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Predixion Software http://www.predixionsoftware.com/

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Mark McNally – VP, Business Development

Jamie MacLennan – CTO

Predixion http://www.predixionsoftware.com

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Topic:

Enabling the Last Mile of Predictive Analytics

Summary:

Predixion Software has reached many milestones since it last presented to the BBBT in January 2012. We now are on v3.1 of Predixion Enterprise Insight that features groundbreaking Machine Learning Semantic Model™ (MLSM) technology that automates the access and transformation of data on the fly so that end-to-end predictive applications can be easily developed and implemented. Predixion currently has 225 companies using its predictive analytics solution in more than 59 countries. With $20 million in Series C financing led by new strategic investors and partners Accenture and GE Ventures, Predixion has plenty to share with the BBBT on September 27.

Presenter(s):

Simon Arkell – CEO

Simon Arkell is an experienced technology entrepreneur and executive with extensive global technology management experience. Before co-founding Predixion, Simon was an operating partner with Triton Pacific Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm working with Triton’s software portfolio companies on strategic development and acquisitions. Prior to Triton Pacific he served as President of a 600-employee, 10-country software consulting firm based in the UK which developed Oracle solutions.

Company Profile:

Predixion Software is a disruptive predictive analytics software company with a unique focus on the development of portable predictive applications and the “last mile” of analytics – the deployment of powerful predictions to the people who need to act upon them.

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Predixion

Expressor Software http://www.expressor-software.com/

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John Russell – Chief Scientist & Co-founder

QlikView http://www.qlikview.com/

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Neil Florio – Director, Marketing

Expressor Software http://www.expressor-software.com/

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Michael Waclawiczek – VP, Marketing

Wiqar Chaudry – Product Manager

QlikTech http://www.qlikview.com/

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Donald Farmer – VP, Product Management

Sanjeev Mohan – Director, Expert Services

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QlikTech

QlikView http://www.qlikview.com/

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Topic:

Business Discovery and The Information Supply Chain

Summary:

Whether you call it Data Discovery, Self-Service Business Intelligence, or Business Discovery, it is clear that user-driven technologies are transforming the way data is analyzed and managed within organizations. QlikView has been leading this change for many years. In this presentation we will review the current state of Business Discovery technologies for users. However we will also consider important developments in metadata intelligence and administration that make it possible for IT departments to manage the complexity of user-driven systems. Finally we will look to a future where everyone is mobile, data is pervasive and there is no such thing as an end-user!

Presenter(s):

Donald Farmer

VP, Product Management

Donald Farmer is the Vice President of Product Management for QlikTech. Donald is an internationally respected speaker and writer, with over 25 years experience in data management and analysis. He has applied his knowledge in fields as diverse as archaeology and fish-farming. Before joining QlikTech, Donald was a leader of the Microsoft Business Intelligence team, working on new products for ETL, predictive analytics and OLAP. An author of several books and many articles, Donald is also a Guest Professor at Southwestern University in Chongqing. He is married to Alison, an artist, and lives in an experimental woodland house near Seattle.

Company Profile:

QlikTech (NASDAQ: QLIK) is the company behind QlikView, the leading Business Discovery platform that delivers user-driven business intelligence (BI). Our mission, “Simplifying decisions for everyone, everywhere,” is about harnessing the real potential of data — big and small — and unleashing its power to change the world. QlikTech was founded in Sweden in 1993 with the aim of solving critical problems for organizations of all sizes, including the largest global enterprises. In 2007, Lars Bjork transitioned into his current role as QlikTech’s CEO. Under Bjork’s leadership, QlikTech grew revenue to 157 million in 2009 and it now employs more than 1,400 people in 24 countries with over 1,500 partners worldwide. Its user base also exponentially expanded with 27,000 customers in 100 countries. Our success has placed us in the top three of Forbes’ 2012 list of America’s 25 fastest-growing tech companies, alongside Apple and LinkedIn.

