
Conference presentations from many of the breakout sessions are
available for download. For your convenience, they are divided into
three categories: Data Integration, Technology Trends and Best Practices
by date and time.
Note: By clicking on the links below you indicate that you have
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Introduction to Informatica PowerAnalyzer
Helen Dwight, Sr. Director, Marketing,
Informatica
Thursday, 15:30 - 16:30 Sidlaw
Come and learn about Informatica PowerAnalyzer—the
award-winning platform designed for monitoring and analysing
your business. This session will feature a full-scale
PowerAnalyzer demonstration and a discussion of how
customers are using PowerAnalyzer in innovative ways
to gain better visibility into their operations in a
timely manner. Next-generation, scalable architecture
designed for mass deployment, interoperability and an
easy-to-use, dashboard-driven interface all add up to
a platform that provides the lowest total cost of ownership
and reduced risk.
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PowerCenter 7 Upgrade & New Features
Marek Berka, Sr. Consultant, Informatica
Professional Services
Thursday, 16:40 - 17:40 Moorfoot
Learn the best practices for upgrading your installation
to the latest version of PowerCenter. Take advantage
of the new configuration management features that now
include automated version control and object migration.
Versioning features include check in/check out and undo
capabilities. Object migration features solve the complex
problems encountered when migrating objects across multiple
folders from one repository to another.
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PowerCenter 7.1 Migration et Nouvelles
Fonctionnalities
Jean-Philippe Pramayon, Sr. Sales Consultant,
Informatica
Thursday, 16:40 - 17:40 Kilsyth
Découvrez les meilleures pratiques pour migrer
votre installation PowerCenter actuelle vers la dernière
version. Apprenez à tirer parti des nouvelles
fonctionnalités de gestion de configuration qui
incluent désormais des outils automatiques de
contrôle de versions et de migration d’objets.
La gestion de versions couvre les contrôles entrants
et sortants et des fonctions d’annulation. Les
fonctionnalités de migration d’objets résolvent
les problèmes complexes rencontrés lors
du déplacement d’objets des différents
dossiers d’un référentiel vers un
autre.
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Upgrade auf PowerCenter
7.1
Gundel Johannes, Sr. Consultant, Informatica
Professional Services
Thursday, 16:40 - 17:40 Tinto
Informieren Sie sich über die Best Practices,
Ihre aktuelle PowerCenter Installation auf die neueste
Version zu migrieren. Profitieren Sie von neuen Configuration
Management Funktionalitäten, die jetzt auch eine
automatisierte Versionskontrolle sowie Objektmigration
abdecken. Die Versionisierungs-Funktionalitäten
decken sowohl Check-in/Check-out Kontrollen als auch
Annulierungs-Funktionen ab. Die Funktionalitäten
für Objektmigration adressieren die komplexen Problemstellungen,
die sich bei der Migration von Objekten aus unterschiedlichen
Ordnern in einem Repository in ein anderes stellen.
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Data Quality Improvement:
A Mission-Critical Task for Data Integration
Matthew Polly, Manager, Product Marketing,
Informatica
Friday, 13:30 - 14:30 Kilsyth
With the rise in information volume, velocity, and
variety in most industries, companies face the challenge
of delivering accurate, consistent, and relevant data
across the enterprise. By standardising, verifying,
and consolidating data within the data integration process,
companies can maximise the integrity and value of their
information. This translates directly into an enterprise’s
ability to retain customers, avert risk, seize opportunities,
and reduce expenses. This breakout will help you understand,
identify, and clear the necessary technical hurdles
for delivering higher quality, more consistent, and
reliable data.
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An In-Depth Look at PowerAnalyzer
Architecture
Yusuf Bashir, Sr. Technical Solutions
Architect, Informatica
Friday, 13:30 - 14:30 Tinto
Learn the architecture of PowerAnalyzer, its core
components, and how they work together. This session
will cover areas such as installation, configuration,
query and report processing, application server integration,
clustering, performance tuning, and supporting technologies
such as LDAP, single sign-on, and portal integration.
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Universal Data Services:
Beyond Data Warehousing
Harriet Fryman, Group Director, Product
Marketing, Informatica
Friday, 14:40 - 15:40 Moorfoot
Informatica's customers are maximising their ROI
by leveraging Universal Data Services (UDS) across multiple
data integration initiatives within their IT organisations.
The key has been to identify project commonalities,
create best practices, and standardise across the enterprise.
Learn how UDS can free IT to innovate!
