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Event title: Too many spreadsheets, too many systems
Event Date: Monday 21st April 2008
Time: 3 pm (BST)
Many organisations, even stretching up into the higher reaches of the FTSE index, have too many spreadsheets flying around the business, often rendered increasingly incompatible with each other and containing significant errors. Trying to keep control of the business in this sort of environment is a triumph of hope over experience.
Many businesses are also contending with the problem of too many disparate systems that can't quite talk to each other without either a risk of data errors or a lot of manual intervention.
The discussion would look at whether it is feasible to strip out incompatible systems, replacing them with more all-encompassing applications that can marry up the front office to the back office. The goal may be to get an easy-to-access "single version of the truth" - but not if the cost is prohibitive or if it results in system inflexibility.
Guest panelists include:
New Speaker Just Confirmed:
Barrett Bedrossian - Finance Director, RDP Ltd
Barrett Bedrossian is Commercial & Finance Director of RDP Limited, a medium sized private business within the promotional gifts industry. Barrett became Group Finance Director on 9 June 2006, having joined as Group Finance Manager in April of that year. Previously, he was Finance Director of Exley Publications Limited prior to which he worked at a subsidiary of 4imprint plc, Product Plus International Limited, between 1991 and 2005. A graduate of Kingston University Barrett is also a fellow of the Association of the Chartered Certified Accountants. Barrett is also a member of the Audit Committee.
Philip Howard - Research Director, Bloor Research
Philip started in the computer industry way back in 1973 and has variously worked as a systems analyst, programmer and salesperson, as well as in marketing and product management, for a variety of companies including GEC Marconi, GPT, Philips Data Systems, Raytheon and NCR.
Philip’s practice area encompasses anything to do with data and content and he has five further analysts working with him in this area. While maintaining an overview of the whole space Philip himself specialises in databases, data management, data integration, data migration, data quality, data federation, master data management, data governance, metadata management and data warehousing. In other words: anything to do with the infrastructure of data. He also has interests in (complex) event (stream) processing and in enterprise spreadsheet management.
Justin Healey - Product Development Manager, Sage (UK) Ltd
Justin has worked at Sage for over 20 years. He is responsible for product development of the Sage 1000 business software suite. His job is to ensure this suite meets the needs of our customer and market.
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