Business Intelligence use cases and solutions
March 13 – Vision-X-Future 2025 – the DATA SUMMIT in Zurich (German)
“After the vision is before the vision” – this phrase has become a common saying among the HICO team. Why? Well, for one thing, development doesn’t just stand still. In the area of data and BI, we see innovations every month – and the pace is even faster when it comes to AI.
On the other hand – and this will not change any time soon – innovation and progress only work as a team.By keeping each other up to date, inspiring each other, sharing best practices … and maybe even talking about what we’ve learned from recent projects.
Hard facts:
Vision X Future | March 13., 2025 | Doors: 09:00 a.m. | Location: Radisson Blu, Zurich Airport (maps)
Program
We don’t want to repeat the success of previous events.We want to increase it. You can therefore look forward with us to …
…inspiring presentations: Top speakers from BI, finance and data science, including from companies such as Qlik, Microsoft and JEDOX, tell the stories that data writes.
… Keynotes that get you excited about data: Charts are dry subject matter and really just a means to an end? Rolf Hichert, president of the IBCS association and expert for report design, is happy to prove the opposite!
… Exclusive breakout sessions and discussion panels in which experts provide exclusive insights and learnings from customer projects – because you don’t necessarily have to make mistakes yourself to learn from them!
The finalized program will be announced here step by step.
Participation in VisionXFuture is free of charge. We ask you to confirm or cancel your participation so that we have a functioning – well: data basis.
Agenda & Speakers
TRUECHART+. The data collaboration software with writeback function
Geneve Schwan, TRUECHART
Companies such as Siemens, Novartis and Qiagen use TRUECHART as a Qlik or POWER BI extension for visualizing data in the IBCS standard and for commenting and collaborating directly on data points.
TRUECHART PLUS is the second generation of our software with new, extended functions and an improved UX. Geneve Schwan demonstrates the use of TRUECHART using the example of ESG reports. (Presentation in English Language)
Geneve Schwan, Chief Product Officer TRUECHART
Increasing productivity with standards: a look into the future of reporting
In ten years’ time, our dashboards will achieve the same standard of quality that we have seen in musicians and engineers for a hundred years.
Renouncing individuality and corporate design: Composers also want to be judged by their music and not by the beauty of their notes.
Clarity through standards: Without uniform standards, all communication remains ambiguous and inefficient.
Increased information density: With at least a thousand values per page and one minute of viewing time, we have caught up with the musicians and engineers.
AI – the data (r)evolution? Use cases between hype and real added value
Max Kuhn & Ben Gnädig, HICO
Everyone is talking about AI. But do we all mean the same thing?
What really moves the industry? What is possible? What is already being done? And: What is a dream of the future?
There is a LOT of potential between AI, LLMs, GPTs and algorithms. And where there is hype, there is also potential for misunderstandings.
Max Kuhn, AI Consultant at HICO, puts things in perspective. Because they do exist – the really useful use cases that are often overlooked in all the hype surrounding GPTs and GenAI.
The presentation is not only intended to classify, but also to provide impetus for the discussions at the subsequent Marketplace.
Data mesh architecture with Snowflake
Philipp Leimgruber, Siemens Smart Infrastructure
Using Data Mesh to enable a data-driven organization at Siemens Smart Infrastructure with Snowflake as the technical foundation.
Philipp Leimgruber is Chief Product Owner and Portfolio Owner at Siemens Smart Infrastructure. With many years of experience in the data space, Philipp has helped organizations leverage insights from data to drive successful decisions and actions. In his current role, he leads a portfolio of DevOps teams delivering end-to-end data intelligence solutions for various business units. Philipp has played a key role in improving access to data across the organization and led the migration of Siemens Smart Infrastructure data infrastructure to the cloud. In his session “Enabling a Data-Driven Organization with a Data Mesh”, Philipp will share how the data mesh approach supported by Snowflake has enabled a data-driven culture at Siemens. Outside of work, Philipp is an avid cyclist and also analyzes data in the context of his tours.
KPIs on the ROKS? – Increasing performance through key performance indicators with a claim to leadership.
Thomas Bodenmann
Reporting and charts – not a particularly appealing topic for everyone. Perhaps because you have to look at them from a different angle? Thomas Bodenmann sees KPIs as enablers – if you formulate them correctly. The Hügli CEO uses a real case study to demonstrate the ROKS KPI standard and how it can be used to lead companies to success: the transformation of an SME into a strategy-compliant, standardized and KPI-based management and control system using individually created reporting charts presented in the best light.
Thomas Bodenmann’s most recent career position was CEO of Hügli, the food manufacturer that has been part of the Bell Food Group since 2018, and he is a proven ROKS expert. Before taking responsibility for various strategic areas at Hügli, including the overall business, Bodenmann worked at Benckiser and Sucrin. Bodenmann is Vice President of Culinaria Suisse and Culinaria Europe.
Set up analysis tools perfectly with the COPA model
Sara Pereira & George Tsoulkas, medmix
How leveraging a modern data stack streamlined the analysis of financial data by integrating multiple ERPs and data sources into a unified data model that powers various applications.
(Session in English)
Analysis tools are only as good as their setup allows – Sara Pereira and George Tsoulkas (medmix) know the challenge well: integrating multiple ERPs and data sources can cause chaos. They demonstrate how they optimize the analysis of financial data through a unified data model that supports different applications and the use of a modern data stack.
