P re sen ta t i ons Co -o rd in a to r : PH I L IP BY ER S
DYNAMIC BUSINESS INFORMATICS
9th
ANNUAL DIVER CONFERENCE 2013
The Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin
Thursday 17 th Oc tobe r 2013
8.30 A.M. to 1.00 P.M. plus OPTIONAL SESSIONS from 2.00 P.M. to 4.30 P.M.
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2011 & 2012 BARC – The BI Survey 10 2012 - DI No 1 in Business Benefits 2012 - DI No 1 in Big Data 2011- DI No 1 in Agility & Quality 2011- DI No 1 in Vendor Support 2011- DI fewest complaints The BARC survey is the world’s largest rating of BI providers
2010 Howard Dresner Wisdom of Crowds DI best overall score of any BI vendor
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Best in KLAS 2012 Top 5 in all categories of BI Segment KLAS is a research firm specialising in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors. KLAS has been gathering ratings from the provider community on the performance of healthcare software since 1997.
Dimensional Insight Awards & Acknowledgments For further information on the awards please see www.dimins.com
2011 Howard Dresner Wisdom of Crowds DI rated No 1 in Technical Support DI rated No 1 in Consulting Services DI recommended by 100% clients surveyed
2012 Howard Dresner Wisdom of Crowds DI in Top 5 in all categories DI at or near top in all 17 vendor ratings 2013 Howard Dresner Wisdom of Crowds DI Top of Segment
2013 DI’s inaugural year of coverage DI outperformed 8 major BI vendors in: Customer/Sales Experience; View of Future Market Understanding; Composite BI Success
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Welcome to Dynamic Business Informatics’ 9th Annual Diver Conference
We hope you enjoy the day diving with us!
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DI Vision & History The keynote from Fred Powers, CEO of Dimensional Insight, will place DI’s latest developments in context within the BI Industry and explain DI’s Strategy for ensuring customer satisfaction in the future.
9.00 A.M. 1st Session Welcome and Opening Remarks Bob Corr is MD of DBI and set up DBI in Feb 2003. Prior to this Bob was MD of System Options Ltd. and has been involved with The Diver Solution since 1994
BI Trends Fred reviews the history of BI Trends and the current direction, looking at the “hype cycles” and what they have brought us.
Bob Corr MD, DBI
8.30 A.M. Registration with Tea & Coffee
Accolades User feedback over the years has been extremely important in helping DI to shape the development of the Diver Solution, and your input in the various BI user surveys has helped us to maintain an influential position at the top of some key industry surveys, like Klas, Dresner, Gartner & BARC .
Fred Powers CEO, Dimensional Insight
DiveTab Fred will update us on the further developments to DI Mobile and the introduction of “DiveTab”, a standalone DI product which enables you to work offline on an iPad. .
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Bob Corr Bob Corr has been designing and implementing Diver applications since 1994, and is particularly adept at integrating Diver with new systems and engineering proof of concept applications. He has worked with many clients; mainly those with multi-national operations where BI applications are required to bring information together in one place. Delivering applications that permit companies to save time and money, and make better educated decisions that are critical to their success, Bob has a proven wealth of business experience.
Fred Powers Fred Powers co-founded Dimensional Insight, Inc. in 1989 with Stan Zanarotti. Prior to establishing DI, Fred served as a U.S. Naval Officer at the Pentagon where he designed the Naval Command Center’s first graphical presentation system for understanding readiness and asset data. As a defence contractor, Fred engineered database development projects relating to the status of forces and at Honeywell, he designed information systems for business processes relating to sales, marketing, and service. Powers holds a BSc in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and completed an in-house MBA program while at Honeywell. He has lectured at MIT Sloan School of Management, Boston University, Babson College, Sao Paolo University, and New York University on the application of dashboards, reporting and analytics technology in business.
