All Things Data

In this presentation Philip Carter will highlight the role of data as part of digital transformation initiatives. He will cover the importance of putting in place a digital data platform to enable organisational change across traditional IT, information management and business domains. Finally, he will offer recommendations for ‘data leaders’ to focus innovation efforts on monetising digital transformation – which will fundamentally determine success for any enterprise in the digital economy.

Organisations that focus on data have been shown to have better financial performance.  We are moving from an era of cost optimisation and productivity to an age of engagement.  This engagement is with customers, partners, third parties, and machines.  At the center of every winning business strategy is data.  We will talk about how to accelerate your organisation’s results using the Intelligent Data Platform to manage data of any type and from any source to drive better business outcomes.

Today digital permeates every part of the business. The customer journey has changed and buying is now about experience. Businesses are increasingly involving their buyers in their innovation journey. The lines of business have blurred across industries too. Once-in-a-decade shift in technology is putting industries and business at the crossroads, forcing them to seek improved digital engagement. The need is to create engaging and consistent digital experiences across every touch point, providing new opportunities for growth through data monetization. Analytics is the catalyst that will enable companies to move their digital initiatives beyond the incremental to the transformational level. Analytics enabled digital strategy is the key to recode customer experience and create the next generation value.

As the sixth largest paint and coating corporation in the world, Valspar is a US$4B+ international manufacturer of paint and coatings with nearly 10,000 employees in 25 countries. Valspar's global MDM initiative is aimed at lowering costs through improved visibility into the supply chain, better supplier and customer satisfaction through enhanced product quality and higher profitability through lower cost of materials. In this session, find out about Valspar's MDM journey, how they recognised that supplier relationship and data management tools can help improve sourcing process efficiency and the key considerations for building the business case for back office productivity/efficiency and M&A synergies. Topics include:

• Establishing a proactive global Data Governance framework to drive & sustain centralized data stewardship with business owners
• Managing sourcing risk, automating the vendor RFP process & Raw Material SKU rationalization
• Integrating golden master copies with BI reporting systems to provide clean, consistent automated reports & KPIs

The Intelligent Data Platform provides a single source of complete, clean, timely and safe data for use by everyone in the organisation. In this session we will demonstrate the new and upcoming features of the platform. Specifically we will show how Informatica Rev enables business analysts to significantly cut the time required for data prep work, freeing more time to focus on analytic insights. We will also show how the new Live Data Map and Intelligent Data Lake will be used to provide a highly intuitive and productive environment where all members of an organisation can quickly locate and use the data they need for projects. We will show how the platform is increasingly providing intelligence to guide users to the best and most relevant data, enabling both business and technical users to discover, manage, and utilise data they need to accelerate their initiatives and drive business results.

Technology megatrends such as SaaS, social, mobile and Internet of Things are transforming where business data resides, what business data is comprised of, how we access business data and who are the users of business data. The result is that every company, in every industry, must respond to these megatrends and manage data in a new way as the where, what, how and who of business data is now in a hybrid world and eventually moving to the cloud. In this session, learn about Informatica’s industry first complete Cloud Integration and Data Management platform for the move to the cloud. Key use cases for journey to the cloud includes data migration, data synchronisation & replication, cloud process automation, cloud mdm, lift and shift patterns, cloud analytics and cloud data warehousing.

On the digital transformation journey to become a data ready enterprise, information needs to change from maintained information to managed information. Our vision is to predict the next logical action based on master data. Information must be more relevant to business users and customers. The strategy of Informatica is continuing bundling a wider offer of MDM fueled apps and solutions which are dedicated to a certain use case, an industry and the work of governance, stewardship and business user roles.

"Gartner estimated that over 50% of application consolidation and migration projects fail. The key to lowering the risk of these projects is using industry-leading data management tools, engaging with the business, and employing a mature and proven methodology. We will show how Informatica can do all three of these things to ensure a successful application project. We will also show how the same tools and skills you used in the application consolidation & migration projects can ensure the ongoing success of your application portfolio after your migration project has gone live.

A winning analytics strategy is a journey. Most organisations today have data marts, data warehouses. Many are moving to add realtime, big data, and data lakes to their analytics portfolio. The organisations that excel in this space will be those that have a consistent approach and architecture for delivering great data for their analytics use regardless of the use case, BI tool, or user type. We will talk about approaches for delivering decision-ready data to speed up the delivery of actionable business insights.