Northern Ohio Business Objects
User Group Meeting
When: September 15, 2009
Where:
Corporate Plaza 1
6450 Rockside Woods Boulevard South
Lower Level Auditorium
Independence, OH 44131
Lunch: Provided by Global BusinessObjects Network (GBN) and Collabera
Time…Topic
12:00 PM - Networking Lunch
1:00 PM - From Zero to Wow. Using Xcelsius Prebuilt Analytics to Jump Start your Dashboard Initiative - Tricia Donovan and Srinivasan Rengarajan
2:00 PM - Web Intelligence 3.1 - Bring it On! - Eileen King
3:00 PM - Break
3:15 PM - Aligning Stars at Tri-C: A Pure Play Technical Discussion - Chris Rouse
4:15 PM - Open Forum for Discussion on Technical Issues
4:45 PM - Wrap-up & Door Prize Drawings
Christina Rouse, Analytics Leader: Chris specializes in enterprise business intelligence solutions and predictive analytics. She is an improvement catalyst who applies business intelligence strategy for performance improvement. Chris has over 20 years of data experience on a broad range of technical platforms. Clients often cite her blend of business acumen, technical archite ct and trainer skills. She conceptualizes the data solution, then architects, constructs and implements the solution. She is a seasoned business intelligence solution architect, an applied statistician and a former college professor. Chris is the Chief Architect and Statistician at Incisive Analytics, LLC.
Eileen King is a Principal Consultant in Business Objects/Business Intelligence. She has been working with Business Objects since 1997. Her areas of expertise include requirements gathering, universe and report development, end user education and support. She will be presenting two topics at the 2009 SAP BusinessObjects User Conference.She has experience in a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, insurance, and banking. She has experience implementing business intelligence solutions using Business Objects. She has successfully supervised and mentored client staff and consultants on all aspects of Business Objects. She has actively contri buted in cross-talented teams to support and drive Business Intelligence. She has been responsible for building and maintaining strategic partnerships and alliances with senior executives, clients, partners and prospects throughout the project life cycle.
Tricia Donovan and Srinivasan Rengarajan (Collabera) With revenues of over USD 300 million, Collabera employs over 4,000 professionals across 22 offices and six world-class delivery centers in the US, Europe, India and China regions. Collaberas Global Delivery capabilities deliver a full portfolio of services that include Application Development and Management, Independent Testing, Outsourced Product Development, Enterprise Software Solutions, Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing. For the past 9 years, the Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing (BI/DW) division of Collabera has continued to be a thought leader within the Data Management and Business Intelligence arena specializing in strategy through implementation in BI, Master and Meta Data, Data Quality, Data Warehousing, Data Integration, Program and Change Management . Collabera is a Gold partner of Business Objects and a Platinum partner of SAP.
Advance Registration is required! We look forward to seeing you!
Eileen King 
(BOB member since 2002-07-10)