Building the Data-Driven Business. Architecture and Tools for Smart Operations, Analytics and Information

Redesigning your IT Environment for the Business of the Future

Best practice used to be a well-integrated data warehouse serving the business intelligence needs of selected decision makers. Today, BI and DW are only table stakes for survival. From data lakes to predictive analytics, algorithms to cognitive computing, social media to the Internet of Things, the technology underlying business is changing rapidly. Business, too, is transforming dramatically. The trends are interrelated. And the implications for IT span the entire environment and organisation...

Tomorrow’s business demands a new IT architecture that reintegrates all decision making and action taking across all its processes. This architecture incorporates all the technological advances in databases, NoSQL stores, data integration and delivery, as well as the old challenges of spreadsheets, SOA, metadata, distributed access, collaboration, etc. It provides a comprehensive structure for the full enterprise IT integration needed by modern businesses. And it directly addresses current issues, such as operational BI, strategic decision making, information discovery and enterprise-wide decision management. This new approach has evolved from current technologies and systems to facilitate easier adoption.

Learn how your IT environment and organisation can succeed and become a real partner with business in driving change and managing the introduction of fully integrated, real-time processes, closely linking information and activities from all areas of the enterprise. As decision making and action taking become ever more tightly bound, you need a new business vision and modern architecture to reap the very real business benefits promised by new technologies. Business and IT must work closely together in a tightly-integrated approach that Devlin calls the “biz-tech ecosystem”.

Main Topics

• A New Architecture—Business Drivers and Technological Evolution
• Data and Information—the Foundation for Everything
• Formal and Informal Business Processes—Getting from Information to Action
• People—Action-Oriented Decision Making and Engaging Innovation
• Planning and Implementation
• Emerging Ethical and Economic Considerations.

• Business  drivers and technical rationale for a new architectural approach
• The possibilities and challenges of new database and data management technologies, including Hadoop, NoSQL, column stores and other analytic appliances
• Using ETL, data warehouse automation (DWA) and data virtualization tools for integration of all types of content and data
• Positioning and using Web social media and collaboration tools in support of decision-making
• The importance of user context and roles in decision processes
• Structure and components of the new architecture
• Practical steps to grow and improve your current data warehouse to the new architecture.

• CIOs, IT leaders and managers
• Enterprise, systems, solutions and data warehouse architects
• Systems, strategy and business intelligence managers
• Data warehouse and systems designers and developers
• Data and database administrators
• Tech-savvy business analysts.