KEYNOTE
THE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND ANALYTICS TOPOGRAPHY:
5-YEAR
FORECAST
Doug
Laney
Vice President
META Group
Increasingly, enterprises deem information as more than a business by-product,
but rather as a fuel for enterprise success and consequently as part of the
IT portfolio. However, data integration woes persist uncontrollably in most
enterprises, limiting their ability to achieve desired levels of business process
performance. A continuous rise in data volume, velocity and variety confounds
IT organizations, prompting them to consider an array of data integration technologies
and architectures. Achieving and information management and analytic excellence
entails identifying and implementing foresight-based innovations. Particularly
now that most enterprises have data warehouses and business intelligence applications
of some sort, leading enterprises must capitalize on the opportunities intimated
by industry trends. In his address, Mr. Laney will reveal META Group research
into salient short-, medium-, and long-term analytics-related futures, including:
Mr. Laney is vice president of Application Delivery Strategies with the IT advisory services firm, META Group. In this role he offers counsel to thousands of META Group clients on information management related strategies and technologies. He is an experienced practitioner and leading authority on data warehouse architecture and technology, information management, data quality and metadata management. Previously, he ran professional services for Prism Solutions' Asia-Pacific and Midwestern US regions. During this time he produced the industry's first commercial data warehouse project methodology. With consulting involvement on dozens of projects, his field experience spans most industries. Mr. Laney's career began at Andersen Consulting, where he managed batch technical architecture design/development projects on multimillion-dollar engagements. He also worked in the artificial intelligence field developing expert systems and natural language query applications. Mr. Laney holds a B.S. in Software Engineering and Business Administration from the University of Illinois.