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Q1 2010 St. Louis Area TDWI Chapter Meeting
The TDWI St. Louis Chapter cordially invites you to attend our upcoming meeting on Friday, January 29, 2010. Come meet other local BI/DW professionals, swap business cards, share ideas, and exchange career advice while listening to quality presentations in a vendor-neutral setting, which is the hallmark of TDWI education.
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When: |
Friday, January 29, 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. |
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Where: |
City Place Auditorium
1 City Place Drive
Creve Coeur, MO 63141
This event is free of charge and open to all interested BI/DW professionals. Breakfast will be provided. |
Please RSVP below
Agenda:
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8:00 - 8:30 a.m. |
Registration, Continental Breakfast and Networking |
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8:30 – 9:00 a.m. |
Opening Remarks
M. C. Sankar, Chapter President |
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9:00 - 10:00 a.m. |
Session 1:
"The Art and Science of Predictive Analytics"
By Robert Palmer, Managing Director of Amitech Solutions |
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Abstract:
Businesses constantly operate under conditions of uncertainty including shifting customer preferences, technological change, economic recession, political and other challenges. Even though we know this to be the case, the majority of business efforts are spent analyzing historical results with minimal effort focused towards quantifying what will happen. To make prudent decisions in a complex game, the employment forecasting and analytics are increasingly employed to make “deliberate decisions” to shape the future.
Robert Palmer will discuss forecasting and analytics methods that allow decision makers to more accurately predict probably of and quantify outcomes. Specifically, relating to using, “what if” analysis, and analytics to reveal hidden relationships, patterns and potential areas for improvement. Decision makers can use this information to determine the probable sources of growth or decline, profitability or loss, and define where the enterprise might focus its resources. Model outcomes are also used to define and then drive engineered and targeted growth to obtain organizational objectives through aligning products and services with prioritized customer segmentation to improve acquisition, and retention.
You will learn:
• The value of forecasting
• Examples of models that employ Decision Tree and Monte Carlo for planning and risk mitigation
• Leveraging forecasting and analytics to define key performance indicators and generate robust strategic plans |
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10:00 - 10:30 a.m. |
Networking Break |
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10:30 - 11:30 a.m. |
Session2:
“Delivering Immediate Business Value with a Data Warehouse”
By Rob Jenkins, Vice President of Enterprise Applications at Suddenlink
& Matt Thompson Consultant and Principal at Sense Corp |
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Abstract:
Suddenlink recently and successfully constructed an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), which is delivering immediate business value. This presentation will highlight the successes and lessons learned through the program at Suddenlink, highlighting key components to the success, including:
• Executive sponsorship -- gaining early buy-in and engagement throughout the program
• Methodology -- employing pragmatic project management, data governance, and DW architecture techniques, as well as end user and support staff training
• Partner selection -- choosing an external provider with industry and solution expertise |
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11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Raffles and Closing Remarks |
Please RSVP below
Space is limited so sign up early! To become a member at a 10% discount, please click here and use priority code stlchp1. For more information about TDWI Membership, contact chapters@tdwi.org.
To contact a Chapter officer, click on name of the officer located on the top right hand column of this page.
Bios of Presenters
Robert Palmer is Managing Director of Amitech Solutions and co-founder of Cardiac Services Consulting Group. He has developed numerous valuation and predicative models. He has extensive business-valuation and experience in medical, technology, service, and financial sectors with twenty years of operational experience in owning and managing privately held finance, service, and consulting firms. Mr. Palmer holds a Master of Business Administration with a specialization in finance from Washington University in St. Louis, Olin School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with emphasis in finance from Regis University. He is an adjunct faculty with the Hatchery Program, Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Olin School of Business and a frequent lecturer on matters of valuation, business-planning and modeling.
Robert A. Jenkins graduated from University of Iowa with a BBA degree in accounting and a minor degree in finance. Mr. Jenkins worked for a major CPA firm before beginning a career in IT consulting. His consulting focused around accounting systems and applications, mainly PeopleSoft.
During his consulting career Jenkins consulted for many fortune five hundred companies, saving them millions of dollars through technology selection, process automation, project cost reduction, and improving operational efficiencies. In one particular case, Mr. Jenkins helped a company avoid a multi-million dollar investment into new technologies by leveraging an existing PeopleSoft module and team.
Matt Thompson graduated from the University of Missouri at Rolla with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and Washington University in St. Louis with MBA. Mr. Thompson has worked in research and development, product, and quality engineering in the automotive industry, and also quality engineering in the silicon industry. He has spent the past 12 years working in Business Intelligence and Management Consulting in the telecom, healthcare, energy, and manufacturing industries.
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