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.

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Data Integration
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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!
 
 
 
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.
 
 

 

   


Technology Trends
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
 

   


 
Best Practices
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
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.
 
 
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.
 
 
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.
 
 
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.
 
 
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.