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Relevante invites you for a full day onsite conference on Business Intelligence worth 8 CPE Credits on February 18th 2010 at Malvern, PA.

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TOPICS

TIME (EST)
Opening Comments
08:00 AM – 08:10 AM
Beyond Budgeting
08:10 AM – 09:00 AM
Prescriptive Business Intelligence
09:00 AM – 10:40 AM
Break
10:40 AM – 10:55 AM
Using Analytics To Find Money Being Left On The Table
10:55 AM – 11:45 AM
Lunch
11:45 AM – 12:25 PM
The Next Generation Of The Obsolescence Of The Costly Data Warehouse And Large Implementation Teams
12:25 PM – 02:05 PM
Break
02:05 PM– 02:20 PM
Solutions Selection
02:20 PM – 03:10 PM
Panel Discussion: “Using BI To Thrive In These Economic Times”
03:10 PM – 04:00 PM

Event Name

Business Intelligence Conference

Date

Thursday, February 18, 2010
Time 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM
CPE Information 8CPE Credits
PROGRAM LEVEL: OVERVIEW

PREREQUISITE: NONE

Cost  $129
Venue  The Conference Center at Penn State Great Valley, Malvern, PA
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SPEAKERS BIO
Kevin J. Hull, MBA
Director – Business Intelligence Solutions
Relevante Inc.

Kevin J. Hull has a background in financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting, and database designing. He has been successfully deployed in the banking and manufacturing industries providing reconciliations, 10-Q reporting, and database development. He has successfully implemented streamlined processes for companies saving both time and money.

 

Prior to Relevante, Kevin worked in the credit card industry where he was the manager of the financial reporting department. He was responsible for producing executive financial reports, annual budgets, consolidated financials of 18 companies, and key metrics reporting for the operating departments. He also headed the implementation of a new financial package and streamlined processes using various database software.
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Johann Wrede
Solution Advisor
SAP America, Inc.

Johann Wrede has spent the last ten years helping companies purchase and implement CRM, ERP and IT software. For the past three years he has been helping bring SAP's software-as-a-service solutions to market. Prior to SAP, Johann worked for companies such as newScale, Clarify, Nortel Networks and IBM. He has a bachelor's degree in Commerce & Engineering from Drexel University.
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David Wagstaff
Managing Principal
Clarity SB & Clarity FI, LLC

David Wagstaff is an experienced entrepreneur who has over 20 years of consulting, banking and business management experience. He loves helping businesses produce more income and having his clients become superstars to their managers and boards.

 

David has lead businesses to significant gains in performance both as a consultant and in senior management roles including Managing Director, Chief Financial Offer, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Operation Officer.

 

David has spoken at numerous conferences and has been published or quoted within National Public Radio, ABA Bank Marketing, Community Bank Magazine, Transactions Magazine, Bank Advisor, Banking New York and a number of other publications.

 

He began his career with Price Waterhouse and later joined KPMG Peat Marwick. He earned his BS in Economics and Management from Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY and his MBA from The University of Maryland at College Park.
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Clark French
President
Computer Intelligence

Clark French is the President of Computer Intelligence, provider of BI consulting services to companies such as T.Rowe Price, Capital One, and Yahoo. Mr. French has founded, built and sold two earlier BI software product companies, the first one in the mid 1980's which marketed one of the first OLAP Multi-dimensional database products in the US. This technology was sold to D&B in the 1980s. The second company was founded in the early 1990's and was sold to Sybase for $30M. This technology is now marketed as Sybase- IQ by Sybase.

 

Mr. French has over 30-years of technology experience and 5 software patents on advanced database indexing and data compression to his name. These patents are used inside databases from Sybase, Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM today. Mr. French's technology is in use at companies such as American Express, American Airlines, and the IRS. The IRS data warehouse is one of the largest in the world topping 30 Terabytes. Computer Intelligence was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Columbia, MD.
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Laura Dallas Burford
President
LAD Enterprizes

Laura Dallas Burford is President of LAD Enterprizes, a management and information technology consulting company known for its “IT Coaching” approach. Laura has extensive experience assisting businesses with operational and technology solutions.

