Regardless of company size and business sector, business intelligence (BI) is playing an increasingly pivotal role in business operations. The effective deployment of BI increases efficiency and competitiveness to the point at which BI becomes central to more complex corporate performance management systems by providing up-to-date performance-to-plan analysis. With the advent of on-demand BI solutions, the benefits of business intelligence are now accessible to an even broader market audience.

The annual IDC Business Intelligence Roadshow has established itself as a reputable platform for the exchange of ideas and the sharing of experience of independent experts, industry leaders, IT managers, and business decision makers. While acknowledging different stages of market maturity across the region, the 2008 event is designed to build on the current platform by focusing on the latest trends in BI, such as BI on demand, pervasive BI, enterprise search, unstructured data processing, and text analytics.

At each venue, half-day executive workshops will be held the day after the main event to complement the business and technology perspective with a discourse on the ROI and development of the business case for implementing BI.

Shaku Atre
(Keynote speaker)
Widely recognized as the BI Guru, Shaku Atre is the author of the award-winning Data Base: Structured Techniques for Design, Performance and Management and Business Intelligence Roadmap - The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision Support Applications.

The demand for BI is growing as more managers begin to understand the advantages of having tools at hand to facilitate decision making. BI systems support CPM processes by providing timely analysis of planned vs. actual and identifying problem areas in business.

What are the latest technological achievements in business intelligence? How to ensure that your data is aligned, accurate and up-to-date? How to satisfy the growing needs of business users? How to make BI work at full throttle?

This year the conference will be focused on the opportunities offered by BI for better decision making.
Conference attendees will be introduced to latest BI tools and applications as well as given strategic recommendations on the implementation and modernization of analytical solutions. The event will also feature case studies of BI projects and a discussion of key points in making a business case for BI implementation.

Key topics:

• Business Objectives, Smarter Decisions, and the Returns of Business Intelligence
• Performance Management 2.0: the Next Wave for Improved Business Performance
• Unifying Approaches to Data Management and Reporting for Decision Making Support
• BI and the Quality of Financial Effectiveness Forecasts for Various Business Lines
• Unified Client Data Presentation in Data Warehouses
• BI Tools for Finding New Clients
• Managing Reporting Data and its Visualization for Users
• Business Intelligence across Structured and Unstructured data
• Ensuring Data Quality and Simplifying Access
• Data Accuracy and Alignment
• Storing and Managing Large Volumes of Data Efficiently
• BI Maturity
• How to Start Using BI
• How to Ensure Support for a BI Project within Your Organization
• Success Factors and Typical Difficulties in BI Projects