SPEAKER PROFILES
Thomas Van Praag Thomas van Praag is Managing Director of Dimensional Insight Netherlands. Prior to Dimensional Insight, Thomas founded COPE, a software company specialising in business intelligence solutions. He co-founded COPE Healthcare Solutions, a company specialising in processing and analysing complex billing data from Dutch hospitals and healthcare insurers. COPE was an independent distributor of The Diver Solution until 2010, when it was acquired by Dimensional Insight. Thomas graduated from Leiden University in 1995, where he earned a Master of Science degree in Computer Science with specialisations in Artificial Intelligence and Psychology.
Alain Van Den Berg Alain van den Berg is a Diver specialist and software developer working for Dimensional Insight Netherlands since 2007. Alain is a member of the development team for Visual Integrator, and more recently DI-Production and Workbench, working closely with colleagues on the Research & Development team in Cambridge, MA. He has studied Computer Science and received his Masters degree at the Technical University of Delft.
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10.40A.M. TEA/COFFEE & 2nd Session 11.00 A.M
Post Operative Wound Infection Thomas will talk on the collaboration between DI and MIPS (a Belgian company that provides a system used in hospital laboratories) for general reporting and a Wounds Infection Application for predicting the likelihood of patients contracting MRSA whilst in hospital. MIPS has clients in 80 hospitals in the Netherlands and some in the UK and Ireland.
BWG—Still Finding New Uses for Diver after 14 Years Diver has been BWG’s business analysis tool since 1999. Its use in consolidating diverse business units and providing comprehensive retail KPIs has been instrumental in the company’s continuing success in the highly competitive retail sector. As chief information analyst, Gareth uses Diver daily to provide ongoing analysis on retail trends, loyalty, product penetration and stock analysis, to mention just a few areas.
Gareth Dawson BI Analyst, BWG Foods
1st session continued
Thomas Van Praag MD, DI Netherlands
Virtualising Diver 6.4 & Implementing Sales Gap Analysis Mike will share the Polypipe experience as they moved over to a virtual environment and implemented the Diver Sales Gap Analysis application. Mike explains the benefits, and highlights what to look out for to ensure a smooth transition.
Mike McKay, Head of IS, Polypipe
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Gareth Dawson Gareth Dawson has been with BWG since 1998. He works with all managerial levels in the organisation to provide their Key Performance Metrics using Diver. He spoke at DBI’s first conference in 2004 but was keen to speak again this year and to tell us why, after 14 years, BWG are still finding new uses for Diver.
YY Tsang A member of the Diver BI Group and working closely with DBI, YY Tsang is Managing Director of Data Management Business Insight (DMBI). YY began his IT profession in 1986 managing IBM mainframes before moving to Asia to work in business automation, client management and solution consulting to multi-national and government clients. Industry sectors managed include mobile operators, banking and finance, manufacturing, utilities and library. YY brings together a strong business operations background with technical skills in Diver to offer customers meaningful business insight to boost business performance.
SPEAKER PROFILES
Mike McKay Mike McKay is currently Head of IS for Polypipe, one of Europe's leading manufacturers of plastic piping systems for residential, commercial and infrastructure sectors. Mike is responsible for all aspects of IT infrastructure, business systems and communications in support of Polypipe’s operating businesses. Having spent the first 6 years of his career in Manufacturing Operations supplying capital equipment to the food industry, Mike has for the last 19 years worked in Information Systems. After a number of years in Project Management roles, implementing ERP solutions in industries as diverse as retail distribution, electronics, aerospace & defence and construction products, Mike has for the last 13 years been in charge of the Information Systems function. He has been at Polypipe for the last 9 years and previous to that, William Grant & Sons, a global, independent premium spirits business. It was there where Mike was first introduced to Dimensional Insight and the Diver solution.
Peter Wass Peter is the MD of Chartwell IT, a founder member of the Diver BI Group. He has over 20 years’ experience as an IT professional within the Merchanting, FMCG distribution and CRM software industries. He has implemented Diver not only as a reporting tool but also to analyse and transform source data before feeding it back to the originating ERP system in a format that adds value for upselling products and stock. He is also a Kerridge specialist. Peter has successfully combined his IT technical skills with a strong understanding of commercial realities to deliver tangible business benefits to his clients.
