Kalido Connect 2010

General Sessions

Kalido for Data Governance

Winston Chen, Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, Kalido

With the introduction of Kalido Data Governance Director, Kalido is building on our past success to advance a bold vision for information management. Together with our existing products for data warehousing and master data management, we now provide a complete solution for managing and governing data through business centric data policies. Winston will talk about why it matters, how it works in practice, and how companies benefit from it.

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Kalido Executive Roundtable

Take this opportunity to chat on-line with Kalido executive management and get your questions answered.

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Business Track Sessions

Customer Success Story: Imperial Tobacco Group

Olaf Thiemann, Imperial Tobacco Group

Hear from Imperial Tobacco Group about their Kalido MDM project to manage master data in supply chain planning. Topics covered include project details and business drivers, how Kalido MDM is used on a daily basis, lessons learned and future project plans.

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Customer Success Story: Johnson & Johnson Ethicon Endo-Surgery

Nik Green, Johnson & Johnson Ethicon Endo-Surgery

This presentation discusses how J&J Ethicon Endo-Surgery is competing more effectively by making the best use of their data. You'll hear how J&J Ethicon Endo-Surgery is using their Kalido data warehouse to improve sales force and marketing effectiveness by: understanding how leading and lagging indicators influence trends; comparing net income (through channels) directly with sales activity; and tracking and planning against contract information to determine which product lines are at risk and why.

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Customer Success Story: Univision

Tom Lebovic, Univision

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Customer Success Story: MarketStar

Nate Bywater, MarketStar

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Data Governance: GE Treasury's Journey

Gary Schneider, Data Governance Leader, GE Corporate Treasury

This session highlights the journey of one company – GE Corporate Treasury – toward data governance. Gary discusses the steps they took – from establishing senior-level sponsorship to defining responsibilities to implementing a data governance framework to enforcing the data policies that serve as the instruments of data governance. This presentation showcases the importance of data policies in their data governance organization and where GE Corporate Treasury's data governance program stands today.

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Data Governance Panel: Lessons from the Trenches

Panelists discuss their data governance programs and the lessons they have learned along the way including how they have developed a more policy-centric approach to data governance and organized their programs in terms of organization, process and technology. They'll also discuss what “success” looks like, the barriers they encountered along the way (and how they overcame them), the role technology plays, and the value that data governance is delivering to their organization.

Panelists will include:

Alex Vlaisavljevic Manager, Data Governance Navistar	Paul Fulton, VP, Data Governance VISA Europe

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Executive Overview: Kalido Information Engine

John Evans, Kalido

An overview of what Kalido Information Engine does for business intelligence and data warehousing.

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Executive Overview: Kalido Master Data Management

John Evans, Kalido

An overview of what Kalido Master Data Management does for master data management.

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Technical Track Sessions

Kalido and the Agile Enterprise

Jon Brightling, Kalido

Agility is the hot topic in BI and data warehousing but applying a new methodology to the same ways used to build the warehouse isn't enough. This presentation will discuss the agile-enabling features of Kalido and show, when they are coupled with an agile methodology, how customers can truly achieve an agile platform to support their business intelligence initiatives.

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Business Modeling Techniques

Bruce Ottmann, Kalido

With Kalido's unique model driven approach, customers can address a wide range of business problems. This session discusses advanced modeling techniques which satisfy some complex business requirements of Kalido customers. Learn how Kalido models can support these requirements using vertical solutions as examples.

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Achieving Performance and Scale with Kalido

Bill Mahoney, Kalido

This session discusses technical capabilities in the Kalido Information Engine and the options available to you to manage growing data volumes while delivering rapid query performance. Topics covered include transaction loading, running Kalido on warehouse appliances and new architectural options.

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Kalido on Teradata

Darren Peirce, Kalido

In October, Kalido ported the Information Engine to Teradata. This session discusses the benefits to running Kalido on Teradata and offers a technical overview of the ELT approach, how Kalido performs and scales, and how Kalido exploits capabilities in Teradata Database 13.10.

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Migrating Your Kalido Warehouse to Teradata

Ritesh Ramesh, Kalido

In this session you will learn how Kalido can help you migrate your existing Kalido warehouse to Teradata, the leading enterprise data warehouse platform. You'll about implementation considerations of running Kalido on Teradata and see how Kalido provides a comprehensive migration solution.

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Leveraging Kalido MDM across the Enterprise

James Dobson, Kalido

Since its debut in 2004, Kalido MDM has broadened its applicability from managing hierarchies for BI into several other areas, serving both analytical uses as well as many operational uses. This session provides an overview of use cases where Kalido MDM has proven business benefits.

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Kalido Data Governance Director Technical Overview

Lovan Chetty, Kalido

This session discusses the new Kalido Data Governance Director in a more detailed manner. Topics include a feature overview as well as how it relates to Kalido MDM, the Kalido Information Engine and the Kalido Data Governance Maturity Model.

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A Practitioner's Guide to Exploiting Kalido MDM 8.5

Michael Robson, Kalido

In the past year, Kalido MDM has seen the introduction of several new capabilities that provide a more robust MDM experience for data as well as users. Data matching, increased scale and a new consumer interface are a few examples of these enhancements. This session covers how and when to exploit these features for a more impactful deployment.

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Understanding SOA and Customization Features of Kalido MDM

Mohammad Ovais, Streebo

Kalido MDM is a powerful and feature rich tool that offers numerous built in components to interact with a Services Oriented Architecture. This presentation discusses Kalido MDM capabilities in relation to SOA, including web services, custom exits and API interactions. Also presented is a real world use case for a custom MDM screen with built in validations and workflows that facilitates reducing the time to author data across multiple categories.

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