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KXEN http://www.kxen.com/

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Predictive Analytics on Big Data for Big Insight

Summary:

In this session, we will explore how to analyze the “other dimensions of big data”, including high dimensional data sets (10,000’s of variables) to gain critical insights about your customers. We will demonstrate how KXEN is used in some of the largest B2C companies worldwide as well as KXEN’s latest cloud-based application “Predictive Offers”, which was recently named one of the Top 10 Distinguished Apps on salesforce.com’s AppExchange.

Presenter(s):

John Ball – CEO

John brings 20 years of experience in enterprise software, deep expertise in business intelligence and CRM applications, and a proven track record of success driving rapid growth at highly innovative companies. Prior to joining KXEN, John was VP & General Manager, Analytics and Reporting Products at Salesforce.com; Founder and CEO of Netonomy, the leading provider of customer self-service solutions for the telecommunications industry; and held a number of executive roles at Business Objects, including General Manager, Web Products.

Andrew Savitz – VP, Worldwide Marketing

Andrew brings to KXEN more than 15 years of experience in the enterprise software business. He joins KXEN from salesforce.com where he led marketing efforts for the Service Cloud; worked at leading enterprise software vendors such as PeopleSoft and webMethods; and was a consultant with Accenture, during which time he was a key contributor in the company’s first Siebel CRM implementation and helped launch their CRM solutions practice.

Marco Casalaina – VP, Product Management

Marco joins KXEN from salesforce.com, where he led product management efforts for the Service Cloud, the company’s customer service and support solution and its second-largest and fastest-growing product. Prior to joining salesforce.com, Marco worked at Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Calico Commerce.

Company Profile:

KXEN is revolutionizing the way companies use predictive analytics to make better decisions on petabytes of big data. Based on patented innovations, the company’s flagship product, InfiniteInsight® and its pure cloud-based platform, Cloud Prediction™, deliver orders of magnitude improvements in speed and agility to optimize every step in the customer lifecycle – including acquisition, cross-sell, up-sell, retention and next best activity. Proven with over 500 deployments at companies such as AAA, Allegro, Bank of America, Barclays, Belgacom, CBS Interactive, ING Direct, Lowe’s, Meredith Corporation, Mobilink, Overstock.com, PT XL Axiata, RealNetworks, Rhapsody, Rockwell, Rogers, Sears, Shutterfly, Stage Stores, U.S. Cellular and Vodafone, KXEN solutions deliver predictive power and infinite insight. KXEN is headquartered in San Francisco, California with field offices in the U.S., Paris and London.

LogiXML http://www.logixml.com/

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Ken Chow – CMO

David Abramson – Director, Product Management

Logi Analytics http://www.logianalytics.com/

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Introducing Logi Vision

Summary:

Logi Analytics is unveiling a new product, Vision, offering a fresh take on visual data discovery. Logi Vision is a self-service, visual analytics application designed for business professionals, not data scientists, that offers a simpler and more effective way to access (DataSmart™) and explore (ThinkSpace™) data quickly without dependency on IT. Logi Vision lets business professionals share, collaborate, search, and select the data visualizations that matter the most to them into a single, personalized, and unified view of key information (InfoBoard™)

Presenter(s):

Brian Brinkmann – VP of Products

Brian Brinkmann spent is responsible for product strategy, product management, and product marketing at Logi Analytics. Prior to joining Logi Analytics, Brian spent nearly 15 years in senior consulting, marketing, and product positions at MicroStrategy.

David Abramson – Director Product Management

David Abramson shapes the delivery of leading-edge business intelligence software products for Logi Analytics. Prior to joining Logi, he led database application development teams for federal government agencies including Department of Transportation, Department of Defense, and the U.S. Postal Service.

Brett Jackson – CEO

Brett Jackson has more than twenty years of experience with a variety of technology companies in both the computer software and services industries with a primary focus on information security.

Company Profile:

Logi Analytics, formerly LogiXML, enables organizations to put information to work by allowing them to create web-based BI and analytic applications that can be integrated directly within the applications, systems, and processes that support their business – all at a fraction of the cost of other solutions. Unlike traditional BI platforms that are complex and costly, Logi Analytics technology allows organizations to rapidly develop, deploy, and adapt applications to serve business users without extensive development or professional services. Logi Analytics is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with sales and support offices in the UK serving Europe. The company is a privately held, venture-backed firm with investments from Updata Partners, GroTech Ventures, and Summit Partners.

