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SAS http://www.sas.com/

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Paul Kent – VP, R & D

Ryan Schmiedl – Sr. Director, Product Management

SAS http://www.sas.com/

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Topic:

Big Data Analytics – Architecture to Visualization

Presenter(s):

Paul Kent – Vice President of Big Data

Paul Kent coordinates with customers, partners and R&D teams to make sure the SAS development road map is taking world-class mathematics to the biggest, baddest problems out there. Kent joined SAS in 1984 as a Technical Marketing Representative and eventually moved into the Research and development division. He has used SAS for more than 30 years and contributed to the development of SAS software components including PROC SQL, the WHERE clause, TCP /IP connectivity, portions of the Output Delivery System (OD S) and, most recently, the Massively Parallel approaches for performing SAS work. A strong customer advocate, Kent is widely recognized within the SAS community for his active participation in local and international users conferences.

Greg Hodges – Director of BI Product Management

Greg Hodges and his team are responsible for defining requirements and providing direction for components of the SAS Business Intelligence (BI) product suite. The key focus of the group is to provide users of the SAS BI platform with the ability to receive and deliver actionable content across the spectrum of devices and technologies that have been widely adopted by enterprise organizations. He often works and communicates with customer and analysts to access market drivers and trends to ensure SAS’ BI products deliver the key capabilities needed by customers and prospects. Previously at SAS, Greg was a manager in the Professional Services Division and worked closely with customers to implement a variety of SAS products and solutions. Additionally, Greg worked in the Research and Development Division building solutions used to fight financial crimes. Specifically he was a development manager/lead for both the SAS Anti-Money Laundering solution as well as the Fraud Management Solution. Prior to joining SAS, Greg was a software engineer for measurements Group Inc. which is a leading supplier of strain gauges, instruments, and accessories for experimental stress analysis and precision transducers.

Company Profile:

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers at more than 60,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.

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SAS

SAS http://www.sas.com/en_us/home.html

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SAS® Solutions for Hadoop

Hadoop brings big data. We bring everything else.

Summary:

Adding Hadoop to your big data mix? Now what? SAS provides everything you need to derive valuable insights from all that data. Extensive data management – because prepping data is hugely time consuming. Visual data discovery. In-memory processing. Sophisticated analytics. And the ability to quickly deploy the models that provide the best answers.

Presenter(s):

Wayne Thompson – Chief Data Scientist

Wayne Thompson is a globally renowned presenter, teacher, practitioner and innovator in the fields of data mining and machine learning. He has worked alongside the world’s biggest and most challenging organizations to help them harness analytics to build high-performing organizations.

Over the course of his 20-year tenure at SAS he has been credited with bringing to market landmark SAS analytics technologies (SAS Text Miner, Credit Scoring for SAS® Enterprise Miner™, SAS Model Manager, SAS Rapid Predictive Modeler, SAS Scoring Accelerator for Teradata, SAS High-Performance Analytics and SAS Analytics Accelerator for Teradata).

Current focus initiatives include easy-to-use self-service data mining tools for business analysts, outlier detection and description, entity analytics, and recommendation engines with a heavy focus on SAS’ highly interactive in-memory analytics optimized for Hadoop.

Mike Frost – Senior Product Manager

Mike Frost joined SAS in 2010 as a product manager working for the DataFlux subsidiary of SAS. Since joining, he has assumed responsibility for the vision, strategy, planning and development direction of SAS data quality, data management, data integration, data federation, data governance and master data management products. Frost has spent 15 years in various data management-related product marketing, presales and technical support roles that provide him with a broad spectrum of experiences to draw upon to help bring the best products to market. Frost holds a bachelor’s degree in biological and agricultural engineering from North Carolina State University.

Company Profile:

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers at more than 75,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know.®

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DirectPay

Turkcel

Australian Institute of Health and Wellfare

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SAS

SAS http://www.sas.com/en_us/home.html

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SAS® Viya™

Summary:

Open, cloud-ready SAS® Viya™ is a next-generation high-performance analytics and visualization architecture that serves everyone – from data scientists to business analysts, application developers to executives – with the reliable, scalable, secure analytics management and governance essential for agile IT.

