2010-09-15 - Your Data to Dashboards in Minutes (Live Seminar)

The Pentaho Agile BI Tour is coming to Lisbon - join us to learn how Pentaho is revolutionizing the way BI applications are built and deployed!

With tight budgets, limited headcount and more requests for vital and up-to-date information than ever before, we need new approaches to solve both old and new IT and business challenges and to avoid the costly and complex BI implementations of the past.

Pentaho’s Agile BI methodology combined with a commercial open source business model enables you to overcome these roadblocks and deliver successful BI solutions to business users more quickly and at significantly lower costs.

This event is designed both for:

• business analysts and executives that wish to learn more about how Agile BI can positively impact your business as well as for
• technical staff involved in building BI solutions

The latter portion of the seminar will include an extensive, step-by-step training demonstration of a BI implementation from ETL to deployed dashboards.

Join us for our live half-day event to:

• Learn how your peers are succeeding with Open Source Business Intelligence
• Learn how Agile BI enables greater collaboration between IT and business users
• See how BI Applications can be deployed faster than ever
• Take part in a step-by-step training demonstration of an actual BI application implementation from data integration to the building and deploying of relevant reports and dashboards.

This event will show you how to quickly and cost effectively arm your IT and business managers with the information they need to make the right decisions to grow your business and keep it competitive.

Register today!

Agenda

9h	Welcome Coffee and Registration
9h30m	Welcome & Introduction Pentaho News & Updates (Pentaho)
9h45m	Agile BI - Addressing the Analytics Challenge with Agile BI Greater collaboration between IT and business users. (Pentaho)
10h15m	Agile BI Demonstration PDI 4.0 integrated development environment and its capabilities to drive collaboration between IT and their business users. (André Simões - BI Consultant & Pentaho Trainer - Xpand IT)
10h45m	Getting Started with Agile BI Ways in which a customer can get started with Pentaho: - project methodology, best practices, who we need to interact with, time commitments and what is needed from the client (Ricardo Pires - BI Division Manager & Pentaho Trainer - Xpand IT)
11h05m	Coffee-Break
11h25m	Agile BI Use Case - Faster BI than ever (Vasco Patrício - Project Manager - Xpand IT) A real use case presentation in Retail Industry.
11h45m	Training: Data to Dashboards Scripted building of a BI app from data integration, OLAP, reporting, dashboards and KPIs with the Pentaho BI Suite.(Ricardo Pires - BI Division Manager & Pentaho Trainer - Xpand IT)
12h30m	Open Discussion, Q&A, Networking and Cocktails

 

HOW TO REGISTER

• Submit your information using the Event Form in the left side of this page " EVENT REGISTRATION"

or

• send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the following information (Name, Company, Phone , Email)

 

IMPORTANT - The seats are limited. Your registration will only be confirmed if you recieve a confirmation email.

About PENTAHO

Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for Business Intelligence (BI). Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration / ETL, data mining and a BI platform that have made it the world’s leading and most widely deployed commercial open source BI suite. Pentaho provides support, services, and product enhancements via an annual subscription that can lower total cost of ownership by 90% compared to traditional, proprietary BI offerings. Since its 2004 founding as the pioneer in open source BI, Pentaho's products have been downloaded more than five million times, with production deployments at companies ranging from small organizations to The Global 2000. For more information, visit www.pentaho.com.

About Xpand IT

Based in Portugal with several customers accross the world, we provide the top IT knowledge for our customers, so they can focus on their core business and still have the best IT resources for their company needs, seamless integrated into their business processes. We identify ourselves as a Team with Passion for Excellence, and we differentiate our services by having the best people with the best expertise in the following areas: Business Process & Integration, Business Intelligence, Enterprise RFID, Enterprise Mobility, IT Systems, Enterprise Applications. For more information, visit: www.xpand-it.com