Business Intelligence and Analytics in the Cloud - Part Three...
Date: 19th October 2011
Venue:
National College of Ireland
Mayor Square
IFSC
Dublin 1
Presenter Profiles
Fujitsu - View Presentation
The truth is out there: Business Intelligence, Big Data and the Cloud
Kelly Theatre 13.45 - 14.15 & 16.00-16.30
Session
At this session, John will do a live demonstration of a solution recently developed by Fujitsu researchers from Fujitsu labs. The demo will focus on how publically available data from the web can be used as a rich source of information once mined and presented in the right way. John will also relay his own extensive experiences of the challenges faced by any BI project, Cloud based or not.
Speaker Bio:
As a solutions architect, John Walker is currently engaged with several Fujitsu customer and account teams providing enterprise architecture, consulting and solutions. With over 20 years experience in the IT industry, John comes with a strong industry background and hands on experience of delivering technology solutions that drive value for customers. John has considerable experience in the areas of Information and Data Architecture, Enterprise Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence.
IBM - View Presentation
Head in the Cloud, feet on the Ground
Kelly Theatre 14.30 - 15.00 & Room 102 15.15-15.45
Session
Doug will provide a reality check on Cloud and what Cloud can enable using a current case study that will be familiar across all Cloud Arena attendees. Doug will use this case to demonstrate the true potential not just in cost benefits but more importantly to show the business agility that Cloud brings and its significance in end customer stickiness and an early demonstration of the impact and power of deploying analytics within your Cloud.
Speaker Bio:
Doug Clark is the Cloud leader for IBM UK & Ireland. Doug has over 10 years of UK and International experience in the IT industry, having predominantly worked with clients in Communications, Utilities and Industrial Sectors. Doug is part of a global team in IBM shaping and implementing the IBM Cloud Strategy. He leads a specialist team of business development, solution and technical architects that link across IBMs extensive lines of business to support the ambitions of our customers. Prior to IBM Doug had 17 years international experience in various blue chip corporations across CPG and Healthcare, holding director level roles in sales, distribution and process improvement. Doug has an MBA and a degree in Biochemistry. He is an active member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
http://www-05.ibm.com/ie/emerging_business_centre/cloud.html
Microsoft
The Reality of Applications and Business Intelligence in the Cloud
Kelly Theatre 15.15 - 15.45 & 16.45-17.15
Session
At this session, Tibbs will outline Microsoft’s unique offerings in the Cloud as well as on-premises. Reporting and analysis can be provided in the Cloud and on-premises and will demonstrate the solutions available. Tibbs will be joined by Declan Rudden of IMRO, who will be showing a business-critical application delivered through the Cloud.
Speaker Bio:
Tibbs Pereira has held a variety of roles in engineering, IT Management, Project Management, sales, marketing and has also run his own business consulting company. Now with Microsoft Ireland, Tibbs is responsible for Application Platform sales into the Corporate Sector.
Logentries(JLizard)
Log Management: Extracting Knowledge from Billions of Events
Room 102 13.45 - 14.15
Session
The presentation will give an overview of log management in general and why it is particularly important for Cloud based systems. It will give details on why log data is becoming the fastest growing data source at large organisations and will discuss typical log volumes that are produced by organisations today (e.g. large organisations regularly generate terabytes of log data per month). Finally the presentation will outline how log data can be effectively managed and analysed to extract valuable information for your business.
Speaker Bio:
Trevor Parsons is co founder of Logentries, a University College Dublin spin out company, providing log management as a service (logentries.com). Previously, Trevor was a post doctoral researcher in the Performance Engineering Lab, at UCD where he lead research in the area of distributed computing. He was also previously a scientist at the IBM center for advanced studies. He completed a PhD in 2007 at UCD and his areas of expertise include log management, performance testing, performance and monitoring tools and software design.