Presenter(s):

Wayne Thompson – Senior Manager, Data Science Technologies Product Management

Wayne Thompson is a globally renowned presenter, teacher, practitioner and innovator in the fields of data mining and machine learning. He has worked alongside the world’s biggest and most challenging organizations to help them harness analytics to build high-performing organizations.

Mike Frost – Senior Manager, Cloud and Platform Technologies

With a background that includes more than fifteen years in product management, product marketing, presales, and technical support roles, Mike Frost brings a broad spectrum of experiences to help bring the best products to market. After joining the DataFlux subsidiary of SAS in 2010 as product manager for all data management products, Mike now leads SAS’ Cloud and Platform Technologies product management team and is responsible for the strategy, vision, and roadmap for all core SAS platform and Cloud-based offerings. Mike holds a bachelor’s degree in biological and agricultural engineering from NC State University.

Company Profile:

SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative analytics, business intelligence and data management software and services, SAS helps customers at more than 80,000 sites make better decisions faster. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.

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San Bernardino County

DER Touristik Köln

SAS http://www.sas.com/en_us/home.html

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SAS® Visual Analytics

Modern BI and Analytics Platform

Summary:

SAS Visual Analytics offers a market leading self-service data visualization and analytics platform to visually discover relevant relationships in your data from across multiple data sources, create and share interactive reports and dashboards, and use self-service analytics to quickly assess probable outcomes and make smarter, data driven-decisions.

Presenter(s):

Anand Chitale – Director, Product Management

Anand Chitale is a technology evangelist with 15+ years of global experience in launching innovative products in the existing and new markets, driving a change to democratize BI and Analytics as an individual contributor, designing and implementing strategic business solutions for large organizations across multiple verticals in client-facing roles and leading teams with expertise in Visualization (BI) and Data Management, Big Data Analytics & Internet of Things (IoT).

Currently Anand is the Director, Product Management, SAS Business Intelligence and drives the strategy, vision and roadmap for SAS Visual Analytics as the core SAS platform offering for analytical data visualization.

Anand holds a Master’s Degree in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi.

Atrin Assa – S. Product Manager – SAS Visual Analytics

Atrin Assa is a product manager on SAS Visual Analytics, responsible for driving SAS Visual Analytics user experience and visual design as well as overseeing SAS Home. Since joining SAS in 2015, Atrin has helped integrate SAS Visual Analytics’ user experience and visual design to bring a more cohesive and quality experience to business intelligence customers.

Atrin holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and an MBA in Innovation Management and Marketing from North Carolina State University. His diverse background in marketing, product innovation, product quality, and user experience includes work with companies of equally diverse scales and industries including Apple, Destineer Studios, and Protochips.

Mark Schneider – Principle Product Manager – SAS Platform Technologies

Company Profile:

SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative analytics, business intelligence and data management software and services, SAS helps customers at more than 80,000 sites make better decisions faster. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.

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SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative software and services, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.

Topic

Business Intelligence with SAS® : Analytics for Everyone, Everywhere

Summary

Smart. Flexible. Anywhere. SAS Visual Analytics delivers an easy-to-use visual discovery and self-service analytics platform that supports the entire analytics lifecycle – from data, discovery to deployment. With SAS Visual Analytics, users can uncover relationships in data from across multiple data sources, create and share interactive reports and dashboards to drive faster, smarter decisions.

Presenter(s)

Anand Chitale – Director, Product Management

Robby Powell – Product Manager, SAS Visual Analytics

Stacey Schaeffer – Director, Price and Offering Management

Rick Styll – Product Manager, SAS Visual Analytics

Katie Tedrow – Product Marketing Manager

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Rogers Communications

Special Olympics

Silwood http://www.silwoodtechnology.com/

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Improving BI, Analytics and Data Warehouse project delivery by accelerating source data discovery of packaged applications

Summary:

Learn how Safyr provides a radical and effective alternative to the time-consuming, inaccurate and mostly manual practices for locating the right tables in large complex and often customised packages from vendors such as SAP, Oracle, Salesforce and others in the context of data warehouse, BI and other Information Management projects. The presentation will feature customer case studies and a live demonstration of how to rapidly find the relevant tables in SAP and Salesforce systems.

