IDCs Business Performance Management and Business Intelligence Conference 2005

IDC believes that effective performance management is a critical business asset and is delighted to announce this upcoming event for end users across all industries. The conference will take place on Wednesday, June 29, at The Radisson SAS Portman Hotel in London.


From operational issues such as sales and logistics to high-level strategic planning, if an organisation does not have the capability to understand and measure its performance, it will lack the insight to set meaningful objectives, rationalise expenses and increase profitability.

Now more than ever, businesses are realising that business performance management (BPM) and business intelligence (BI) tools will be key to their future success.

This important one-day conference will enable key decision makers to make informed decisions about how to implement BPM and BI solutions and will include a number of case studies and presentations from leading vendors and IDC analysts. The conference will cover: How to gain advantage from investing in better business intelligence What is required to improve the performance management environment How to integrate BPM and BI successfully How to minimise risk in any BI investment

Speakers will include Bill Clough, IDCís vice president of European Software Research, case studies from BP and ProLogis and presentations from expert organisations in the field, including Business Objects, Sybase, Systems Union, Cognos, Cartesis, Information Builders, ALG Software, Altius Consulting, ProClarity International and Orenburg. Also exhibiting alongside these companies will be eg Solutions. Attendance is FREE for the first 100 attendees from end-user organisations, subject to validation from IDC.

For further information and to register for this event, applicants should visit www.idc.com/uk/bi05 entering PR1 in the promotional code box to submit their registration under the end-user category. For press passes, please enter press in the promotional code box.

Press registering for the event will be able to request interviews with all the speakers present on the day. We cannot guarantee that any speaker will be available at the requested time, but we will do our best to arrange a meeting.