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Informatica for SAP:
Today and Tomorrow
Todd Funasaki, Product Manager, Informatica
Friday, 15:50 - 17:10 Tinto
Find out how organisations in the face of increasing
data volumes and ever-changing data delivery requirements
are using Informatica for accessing, integrating, and
delivering SAP and non-SAP data. During this informatve
session, you will learn how organisations are maximising
their return and enabling SAP NetWeaver to provide a
total data integration solution.
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Universal Data Services:
Why Architecture Matters
James Markarian, CTO, Informatica
Thursday, 15:30 - 16:30 Fintry
This session will delve into the benefits of Informatica's
single-architecture vision to deliver Universal Data
Services (UDS). We will explore how future Informatica
innovation will apply a model-driven approach to evolve
application development processes and offer the potential
for greater adaptability and optimisation. Join us for
this behind-the-scenes look at UDS and learn how this
approach delivers tangible, long-term value to our customers
and a framework for our partners.
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Extending Informatica
Products with SDKs/APIs
Kiumarse Zamanian, Director, Informatica
Developer Network
Thursday, 16:40 - 17:40 Fintry
Informatica's Kiumarse Zamanian will be joined by
several Informatica Developer Network members who will
share their experiences using Informatica SDKs/APIs
to develop successful add-on solutions. The latest news
and future direction of Informatica SDKs/APIs will also
be presented, followed by a Q&A session.
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PowerExchange: Data On-Demand with Changed
Data Capture
Don Tirsell, Director, Product Marketing,
Informatica
Carol Clarke, Director, Business Development, Informatica
Friday, 13:30 - 14:30 Sidlaw
Organisations are constantly pressured to deliver
data faster, even from difficult to access data systems
in the enterprise. During this session, learn how Informatica
can now provide a single platform for the capture and
delivery of changed data from all the mainframe, legacy,
and midrange databases, and satisfy multiple integration
requirements across the enterprise.
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Tapping the Value of Your Mainframe
Systems PowerCenter on the Mainframe
Raj Pai, Director, Product Management,
Informatica
Dale Norman, Product Manager, Informatica
Friday, 14:40 - 15:40 Tinto
Join this informative session to learn how Informatica
PowerCenter on the mainframe leverages valuable data
for a variety of integration initiatives for improved
operational efficiency and business performance. Leveraging
PowerCenter's adaptive architecture and data integration
services, IT organisations can accelerate deployment,
minimise project risks, and leverage existing investments
to reduce their total cost of ownership.
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Informatica SuperGlue™
Nabil Elsheshai, Director, Product
Management, Informatica
David Lyle, VP, Product Strategy, Informatica
Friday, 14:40 - 15:40 Sidlaw
Join us for an overview of Informatica's enterprise
metadata management solution—Informatica SuperGlue.
SuperGlue integrates metadata from disparate systems
and offers visualisation and analysis capabilities for
enhanced understanding of an organisation's IT environment.
Learn how SuperGlue helps companies quickly assess the
impact of changes in the business, gain greater confidence
in the data driving business decisions, and identify
redundancies and opportunities for reuse of their information
assets.
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Setting the Global Agenda with Network
Computing
Cyrus Golkar, CXO, Business Intelligence,
Sun Microsystems
Thursday, 15:30 - 16:30 Tinto
This session discusses Sun’s Network Computing
vision, platform infrastructure technologies and our
comprehensive approach to accelerating deployments of
secure Enterprise Performance Management, Business Intelligence
and Data Warehousing solutions for business agility,
while reducing implementation costs and complexity.
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HP Oneview Powered by Informatica PowerCenter
Peter Bagge, Principle Consultant,
HP Consulting and Integration/Telecoms Sector
Thursday, 15:30 - 16:30 Kilsyth
HP OneView Customer Analytics Solution, powered by
Informatica PowerCenter, provides telecommunications
companies with the tools that gather, analyse, and report
on all aspects of the data related to a single customer.
The OneView system aids key business leaders in making
decisions that satisfy current customer needs, anticipate
future demands, and take advantage of the changing dynamics
of the global market. HP and Informatica have worked
together to build repeatable ETL logic, thereby simplifying
what is usually the most difficult phase of constructing
a telco CRM solution—correctly formatting and
standardising the data from diverse sources.
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Credit Data Store
BI / Data Warehouse Platform for Basel II & US GAAP
LLP
Heinz Schöttler, Director, Corporate
Service Systems, Risk Systems, Dresdner Bank
Thursday, 15:30 - 16:30 Moorfoot
During this informative session, Dresdner Bank will
highlight the importance of understanding the complexities
associated with integrating, processing, and presenting
the information needed to comply with Basel II. You
will learn how they gather data from disparate systems
to provide visibility into the data, and monitor and
respond as change occurs.
