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8:30 am |
Registration
& Welcome Coffee and Tea |
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9:00 am |
Opening Remarks and
Welcome Address from the Chairman |
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Brian
Kornegay
Regional Director
of Sales, IDC Asia/Pacific |
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9:15 am |
The Next Wave of
BI |
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Sharon
Tan
Senior Market Analyst,
Asia/Pacific Enterprises Applications Research,
IDC Asia/Pacific |
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"It's not the strongest of (the
species) that survives, nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change." How
does Charles Darwin's insight translate into today's
ever flattening world? How can Business Intelligence
(BI) and Business Performance Management/ Financial
Analytics (BPM) help enterprises survive in an increasingly
competitive world of rapid change? This session
provides IDC's latest insights on the real purpose
of BI/ BPM and IDC's outlook on the next wave of
BI. |
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9:45 am |
Next generation decision making
tools for the CFO |
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Richard
Buettner
Senior Product Marketing
Manager, MIS Products, Systems Union Limited |
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The role of the CFO has undergone significant
and dramatic change in the last decade. Businesses
have had to grapple with a range of developments
in the economic and regulatory environments since
the late 1990s, driving the need to:
- Embrace a plethora of corporate governance
& compliance regulations
- Seek out greater business efficiency gains
- Respond to strong pressure to perform and
deliver greater strategic value to business
- Improve visibility of business performance
- Regardless of systems or structure, take ownership
for one auditable version of the truth regarding
the business and its fiscal position
How does the CEO benefit from working with decision-making
tools?
- Faster and more accurate planning, budgeting
and forecasting cycles
- Information from disparate sources is integrated
into one financial framework
- Decisions made are all auditable
- Cost savings from more streamlined business
processes
- Rapid speed of deployment, adoption and high
return on investment
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10.15 am |
Competing on Intelligence: How
fact-based decision drives performance |
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Matthew
Mok
Principal, Financial
Intelligence, SAS Institute Ltd |
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The presentation will have a closer look at how
to move beyond BI to Business analytics as well
as what are the key challenges in meeting expectations
from different stakeholders. SAS will show how
to apply BI at performance management as well
as understanding the usage of BI in Financial
management, CRM, Risk Management, supported by
real-life case studies.
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10:45 am |
Coffee
Break |
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11:15 am |
Workshop - Budgeting,
Planning & Forecasting |
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Ronny
Voland
Product Manager, Business
Intelligence, Systems Union Limited |
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Organizations today put a lot of focus in gaining
better insights into performance to stay ahead
of competition. There are increasing boardroom
meetings on defining indicators and setting measurements
of performances. Improving budgets accuracy and
aligning business with corporate goals thus takes
center stage. How can the time and processes spent
on planning, budgeting and forecasting be more
realistic in the face of ever changing competitive
conditions?
Systems Union will look at:
- Drive Strategy with Aligned Planning and Budgeting
- Why Planning & Budgeting is central to
Corporate Performance
- The Challenges in Planning & Budgeting
& How to Improve through Web-based Planning
processes
- Beyond Planning & Budgeting – Dynamic
Reporting & Dash-boarding
- Benefits of successful Projects
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12:00 pm |
Business- 1 vs IT-
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Glenn
McCarthy
Managing Director, InfoPower
Asia Pacific |
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A BI/CPM project involves many constituents across
the company, but satisfying everyone's goals and
expectations is a constant challenge for the project
team.
- How can you best juggle the interests of management,
IT, and business users?
- How can you manage the project objectives
of the Local division vis-a-vis Global directives?
- What are the common pitfalls experienced in
building a data warehouse?
- And what are the key considerations when evaluating
different service providers?
Glenn will share best practices from customer
stories - with candor, insight, and a dose of
humor to wrap up the conference.
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12:30 pm |
Interactive
Panel Discussion: “One Stop Shop vs Best of
Breed” |
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Moderated by
Antony
Lee
Market Analyst, Asia/Pacific
Software Research, IDC Asia/Pacific |
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Panel Discussion on different methodologies
and approaches a firm can adopt when undertaking
a BI/BPM solution set. With respect to building
the "Ideal Management Cockpit", what advantages
and disadvantages do the two approaches offer in
terms of people, workflow, systems and ROI? |
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1:00 pm |
Closing Remarks
for the chairman |
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Brian
Kornegay
Regional Director
of Sales, IDC Asia/Pacific |
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1:10 pm |
Networking
Lunch / End of Conference |
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The
Organizer reserves the right to amend the agenda,
as deemed necessary, without prior notice. |
