(7:00 - 7:30) Technology Deep-dive on QlikView with Scott Taylor from QlikTech

QlikTech is the global leader in next-generation business intelligence solutions, offering sophisticated in-memory analysis and reporting solutions for enterprise and individual customers. QlikTech supports an open information architecture, where business information is broadly, affordably and quickly available to those who need it. QlikTech?s flagship product, QlikView, uses next-generation patented in-memory association technology to make sophisticated analysis dramatically easier to deploy, use and maintain. QlikView?s click driven, visually interactive interface is simple for end users to learn and use.

QlikTech is the world?s fastest growing business intelligence software company two years in a row (2004-2006) according to IDC, with more than 7,300 customers in 82 countries and is adding more than 13 new customers each working day. In addition to thousands of small and midsized companies, QlikTech?s customers include large corporations such as Tetra Pak, Deutsche Telekom, Reuters, 3M, Colonial Supplemental Insurance, and BMW.

(7:30 -- ) Open Forum - Stories from the Frontier. Consumer and vendor perspectives.

• What applications are people using BI for?
  
• Who are the user base?
  
• How do people gather needs?
  
• What is the lead time different people experience between needs surfacing, project being funded and project execution?
  
• How are projects managed?
  
• How do people count success in BI?
  
• What are the factors?