Las Vegas|October 28 - 30, 2008

Wednesday | Thursday | Presenting Organizations

Select a session below session for a detailed description:

Sessions: Wednesday, Oct. 29
1:30 - 2:15	Carnival Cruises Along with the Power of Customer Analytics	Improving Demand Planning and Managing Change at the Union Pacific Railroad
	Driving Greater Intelligence Through Integration	Managing Transformation Through the Integration of People, Process and Technology
2:30 - 3:15	Corporate Values or Brand Reputation: What Drives Enterprise Sustainability?	Leading and Succeeding with Analytics	Fraud and Financial Crimes
	Leveraging Assets Through an ERP Implementation	Distribution Effectiveness in Financial Services - "Who's in Your Network?"

Driving Greater Intelligence Through Integration
Businesses are challenged to accelerate strategic and operational decisions by using advanced analytics to maximize the intelligence derived from their information assets. Faced with this challenge, a leading financial services company took an innovative approach, integrating two powerful technologies, SAS and Teradata, to dramatically accelerate speed to market while reducing its cost of analytics. As a result, the company plans to increase analytic output tenfold over 2007. In this session, you’ll find out how this organization integrated SAS and Teradata to shorten time to market.

Speaker: Aldo Mancini, President, INTELeffect and former Vice President of Risk Management, Discover Financial Services

About The Speaker
Aldo Mancini has more than 20 years of business intelligence experience as both an executive and an entrepreneur. He is well-known in the financial services industry for his expertise in developing and deploying knowledge-based decision management and business intelligence solutions. As the Vice President for Customer Information and Decision Management at Discover Financial Services, a leading credit card issuer and electronic payment services company, he oversaw the enterprisewide data analytics and decision management systems. Prior to joining Discover, Mancini was President/CEO of Mancini Enterprises Inc., a professional services firm he founded in 1995. Before that, he was with American Express.