The power shift from IT to the business will fuel disruption in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, says Gartner, adding by 2017, most business users and analysts in organisations will have access to self-service tools to prepare data for analysis.
"Data preparation is one of the most difficult and time-consuming challenges facing business users of BI and data discovery tools, as well as advanced analytics platforms," says Rita Sallam, research VP at Gartner.
"However, data preparation capabilities are emerging which will provide business users and analysts with the ability to extend the scope of self-service to include information management, and extract, transform and load functions." This will enable them to "access, profile, prepare, integrate, curate, model and enrich data for analysis and consumption by BI and analytics platforms".
The theme at the ITWeb Business Intelligence Summit 2015 is: "Turning insights into profits". Speakers have been selected on the basis of their ability to enable delegates to measure the effectiveness of their implementations based on current and future trends.
Among the latest additions to the speaker line-up is Andy Cotgreave, senior product evangelist at Tableau Software. His presentation, "The beautiful science of data visualisation", will focus on delivering the right information in the right way, to enable instant, credible and insightful decision-making.
Two of the top-five shortlisted candidates for the Visionary CIO 2014 award, Darryl Thwaits from Tiger Brands; and Robert Boccia from Lion of Africa, will unpack how their companies currently use BI, and what they believe the next best step is for their businesses.
The two-day conference, in Johannesburg, will be followed by a workshop day featuring Emiel van Bockel, chairman of the BI Competence Forum. He will demonstrate how to prepare for digital business using business analytics. The second workshop, facilitated by Dr Barry Devlin, founder and principal of 9sight Consulting, will show delegates how to build a data-driven business.
Recently added to the speaker line-up at this 10th annual event from ITWeb, is Kamil Kara, BI pre-sales specialist at SAP. Kara believes the change from big data to smart data is the next trend in data evolution. His presentation will explore how to change big data to information, and information into insight.
C-level executives and other senior business and IT decision-makers will gather on 17 and 18 in March to attend the conference and the half-day workshops. Click here to find out more.
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