Case Studies:

Noble Group

Autodesk

Cambridge University Hospitals

QlikView Expressor http://www.qlikview.com/us/explore/products/expressor

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Governed Business Discovery with QlikView Expressor

Summary:

QlikView Expressor addresses a set of needs commonly found in complex environments that have a wide variety of data formats and access methods. These environments require a systematic way of obtaining and mapping data to a shared business model. QlikView Expressor enables customers to rapidly build integrations that preserve the integrity of the core business model while adapting to the complexity at the “furry” edges of the BI platform. Through the progressive synthesis of reusable and active metadata artifacts for accessing and conforming data from diverse sources, customers gain a superior level of control, repeatability and overall governance that ensures fast and efficient access to properly conformed data. This presentation will focus on how QlikView Expressor delivers this level of governance with control and reuse, including a live demonstration and reference to customer uses cases.

Presenter(s):

Donald Farmer – VP, Product Management

Donald is the VP QlikView Product Management, working with customers and partners to establish QlikView as the leading solution for Business Discovery. Donald has over twenty years of experience in analytics and data management. In that time he has worked as a consultant, in startups and as a leader of Microsoft’s BI product teams. He is a speaker at many international events on business intelligence, data integration and data management, blogger, and author of several books.

In addition to his career in Business Intelligence, Donald has worked in fields as diverse as fish-farming and archaeology. He is also a guest professor at SouthWestern University in Chongqing, China, and advises on several academic boards. He lives near Seattle in an experimental woodland house, with his wife Alison, an artist.

Bill Kehoe – Product Manager

Bill was a founder of Expressor Software which Qlik acquired in June, 2012. He has over 25 year of technical product architecture, design and development experience in data integration, query optimization and database design. Bill was Chief Architect at Expressor and principle inventor of its patent on the use of semantic types in data integration. He served as architect and lead developer for the analytic query component of Blue Agave Software’s supply chain exception management product. Bill has over 20 years’ hands-on experience developing in C, C++ and Java for packaged, data-intensive applications.

Company Profile:

Qlik simplifies how people explore their data to help them make better decisions. With its QlikView Business Discovery platform people quickly bring data sources together to create dynamic visual applications that can be navigated and searched intuitively. QlikView uses Natural Analytics™ to reflect the way human curiosity searches and processes information, while delivering the enterprise manageability, governance and service offerings organizations require.

Case Studies:

Holmes Murphy & Associates

Cisco

Purity Life Health Products LP

Qlik http://www.qlik.com/

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Qlik Sense – Self-service visualization and discovery for mobile and enterprise users

Summary:

Qlik Sense is the new self-service visualization product from Qlik. It complements the existing QlikView technology by providing a responsive, drag-and-drop user experience backed by a highly scalable, governed, back end. In this presentation we will explore the user experience, the management tools for governance and the powerful APIs for developers and partners.

BBBT members will gain unique insights to the technology itself along with detailed and insightful explanations of target markets and user groups. In the NDA presentation we will describe the product roadmaps in some detail.

Presenter(s):

Donald Farmer, VP of Innovation and Design

Donald Farmer is Vice President of Innovation and Design at Qlik, guiding customers and partners through the radical organizational and technical changes that new data-driven business require. Donald is an internationally respected speaker and writer, with 30 years experience in data management and analytics. He has worked in companies ranging from startups to Microsoft, and has applied his knowledge in fields as diverse as archaeology and fish-farming.

Josh Good, Director of Product Marketing

Josh has been with Qlik for 4 years where he has held positions in presales and most recently Product Marketing. As a presales consultant he was a key member of innovating Qlik’s go to market through inside sales. He is now focused on continuing to innovate Qlik’s goto market via a freemium model. Prior to Qlik, Josh lead business intelligence and analytics projects at a premium outdoor clothing company. He also has experience in government acquisition and biomechanical research. Josh holds a bachelor’s of Applied Science and a Master’s of Science from Queen’s University. In his spare time, Josh is an avid skier, mountain biker and sea kayaker.

Company Profile:

Qlik (NASDAQ:QLIK) simplifies the way people use data by making it a natural part of how they make decisions. We help people to do more than just report findings; we help them to change their worlds, in ways both small and large, through understanding and sharing data more naturally and effectively to create value. Our mission, “Simplifying decisions for everyone, everywhere,” is about harnessing the real potential of data – big and small – and unleashing its power to change the world.

Qlik was founded in Sweden in 1993 with the aim of solving critical problems for organizations of all sizes, including the largest global enterprises. Approximately 33,000 customers in 100 countries depend on us to support their most important decisions.

