Unlocking New Insights and Opportunities with Big Data

In a hyper-connected world, business models are under constant pressure, customers are even more demanding and connected, and competitive advantage increasingly comes from forging great relationships. Consequently, IT and business leaders are laser focused on staying relevant to their customers across every channel and looking for innovative solutions to streamline their operations. At IBM, we call this market phenomenon, the new era of computing. Learn how leading organizations are turning to big data to create entirely new value, maintain relevance, and garner greater operational efficiency for game changing results. Understand how big data can be harnessed to grow top line revenues, protect information, people and organizations from threat, enable insight-driven operational efficiency and reduce IT costs.

Analyst Keynote - Drive Business Innovation: Finding Treasure in the Data Attic

Governing data and managing data just got a whole lot more complex when we talk about big data. Rather than retrench, embrace the new reality. The old adage of "business first" still holds true. Data management fundamentals are still core to your strategy. What needs to change is how you think about and apply data governance and build an architecture that is flexible and elastic to meet an ever changing and evolving business. See what it takes to go from a data strategy focused on data collection, to one that drives business innovation.

• • Turning data from an artifact, to an asset, into currency
  • Identify what it takes to pursue a big data strategy
  • Using data governance as an accellerator, not a brake
  • Understand why context is much more important

The Newest Information Management Innovations from IBM

In this era of big data, using innovative techniques to manage, integrate, analyze and govern data faster and more efficiently can make the difference between success or falling behind. This session builds on the previous one with a more detailed look at the most recent updates to IBM Information Management software and systems. Learn how these innovations can help you improve your results by accelerating the discovery of new insights, trusting and better protecting your valuable data assets, and increasing efficiency and productivity to save time and reduce costs.

Information Management in the New Era of Computing

The increasing complexity of business and the escalating volume and variety of data being generated today can either be seen as a major threat or a golden opportunity to gain competitive advantage. In the new era of computing, companies are heightening their focus on building an agile information management foundation that can address the needs for mission-critical applications and advanced analytics. This session focuses on the four key pillars of IBM’s information management software –big data, information integration and governance, database management and PureSystems. Learn how you can reduce data management costs, increase trust and protection of your data and accelerate analytics to exploit big data.