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Dr. Barry Devlin
Building the Data-Driven Business
Architecture and Tools for Smart Operations,
Analytics and Information
Sydney 24-25 August 2016
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.
What you will learn
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.
Who should attend
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.
Biographical information
Dr. Barry Devlin, Founder and Principal, 9sight Consulting
Dr. Barry Devlin is a founder of the data warehousing industry, defining its first architecture in 1985. A foremost
authority on business intelligence (BI), big data and beyond, he is respected worldwide as a visionary and thought-
leader in the evolving industry. Barry has authored two ground-breaking books: the classic “Data Warehouse--from
Architecture to Implementation” and “Business unIntelligence--Insight and Innovation Beyond Analytics and Big
Data” in 2013
Barry has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, previously with IBM, as a consultant, manager and
distinguished engineer. As founder and principal of 9sight Consulting in 2008, Barry provides strategic consulting
and thought-leadership to buyers and vendors of BI and Big Data solutions. He is an associate editor of TDWI's
Journal of Business Intelligence, and a regular keynote speaker, teacher and writer on all aspects of information
creation and use. Barry operates worldwide from Cape Town, South Africa.
Outline
1.
The why and how of a new architecture
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Historical overview and timeline of data warehousing, BI, analytics, and cognitive decision making
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Old assumptions about how business and technology interact and how that must change
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The emergence and impact of the Internet of Things
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New, future-proof hypotheses for the biz-tech ecosystem
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Business examples, drivers and justification
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The Simple Business Model
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A new IDEAL conceptual architecture—three “thinking spaces” between business and IT: Information,
process and People
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The REAL logical architecture—IT’s foundation for implementation
2.
The Information Resource—the Foundation for Everything
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New classes of information—human-sourced and machine-generated—and how they enter the
traditional process-mediated data stores of the business
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Formal and informal information—gathering the wisdom of meetings and more
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Big data—hype and reality, sources and types, implications for business and IT
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Fast data—integrating data from the Internet of Things
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Timeliness—from in-flight data to historical information, the life cycle of information
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Structure—much more than structured vs. unstructured, a continuum of data types
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The pillars of a new architecture that supports multiple storage technologies
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Metadata as information—sources and stores, tools and techniques
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Reliability—enabling innovation, and the need for certified and uncertified information
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Relational database evolution—column, row and hybrid stores, in-memory databases, analytic
appliances
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Uses, pros and cons of NoSQL databases, Hadoop and Hadoop-based databases, XML, JSON-based
and other semi-structured data stores
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Loosely structured information and content stores
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Bridging the operational-informational boundary—the promise and reality of in-memory databases
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Positioning Master Data Management (MDM), Operational Data Store (ODS), etc.
3.
The Business Processes—Getting from Decisions to Actions
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The dimensions of process: Business Effect, Active Scope and Time Span
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How pervasive Mobile connectivity, processing and storage combine with the Cloud to reinvent
business processes
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The new role of users in “application development”—mashups are only the beginning
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Service Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, Enterprise Service Bus and Enterprise
Application Integration
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Understanding adaptive, closed-loop business processes
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A model for decision making and action taking—the adaptive decision loop
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Data Integration, ETL and ELT, data warehouse automation (DWA), and the growing role of the DBMS in
data integration
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Federation, Data Virtualisation, Enterprise Information Integration.
4.
The People—Understanding Needs and Engaging Innovation
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The axes of people: Motivation, Attitude and Role
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Where Business Intelligence misses the mark—for users and business
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Understanding motivation and the workings of the human mind in business systems
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Business Activity Monitoring, Scorecards and Dashboards, Enterprise Portals
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Query, reporting and other decision support tools
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Business, process and application modelling
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Decision-making and action-taking in a closed-loop, real-time environment
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Automating user knowledge and activities
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Business, Predictive and Operational Analytics and how they differ from BI
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The central role of collaboration and informal information in innovation
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Information modelling considerations in a rapidly changing environment
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Loosely structured content – tagging, ontologies and taxonomies.
5.
Planning and implementation
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Evolution—not revolution—to a new logical architecture to replace the 1980’s layered data warehouse
model
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The Staged Implementation Roadmap
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Organisational considerations; changes in IT culture and responsibilities
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Tackling the “spreadmart” problem
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From query and reporting to enabling deep analytics
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Executive decision support and how it must evolve
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Dealing with emerging Ethical and Economic Considerations
Building the Data-Driven Business
Architecture and Tools for Smart Operations, Analytics
and Information with Dr. Barry Devlin.
When
Wednesday 24th August to Thursday 25th August 2016.
Where
Saxons/BCA National, Level 1, 65 York Street, Sydney 2000
Cost
$1,499 inc GST.
Attendees will receive a
complementary copy of
Dr. Devlin’s book,
‘Business
unIntelligence’.
Alternatively, you can
buy a copy here.
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