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PowerAnalyzer: Data to Dashboarding
at HPShopping.com
Nikhil Behl, VP, Strategy and Development,
HPShopping.com
Thursday, 16:40 - 17:40 Sidlaw
During this session, HPShopping.com will share how
PowerAnalyzer is used in their business community for
its ease of use, dashboarding, and workflow analysis
capabilities. Business users now perform their own analyses
when and how they choose. They can quickly perform analyses
and make adjustments based on the results by identifying
sales trends and discovering Web site issues resulting
from irregular sales information.
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Going Data Integration with Informatica
at Deutsche Woolworth
Hartwig Hopfenzitz, CIO, Member of
the Board, Deutsche Woolworth
Dr. Sven Viergutz, Senior IT Architect, IBM Business
Consulting Services
Friday, 13:30 - 14:30 Moorfoot
Deutsche Woolworth (DWW) currently optimises procurement
processes along the merchandise supply chain, with special
emphasis on planning and sourcing. Consistent with the
company’s Best of Breed strategy, a flexible
data integration platform was needed to cover current
and future needs. The productive solution is a data
hub based on Informatica PowerCenter that provides a
stable and flexible basis to connect new applications
to the existing environment with short development and
rollout cycles. This talk describes DWW’s integration
issues and requirements, and the reasons why Informatica
was chosen versus a classical EAI infrastructure. It
then describes the solution approach, design guidelines
and integration experiences, and reflects on the business
value and future direction for DWW.
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Integration Competency
Centres: Optimising Data Integration Efforts
Matthew Polly, Manager, Product Marketing,
Informatica
Friday, 14:40 - 15:40 Fintry
Integration Competency Centres are a rapidly growing
practice in many organisations. Forward-thinking IS
executives are no longer questioning the need for a
discrete function that is focused on developing standards,
optimising shared operations across the enterprise,
promoting reuse, and driving down costs. The session
will include an overview of the core concepts, key principles,
and different models used to set up a competency centre
for success. The session will also include case studies
from end users with techniques that work—and lessons
learned from techniques that don't.
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A Tale of Two Datamarts
Derek Flowers, Senior Datawarehouse
Manager, Encompass/Allstate Insurance
Friday, 14:40 - 15:40 Kilsyth
In 2000, Allstate Insurance embarked upon the development
of a datamart to support actuarial research and pricing
and activities. This was a complex undertaking involving
hundreds of dimensions and millions of rows. Informatica
PowerCenter was selected in order to deliver the performance,
ease of use, and metadata support required. The lessons
learned in this process were recently leveraged for
the development of a second datamart to support agent
performance tracking. In this session Allstate will
share valuable tips for streamlining datamart design
and delivering enhanced performance to your users.
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“The Plan for the Pru”
Ally Thomson, Lead Application Architect,
PruTech
Friday, 15:50 - 17:10 Moorfoot
In 2001, Prudential UK initiated a number of ambitious
change programmes designed to help the company achieve
its vision of being a truly integrated, customer-led
business. In this presentation, you will learn how Prudential
UK responded to its many integration challenges: how
and why Informatica PowerCenter was selected as a key
tool; how the "Operational Customer DataBase"
(OCDB) was delivered and the crucial role that Changed
Data Capture technology plays in maintaining it; how
the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) is being grown incrementally
rather than by "big bang"; and how both the
OCDB and EDW will contribute to the delivery of sophisticated
campaign management capabilities in 2004.
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Real-Time Integration
and Visibility
Helen Dwight, Sr. Director, Marketing,
Informatica
Nabil Elsheshai, Director, Product Management, Informatica
Friday, 15:50 - 17:10 Kilsyth
Real-time data integration and business insight provide
true competitive advantage. Using critical information
as events occur, businesses can respond quickly to changing
business conditions and optimise their ongoing business
performance. Find out how organisations are efficiently
combining transactional data generated by online systems
and EAI applications with historical "timeslice"
information stored in enterprise data warehouses, and
pushing that data to dashboards for decision support.
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PowerCenter® 6 Performance and Tuning
Greg Hanson, Snr Pre-sales Consultant
UK, Informatica
Friday, 15:50 - 17:10 Sidlaw
In this technical session, we will discuss the results
of several benchmark projects that focused on the performance
and scalability features of the Informatica data integration
platform. We will present a number of different scenarios
and the performance levels achieved, with an emphasis
on the product features and tuning techniques used.
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Top Ten Tips and Tricks
Maic Stohr, Professional Services Consultant,
Informatica
Friday, 15:50 - 17:10 Fintry
This session offers insight into Informatica Professional
Services’ Top Ten Best Practices, all based on
the Velocity Methodology. Leverage our team's experiences
across thousands of customer deployments to drive improved
practices throughout your organisation.
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