8:00am |
Registration |
8:30am |
Welcome. Stuart Barnard, Managing Director, Inside Info |
8:45am |
QlikView market update
Speaker: Henrik Been Executive Director, Product Marketing, QlikTech.
Description:
A market snapshot on QlikView’s performance globally and thoughts and plans for the new release QlikView 9. |
9:05am |
Talent2 achieves service differentiation in sharing information with customers
Speaker: Craig Horton, IT Manager, Talent2
Description:
Talent2 is one of the fastest growing companies in the services sector and one who also offers complete outsourcing of learning and development functions for large organisations. Craig Horton, IT Manager at Talent2, will talk about using QlikView to power reporting and analytics within Talent2’s Learning and Development system Southrock, delivering interactive HR analysis to its customers over the web, replacing what was 110 individual reports.
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9:50am |
Mars share BI best practice: Simplifying the user experience
Speaker: Tom Docherty, Information Delivery Analyst at Mars
Description:
Tom Docherty, Information Delivery Analyst at Mars shares why and how they have fundamentally shifted their BI delivery strategy, to one that simplifies the BI user experience. Empowering users to think, navigate, see a result, explore and act all in real time, for better uptake, decisions and results. |
10:35am |
Break |
11:00am |
Guest Keynote: Speed thinking to deliver better decisions
Speaker: Dr Ken Hudson, The Speed Thinking Zone
Description:
Speed Thinking is a practical thinking system that you (and your team) can use everyday to enhance and accelerate your results. Acclaimed author and a pioneer in organisational creativity, Dr Ken Hudson coined the Speed Thinking System. In a 1 hr workshop Ken will share some tools that you can implement to create more free time, run faster, better meetings and become a decisive decision maker. |
12:00pm |
Lunch
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1:00pm |
BI as a strategic business tool
Speaker: Sandy Antonuccio, Business Information Systems Manager, Amcor.
Description:
Amcor were selected as a finalist in this year’s Gartner Business Intelligence Excellence Awards for their work with SAP and QlikView. With 500 people using QlikView for strategic financial, service delivery and profitability analysis of all products, plants and customers, Sandy Antonuccio, Amcor’s Manager of Business Information Systems will speak about how Amcor used business intelligence as a strategic IT initiative to support a key business process change. Each employee now focuses on how daily decisions contribute to profit and customer value optimisation. |
1:45pm |
PwC workshop: BI in the GFC. Cost effective and robust business cases delivering high value ROI on BI projects.
Speakers: Alastair Pearson, Partner, and Kieran Earnshaw, Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Description:
As the global financial crisis impacts, businesses are refocusing their investments in BI. The balance between cost reduction and the increasing strategic information requirements necessary to effectively manage a business, mean companies must focus on robust business cases and proven return on investment on BI projects. Alastair Pearson and Kieran Earnshaw, Partner and Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, will share practical observations from their work in the current market, giving examples of how lower cost, fast implementation BI initiatives have delivered high value returns to business. |
2:30pm |
Manassen Foods: Business transparency across the Group and within teams
Speaker: Sarah Kibble, Senior IT Specialist, Manassen Foods
Description:
Leading importer and producer of branded food products, Manassen Foods is ranked among Australia’s top grocery suppliers. Manassen Foods’ Senior IT Specialist, Sarah Kibble, will explore how Manassen use QlikView drawing data from multiple systems including Lawson M3 as the single source for management accounts, budget review, performance outlook, trade spend management and sales planning. Sarah will share how Manassen has delivered business transparency across and within its six companies, providing better visibility of performance, tracking daily risks to service standards and profit optimisation. |
3:15pm |
Break |
3:30pm |
A deep dive into QlikView 9
Speaker: Henrik Been, Executive Director, Product Marketing, QlikTech.
Description:
In this session you will have the opportunity to hear firsthand about the new release QlikView 9 presented by QlikTech's Executive Director of Product Marketing, Henrik Been. In particular walking through new capability in the areas of enterprise manageability, integrated reporting, mobile user deployment, usability, presentation and the developer experience.
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4:10pm |
Advanced application development & performance tuning
Speaker: Phil Langdale, Services Director, Inside Info
Description:
In this practical session, Phil Langdale, Inside Info’s Services Director will demonstrate useful tips on QlikView application development and fine tuning of performance to help you deliver QlikView applications inhouse that optimise end user experience. |
4:55pm |
Q&A and wrap up. Stuart Barnard, Managing Director, Inside Info.
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5:00pm |
Drinks & canapés |
7:00pm |
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