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Open Source BI: The Smart and Safe Alternative to Proprietary BI - April 22

  • London, Thursday 22nd April
  • Half a day: 9am - 1pm
  • From the Open Source industry leaders
  • Free, public event
 Pentaho

Description

Pentaho and Sourcesense invite you to join us in London for a live seminar focused on how your company can benefit from commercial Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) and data integration/ETL and network with others who are already enjoying BI success with Pentaho.

Join us at this live seminar to see:

  • Customer BI Success Cases
  • Methodologies that enable you to increase the ROI of your BI Solution
  • How to quickly deliver information with reports and dashboards
  • Demos of the most powerful open source BI technology in action: Kettle, Mondrian. Weka, Pentaho Dashboards and Pentaho Reporting

With leading analysts predicting a 500% increase in open source BI adoption by 2012[1], now is the time to find out how your peers are benefiting from Pentaho’s end-to-end BI solution. Further, a recent survey by Mark Madsen for the BeyeNETWORK entitled, “Open Solutions: Managing, Analysing and Delivering Business Information”, clearly indicates both a rapid adoption of open source BI, and that Pentaho is the clear leader in every major category.

Registration is free, but seats are limited, so please register now and receive a free copy of the BeyeNETWORK report.

[1] Gartner Report Oct 2009 "Open-Source Business Intelligence Tools Production Deployments Will Grow Five-Fold through 2012"

Agenda

9:00am Registration and coffee
9:30am
 Welcome
9:40am Overview of the Open Source model: OSBI, BI, COSBI Sharmila Wijeyakumar
10:10am Pentaho stack presentation and demos Sharmila Wijeyakumar
Nigel Runnels-Moss
11:00am
 Coffee Break
11:30am
 Case Study
Other UK customers
 Steve Rumbles
Ben Tebbs
12:00pm
 Sourcesense, implementing Open Source BI solutions Marco Abis
12:30pm
 Q&A with panel
The Myths and misconceptions of OSBI
 Sourcesense and Pentaho
1:00pm
 Close

Speakers

  • Steve Rumbles, Head of IT, London Oncology Clinic
  • Sharmila Wijeyakumar, CBIP, Channels Manager, EMEA, Pentaho
  • Nigel Runnels-Moss, BI Principal Consultant, Sourcesense
  • Marco Abis, Managing Director, Sourcesense
  • Ben Tebbs, Account Manager, UK, Pentaho

Event Details

Open Source BI: The Smart and Safe Alternative to Proprietary BI will be held at:

Hilton London Metropole
225 Edgware Road
London
W2 1JU
Tel: + 44 (0) 207 402 4141