WEBINAR: Get Modernized: 5 Steps to Better Analytics - 6 December 2016

Webinar Event Details

Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Time: Noon ET/ 9:00 am PT
Duration: 60 minutes (including Q&A)

What You'll Learn While analytics is not new to business, the technology available today for supporting analytics is new. It has led to a dramatic increase in the speed and scale with which analytics can be performed and integrated with business processes. Missed opportunities to modernize your analytics technology can result in substantial time and resource costs, and can have a significant impact on the quality of your business decisions. In this webinar, Tom Davenport, renowned analytics author, along with analytics leaders from Deloitte, SAS, and Intel, share strategies and steps for modernizing analytics. You can learn how to: • Evaluate the analytics solutions that are available today • Avoid the risks faced by organizations that are a step behind their competitors due to outdated technology • Get started on the path to analytic modernization by following five critical steps Presenters Thomas Davenport,  Co-Founder, International Institute for Analytics Tom Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, the co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a Fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics. He teaches analytics and big data in executive programs at Babson, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School, and Boston University. He pioneered the concept of “competing on analytics” with his best-selling 2006 Harvard Business Review article (and his 2007 book by the same name). Jordan Wiggins,  Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP Jordan Wiggins is a leader in Deloitte’s Analytics and Information Management practice. He has more than 15 years of experience in the technology industry with a focus in analytics. Jordan drives strategic, analytics-based solutions that enable clients to utilize raw data more effectively to support the decision-making process. Scott Van Valkenburgh,  Sr Director Partner Relationships SAS With more than 800 partners in the portfolio, Scott Van Valkenburgh leads the organization that is responsible for SAS’ global partner relationships. His teams are responsible for SAS partner go-to-market strategies and execution. Scott is a thought leader in how companies can improve by modernizing their analytic infrastructure, processes and systems. Prior to joining SAS, Van Valkenburgh was the founder and managing partner of the Sequoia Architecture Group and served as a Principal for PricewaterhouseCoopers within the Management Consulting Services Information and Technology Practice. Pat Richards,  Industry Partner Solutions Manager Intel Pat leads Intel Big Data Service Enablement Organization in the South East, helping companies implement and realize true business value with Big Data solutions. Before joining Intel Pat was VP of Professional Services for Canada and US for NCR. He also served as CTO at SCIenergy providing leadership and management of the company's software-as-a-service (SaaS) product development team. Pat spent three years as Vice President, Technical Operations, at Fox Audience Network and before that, ten years at IBM in a number of progressive technology roles in the areas of grid computing, virtualization and Web 2.0.

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