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Qlik

Qlik http://www.qlik.com/

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Innovation and new developments at Qlik

Summary:

Qlik Technologies not only has an exciting new portfolio of products – including Qlik Sense, Qlik Cloud and Data Market – but we also have a unique team focused on research and innovation. In this presentation we will share with you the latest technologies in production and give some special insights to our research and innovation projects too.

Presenter(s):

Donald Farmer – VP Innovation and Design

With 30 years experience in data management and information architecture, Donald is a well-recognized figure in our industry. His professional background includes experience in fish-farming, archaeology and history … and 10 years at Microsoft, leading the design and development of leading products for data integration, OLAP and data mining.

Todd Margolis – Senior Solution Architect

Company Profile:

Qlik (NASDAQ: QLIK) is a leader in data discovery delivering intuitive solutions for self-service data visualization and guided analytics. Approximately 36,000 customers rely on Qlik solutions to gain meaning out of information from varied sources, exploring the hidden relationships within data that lead to insights that ignite good ideas.

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Qlik

Qlik http://www.qlik.com/

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Topic:

Data Driven Possibilities in a Post-Fact World

Summary:

In a post-fact world the ability to access, argue with, question and digest the right data at the right time becomes critical. Our relationship to data in the corporate world is changing rapidly – moving from an IT-centric core to a user-centric model. Whether we call them line-of-business professionals, citizen data-scientists, or customers, everyone needs instant access to insights that change their world views.

Presenter(s):

Josh Good – Director of Product Marketing

Josh Good is the director of product marketing for Qlik. Mr. Good is responsible for product marketing, messaging and go-to-market strategies for Qlik’s cloud and freemium offerings. Josh has spent a decade in the BI and analytics space, as a customer, seller and marketer. As a presales consultant, he was a key member of innovating Qlik’s go-to-market strategy. Prior to Qlik, Josh led business intelligence and analytics projects at a premium outdoor clothing company. He also has experience in government acquisitions and biomechanical research. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Good holds a Master of Science degree in Biomechanics, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, from Queen’s University, Canada.

Company Profile:

Qlik® is the leading visual analytics platform and the pioneer of user-driven business intelligence. Its portfolio of cloud-based and on-premise solutions meets customers’ growing needs from reporting and self-service visual analysis to guided, embedded and custom analytics, regardless of where data is located. Customers using Qlik Sense®, QlikView® and Qlik® Cloud, gain meaning out of information from multiple sources, exploring the hidden relationships within data that lead to insights that ignite good ideas. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Qlik does business in more than 100 countries with over 40,000 customers globally.

Case Studies:

Lenovo

O’Neill

Saint Petersburg Bank

Goldcar

Qlik https://www.qlik.com/us/

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Topic:

Data Literacy and AI: Combining Human and Machine for Better Analytics in a Big Data World

Summary:

With the proliferation of analytics buzz words (like this presentation title), what is real and what is useful? This presentation will focus on Qlik’s unique approach to put people at the centre of analytics and augment human abilities with technology. Learn about Qlik’s latest innovations that are “Built On Enterprise-Class TECHNOLOGY” so customers can “Leverage All Their DATA”, “Empower All Their PEOPLE”.

Presenter(s):

Josh Good – Senior Director of Product Marketing

Elif Tutuk – Director of Qlik Research

Paul Barth – Managing Director of Enterprise Data Management

Peter Kim – Senior Solutions Architect

Company Profile:

Qlik® delivers intuitive platform solutions for self-service data visualization, guided analytics applications, embedded analytics and reporting to approximately 45,000 customers worldwide. Companies of all sizes, across all industries and geographies, use Qlik solutions to visualize and explore information, generate insight and make better decisions. At Qlik, we optimize Business Intelligence (BI) by harnessing the collective intelligence of people across an organization. We focus on empowering people—by enabling everyone in an organization to see the whole story that lives within their data.

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Cisco

Arvato

Sydney Health

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River Logic http://www.riverlogic.com/

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Philip Higginbotham – VP, Business Development

Rocana https://www.rocana.com/

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Digital Transformation Starts with Total Operational Visibility

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Disruptive digital leaders have an advantage: They measure everything and use that deep knowledge to constantly improve. Connecting IT metrics directly to business outcomes gives digital leaders a competitive edge. Rocana Ops levels the playing field by providing a total visibility solution for CIOs and technologists. In this presentation, Rocana CEO and Co-Founder Omer Trajman will provide a deep dive into Rocana Ops, its use cases and advantages over legacy IT monitoring silos.