Cloud Consulting - View Presentation
BI Requirements Gathering in Financial Services
Room 102 14.30 -15.00
Session
The real-world issues encountered in gathering Business Intelligence Requirements are examined in the context of a Financial Services organisation. The focus is on the business aspects of the engagement covering the terminology encountered, the organisation issues, functional breadth, the challenges involved categorising the information and some useful resources.
Speaker Bio:
Rodney Birch is CTO of Cloud Consulting and has over 20 years’ experience designing, architecting and building world class applications in production in the US, Europe, Middle East, Asia and China. A keen proponent of agile approaches, he combines his architecture and management skills to deliver the solution to the business problem. Rodney has worked in business intelligence, cloud computing, CRM, payments, banking and e-government areas and his natural innovation has been rewarded with several patents.
As Chief Architect in S1 Corporation (SONE) he delivered the Enterprise Suite 3.5 combining best of breed Internet Banking, Corporate Payments, Branch Teller and Sales & Service applications on a single multi-channel banking platform. Previously in POINT Information systems, he led the team to deliver e-Point, the world’s first virtual machine driven, application server based CRM application. Rodney has also worked as an independent consultant and in the development organisations of IBM and Oracle.
StaffBalance - View Presentation
Building Business Intelligence Apps in the Cloud: New Jersey Style
Room 102 - 16.00-16.30
Speaker Bio:
Romualdas is an experienced IT Business Development Manager with a background in Management and Finance. He's been working with some of the largest Eastern Europe IT companies & has been a catalyst in introducing several world-class vendors to the Baltic states market, including Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) and EMC (NYSE:EMC). Romualdas has also managed a specialist import & distribution company and played a key role in the sale of the business. Romualdas, an innovative IT Entrepreneur has gathered an outstanding near‐shore software development team over the past 2 years. Following on from his success in building the StaffBalance product with limited funds and tight deadlines, he has continued to provide application development services to other Irish companies
Treemetrics
Treetops reaching to the Cloud
Room 102 16.45 - 17.15
Session
TreeMetrics Ltd is an Irish company providing pioneering Cloud based services to the international forestry sector. The company was founded in 2005 by Mr Enda Keane and Mr. Garret Mullooly through support from Enterprise Ireland and private investors. It follows the founders’ belief that there had to be a better way for measuring and managing this vital global resource. Its technology firstly analyses 3D laser scan data and creates sample 3D stems from the forest. The presentation will outline how this information is fed into its web platform called “The Forest Warehouse”. Here forest owners and timber buyers can do better business together by selecting the “right forest for the right end use”. This information basically allows forest owners supply more wood from cutting less trees. The company’s vision is to place TreeMetrics and Ireland at the core of becoming the data warehouse for forestry and forestry knowledge. The company has a great core team of people and it is currently hiring some additional staff to realise this vision. It has formed strong links with IBM through the Smart Planet initiative and vies to be the “Google” for the forest industry.
Speaker Bio:
Garret Mullooly is both co-founder and COO of TreeMetrics Ltd based in Cork. He holds a B. Agricultural Science forestry degree from UCD and previously worked as a forest manager with Woodland Managers Ltd. He has over 17yrs experience in the forestry sector. The company has received International acclaim and is currently providing its services to customers here in Ireland and as far away as Australia.
ATRIUM STAND HOLDERS
Cipherion Translations
Cipherion Translations (www.cipherion.com) enable Irish organisations to reach a global market. With the recognition of Ireland as a centre of excellence for Cloud Computing, the necessity to talk to that audience in their language is your key to success. CRM is about communication and conveying key messages to your customers, and this seminar, hosted by Cloud Arena will provide you with tools to do this and we at Cipherion Translations will ensure that nothing is Lost in Translation.
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Talentevo
Talentevo provides performance management software that saves companies time and money by centralising key HR data and automating HR processes. Utilizing the benefits of Cloud Computing, our software gives HR and managers a better insight into their team's performance and actual performance of individual employees, as well as tracking training and development. Talentevo offers an enterprise class infrastructure based on best practice software at a compelling price.
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