Panorama http://www.panorama.com/

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Bringing the Best of Data Discovery & Corporate BI

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Panorama Necto is a self-service Business Intelligence 3.0 solution that brings the concept of social networks and recommendation systems into BI to allow users to gain quick, collaborative and relevant insights and shorten the time from data to action. Panorama streamlines business operations for over 2,000 customers worldwide and has a wide eco-system of partners in 30 countries.

Presenter(s):

Rony Ross – Founder and Chairman

Tomer Paz – Product Manager

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deo Products Distributors

Queensland Health

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Panorama

Panorama http://www.panorama.com/

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Disrupting data with Necto Intelligence: Automatically visualizing and explaining insights via a collaborative platform

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Update on Panorama Necto – currently at release 15.1 – the first suggestive & collaborative BI platform. Introducing the newly launched Panorama Necto Insights: a novel approach to presenting insights for business users.

Presenter(s):

Rony Ross – Chairman

Rony Ross is the Founder & Executive Chairman of Panorama Software Ltd. Rony previously held the position of Chief Executive Officer since its inception in 1993 and has been the driving force behind Panorama’s success to date. As Executive Chairman, Rony plays a significant role in expanding Panorama’s global presence, leveraging her over 25 years of industry experience and in-depth knowledge of the business intelligence industry. Rony has a strong background in both software development and marketing, and holds a successful track record of managing research and development centers for a number of multi-national software companies before starting Panorama Software in 1993. By 1996, Panorama had become the leading developer and marketer of software products for OLAP and BI in the Israeli market, gaining over 75% market share in just over two years. In October 1996, the company’s OLAP software technology was acquired by Microsoft Corporation and formed the basis for Microsoft’s database technology known as OLAP Services and renamed Analysis Services 2000. Rony holds an MBA in Marketing from Tel Aviv University Business School, a Masters of Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel and Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Tel Aviv University.

James Baker – Solutions Specialist

Profile:

Panorama Necto is a worldwide leader in next generation self-service smart data discovery. It leverages a suggestive discovery engine that simplifies the business users’ data preparation while automating pattern exploration and analysis. Panorama Necto is powered by a unified and governed visualization and unique collaboration platform.

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Pentaho http://www.pentaho.com/

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Quentin Gallivan – Chairman and CEO

Jake Cornelius – Sr. VP, Products

Pentaho http://www.pentaho.com/

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Pentaho company update, 5.0 and beyond

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The market landscape is changing and our customer’s needs are adapting to the new trends such as enterprises moving from being process-driven to data-driven, new big data business models and pain-points emerging. In this presentation we will share with you the patterns we are seeing from our customers and give you an insider look at how we are addressing these trends in Pentaho Business Analytics 5.0 (launching mid-September). Finally, we will give an overall Pentaho company update and outlook for the next 6-12 months.

Presenter(s):

Jake Cornelius – Senior VP, Products

Jake is responsible for leading product management team in defining the overall product strategy and delivery of Pentaho’s product roadmap. Jake has well over a decade of business intelligence and analytics experience, holding a variety of positions including solution consulting, product marketing, product management and engineering management at companies such as Arbor Software and Hyperion Solutions (now Oracle). Jake was an early employee at Pentaho starting in 2006. He is the father of three, an average golfer and a rabid Gator fan.

Donna Prlich – Senior Director, Product Marketing

Donna’s focus is on the value of the combined data integration and business analytics capabilities of the Pentaho platform. Donna has over 15 years of marketing experience in the business analytics, database, data warehousing and big data market segments.

Company Profile:

The market landscape is changing and our customer’s needs are adapting to the new trends such as enterprises moving from being process-driven to data driven, new big data business models and pain-points emerging. In this presentation we will share with you the patterns we are seeing from our customers and give you an insider look at how we are addressing these trends in Pentaho Business Analytics 5.0 (launching mid-September). Finally, we will give an overall Pentaho company update and outlook for the next 6-12 months. Pentaho’s mission is to deliver the future of analytics today. With its modern, unified data integration and business intelligence platform, Pentaho provides:

• Full business analytics & data integration

• Native integration into big data ecosystem

• Embeddable, cloud-ready analytics.

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Edo Interactive

BeachMint

Lufthansa

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Pentaho

Pentaho http://www.pentaho.com/

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Pentaho and the Enterprise Analytic Data Pipeline

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This has been an exciting year for Pentaho with the acquisition by Hitachi, immense growth in enterprise customers and delivery of Pentaho 6.0 to automate the enterprise data pipeline. We hope you join us for this presentation for an insider look into our company, customers, products and cool technology coming from Pentaho Labs.

Presenter(s):

Donna Prlich – Sr. Vice President, Products and Solutions

Donna is the Vice President of Product and Solutions Marketing at Pentaho leading marketing for the Pentaho Platform and Solutions. Donna joined Pentaho in 2012 as the Director of Product Marketing to help position Pentaho for success in the emerging big data market. Previously, Donna worked in Product, Partner and Market Development roles at Karmasphere, one of the first Big Data Analytics players, Business Intelligence companies such as Actuate and Sun Microsystems defining early Data Warehousing Marketing Strategy. Donna has a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley.

Chuck Yarbrough – Director, Pentaho Solutions

Bo Borland

Company Profile:

Pentaho, a Hitachi Group Company, is a leading data integration and business analytics company with an enterprise-class, open source-based platform for diverse big data deployments. Pentaho’s unified data integration and analytics platform is comprehensive, completely embeddable and delivers governed data to power any analytics in any environment. Pentaho’s mission is to help organizations across multiple industries harness the value from all their data, including big data and IoT, enabling them to find new revenue streams, operate more efficiently, deliver outstanding service and minimize risk. Pentaho has over 15,000 product deployments and 1,500 commercial customers today including ABN-AMRO Clearing, EMC, FINRA, Halliburton, Moody’s, NASDAQ, RichRelevance, and Staples.

