Upcoming events

Barry will be speaking at:

• Business Intelligence Summit 2012, Johannesburg, South Africa, 28 February - 1 March, 2012

Barry keynotes on:

• BI Business Value - the Quicker, the Better

Today, users demand instant satisfaction and quality solutions. This keynote examines the different options that can speed up BI delivery, and examines how far they can address the fundamental data management challenges involved.

Barry also presents a short workshop on:

• Taking the Bored out of Boardroom BI

How to restate the business value of BI in the boardroom, and the use of a new architecture spanning operational, informational and collaborative environments.

Recent events

Barry presented at:

• Tech4Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 27-28 October, 2011

Barry discussed:

• The New Information Age - Trends in Big Data, Modern Technology and Emerging Applications



• Business Objects Arbeitkreis BOAK 2011, Zurich, Switzerland, 20 September, 2011

Barry keynoted with:

• Beyond Business Intelligence



• The Future of Business Intelligence, Brussels, Belgium, 15 June, 2011
Barry discussed:
• Beyond Business Intelligence,or: Why We Need a New Approach... Now!
• Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Spreadsheets



• International Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Summit 2011, New and Emerging Technologies, Rome, Italy, June 22-24
Barry presented:
• The Myth of the Unstructured Data Warehouse: Why Web 2.0 and 3.0 Demand a New Approach
• The Adaptive Analytic Cycle: Getting Over IT's Distrust of Spreadsheets



• TDWI half-day seminar: Business Integrated Insight: From Business Intelligence to Fully Integrated Enterprise IT, SAS Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4 April, 2011



• TDWI half-day seminar: Business Integrated Insight: From Business Intelligence to Fully Integrated Enterprise IT, Helsinki, Finland, 5 April, 2011



• BI² (Business Integrated Insight) From Business Intelligence to Enterprise IT Integration, Rome, 11-12 April, 2011
A two-day seminar on the next wave of business intelligence, which will finally reintegrate the full enterprise IT environment.


• BI Summit 2011, Vodaworld, Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 22-23 February 2011
Barry keynoted on 23 February with:
"Big Data - Giant Precipice or Huge Wave?"


• Enterprise Architecture, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 9-10 March 2011
Barry keynoted the event and presented:
• "The future of Enterprise Architecture as operational, informational & collaborative computing converge"
• "Business Integrated Insight: Re-architecting Business Intelligence for Right-Time Decision Making"


• Strata Conference, Santa Clara, California, February 1-3, 2011
Barry presented two sessions:
February 1: "Exec Summit session: The Data-driven Business and Other Lessons from History"
February 3: "Keynote: The Heat Death of the Data Warehouse" video available on YouTube



• TDWI Amsterdam Symposium, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 15-16 November 2010
Barry opened the event on November 15 with a keynote:
"BI² - Catching the Next Wave of Business Intelligence"


• DW2010 / EA2010, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 9-10 November 2010 (Website in German)
Barry keynoted on November 9 with:
"BI²—The Next Decade of Business Intelligence"


• DW and BI, DM & IQ Conference Europe 2010, London, United Kingdom, November 3-5, 2010
Barry presented three sessions:
November 4: "From Soft Information to Hard Data - Bridging the Business and Technology Chasm"
November 5: "Fighting the Spreadsheet Pandemic - Reconciling the Spreadsheet Culture and Business Intelligence"
November 5: "Is BI finished with Relational Databases? - the Implications of Unstructured Information for the Data Warehouse"


• 9th European TDWI Conference, Munich, 14-16 June 2010
Barry keynoted on June 16 with:
" BI2 - Catching the Next Wave of Business Intelligence" and also presented a half-day seminar entitled:
"From Business Intelligence to Fully Integrated Enterprise IT".


• BI² (Business Integrated Insight) From Business Intelligence to Enterprise IT Integration, Rome, 15-16 April, 2010
A two-day seminar on the next wave of business intelligence, which will finally reintegrate the full enterprise IT environment.


• Data Warehouse 2009, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 9-10, 2009
In addition to keynoting the conference, he also ran a half-day post-conference workshop: "Is your Data Warehouse Ready to Support Operational Business Intelligence?"


• IDC Business Intelligence Roadshow 2009, Prague, Zagreb, Belgrade, Ljubljana, October-November, 2009


• Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Conference Europe 2009, London, United Kingdom, November 2-4, 2009
Barry presented: "Business Integrated Insight (BI²) – A New Architecture for More Than Business Intelligence" and "Seven Steps to BI²– Reintegrating the Data Warehouse into the Full Business Cycle".


• 8th European TDWI Conference, Munich, 15-17 June 2009
Barry presented a half-day seminar "Rejuvenating Strategic Business Intelligence".


• International Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Summit 2009, Rome, Italy, May 13-15
Barry discussed whether you still need a Data Warehouse and presented a readiness assessment for Operational BI.


• TDWI World Conference Las Vegas, February 22-27, 2009
A half-day seminar on Tuesday, February 25 entitled:
• “Rejuvenating Strategic Business Intelligence”
and a half-day seminar as part of the Operational BI track on Wednesday, February 26 entitled:
• “Are You Ready for Operational BI? Performing a Health Checkup”


• Data Management and Information Quality Conferences, November 3-6, 2008 - London, UK
A half-day seminar on Monday, November 3:
• “What Next for Business Intelligence - Changing Gears or Shifting Paradigms?”
and a conference session on Tuesday, November 4:
• “Business Insight is the Next Iteration of BI”


• DW2008, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 27-28 October, 2008
• Datawarehousing & Business Intelligence 2008, Leiden, Netherlands, October 1-3, 2008
A full-day seminar on Wednesday, October 1 entitled:
• “What next for Business Intelligence: Integrating BI into the mainstream of business IT with SOA and Web 2.0”
as well as a conference session on Thursday, October 2:
• “Could BI stand for Business Insight?”


• 7th European TDWI Conference, Munich, 2-4 June 2008


• TDWI World Conference, Chicago, 11-16 May 2008