Information Builders Showcases Hot Business Intelligence Trends in "Summer Shorts" Webcast Series

London, UK – June 23, 2015 – Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, today announced a new webcast series, “Summer Shorts,” designed to provide viewers quick overviews of the hottest topics in BI and analytics.

Information Builders’ Summer Shorts will help enterprises rethink information strategies in a world transformed by the forces of mobile, social, cloud, advanced analytics, and big data. In each session, an Information Builders expert will offer a fun, informative presentation on a different BI and analytics discipline.

Viewers can join one or all of the sessions below to learn tips for leveraging emerging technologies for better BI.

8 July | 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET | The Art of Dashboard Design for Business Intelligence – What are your dashboards telling you and your customers? Peter O’Grady will walk through design theories, design and layout considerations, and form-factor awareness and responsive design. Be empowered to change your data visualisation strategies, practices, and processes.

22 July | 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET | Advanced Data Visualization – Data visualisation is red hot, and for good reason. Companies in all sectors are finding hidden insights with sophisticated data visualisation. In this webcast by Porter Thorndike, attendees will learn advanced tips for data analysis, visualisation plug-in architecture, polished finished examples, and visualisation-based InfoApps™ from Information Builders.

5 August | 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET | Social and Feedback Analysis – Join this social media analytics webcast to learn how to better understand customer sentiment and behavior. Dan Grady will discuss how to capitalise on the opportunities presented by social media, including integrating social data with enterprise data, improving customer engagement, and picking the right platform to consolidate and share this information.

19 August | 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET | 5 Hot Trends for Business Intelligence – Mobile, social, cloud, advanced analytics, and big data aren’t just big trends, they also raise big questions in BI and analytics. Chris Banks will describe in this webcast why BI is vital to making these trends work for companies. It will cover how to build once and responsibly deploy BI to mobile devices, how to expose relevant analytics to customers and partners, and best practices for harnessing big data.