Prior to starting LAD Enterprizes, Inc., Laura was the Managing Director of a rapidly growing start-up International Professional Services Consulting organization turning it into a profitable multi-million dollar business. She has had experience with several major consulting organizations, start-up initiatives, and a number of Top 100 corporate accounting and technology divisions as well as smaller businesses. Laura has expertise with global project and portfolio management, application development, IT transformation, and domestic and international outsourcing operational solutions.

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David Ballard
Senior Economist
GRA, Inc.

David Ballard is a senior economist at GRA Incorporated, and has participated in GRA assignments addressing a variety of aviation, regulatory, and modeling issues. He specializes in applied microeconomics within these and other areas, including the application of strategic or game theoretic methods to problems in competition, regulation, and regulatory compliance.

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SCHEDULE

Beyond Budgeting

Learning Objectives:
* Learning the differences between Hare management and Tortoise management
* Understanding the pitfalls of traditional management and the budgeting process
* How to change the traditional budgeting model
* Mapping out an action plan for overcoming these pitfalls

Time                  8:10 – 9:00 AM (EST)
CPE Credits        
1 - Finance


Speaker            
Kevin J. Hull, MBA
                         Director – Business Intelligence Solutions
                         Relevante Inc.

Prescriptive Business Intelligence

Time                   09:00 – 10:40 AM (EST)
CPE Credits       
 2 - Business Management & Organization

Speaker              Johann Wrede
                          Solution Advisor
                          SAP America, Inc.

Using Analytics To Find Money Being Left On The Table

 

Learning Objectives:
1) Overall Goal: Identify how to use BI and data visualization to increase net income.
2) Secondary Goals:
    a. Identifying the right opportunities for use with data visualization
    b. Demonstration of the power of data visualization in rapidly honing in on opportunities.

 

Time                  10:55 – 11:45 AM (EST)
CPE Credits       
 1 - Management Advisory Services

 

Speaker             David Wagstaff
                         Managing Principal
                         Clarity SB & Clarity FI, LLC

The Next Generation Of The Obsolescence Of The Costly Data Warehouse And Large Implementation Teams

 

Learning Objectives:
* Learn how to bypass the large expensive of building a central data warehouse.
* Learn how to implement a central dashboard and analysis framework across the enterprise without a large implementation    team.
* Learn how to dramatically reduce the complexity of centralized data analysis.



Time
 
                
12:25 – 2:05 PM (EST)
CPE Credits       
2 - Business Management & Organization


Speaker            Clark French
                        President
                        Computer Intelligence

Solutions Selection

 

Learning Objectives:
Business Intelligence (BI) software has evolved from the COBOL-based, green-line reports of the 70s and 80s into a complex set of tools, applications, platforms and processes. Months of effort by IT professionals to generate reports have disappeared with today’s solutions aimed at business users and real-time on-line report generation. Even with all the current tools, applications, platforms and processes many organizations still feel that their information access and reporting needs are unfulfilled.

 

This presentation will provide some practical advice for selecting the right BI Solution. The learning objectives include:

 

* Understanding and Addressing the Needs,
* The Categories -- Tools, Applications, Platforms and Processes, and
* Effective and “Worst” Practices.



Time                 02:20 – 03:10 PM (EST)
CPE Credits       1 - Business Management & Organization


Speaker             Laura Dallas Burford
                         President
                         LAD Enterprizes

Panel Discussion: “Using BI To Thrive In These Economic Times”

 

Time                  03:10 – 04:00 PM (EST)
CPE Credits        
1
- Management Advisory Services

 

Panelists
Kevin J. Hull, MBA
Director – Business Intelligence Solutions
Relevante Inc.
David Wagstaff
Managing Principal
Clarity SB & Clarity FI, LLC
Clark French
President
Computer Intelligence
Laura Dallas Burford
President
LAD Enterprizes
David Ballard
Senior Economist
GRA, Inc.
Johann Wrede
Solution Advisor
SAP America, Inc.
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