Activities

WORKSHOP ON
Business Intelligence :
Overview of DATA WAREHOUSING AND DATA MINING 
(December 16-18, 2005)

Workshop Overview

Making the right business decision at right time during business activities determines the success or failure of your business and is creating a formidable challenge for managers today.  Potential and existing customers are just a mouse-click away to come or leave your business.  Business Intelligence is no longer an option but a requirement in your business processes. To be profitable in today’s competitive business climate in your local setting as well as globally, you must embed business intelligence components within your business solutions. It is for this reason that world leading business solutions providers, such as SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Microsoft have embarked on investing in Business Intelligence technologies that enable them to creating customer value and increasing profitability. 

The goal of this comprehensive workshop is to identify what Business Intelligence is all about, its building blocks and how companies should build and deploy data warehouses to support robust business intelligence solutions. This workshop will demystify all these questions and provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement a Data Warehouse and data mining for your Business Intelligence needs.

Topics:

     Understanding and assessment of Business Intelligence building block.

•        Data Warehouse architectures and implementation processes.

•        Data Warehouse and Analytical Data modeling techniques.

•        Data mining techniques and their role in Business Intelligence.

•        Managing Entire Data Warehouse Life Cycle.

•        How ERP vendors - SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel, etc. are integrating Business Intelligence and Portals to architect next generation of Service oriented Business Solutions.

•        Best Practices to Implement Business Intelligence through selection of right development steps, activities, models and technologies for your business Intelligence projects.

•        AI and Data mining.

Workshop Faculty
Mr. Naeem Hashmi,
Founder, CTO,
Information Framework, USA

Dr. M.M. Awais,
Associate Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
LUMS, Lahore.

Mr. Tauqeer Hussain,
Visiting Faculty,
Department of Computer Science,
LUMS, Lahore.

Audience

This workshop is intended for a broad range of technical IT professional ranging from IT architects, IT Directors, Data Warehouse Architects, Data Warehouse Consultants, Data Warehouse vendors and IT Software Services providers. This course is also ideal for Computer Science and Business Students interested in Information management science disciplines

Workshop Coordinators

1.    Dr. M.M. Awais (LUMS)

2.    Dr. Asim Karim (LUMS)

3.    Mr. Liaqat Majeed Sheikh
(Centre of a knowledge Engineering NU-FAST)

 

Outline

Friday, December 16, 2005	Time
Introduction to workshop	9:00 AM
Session 1: Business Intelligence Fundamentals	9:15 AM
Tea Break	11:00 AM
Session II:  Data Warehousing Fundamentals	11:30 AM
Lunch and Prayers	1:00 PM
Session III:   Data Warehouse Design Process Part 1	2:30 PM
Tea Break	4:30 PM
Invited Talk Session	5:00 PM
Saturday – December 17, 2005	Time
Session IV:  Data Warehouse Design Process Part 2	9:00 AM
Tea Break	11:00 AM
Session V:  Group Exercise: Food Mart logical Model	11:30 AM
Lunch and Prayers	1:00 PM
Session VI:  High performance Data Warehouse  Design Considerations	2:30 PM
Tea Break	4:00 PM
Session VII: Group  Exercise: Food Mart Physical model for high performance data warehouse	4:15PM
Sunday – December 18, 2005	Time
Session VIII:  Data and Text Mining Fundamentals	9:00 AM
Tea Break	11:00 AM
Session IX:  Data Mining Process – Business requirements data surveying and preparation	11:15 AM
Lunch and Prayers	1:00 PM
Session X:  Group  Exercise: Market basket Analysis using point of sale data	2:30 PM
Tea Break	4:00 PM
Session XI:  Workshop Group Presentations	4:15 PM
Certificates and closing	4:45 PM

Registration Fee: University faculty/Academia Rs. 2000, Students Rs. 750, Others Rs. 5000. Dead line for registration is Dec. 10, 2005. For further information, contact: Mr. Kashif Iqbal, (e-mail: kashifi@lums.edu.pk,  phone: 042-5722670-79 Ext. 2121, 2114).