With their tech-agnostic approach, Sara Pereira and George Tsoulkas, BI Consultants at medmix, reach many industry and professional colleagues who find themselves in a situation they know only too well: Setting up the tools so that they do what you want them to do.
Sara Pereira is a BI & Analytics Consultant at medmix. With over 7 years of experience in data transformation, front-end development and agile practices, based on an academic background in biotechnology, she has carried out projects in the banking, procurement and logistics sectors, using tools such as Qlik, Snowflake and DBT to develop impactful solutions.
George, also a BI & Analytics Consultant at medmix, adds the industrial engineering perspective. He shares his extensive experience in business analytics, utilizing Qlik and Power BI to deliver insights and empower stakeholders and business users to make informed, data-driven decisions.
Qlik: Use Cases und Benefits in Banking
In this presentation you will learn how self-service approaches in banking can increase efficiency and customer satisfaction. Using Qlik, Richard Reimchen will show you how to develop and implement a user-friendly self-service platform that enables employees and customers to make data-driven decisions. Discover best practices and practical tips for successfully implementing and utilizing self-service tools in your bank.
Richard Reimchen, Head of Analytics, has been with Migros Bank for a decade and is responsible for the Business Analytics division. Prior to this, he gained valuable experience as a project manager in the introduction of CRM and marketing automation solutions. He has also worked as a business engineer and software engineer, which underlines his extensive expertise in the industry.
AI in controlling – planning and beyond
Wolfgang von Loeper, Jedox
A farmer turned tech entrepreneur, Wolfgang led the development of an organic winery in South Africa before founding a SaaS company supporting farmers with IOT devices, satellites, drones, labs and AI farming
Wolfgang holds a BA in Management from one of the top three business schools in Germany & an MPhil in Sustainable Development from Stellenbosch University in Complex Economic Modeling. Today, as a Solutions Advisory Consultant, Wolfgang advises clients on solutions around modeling their unique business contours across departments & organizations with EPM tools to equip their teams with real-time certainty & decision-making capability in their planning.
What’s new @Qlik
Manuel Reimitz, Manager, Strategic PreSales EMEA, Qlik
Manuel Reimitz demonstrates how the market-leading provider of BI solutions will continue to develop in 2025. He explains how data is seamlessly linked end-to-end with the cloud using the example of an SAP data source and analyzed via the Qlik Analytics Cloud for precise, automated forecasts. Find out how companies can use intelligent data analysis to secure competitive advantages and optimize their decision-making.
Unify data, revolutionize reports: Mail & Deploy as a central reporting solution for Qlik, Snowflake, PowerBI and more
Emma Camacho, Head of Consulting, Mail & Deploy
In an increasingly data-driven world, organizations are faced with a multitude of data sources. But how can these various sources be seamlessly combined into a single report? In this presentation, we will show how Mail & Deploy efficiently integrates data not only from Qlik, but also from Snowflake, PowerBI and other databases. Learn how you can get a holistic view of your company data, optimize reporting processes and take decision making to a new level by integrating different data sources into your reports.
Emma heads the consulting team at Mail & Deploy and brings years of Qlik experience, her Mexican roots and her passion for data to her work. She inspires with engaging demos, shares real-world use cases and provides solutions for (almost) every Mail & Deploy support request. With her extensive toolkit, she ensures that our customers are well equipped and have an all-round successful Mail & Deploy experience.
In retrospect: VisionXFuture September 2024
The September edition of VisionXFuture also featured an enormous range of first-class presentations and talks: After the obligatory welcome to the more than one hundred guests by the HICO CxOs, we were able to delve into the depths (and shallows!) of planning with Dr. Rolf Gegenmantel (JEDOX) and use AI to eliminate distortions in planning and analysis.
Steffen Bischoff (Qlik) explained how to achieve one of the absolute prerequisites for working with AI in the first place and pleaded for clean data for a clear future.
Gellert Gintli from the rather less well-known digital company Microsoft took up the baton and bridged the gap between the on-premise world, which is often still to be found, and the analytics solution Microsoft Fabric.
In a surprisingly humorous presentation – considering the title – on IBCS and ISO 24896 as notation standards for reports, Dr. Jürgen Faisst from IBCS came around the corner with the message that we are obviously not as far along in data storytelling as we would like to be. And red roses from … Barcelona!
Alexander Seeliger, analyst and data scientist at the research institute BARC, presented the study The Future of BI & Analytics sponsored by HICO and QLIK – and spoke in particular about the “gap” that often exists between hype and reality.
Find out more: Download the full study from spring 2024 and the subsequent spotlight study from fall 2024 here.
Meanwhile, in breakout sessions, HICO experts Max Kuhn and Ben Gnädig traced the data evolution that has made AI applications necessary, Rene Gerhardt led through the tension between planning and analytics in JEDOX, AI expert Melanie Kloppenburg asked about AI readiness (and answered with an assessment for companies,companies that want or need to take the plunge into cold AI waters), SOLUVIA experts Stefan Luedke and Tobias Beclin presented an exciting customer case on the integration of performance reports in Power BI and Geneve Schwan gave an update on TRUECHART development.
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