Speaker

Wikus Combrinck, ‎general manager business intelligence competency centre, ‎Tracker South Africa

Wikus Combrinck

‎general manager business intelligence competency centre, ‎Tracker South Africa

Wikus Combrinck joined Tracker in 2014 as the GM Business Intelligence Competency Centre. Before Tracker, he was with Netcare's Primary Care Division as the business systems manager and business intelligence manager for seven years.

With over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, Combrinck has had the privilege of working with some of the greatest people. He developed and implemented 20 enterprise data and data warehouse projects, 30 enterprise development projects and over 200 enterprise resource planning projects for all industries.

Combrinck holds the following qualifications: Microsoft Professional Data Scientist, Executive Data Science, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Certified Learning Consultant, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, Microsoft Professional, Microsoft Business Solutions Specialist, and Microsoft Business Solutions Master.

At Tracker, Combrinck is responsible for designing, developing, implementing and managing systems such as information portals, data warehouse architecture and business intelligence capability. Other roles include business analysis, maintenance, management and backups of servers and databases.

Wikus Combrinck will be speaking on the following topic:

15:30
Aligning the planets of the information journey

We all know the saying: "Men are from Mars and women are from Venus", but have you ever considered the fact that IT and information are from Pluto? Join Wikus Combrinck on this wonderful journey of exploration to see how to align and connect critical areas that were once planets apart, to make sense of billions of records, connecting hundreds of databases, data sources and datasets – working with all stakeholders by Goofy'ing on Pluto the right way and providing analytics to over a million customers.

  • Taking a snapshot a million miles away – zooming in frame by frame to align our vision
  • Combining technologies and processes – analytics, data sciences, master data
  • Importance of data governance and making it a success
  • Choosing the implementation path and adjusting the roadmap along the way
  • Lessons and achievements in an ever-changing universe