We are very happy to confirm that Timo Elliott, Innovation Evangelist at SAP will be delivering one of the keynotes, Driving Business Innovation Through Big Data Analytics. Analytics is no longer an afterthought to operational systems — it’s now the foundation for the innovative organisations of the future. This session examines the latest interesting trends in Big Data and Analytics:

• Analytics becomes part of your customer experience
• Concrete success stories of how companies like yours are turning data into real business innovation.
• How new technology options are breaking down the barriers to agile analytics
• The rise of collaborative insight
• The new best practices for analytic teams

This event will follows the success of last years Analytics Symposium and follows a similar format including three keynote sessions in the morning and four breakout streams in the afternoon, with sixteen different sessions running.

The streams that we are running at the event are:

• Dashboarding and Visualisation
• Technical
• Trends and Strategy
• Data Warehousing

In addition to Timo Elliot's keynote the symposium Jag Dhillon from SAP will deliver an BI Overview, Strategy and Roadmap.

A number of our breakout sessions have been confirmed where you can hear the following sessions:

Ian Mayor & Ruth O’Shea from SAP are presenting SAP Dashboarding and BI Application Building Roadmap

Matthew Shaw from SAP is speaking about BI Virtualisation

Nick Wall from SAP is presenting Moving to BI 4.1, Meeting the Need for Intelligent Decision Making

Stuart Sutherland from Financial Ombudsman will present Operational Dashboard Suite over a new Data warehouse

Harry Bodenhofer from SAP will talk about Getting more from Support for Business Analytics

David JH Jones &  Martin Lloyd from Column5 are presenting BW Integrated Planning v BPC – Is the battle over?

Rizwan Ali & Neil Kemp from IT Performs will deliver the session: Leaping from BI to II - So Much Easier Than You Thought

Alex Cruickshank from e2v Technologies is sharing his initial views on Design Studio

John Weikert from Sulis Systems will teach you how to Improve BOE Management using the SAP BusinessObjects SDKs

Neville Bartlett from Alliance Boots will provide An insight into mobile reporting using Business Objects and SAP BW 

Matthew Shaw from SAP is delivering BI Platform Product News

We are happy to confirm the following partners will be exhibiting at our event:

• Teradata
• Column5
• IT Performs
• Hanson Regan
• Capgemini
• Itelligence
• Acuma