In today's economy organisations are finding it harder than ever to produce meaningful forecasts. Yet with rapidly changing market conditions the need is at its greatest for accurate planning information to base management decisions on.
Organisations which can accurately forecast future performance, sufficiently far in advance to plan alternative courses of action, can both minimise risks and maximise opportunities.
Organisations must look beyond planning as simply the annual budget to a continuous, integrated process of informed planning monitored and refined through regular forecasting.
The IBM framework considers the whole of the planning process and technology as an enabling tool and will seek to answer such questions as: what are our objectives, how will the process work, who needs to be involved, what is the role of the technology and critically, how do we use this to drive improvements in the business.

Today's economy is calling for cost reduction and improved efficiencies across the entire enterprise. Organisations are looking to maximise the business value of their existing IT infrastructure while at the same time controlling costs. In this session, delegates will learn how effective Data Management strategies can:

• Reduce costs by archiving data when retiring or consolidating enterprise applications
• Improve application performance by archiving historical data
• Reclaim hardware stoarage and re-purpose for cost savings
• Apply data masking techniques to protect your company from a data breach

HR function has transformed over the decades, from just being an admin function into a corporate strategic partner. During the same time, workforce has become globally mobile and the demographics changed from baby boomers to Gen Y with the good old green terminals giving way to internet and then social networking and collaborative computing. This meant that the HR Practitioners needed several tools to deliver their services effectively at short notice and with core HR system providers always playing a catch up game, HRIT Landscape became varied and highly fragmented. This presentation discusses innovative concepts in Application Portfolio Management which allow HR and IT professionals to assess, rationalise and transform their application landscape more intelligently and deliver more for less by freeing up run costs to pay for change costs to ensure higher customer satisfaction at similar costs.

Join us for an interactive session and learn how organisations today have employed information management strategies to manage their Siebel application data across its lifecycle, from requirements to retirement. Uncover actionable steps to enhance your company’s information governance capabilities, leveraging people, process and technology. Learn how leading organisations cut costs, reduce risks, and boost the performance of their Oracle applications through data management best practices, including:

• Improving database & application performance to reduce storage costs and minimise downtime
• Improving the agility and speed of application updates and upgrades
• Protecting confidential data in production/ non-production environments, mitigating compliance risks
• Supporting today's complex, heterogeneous IT environments by promoting cross role collaboration