Johannesburg
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Join us for the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Symposium in Johannesburg on December 2, 2009. Don′t miss this exciting opportunity to enhance your business intelligence proficiency, share ideas, and hear what successful companies have learned from their BI deployments.
Keynote Presentation – Cell C: Business Value through MicroStrategy Intelligent Cube
Understanding how MicroStrategy Intelligent Cube can improve the way through which BI is delivered to the business, touching on the design methodology and then looking at an example of how In-Memory BI can deliver on business questions.
Cell C is one of the largest mobile phone operators in South Africa, providing GSM cellular services to approximately 7 million customers. Cell C has achieved remarkable growth since it was launched in 2001, having grown beyond peer-to-peer communication through: deploying a state of the art network, introducing tariffs that fit the targeted segment, economic and high-penetration distribution channels; and contributing to the regulatory debate.
Session 1 – MicroStrategy: Creating Value with Business Intelligence in Financial Services
Creating transparency, dealing with increased complexity, managing exploding data volumes and responding to new regulatory requirements are key challenges facing the financial services industry since the financial crisis. Throughout the world financial institutions are turning to MicroStrategy to build solutions that meet these challenges. This presentation gives a quick overview of the state of the industry, why MicroStrategy is the best practice solution for these challenges and the value it brings throughout the industry.
Session 2 – Netezza: “The ROI of Warehouse Appliances”
It is often quite difficult to quantify the ROI that the data warehouse delivers to business. And with current economic pressures, not only is business intelligence more critical to decision making, it also needs to come at a better price. This discussion will explore the ROI that data warehouse appliances deliver, and how this will improve the cost effective delivery of business intelligence and complex analytics.
Netezza is the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance analytics across an extended enterprise. Netezza′s technology enables organizations to process enormous amounts of captured data at exceptional speed, providing a significant competitive and operational advantage in today′s data-intensive industries.
Session 3 – MicroStrategy: Current BI Trends and cutting edge implementations in Gaming, Hospitality and Travel"
TBA
Session 4 – Quickly and Effectively Building Dashboards – MicroStrategy Report Services
Learn how easy it is to build effective and appealing dashboards that employ the latest data visualization techniques. This session will demonstrate the latest MicroStrategy 9 advances for dashboard creation including preformatted, reusable, and portable dashboard templates; smart design assistants; inherited and linked formatting to underlying reports; and a dashboard layout structure.
Session 5 – Sybase
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Session 6 – What can MicroStrategy consultation do for you? – Implementation / SET / Education / Services
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Session 7 – Accessing Heterogeneous Data Sources Using the MicroStrategy Multisource
Using the new MicroStrategy MultiSource, data from relational sources such as data warehouses, operational systems, and even flat-files can be combined into a MicroStrategy report that can be used for a graph, enterprise report, or dashboard. MicroStrategy MultiSource uses a unique push-down technology to optimize data joining performance.
Access to all Technical, Customer and Partner Sessions
Welcome Coffee, Lunch and Refreshment Break
Conference Materials
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Conference cancellation requests must be submitted in writing on company letterhead and received by November 8, 2009. All cancellation requests will be subject to a ZAR 250 service charge. Cancellation requests received after November 8, 2009 or no-shows are subject to the full registration fee. All refunds will be issued after the conference. Please fax all cancellations to +001 703-852-7157.
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LOCATION
Hilton Sandton 138 Rivonia Road Sandton, Johannesburg 2146 South Africa +27-11-322-1888
The Hilton Hotel is located in Sandton, in the heart of the financial district - North of Johannesburg. The hotel is within walking distance from the Sandton City shopping complex, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the Sandton Convetion Centre, and is situated just 20 minutes from Johannesburg International Airport.
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