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Baker Tilly

Neuberger Berman

Islington

Logi Analytics http://www.logianalytics.com/

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The Continuum of Self-Service Analytics

Summary:

Self-service is one of the biggest trends in analytics and there are two key ways to address it: a platform approach for including self-service ad hoc-style analysis in BI or a data discovery approach that provides everyday users with an exploratory experience. During this presentation we will cover best practices in both approaches and also discuss embedded analytics and what the platform of the future will look like.

Presenter(s):

Brian Brinkmann, VP of Products

Mr. Brinkmann has over 15 years of analytics and business intelligence software experience. Prior to joining the company, he held senior product strategy, management, and marketing positions with MicroStrategy. He also worked as a senior consultant with MicroStrategy creating BI applications for marquee customers such as Nike and Franklin Templeton. Mr. Brinkmann holds a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a MEM from the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, both at Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Dayton.

Charles Caldwell, Director of Solutions Engineering

Company Profile:

Logi Analytics helps organizations discover insights and create a shared understanding that drives business forward. The company provides both a Web-based data discovery solution and a business intelligence platform, which can be embedded within applications, systems and processes, to more than 1,400 customers worldwide.

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Logi Analytics

Logi Analytics http://www.logianalytics.com/

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Logi 12 – Fulfilling the Promise of Self-Service Analytics

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In July, Logi released set of new offerings and major upgrade to our platform focused on tackling the challenges organizations have in delivering self-service – distributing information to a variety of end users, addressing the needs of both business & I.T., and dealing with the performance issues associated with large amounts of data. We will highlight our new capabilities in Logi 12, including a new product, Logi DataHub, which simplifies data preparation to ensure high performance for self-service analytics, as well as our new Discovery Module for Logi Info, which offers visual data discovery capabilities that can be embedded directly into any application to bring analytics to where people work.

Presenter(s):

Steven Schneider – Chief Product Officer

Steven was a founding partner of OnDemandIQ, a Hosted Business Intelligence solution acquired by Logi in June 2008, after having been an OEM partner for two years. Prior to OnDemandIQ, he was a practice manager at leading web technology company Proxicom. Steven holds a BS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and an MBA from the University of Southern California.

Brian Brinkmann – VP of Product Management

Brian has over 17 years of analytics and BI software experience in product strategy, management, and marketing. Brian has introduced numerous analytical, visualization, and Big Data products to market while at Logi Analytics and formerly at MicroStrategy. Brian holds a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Dayton.

David Abramson – Director of Product Management

David has more than 10 years-experience in full lifecycle product development and management, from product inception through general availability. He has shepherded multiple analytics and business intelligence products, and has worked with hundreds of customers, both enterprises and ISVs, to support data-driven application implementations.

Company Profile:

Logi Analytics is the leader in self-service analytics, delivering tools designed to meet the needs of business users, IT and product managers. From interactive dashboards to ad hoc queries and visual analysis, Logi enables users to explore and discover insights, and make data-driven decisions.

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Fieldology

SSB Consulting

Hylant

360Globalnet

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Maana http://www.maana.io/

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Enterprise Knowledge Technology the Next Frontier Beyond Big Data Analytics

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Over the past few years enterprises have augmented their data warehouses by spending tens of millions of dollars to create data lakes and fund lengthy big data projects. Most of these analytic initiatives have been performed in departmental silos, but did not have significant impact on increasing enterprise-wide profitability. The most innovative Fortune 500 companies have embarked on major digital transformation initiatives using Enterprise Knowledge technology. This new technology, pioneered by Maana, enables companies to optimize every asset and business process across an enterprise on an ongoing basis. Maana’s Knowledge Platform accelerates knowledge discovery to increase profitability. At the core of the platform is the patented Knowledge Graph™, which enables knowledge representation and reasoning for asset and process optimization. This invention extracts knowledge directly from data silos and information sources and demonstrates their relationships as models to gain a holistic view of how assets and processes interconnect across the enterprise. Maana’s platform uses a set of sophisticated AI algorithms that are “user-guided, machine-assisted” and dramatically accelerates the creation of models for faster optimization of operations.

