Leveraging Business Intelligence to Reduce Costs and Maximise Shareholder Value - Seminar
Real World Examples of Best Practice
Tuesday 9th November 2010, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 9:00am - 12:45pm
 
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Maxima have an unrivalled experience built up over 10 years delivering innovative Business Intelligence solutions using the SAP Business Objects Product Suite.  We know that successful Business Intelligence requires more than simply deploying the product across your business. It is the detail of solution design that ensures a sustainable and value-add solution.

Attend this Executive Briefing, held in the historic setting of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, to find out how Maxima and BusinessObjects can help you:

•    Get real time information on the performance indicators and drivers that affect your bottom line
•    Understand who your best and most profitable customers are
•    Get up to the minute, real time information, so you can make timely and well informed decisions

Key topics include:
-    Overview of Business Intelligence trends and how Business Objects is hitting the targets
-    Building and delivering ROI
-    Optimising Report Delivery
-    Insight driven business growth
-    Effective Dashboard Design
-    Real world SME Case Studies
 
Don’t miss the opportunity to hear a first-hand case study from:
Kevin Loomes, Head of Business Intelligence  (UK) British Car Auctions….. Hear how BCA are taking their use of SAP Business Objects beyond core reporting requirements by extending it to profile their customer base to drive their campaigns and event effectiveness. 

Speakers: 
 
Kevin Loomes, Head of Business Intelligence (UK) at British Car Auctions, will be delivering a case study about his experiences in driving CRM effectiveness.
Head of Business Intelligence (UK) for BCA - Europe's No.1 Vehicle Remarketing Company. Kevin is part of the UK IT department and responsible for the delivery of business intelligence solutions including CRM and Data Integration for UK operations. Kevin joined BCA in 2000 as Head of IT for a subsidiary company responsible for electronic marketing channels. In 2005 Kevin joined the UK IT operation to expand and integrate BI solutions across all UK divisions. In 2009 Kevin’s role was extended further to encompass CRM and Data Integration solutions. Over this period key projects have included: Developing a customised reporting platform with a remote access portal based on Business Objects XI Enterprise and .Net; A major upgrade of  BCA’s CRM system to Business Objects XI/SalesLogix; the design and implementation of a networked document imaging and storage system for vehicle documents – V5s and MOTs, and numerous deployments of data integration projects with key BCA customers.
 
Graham Kingsmill, Chief Executive of Maxima, will be delivering the keynote presentation at the seminar. Graham was Chief Executive of Netstore plc, then an AIM listed company, from July 2007 until its acquisition by 2e2 Group in October 2008. Netstore provided IT Application Management, Hosting and Security Services. He was previously Managing Director (UK and Ireland) of SAP, a provider of enterprise management software to many of the worlds largest companies Prior to that, Graham held senior sales and general management positions with IBM, PTC and Intergraph, primarily in the area of computer aided design tools.
 
Rob Furnivall, Channel Director SAP UK Rob joined SAP from Mindjet and has held numerous channel positions over his career including managing Microsoft’s business engagement group and also running Novell’s UKI channel business. Rob’s remit is to work with channel partners such as Maxima to help grow SAPs ERP, CRM and Business intelligence divisions. 
 
Stuart Wallace, Maxima’s Business Intelligence Competency Centre Manager.  Stuart has a 14 year background in delivering, planning and managing BI projects and environments.  His experience includes work in the Retail, Pharmaceutical, Public Sector, Manufacturing and Financial sectors. 
 
Richard Deery – SAP Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
 
Stephen Sutton – Maxima Business Intelligence Specialist
 
Agenda
9:00am: Registration with coffee and danish pastries

 
9:30am: Welcome & Introduction - Graham Kingsmill, CEO, Maxima and Rob Furnival, Channel Director, SAP UK
 
10:00am: Business Intelligence Overview Trends in the Business Intelligence Market and how SAP BusinessObjects delivers against these - Richard Deery SAP BusinessObjects Solution Architect
 
10:45am: Case Study – Fast Tracking External Reports Reducing a monthly reporting cycle to client from 10 man days to 1 hour using existing SAP Business Objects infrastructure - Stuart Wallace, Head of Maxima’s Business Intelligence Competency Centre
 
11:05am: Design Best Practice - Quality Customer Data The first of the days Design Best Practise Sessions.  Making sure you are using the right data at the right time - Maxima Business Intelligence Specialist
 
11:35am: Coffee break 
 
11:50am: Customer Case study : British Car Auctions (BCA) Hear how BCA are taking their use of SAP Business Objects beyond core reporting requirements by extending it to drive their campaigns and event effectiveness - Kevin Loomes, Head of Business Intelligence (UK) at British Car Auctions
 
12:20pm: Design Best Practice – Effective Dashboard Design There is only so much space on your dashboard.  Make sure you get the right information in the right place for the right people with this design best practice session - Stephen Sutton, Maxima Business Intelligence Specialist
 
12:45pm: Summary & Close Followed by a complimentary lunch - Graham Kingsmill, CEO, Maxima
  

Attendees include:
BAA, BancTec, Bohler Uddenholm, BP, City & Guilds, E2V, Freshfields, Murphy Group, The DX, Wolters Kluwer...and more!
 
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