Events

The Marketing Research and Intelligence Association (MRIA) invites you to attend our second annual national Business Intelligence Conference, taking place in Vancouver on November 9, 2006.

Who: The conference is designed to attract senior marketing, planning and knowledge executives, business intelligence practitioners, and suppliers of tools and solutions. Attendees are expected from across Canada and the northwestern United States.

What: Keynote speakers, panel discussions, case studies, break-out sessions, workshops and more. The BI Conference objectives are to:

– Showcase business intelligence in action – Explore best practices, effective tools and techniques – Examine the current state of business intelligence in corporate Canada

When: Thursday, November 9, 2006, 7:30am – 5:00pm

Where: Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, 580 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia

Visit http://www.mria-arim.ca/BICONFERENCE/default.asp for more details.

BSG, Cognos partner for the Middle East, today announced that BSG in conjunction with Cognos is hosting a Seminar on Performance Management at the Marriott Hotel in Riyadh on November 28th, 2006.

The half-day event will feature Cognos CPM experts who will demonstrate how organizations can improve visibility and control of enterprise performance with the Cognos CPM Solution.

‘When decision makers are looking to find answers on their company’s performance, they ask questions in three fundamental areas i.e. How are we doing?, Why?, and What should we be doing?. Most companies deploy many different tools and systems to provide their users the answers to these questions. The result of this fragmented approach is a slow, disconnected decision-making process with low end-user satisfaction and high costs of IT’, said Mohammed Khasim, Sales Manager at BSG. [Read more…]

Business Intelligence Conference in Vancouver on November 9, 2006

Cognos Performance Management Seminar to kick off in Riyadh