Presenter(s):

Nick Porter, Technical Director

Nick is Technical Director and one of the founders of Silwood technology Ltd, the developers and manufacturers of Safyr. Nick has over 30 years IT experience, the last 15 being in the Data Modelling space, providing tools and consulting to support projects needing an understanding of data structures for ERPs.

Roland Bullivant, Sales and Marketing Director

Roland is a seasoned sales and marketing executive who has spent over 15 years in the Business Intelligence /Enterprise Data Management markets with vendors such as Pilot Software and Business Objects/SAP. He has also had significant success and experience in Enterprise Application Integration, Data Integration and Master Data Management which was gained at SeeBeyond and Siebel

Company Profile:

Silwood Technology is the leading supplier of tools & services that enable enterprise architects and data modelers to explore, discover and visualize the data structures and relationships of large Enterprise Application Packages such as SAP, SAP BW, Salesforce, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel and Oracle E-business Suite.

Silwood Technology’s unique toolset, Safyr® allows users to build up their own domain knowledge of these complex application packages in support of key projects such as Data Modelling, BI/Data Warehousing, Master Data Management, Data Integration and Enterprise Application Integration as well as Data Lineage, SOA, Enterprise Architecture and Test Data Management.

Case Studies:

Oil and Gas

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Silwood Technology

SnapLogic http://www.snaplogic.com/

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Solving the Integrator’s Dilemma with SnapLogic

Summary:

As sure as death and taxes, application and data integration will converge in the cloud. SnapLogic has built a completely new platform focused on powering the enterprise IT shift to cloud analytics, applications and APIs. This session will introduce the SnapLogic Integration Cloud, dig into the architecture and roadmap, and provide an overview of the common cloud services and on-premises integration and orchestration use cases we’re seeing in the market.

Presenter(s):

Darren Cunningham – VP, Marketing

Before joining in September, Darren was the vice president of marketing at Informatica, where he led product, customer and program marketing initiatives for the company’s on-demand data integration tools. Prior to Informatica, Darren was vice president of marketing at LucidEra, one of the industry’s first cloud business intelligence solutions. He also worked at Salesforce.com, where he was responsible for analytics product management and helped establish the AppExchange category for business intelligence and data management partners. Earlier in his career, Darren led product marketing for Business Objects data integration, now a strategic part of SAP Enterprise Information Management (EIM) solutions. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto.

Craig Stewart – Director, Product Management

For some years now Craig has been helping customers drive value out of their IT and applications investment through integration. Prior to joining SnapLogic in 2011, he worked for Oracle in the Data Integration Solutions group, having joined through the Sunopsis acquisition. At Oracle he oversaw the introduction of the Oracle Data Integrator tool to the wider European marketplace, helping to drive significant revenue, and value to customers. Over the years he has worked in customer facing roles for some of the leading technology companies including Sybase/Powersoft (with the PowerBuilder product), Cognos (with the PowerHouse product), Cyberscience (with CQCS) and Data General, always working with leading/bleeding edge technologies in the data and application development space.

Company Profile:

SnapLogic is the leader in Elastic Integration, helping companies connect enterprise applications and data in the cloud and on-premise for improved business agility and faster decision-making. With the award-winning SnapLogic Integration Cloud, organizations can more quickly and affordably accelerate the “cloudification” of enterprise IT with a fast, multi-point and modern integration platform as a service (iPaaS). Funded by leading venture investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Ignition Partners, and founded by Gaurav Dhillon, former CEO and co-founder of Informatica, SnapLogic is used by prominent companies in the Global 2000.

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SnapLogic

SnapLogic http://www.snaplogic.com/

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Topic:

Unified Platform for Data and Application Integration

Summary:

In 2015 SnapLogic added hundreds of new direct and indirect customers with our modern integration platform as a service (iPaaS). In this presentation you’ll get an update on the company, insight into our roadmap and an update on our new Spark Data Pipelines, which are increasingly being deployed to power data lake initiatives.

