IMUG Lux Data Warehousing Event
 
Venue Clearstream
42, Av J-F Kennedy
1855 Luxembourg
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When Monday, December 13, 2010
 
13:30    Introduction
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Making better decisions faster can make the difference between surviving and thriving in an increasingly competitive marketplace. And there is no shortage of data with which to make these decisions, but rather with it’s consistency, accuracy, timeliness and complexity.

Data warehousing provides data quickly and in a format that greatly enhances the decision making process. The data warehouse allows organizations to exploit the potential of information locked in legacy systems and inaccessible to the business user.

This event will document how a Data Warehouse can help you to build a central repository of summarized company data which can be accessed by users in a consistent and subject oriented format. How a data warehouse has a different structure to an operational (OLTP) system. And how a data warehouse is organized around business entities such as a customer, a product, or a geographical region and is much more useful for data analysis and data mining as an operational system.
 
13:45    Data Warehouse implementation and usage @ KBL
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      Nicolas MARTINET – Project coordinator
Dominique BATTAGLIA – Project Manager
Session Abstract
Le Data Warehousing à la KBL tourne dans un environnement distribué sur systèmes SUN Solaris et DB Oracle. Le DW regroupe l'ensemble des données fonctionnelles de la KBL avec le but de fournir un ensemble de données servant de référence unique. Pour ce faire, la KBL a développé un outil interne.
 
14:15    The Data Warehouse @ CACEIS Bank Luxembourg
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   Eric NICODEMI
Application Group Manager

Biography
Eric Nicodemi is an Application Group Manager. He joined the group CACEIS in 2002 where, after participating in the implementation of projects "Open" Java - Oracle, he took over the team Data Warehouse & Reporting. He will speak as an expert on BI for the CACEIS presentation.
Session Abstract
The CACEIS Data Warehouse is developed on SUN/Solaris architecture with an Oracle database. It covers all CACEIS business activities (Fund Accounting, Transfer Agent, Custody Ban) that need to be covered by the reporting and BI products, as well as internal reporting for the employees (SAS Enterprise Guide, Access) as for customers (SAS, Jasper Report). The ETL part is supported by Datastage Server on IBM machines running on AIX. The reporting component is assigned to an in-house made application based on Jasper Report, all running on IBM AIX machines.
 
14:45    Data Management @ Clearstream
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   Michel GENOT
Director Storage&ICSD Data&Mainframe Management

Session Abstract
This session will provide you with an architectural picture of the Data Warehouse in place at Clearstream. The speaker will share with us his experience in setting up and running the Data Warehouse. He will also explain some of the choices made over the years that make the Data Warehouse what it is today.
 
15:45    EMC - The fastest analytical Database on earth: Greenplum
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   Uwe Weimer
VP Central & Eastern Europe - EMC Data Computing Products Division

Biography
Uwe Weimer is a highly driven IT veteran with 25 years of international experience in both software and hardware. He has an outstanding track record in high value, enterprise wide solution sales, experience of operating at board level. In the past 15 years, he has been focusing on Enterprise Data Warehousing, Analytics and SAP Business Intelligence. His previous positions include companies like Sun (now Oracle) and Dell Cognos (now IBM).
Session Abstract
In 2003, the co-founders of Greenplum set out on a mission to build the world's fastest and most scalable database system entirely in software, capable of running across 100s to 1000s of off-the-shelf commodity systems. Greenplum's engineering talent has developed a product capable of supporting the massive-scale data processing requirements of some of the world's most respected enterprises. The company’s vision is to support an organization’s ability to harness and exploit the massive amount of data at their disposal for business advantage. Greenplum – as the Data Computing Products Division of EMC - is serving the data warehouse market by leveraging its combined core assets as well as by transforming data “warehousing” into “data computing.
 
16:15    Oracle Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence strategy
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   Bernd JODOCY
Solution Architect, Oracle Luxembourg

Session Abstract
Oracle provides a complete, integrated, and open stack of data warehouse, BI, and EPM solutions from storage to scorecard that helps organizations manage their information more effectively. Together, these Oracle technologies enable organizations to be smart, agile, and aligned. This presentation will cover the main area's of Oracle's DWH- and BI-strategy and how those solutions help customers to cope with always increasing requirements and demands (data explosion, near-realtime DWH, extreme performance).
 
16:45    IBM Data Movement Techniques
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   Herman COP
Technical pre-sales consultant, SuadaSoft

Biography
Herman has over 25 years of experience as Application Architect within the banking and financial services industry and the public sector. His technical background includes application design and development (C and Java), relational databases (DB2 and Oracle) and application tuning. Since a few years, Herman is active as technical sales & pre-sales consultant in the Information Management area (Data Management, InfoSphere, Optim and Guardium).
Session Abstract
During the last 10 years, IBM has invested billions of dollars in the acquisition of companies in its key growth areas of Information Management, Smarter Planet Initiatives, business analytics and cloud computing. This session aims to document the different ways data can be transported, integrated, transformed and made available to applications using IBM’s integrated InfoSphere product Suite, which is part of IBM’s Information Management brand.
 
!! Possible change: We think it would be interesting to invite someone to explain IBM's new warehousing strategy around the recent acquisition of Nettezza by IBM. If we succeed, this session will replace the 'IBM Data Movement Techniques' session at 16:45