Presenter(s):

Tara Prakriya – Chief Product Officer

Tara Prakriya is Chief Product Officer at Maana. She spearheads product strategy and direction. Tara’s background includes 15 years at Microsoft, holding various roles, including: Partner General Manager of Technical Strategy reporting to the CTO; Product Unit Manager of the Tablet PC Group in Windows; and Product Unit Manager of the advertising and content management teams in MSN; and the Group Program Manager for iDSS, the first large scale data warehouse for consumer web activity for the worldwide MSN and MSNBC networks. Prior to Microsoft she worked in financial data warehousing at Merck. Post Microsoft she was Senior Vice President of Product Management at Scantron. Tara earned an M.B.A. in Finance and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Computer Science. She holds multiple patents related to web advertising, data, digital ink, and other technologies.

Azita Martin – Chief Marketing Officer

Azita Martin is Chief Marketing Officer of Maana, the Knowledge Platform that accelerates enterprise profitability. Azita brings a combination of big data expertise, combined with extensive marketing leadership experience at high-growth start-ups and category-creating public companies like Salesforce and Siebel. Azita has global responsibility for scaling all aspects of Maana’s product and corporate marketing, including defining go-to-market strategy, driving thought leadership, increasing brand awareness and customer acquisition. Prior to joining Maana, Azita was Chief Marketing Officer of Datameer a big data analytics company. Azita has built and led marketing teams for both fast-growing start-ups and major public companies, including Moxie Software, LiveOps, Salesforce, Siebel and SGI. Azita has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA from University of Southern California.

Rohan Gosain – Senior Product Marketing Manager

Company Profile:

Maana pioneered “knowledge technology” for the enterprise. Maana’s Knowledge Platform accelerates knowledge discovery to increase profitability. At the core of Maana’s platform is the patented Knowledge Graph™, which enables knowledge representation and reasoning for asset and process optimization. This breakthrough invention extracts knowledge directly from data silos and information sources – eliminating the need for data lakes – and represents concepts, entities, properties, and relationships as models that subject matter experts (SMEs) and data scientists can reason over together. Maana captures knowledge in the form of models, developed to answer complex questions. Maana’s Knowledge Graph enables SMEs to quickly build these data and computational models to answer complex questions and extract the information needed to understand the relationships and interdependencies of business processes and assets across an organization.

MapR http://www.mapr.com/

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Production Success with Hadoop: Going Big and Fast with MapR

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Never has there been a bigger gap between hype and reality around Hadoop – what it is, common use cases, and what’s required for companies to get real value. As Hadoop enters the mainstream for enterprise deployments, the attention is turning from the latest shiny object to fundamental data management and architecture principles which deliver on the promise of Hadoop.

Over 700 customers have chosen the MapR Distribution including Hadoop to optimize their data architecture and power big and fast data-driven applications. Executives from MapR will share the Hadoop success stories of leading customers across financial services, retail, healthcare, and Web 2.0 companies and what drove them to ultimately select MapR. In addition, key innovations around self-service data exploration and business intelligence (BI) from the Apache Hadoop community such as Apache Drill will be discussed.

Presenter(s):

Steve Wooledge, VP Product Marketing

Tomer Shiran, VP Product Management

Company Profile:

MapR Technologies delivers on the promise of Apache Hadoop with a proven, enterprise-grade platform that supports a broad set of mission-critical and real-time production uses. MapR brings unprecedented dependability, ease-of-use and world-record speed to Hadoop, NoSQL, database and streaming applications in one unified distribution for Hadoop.

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Comcast

HP

Experian

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MapR

MapR http://www.mapr.com/

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MapR Converged Platform: Faster Data Applications Using Hadoop, Spark, Database and Streaming in One System

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Organizations struggle with the paradox of becoming more real-time while data complexity and volume continues to explode. To achieve the “as-it-happens” business, data architecture must change. With the integration of MapR Streams, comes the industry’s first and only converged data platform that integrates file, database, event streaming, and analytics to accelerate data-driven applications. In this session, product leaders from MapR will share stories from innovative customers that are shaping the future of enterprise computing and review the convergence of data-in-motion with data-at-rest across Hadoop, Spark, and other open source projects. MapR will also share upcoming product releases which bring additional enterprise-grade capabilities to increase reliability, security, efficiency, and performance.

