WEBINAR: Pervasive BI and Information Discovery

On Demand

Presenter:

Philip Howard, Research Director - Data
Bloor Research

"Up to 75% of information workers admitted to having made business decisions that later turned out to be wrong due to incorrect, incomplete, or contradictory business data or information." Harris Interactive, 2008

How can this happen with so many BI investments already in place today?

In this webinar, Philip Howard of Bloor Research, highlights:

• The business value of opportunities missed due to limited BI adoption
• The challenges enterprises face as they try to deploy BI beyond a core 10-15% of all information workers
• Why conventional BI, operational BI and dashboards fail to achieve pervasive BI adoption
• Where search comes into play and how new Information Discovery approaches based on Search open BI to the masses
• One Information Discovery offering, Composite Software's Discovery Appliance, as an example of solutions available today

Philip is an IT Industry luminary who leads Bloor Research's data and content research group. While maintaining an overview of the whole space Philip himself specialises in databases, data management, data integration, data quality, data federation, master data management, data governance and data warehousing. He also has an interest in event stream/complex event processing.

In addition to the numerous reports Philip has written on behalf of Bloor Research, Philip also contributes regularly to www.IT-Director.com and www.IT-Analysis.com and was previously the editor of both “Application Development News” and “Operating System News” on behalf of Cambridge Market Intelligence (CMI). He has also contributed to various magazines and published a number of reports published by companies such as CMI and The Financial Times.

Prior to joining Bloor in 1992, Philip held senior-level development, sales, and marketing roles at GEC Marconi, Philips Data Systems, Raytheon, and NCR.