Presenter(s):

Darren Cunningham – VP of Marketing

Craig Stewart – VP of Product Management

Ravi Dharnikota – Head of Enterprise Architecture

Company Profile:

SnapLogic is a unified data and application integration platform as a service (iPaaS). The SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform has a streaming architecture that supports real-time, triggered and low-latency enterprise application integration requirements plus the high volume, variety and velocity of big data integration in the same easy-to-use interface. SnapLogic’s distributed architecture is a natural fit for consuming and moving large data sets residing on premises, in the cloud, or both. SnapLogic boosts developer productivity by requiring no hand coding, no schema enforcement, and rapid development via a robust visual designer. At the same time, SnapLogic is intuitive enough to provide self-service integration capabilities for business analysts, data scientists and non-developers. With SnapLogic customers eliminate the effort and maintenance involved with multiple, traditional ETL and ESB tools and future-proof app and data integrations.

Case Studies:

GameStop

Box

Vassar College

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SnapLogic

SnapLogic http://www.snaplogic.com/

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Topics:

Digital Transformation & the SnapLogic Enterprise Integration Cloud (EIC)

Cloud Data Warehouse

SnapLogic Iris AI (Artificial Intelligence)

Summary:

The SnapLogic Enterprise Integration Cloud is a new integration category that re-imagines integration to bring agility and self-service by empowering business users to collaborate on an integrative foundation for today’s digital enterprise. We will discuss how to enable digital transformation through pre-packaged solutions in areas such as Human capital management, financial processes, Mergers, and Acquisition, etc. Next, will be the application of Artificial Intelligence including Machine Learning to improve and reduce the time to Integrate data, applications, and “Things.” Then, we will discuss the emergence of cloud data warehouse technologies including Data Lake and its movement to the cloud through companies such as Redshift, SQL DW, and Snowflake. The session will wrap-up with a discussion of a multi-cloud strategy and the importance of a vendor and technology-neutral role to support the emergence of an entire ecosystem in the cloud.

Presenter(s):

Craig Stewart – VP of Product Management

Craig leads the Product Management team at SnapLogic, having headed up the field technical team and other roles with the company. He brings with him the benefit of many years of experience in the industry. Before his 5+ years at SnapLogic, Craig was instrumental in the evolution of data and integration technologies at companies like Oracle, Sonic Software, Sybase, and Cognos.

Janet Jaiswal – VP of Product Marketing

Janet possesses more than 20 years of experience building and marketing products in the integration, IoT, mobile and payments space in Silicon Valley. She has successfully introduced more than a dozen products and services to the enterprise market. Her industry knowledge is formed from previous positions held at Aeris, eBay, Scient, IBM, and PayPal.

Ravi Dharnikota – Chief Enterprise Architect

Ravi leads the big data practice and enterprise architects team at Snaplogic and is a frequent speaker on topics such as Modern Data integration. His 16 years of experience in the industry at companies like Sun Microsystems, CA technologies, Scient and other startups in roles of product management, product development, consulting, architecture and leadership gives him a unique perspective on the data and integration landscape.

Company Profile:

SnapLogic is the global leader in self-service integration. The company’s Enterprise Integration Cloud makes it fast and easy to connect applications, data, and devices with no coding. Hundreds of customers across the Global 2000 – including Adobe, AstraZeneca, Box, Capital One, GameStop, Verizon, and Wendy’s – rely on SnapLogic to automate business processes, accelerate analytics and drive digital transformation. SnapLogic was founded by data industry veteran Gaurav Dhillon and is backed by blue-chip investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Capital One, Ignition Partners, Microsoft, Triangle Peak Partners, and Vitruvian Partners. Learn more at snaplogic.com.

Case Studies:

Box

GameStop

AstraZeneca

SnapLogic http://www.snaplogic.com/

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Topic:

The Current and Future States of Integration Technology

Summary:

We are the only integration solution to deliver a single, unified platform for application integration, data Integration, API management, B2B integration and data engineering projects. We do this because we see the traditional roles between specialists, analysts, data engineers and everyone else working with data are blurring and require an intuitive, machine-learning assisted way to develop fluid yet enterprise-grade integrations. In this presentation we will explain the current state of integration, what problems it solves and for whom, how we are helping companies solve complex problems quickly and where we think the integration market is headed to help power emerging technologies.

