PXtech at the TDWI BI Symposium

The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) is a leading research and training organisation specialising in Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing, the self-same "bread and butter" as PXtech, so we were delighted to be invited to this year’s London symposium.
The event covered a wide range of industry hot topics including:-

• Creating an agile organisation
• Delivering information rapidly enough to add real value to a business
• Creating an analytics-driven organisation
• Deploying the right analytics for your audience
• Effective design for dashboards and scorecards
• Principles of predictive analytics
• How performance management fits into business management

As an “agile organisation” ourselves we were keen to hear about the latest thinking in the BI industry and to stay abreast of the latest developments, ensuring we bring the freshest industry practises into our business and to our customers. The event started with a keynote on Sustainable Business Value from Frank Buytendijk (formally Research Vice President at Gartner Group and Vice President Corporate Strategy at Hyperion). Following this insightful presentation, we attended a day-long interactive workshop on “Effective design for dashboards and scorecards".

If you’re a user of our PXportal solution, you'll know that dashboards and scorecards form a central part of what we do, but it was interesting to hear just how important they are in a business context. Also covered was how balanced scorecards and strategy maps can be used to help create dashboards that present "actionable" information for business managers. In other words, dashboards that can provide a clear link between the information displayed and their operations, processes and behaviour as ultimately, if the dashboard is telling you something is off-target, you need to know what to change within your business to fix it.

The next TDWI conference is focusing on managing the increasing large volumes of data that businesses generate, and how to analyse that data quickly enough for companies to make informed, impactful operating decisions. This is an area PXtech really excels at - which is a shame as the conference is in Orlando, Florida...

You can learn more about TDWI at http://tdwi.org
Learn more about Frank Buytendijk at http://www.frankbuytendijk.com/