IBIS 2015 Tracks and Agenda

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IBIS 2015 Offers…

• Main Conference Featuring Four Unique Tracks Delivering Information-packed Sessions
• Three Iron Chef Hands-on Immersion Boot Camps
• InfoBurst Experience
• Hands-on Pre-conference Workshops
• Hands-on Post-conference Boot Camps

Main Conference Tracks:  Combination of executive seminars, customer case studies, technical knowledge exchange and hands-on workshops.  Tons of sessions delivered by top industry experts!

• Web Intelligence and Crystal Reports—Let’s Speak Query and Analysis and Pixel Perfect Reporting: Best practices, cool tips and tricks and real world techniques for getting the most out of the leading BI reporting and analysis tool on the market today delivered by expert users and experienced consultants. Learn how to “Webify the World.” With two versions of Crystal Reports (CR 2013 and Crystal for Enterprise) there is more to learn about using Crystal than ever before.  Learn techniques, short-cuts and features not taught in regular training and how to maximize your outputs while minimizing your time.
• BusinessObjects  Data Management and Administration—Universal Speak:  Includes sessions from top experts on the BusinessObjects administration functions and features and how to best optimize your deployment,  how to become a “Master of the Universe,” and the new Information Design Tool (IDT).
• BusinessObjects Dashboards and Data Visualization—See What You Speak:  The best of data visualization in the BusinessObjects suite.  Includes best design and usage practices for Xcelsius Dashboards (Mobile and desktop), sessions on BusinessObjects Explorer,  Lumira and Dashboards, plus visualization solutions that seamlessly integrate with BusinessObjects.
• Limitless Business Intelligence: Maximizing Your BO Investment—Speaking Beyond with Wisdom:  Inspiring Business Intelligence solutions created by people with Big Imaginations using BusinessObjects tools while delivering major business impact and/or making a difference in peoples’ lives. Look at the big picture in terms of getting the most out of your BusinessObjects deployment and managing agile and successful BI projects, as well as the future trends and direction for Business Intelligence.
• InfoBurst Experience—Let’s Speak iB:  A unique opportunity to learn, share and exchange information with InfoBurst experts, developers and other users and discuss everything InfoBurst.

Hands On Iron Chef Boot Camps

• Web Intelligence Iron Chef – Designed to provide Web Intelligence report developers the ability to move beyond using Web Intelligence as a raw data extraction tool.  Attendees are encouraged to consider the many options and techniques available in the latest Web Intelligence 4.1 reporting environment to create optimal and visually compelling reports.
• Xcelsius (SAP Dashboards) Iron Chef – A master workshop created to provide attendees with a guided and directed path for successful dashboard project implementation.   This workshop will empower participants with the ability to take their dashboards to a whole new level; where dashboards go beyond data delivery, encouraging high user adoption and driving decision making.  Explore an end-to-end approach for a full cycle of software implementation, starting from effective requirement gathering & efficient prototyping, and continuing through visually compelling design and data optimization.
• IDT Iron Chef – An immersion boot camp which will provide the universe designer with a solid understanding of the design concepts and development cycle of building a BusinessObjects universe using the new Information Design Tool. Attendees will follow the process of designing the universe, creating a data foundation, creating business layers, testing during different stages of the development cycle and migrating the universe into production.

• Web Intelligence XI 3.1 to BI 4.1 Delta Boot Camp
• Introduction to Dashboards – Using SAP Dashboards 4.1
• Web Intelligence for Beginners
• Reporting With Web Intelligence Rich Client v4.1
• Best Practices for Migrating from XI 3.1 to BI 4.1
• Data Discovery in BusinessObjects : Explorer and Lumira
• InfoBurst in a Day
• An Introduction to Data Modeling
• InfoBurst Certified Expert for Administrators (ICE-A)

IBIS Post-Seminar 2 Day Workshops

• InfoBurst Certified Expert (ICE) Boot Camp
• Mobilizing and Turbocharging your SAP Dashboards with InfoBurst
• Developing Amazing Dashboards Using InfoBurst XDC