Presenter(s):

Craig Stewart – SVP of Product

Craig Stewart is responsible for leading the company’s product strategy and launches, roadmap and evangelism. Craig is an experienced manager of technical teams with many years of experience guiding the evolution of data and application integration technologies. Over his career, he has been a significant contributor to the development of several fast-growing technology companies, including Oracle, Cognos, Powersoft, Sybase, iMediation, and Sunopsis.

Diby Malakar – VP of Product Management

Diby Malakar is responsible for directing product innovation and helping ensure go to market success. With over 25 years of experience in product management, Diby was previously VP of product management for Oracle Public Cloud, and before that was Director of Product Management for Informatica’s Data Integration & Big Data business.

Company Profile:

SnapLogic provides the #1 Intelligent Integration Platform. The company’s AI-powered workflows and self-service integration capabilities make it fast and easy for organizations to manage all their application integration, data integration, and data engineering projects on a single, scalable platform. Hundreds of Global 2000 customers — including Adobe, AstraZeneca, Box, Emirates, Schneider Electric, and Wendy’s — rely on SnapLogic to automate business processes, accelerate analytics, and drive digital transformation. Learn more atsnaplogic.com.

Case Studies:

TBWA

Kaplan Test Prep

Box

Space-Time Insight http://www.spacetimeinsight.com/

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Topic:

Situational Intelligence: The New Frontier in Visual Analytics

Summary:

As organizations around the world start coming to grips with the data tsunami and the need for big data systems, they’re now turning their attention to another challenge: how to make sense of all the data they’re gathering. This presentation will describe an effective new approach, called situational intelligence, to correlating, analyzing and visualizing data sourced from multiple systems, and review how businesses are using it today to make better, faster decisions.

Presenter(s):

Steve Ehrlich – Senior VP, Marketing and Product Management

Steve Ehrlich is Space-Time Insight’s Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product Management. He has over 25 years of software industry experience and a passion for technology and all aspects of the marketing domain. He previously held management roles at BUZ Interactive, Apptera, Nuance and Oracle. Steve holds Bachelors and Honors degrees in Commerce from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.

Company Profile:

Space-Time Insight is changing the way utilities and other organizations with critical assets manage their resources and respond to crises that impact operations, customer service, revenue and risk. From traditional transmission, communications and transportation networks to smart grids and smart cities, our next generation situational intelligence solution makes critical infrastructure smarter, safer and more reliable. We enable enterprises to visualize and analyze their resources across location and time, rapidly respond to disruptions in service, and exceed performance and reliability goals.

Case Studies:

California ISO

SMUD

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Space-Time

SQLstream http://www.sqlstream.com/

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Topic:

From Big Data to Real-time Value: Streaming Operational Intelligence

Summary:

Operational Intelligence is blurring the boundary between traditional BI analytics and the world of business operations. The two are no longer distinct business functions, rather a seamless continuum from streaming machine data to real-time business value. Existing log search and business intelligence systems struggle to deliver the required combination of real-time performance from high velocity data, sophisticated time and space-based analytics, and the operational integration required to drive automated action. Organizations in need of enterprise data management systems capable of identifying and predicting operational exceptions are faced with a wide range of Big Data technology options, each with different real-time and operational intelligence credentials. Understanding the technology and cost tipping points for each is key, and how technologies such as Hadoop, RDBMS and streaming differ in their cost of performance for real-time operational intelligence.

Presenter(s):

Damian Black – CEO

Now a CEO of SQLstream, Damian Black has over twenty-five years in the software infrastructure business. His career includes top positions with Hewlett-Packard, IP Mediation and Followap. Damian is the author of eleven patents and founder of SQLstream, a massively parallel real-time data engine executing continuous SQL queries against Streaming Big Data and supporting a cloud-based architecture.

Company Profile:

SQLstream, Inc. empowers businesses to perform real-time analytics on unstructured log file, sensor and other machine-generated Big Data, through its distributed, 100% SQL platform for real-time data management and operational intelligence applications.

Case Studies:

Improving the Traveler Experience in Real-time: Grupo InTech

Avoiding the Crash by Monitoring Logs in Real-time: Cornell University