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RichRelevance

Paytronix

Caterpillar Marine

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Pentaho

Pitney Bowes Business Insight http://www.pbinsight.com/

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Joe Pindell – Solution Evangelist

Platfora http://www.platfora.com/

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Big Data Analytics in the Fact-based Economy

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Is your organization part of the Fact-based Economy, or is it still making decisions based on gut instinct? Reality is, most organizations don’t yet have the applications and infrastructure required for big data analytics. But the ones that do are gaining significant advantage. In this session, Platfora will discuss how companies are leveraging “old” and “new” data sources using ultra-modern analytics techniques and platforms.

Presenter(s):

Peter Schlampp – VP of Products

Pete is the VP of Products at Platfora. He is responsible for early development, product design, and the roadmap for Platfora’s products. Pete spends most of his time working with enterprise customers to solve their big data BI needs. Prior to Platfora, he was VP of Products and Marketing at Solera Networks, building network security analytics products to store, search, and analyze every packet traversing 10 GigE networks. Early in his career he lead Products for IronPort Systems – the first company to solve spam at Internet scale – which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007.

Lara Shackelford – VP of Marketing

Lara leverages her early career in fashion design, combined with 20 years in enterprise software marketing, and a deep understanding of the needs of IT decision makers in the Global 2K, to lead creatively fueled marketing for high growth tech companies.

Lara has held strategic marketing leadership positions at global enterprise brands, as well as dynamic Silicon Valley start-ups focused on building smart solutions for innovative big data applications including Hadoop and NoSQL technologies. Lara spearheads a digitally integrated, multichannel marketing and communications strategy for Platfora, which enables businesses to demystify big data to extract fact-based business insights. Lara has built a career on extending the power of marketing to create value from, and bring clarity to, the complex world of Big Data Analytics and exceed the expectations of demanding enterprise customers. Her extensive industry expertise includes global marketing executive roles at IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Bearing Point, DataStax, and Qlik Tech.

Company Profile:

We are the first Big Data Analytics platform to enable business users to connect and interact, self-service, with customer interactions, transactions, and machine data, all together in Hadoop, iterating without end. For more details, visit www.platfora.com or follow @platfora and #FactBased on twitter.

Case Studies:

Disney

Edmonds.com

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Platfora

Platfora http://www.platfora.com/

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Platfora Big Data Discovery

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In this session, Peter Schlampp, VP of Product, will provide an overview of Platfora’s Big Data Discovery platform, explain how Platfora is different than traditional business intelligence products, and show how customers are finding business value. Additionally, Peter will walk through a variety of live demos demonstrating how Platfora is enabling business users to make decisions using big data. Specifically, you will see how Platfora is:

• Complete: One platform allowing user to go from raw data in Hadoop to insights

• Smart: Providing access to big data without IT overhead

• Open: How Platfora fits into the existing business analytics ecosystem

Presenter(s):

Peter Schlampp, VP of Products

An early member of the Platfora team, Peter leads the charge to put big data in users’ hands in a beautiful and easy way. Peter Schlampp remembers playing with the keys of a TRS-80 when he was seven years old — and since then, he’s been destined to build category-defining products that make businesses faster, safer, smarter, and more profitable. Before coming to Platfora, Peter was vice president of marketing and product management at Solera, where he built the first DVR for network traffic. At IronPort, where Peter was senior director of product management, he defined the world’s first email security appliance, making the world safe from spam and viruses. He then became director and general manager of the Cisco/IronPort Development Center in Bangalore, India. Peter has a B.S. in Biology from Boston College.

Company Profile:

Platfora is a Big Data Discovery platform native to Hadoop. Big Data Discovery fuses methods of data discovery and behavioral analysis on big data. Big Data Discovery makes data at scale accessible, analysis iterative, and is guided by machine learning and advanced analytics.

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Cisco WebEx

Cox Automotive

Disney

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Platfora

Progress DataDirect http://www.progress.com/datadirect-connectors

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API Overload: Simplify BI against SaaS data

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The average company has over 20 SaaS applications deployed, and as lines-of-business take control over technology selection, that number is going to skyrocket. Doing BI against the myriad of proprietary APIs these applications expose is time consuming, error prone, and a drain on IT resources. Learn about these pitfalls and how companies are better handling this API explosion.

Presenter(s):

Dion Picco – General Manager

Sumit Sarkar – Chief Data Evangelist

Sumit Sarkar is a Chief Data Evangelist at Progress, with more than 10 years of experience working in the data connectivity field. As a leading consultant on open data standards connectivity with cloud data, Sumit’s interests include: performance tuning of the data access layer for which he has developed a patent pending analysis technology, business intelligence and data warehousing for SaaS platforms, and data connectivity for aPaaS environments with a focus on standards such as ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET and ODATA. He is an IBM Certified Consultant for IBM Cognos Business Intelligence and a TDWI member. He has presented sessions on data connectivity at various conferences including Dreamforce, Oracle OpenWorld, Strata Hadoop, MongoDB World and SAP Analytics and Business Objects Conference, among many others.

Company Profile:

Progress is a global software company that simplifies the development, deployment and management of business applications on-premise or in the cloud, on any platform or device, to any data source, with enhanced performance, minimal IT complexity and low total cost of ownership.

Case Studies:

MicroStrategy

NetSuite

VoltDB

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Progress Software