured data and unstructured content analytics, process-driven and operational BI, and many others.