Corporate IT managers and buyers are under immense pressure to deliver better services, measurable returns and enhanced business value through technology, and to do it all at a lower cost than before. The solutions are out there, but sifting through vendor hype can prove a problem.
Global Technology Business Intelligence (GBI) has therefore embarked on a campaign to assist businesses in their OLAP (online analytical processing) and analytics decision-making procedure. On 20 May, GBI will hold the first in a series of seminars designed to educate executives on real-world benefits and returns South African companies have attained using Hyperion Essbase.
Says Alwin Swales, sales director for GBI: "Instead of following the usual path of delivering a vendor-driven sales pitch, the focus of the executive seminar will be real-world stories from customers. Two current Hyperion Essbase customers will present on why they decided to look for a business intelligence (BI) platform, the pains and issues driving them to make the decision, and why they chose Hyperion Essbase and what benefits they have seen since implementation."
Places will be limited at each event to ensure guests are able to interact directly with the presenters to gain a better understanding of the benefits Hyperion Essbase has delivered to their companies.
The first seminar will start with a welcome and introduction to business performance management (BPM) and Essbase XTD by Marc Scheepbouwer, CEO of GBI. This will be followed by a presentation from a banking client who, among other areas, will focus on management reporting and financial analysis. Some business planning, merger and acquisition modelling insight from a major mining house will follow.
The final presentation will consist of an overview of GBI`s professional services and the value this partnership adds in an analytical implementation. Finally, there will be an opportunity for guests to ask more in-depth questions, and network with other business leaders contemplating a BI platform.
Swales adds that executives experiencing a gap between strategy and execution in their organisations, or those wishing to increase sales by a certain percentage without knowing how to communicate this across the business would benefit from the insights gained "in the trenches" by the two presenters.
"Delivering yet another series of sales presentations will not be of any real benefit to executives," Swales says. "It is our intention to make the event as customer-focused and customer-driven as possible. The attendees will come away with the knowledge gained from the experiences of other users, better able to make critical decisions that will deliver measured returns to their own companies."
To book, contact gbi@glotec.co.za or call Tanya Furniss on (011) 319 9800.
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