Presenter(s):

Omer Trajman – Co-Founder and CEO

Omer Trajman is a proponent of total operational visibility as the cornerstone of digital transformation, inspiring CIOs to realize new ways of delivering value to their organizations. He has led teams responsible for some of today’s largest modern data management deployments, and worked with customers and partners to identify where Big Data technology solutions address business needs and drive Digital Transformation. His fifteen years of front-line business and technical experience guide his vision as CEO of Rocana.

Omer’s previous experience includes responsibilities as Vice President of Technology Solutions at Cloudera, focusing on technology strategy and communication. Prior to this role, Omer served as Vice President of Customer Solutions at Cloudera, which included responsibility for Cloudera University, Cloudera’s Architectural Services and Cloudera’s Partner Engineering team. Before joining Cloudera, Omer was responsible for the Cloud Computing, Hadoop and Virtualization initiatives at Vertica. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Tufts University and was a visiting scholar at Oxford University reading in Computation and Electrical Engineering with a focus on large scale distributed systems.

Company Profile:

Rocana gives technology leaders total operational visibility, eliminating the boundaries of legacy IT monitoring and empowering technologists to lead digital transformation. Rocana Ops captures and analyzes all data from all sources, keeping it online and available for instant and future access. By combining event data warehouse capabilities with advanced machine learning, Rocana Ops gives technologists the ability to see emerging issues anywhere in the environment, minimize security risks, and surface opportunities for innovation.

Founded in 2014 by veterans from Cloudera, Vertica and Experian, the Rocana team has directly experienced the challenges of today’s IT infrastructures, and has set out to address them using modern technology that leverages the Hadoop ecosystem. In 2016 Gartner named Rocana a Cool Vendor in Availability and Performance, earning high marks for exploiting a combination of technological innovations, disrupting the economics and consumability of IT Operations investments by combining open-source and commercial packaging, and embracing the cultural evolution occurring in the IT operations market.

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Rocana

Salient http://www.salient.com/

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The Salient Collaborative Intelligence Suite

Summary:

Salient offers the Business Intelligence/Performance Management industry’s fastest enterprise-level, highly-scalable, in-memory analytics solution combined with a proven management methodology that aids management in understanding and improving business, operational and financial performance. Offering deep analytics, truly drillable dashboards and collaborative knowledge management all within the fully integrated Salient Collaborative Intelligence Suite, Salient combines the superior technology and deep business acumen necessary to drive business results.

Presenter(s):

David Giannetto, Senior VP, Performance Management

As SVP of Performance Management at Salient, David Giannetto leads Professional Services, including on-site client technical services and business consulting. His overarching role is in line with Salient’s fundamental mission of helping clients achieve sustainable superior performance and competitive advantage while operating as efficiently and profitably as possible.

Since the publication of his book, The Performance Power Grid, he has become a nationally respected thought-leader in business intelligence, enterprise performance management and analytics. He began focusing on performance management over 15 years ago as the driving force behind the BPM initiative at the United Nations Secretariat and has led initiatives at a diverse group of organizations, ranging from internet start-ups to some of the world’s largest organizations, including FujiFilm, JPMorgan, Black & Decker, Blue Cross (6 states), Staples, Roche, Schering-Plough, American Express, and Scholastic books.

Giannetto has written for a variety of national magazines and keynotes national and international conferences in the areas of performance management, risk management and enterprise-level social media.

Jim McDermott – Director, Business Consulting Group

Company Profile:

Incorporating visual data mining technologies developed over 25 years, Salient analytics software delivers the ease, speed, precision and scalability necessary to analyze and correlate billions of records, delivering relevant and specific answers to even the most complex questions in seconds. Our super-scalable yet easy-to-use technology increases the intelligence of the enterprise by connecting an organization’s operational processes to their financial impact—empowering decision-makers at all levels in their moment of need. By allowing users to follow their intuition, ask questions from many perspectives and drill down in any direction to actionable intelligence, Salient helps organizations understand the impact of actions on results. And by making all data accessible to any stakeholder at any time, Salient creates a sentinel effect of ownership and accountability.

Case Studies:

HPC Foodservice

NY State OMIG

Odom

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Salient