BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Despite the significant competitive advantages offered by Bi CIOs are coming under increasing pressure to invest in technologies that can improve decision making and offer effective operational efficiency which can drive both the top and bottom line.

C levels are finding that BI is an absolute necessity. With end users finding the true value of CPM BI is right at the top of the corporate agenda.

Small to mid size organisations are becoming a huge target for BI vendors, standardization of tools continue to be a driver of growth.

The adoption of BI platforms expanded beyond traditional query, reporting and OLAP functionally to leverage dashboards, scorecards and visualisation. CXO continues to see innovation and growth arising from technologies that can make it easier to build and consume BI.

The whole ethos behind CXO is to inform and educate executives across the European spectrum, using the business language to reach out to the business people. Within the Hard copy of CXO Europe, discover the opportunities, benefits and the pitfalls afforded by BI.

After  the turbulent year BI faced in 2007, what faces the BI market place in 2008?

SECTION TITLE – BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

1. Data Management
2. Dashboards
3. Data Warehouse
4. Data Quality
5. Data Mining
6. BI Suites
7. Performance Management
8. Web Analytics
9. Open Source BI
10. Operational BI
11. BI 2.0 

TOP 10 COMPANIES

1. IBM – Doug Elix SVP BI EMEA 
2. MICROSOFT – Ian McDonald VP BI EMEA
3. COGNOS – Eric Yaw VP BI EMEA
4. SAP – Nino Marakovic SVP  
5. SAS – Mikael Hogstrom VP MKG EMEA
6. ORACLE – Alain Blanc SVP BI EMEA
7. TIBCO – Murray Rode EVP STRATEGIC OPERATIONS
8. HP – Michael Winkler CMO
9. COGNIZANT – Michael Harris VP
10. BUSINESS OBJECTS – Maurizio Carli SVP&GM EMEA 

TOPICS UNDER DISCUSSION & HOT TRENDS

1. Aligning BI with Business Objects
2. Can BPM truly deliver a true ROI
3. Key steps on how to make BI strategic
4. The DataWarehouse in a time for data explosion
5. Determining the return you can receive from investing in the rite BI tools
6. Difficult choices in the data quality tools market
7. Creating the Business case
8. Master Data Management
9. How can I justify a major investment in BI
10. How to push BI past reporting and how to make it both strategic and actionable

TOP 10 END USER TARGETS

1. Swiss Bank – Group CFO Marco Suter
2. Hsbc Bank – CIO Ken Harvey
3. British Airways – CIO Paul Coby
4. KLM Airlines – CIO Boet Kreiken
5. Virgin Air and Travel – CIO Nick Brant
6. Vodafone Group – CIO Paul Wybrow
7. France Telecom – CIO Nicolas Ruelle
8. Ford – VP/CIO Nick Smither
9. Uniliver – CIO Neil Cameron
10. Gaxo Smith Klien  - CIO Ford Calhoun

ASSOCIATIONS AND CONTRIBUTORS

1. Brian Mcdonough – Senior Research Manager Data Warehousing IDC
2. Mark Smith – CEO, Ventana
3. Bill Hostmann – Research Director, Gartner
4. James Richardson – Analyst Gartner Group

KEY EVENTS 2008

• GARTNER SUMMIT 28-30 APRIL 2008 LONDON BPM
• GARTNER EXPO 12-15 MAY 2008 BARCELONA BI & DW
• GARTNER SUMMIT 27-28 MAY 2008 TOKYO BI
• GARTNER EXPO 12-17 OCT 2008 ORLANDO FLORIDA BI
• CEBIT AUSTRALIA 20-22 MAY 2008 AUSTRALIA
• CEBIT ASIA 27-30 OCTOBER 2008 SHANGHAI CHINA
• CEBIT 10-12 JUNE 2008 SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA
• IDC 15 APRIL 2008 SWEDEN BI
• IDC 22 APRIL 2008 ARGENTINA BI
• IDC 29 APRIL 2008 NORWAY BI
• IDC 03 JUNE 2008 SANTIAGO BI 2.0
• IDC 05 JUNE 2008 SWITZERLAND BI &PM
• IDC 10 JUNE 2008 ARGENTINA BI 2.0
• IDC 19 JUNE 2008 PARIS  BI