Presenter(s):

Steve Wooledge – VP Product Marketing

Steve is responsible for communicating the business value and technical advantages of MapR. Steve was previously Vice President of Marketing for Teradata Unified Data Architecture, where he drove big data and Hadoop strategy. Steve has also held various roles in product and corporate marketing at Aster Data, Interwoven, and Business Objects, as well as sales and engineering roles at Business Objects and Dow Chemical. When not working, Steve enjoys juggling activities for his 5 kids and sneaking in some cycling or ski trips when he can.

Will Ochandarena – Director of Product Management

Will responsible for cloud, streaming, and converged platform strategy. Prior to MapR, Will spent several years in different roles at Cisco, most recently as product manager for the data center network switches. Will has an engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Mitesh Shah – Senior Product Manager

Mitesh is responsible for security and data governance strategy. Prior to MapR, Mitesh held several positions in enterprise security at organizations including the Federal Reserve and Salesforce.com. Mitesh has a degree in Computer Science from Cornell, and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Company Profile:

MapR provides the industry’s only converged data platform that integrates the power of the top-ranked Hadoop and Spark with global event streaming, real-time database capabilities, and enterprise storage, enabling customers to harness the enormous power of their data.

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MapR

MapR https://www.mapr.com/

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Cloud-scale Data Fabric: Intelligent Applications from the Edge to On-Premises and the Cloud

Summary:

With the exponential growth of data volumes and rigid infrastructures, moving data and integrating analytics with operational processes is becoming increasingly difficult. The resulting data silos make it even more difficult to derive meaning and intelligence from the valuable data.

The unique MapR Platform enables the creation of data fabric with a global view of data and metadata, supporting a wide diversity of data types for both analytics and operations.

Presenter(s):

Anoop Dawar – VP, Product Marketing

Will Ochandarena – Senior Director, Product Management

Bill Peterson – Senior Director, Industry Solutions

Company Profile:

Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., MapR provides the industry’s only Converged Data Platform that enables customers to harness the power of big data by combining analytics in real-time to operational applications to improve business outcomes. With MapR, enterprises have a data management platform for undertaking digital transformation initiatives to achieve competitive edge. Amazon, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, SAP, and other leading businesses are part of the global MapR partner ecosystem. For more information, visit www.mapr.com.

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Audi

Aadhaar

Ericsson

Liaison

National Oilwell Varco

TransUnion

Quantium

Pontis

SAP

Microstrategy http://www.microstrategy.com/

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Dan Kerzner – SVP

Microstrategy http://www.microstrategy.com/

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Fabrice Martin – VP, Program Management

Bala Chandran – VP, Product Marketing

MicroStrategy http://www.microstrategy.com/

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MicroStrategy: Focused on the Future

Summary:

MicroStrategy has made prolific advances over the past several years, building on a strong heritage as a pioneer in enterprise analytics. Today, we’ll focus on how the company has refocused its efforts on core differentiation, leveraging our leadership in mobile, cloud and metadata management.

The upcoming MicroStrategy 10 release is the culmination of years of development, and will further the product’s capabilities in:

* Governed Data Discovery

* Data Visualization

* User Experience and Administration

* Big Data Analytics

* Mobile Applications

We will demonstrate key features of the new release, and explain further the company’s refocus and new investment areas.

Presenter(s):

Stefan Schmitz, VP of Product Management

Stefan is an enterprise software executive with a track record of successfully leading product initiatives from concept to implementation and into strong businesses. Prior to MicroStrategy, Stefan led product management at SAP, Birst and Oracle.

Company Profile:

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is a leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms. The Company’s mission is to provide the most flexible, powerful, scalable, and user-friendly analytics and identity management platforms, offered either on premises or in the cloud.

The MicroStrategy Analytics Platform™ empowers leading organizations to analyze vast amounts of data and distribute actionable business insight via reports, dashboards, ad-hoc advanced analytics, and powerful data visualizations. MicroStrategy Mobile™ extends that platform to enable organizations to rapidly build information-rich applications that combine multimedia, transactions, analytics, and custom workflows, delivered on mobile devices. The MicroStrategy Identity Platform™ (branded as MicroStrategy Usher™) provides organizations the ability to develop a secure mobile app for identity and credentials. To learn more, visit MicroStrategy online, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

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MetLife

Coach

Tapjoy