Philip Byers Philip Byers is a strategic and business consultant providing services to clients in the SME sector. He has worked with clients across all business categories including IT, Pharmaceutical, Distribution, Waste management, Legal, Financial. He also lectures on Marketing Communications and International Marketing. Prior to setting up PBL he worked in the pharmaceutical and grocery industries in Sales, Marketing, Communications, Strategic Planning and General Management.
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Questions and Closing Remarks for the Morning Session Please feel free to ask questions or add comments to what has been said throughout the morning sessions.
2nd Session continued
DI NEWS: 6.4 & Overviews of Production, Launcher, Workbench & Visual Integrator Thomas will share news of the latest technologies that DI has been working on since our last conference. He will deliver overviews of several new developer tools which make life much easier for integration, transformation and delivering data.
Thomas Van Praag MD, DI Netherlands
Design Matters Fred will use examples of aircraft dashboards to illustrate why design matters in developing your own meaningful dashboards.
Bob Corr MD, Dynamic Business Informatics
John Spillane CTO, Dynamic Business Informatics
Preview of the Afternoon’s Technical Sessions John will introduce a couple of new Diver applications that have been developed, and outline some further technical sessions that will be presented in the afternoon
Fred Powers CEO, Dimensional Insight
1.00 P.M. Lunch Break There will be a break for lunch which will be served for those who wish to stay for the afternoon session.
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In the 2013 Howard Dresner Wisdom of Crowds user Survey DI achieved Top of Segment, outperforming their peers and also
many of the solutions outside of their segment.
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DBI’s DIVETUNE © John and YY will demonstrate this new comprehensive performance tuning tool created by DBI to enhance the diving experience of all users and system administrators. It applies techniques developed over 10 years to highlight inefficient markers, model building issues and resource hungry users and reports. It also benchmarks your server against other Diver servers and classifies markers, models and users according to their level of usage. The process is fully automatic and includes alerts to highlight issues as they are found.
VI 5.1.20, DI-Production, New Divemaster & Workbench Alain will demonstrate some features of the new Visual Integrator 5.1.20 – designed to simplify the creation and editing of Diver scripts, help you avoid making “silly” errors, and allow for easier testing. He will also demonstrate in more detail the new Divemaster, DI-Production and the new developer workbench.
2.00 P.M. 3rd Session Plug & Play for End Users Olatz highlights practical ideas you may have overlooked and best practices you should be aware of when working with the Diver Solution – from an end user perspective.
3.20 P.M. Tea/Coffee Break
Alain Van Den Berg DI Netherlands
Olatz Iturbe DBI
3rd Session
Anthony Wright DBI
Using Maps with Diver Anthony will demonstrate the technical steps involved in adding data to a map layer using Diver.
John Spillane CTO, DBI YY Tsang, MD, DMBI
3.30 P.M. 4th Session
Paul Duggan DBI
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8. Closing Remarks Bob will invite questions and bring the day to a close.
4.30 P.M. CLOSE
Bob Corr MD, DBI Fred Powers, CEO, DI
4th Session Continued
YY Tsang MD, DMBI
Diver iPad Application & Bubble Charts for Analysis YY will demonstrate DiveTab's ability to dive into 100 Million rows of data on the iPad via a demo Sales Application. He follows up with a practical overview on how to build a product analysis bubble chart to separate 1,000s of products into “Stars” and “Cash Cows” categories for sales analysis.
Creating an Application Side-by-Side with Diver Paul will demonstrate in a hands-on practical fashion a number of simple yet powerful techniques for blending the Diver Solution with other applications in a way that appears transparent to the end-user. The demonstration will show how Diver can live side-by-side with another application and interact with it in useful and interesting ways, creating a seamless experience for the user.
Peter Wass MD, Chartwell IT
Using Diver to Format Documents from an External System Peter will share ideas on how you can use Diver to format & email documents, such as quotations, which are controlled by an external system e.g. Kerridge.
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