Speaker Profiles, TDWI India 2011 Feb, "Business Intelligence on the Cloud"

1. Speakers
Inaugural Address and Vision Note Narendra Vaze, Country Manager, Intel IT
Narendra is the country Manager for Intel IT and Director of Enterprise Data and Apps. Over his 18 plus years with Intel,
Narendra has been the Director of Sales and Marketing Solutions, Director of BI and Analytics, Factory Automation etc. He has
played a vital role in setting up the Intel India Development Center. “Simpler, Faster, Better” has been his mantra fir IT Business
Value. He is a Graduate of famed UDCT and Jamnalal Bajaj in Mumbai.
Intel IT Cloud Story Aravind Doss, Head, Cloud Computing, Intel IT
Aravind leads the Cloud Computing effort for Intel IT. In his role, he owns defining IT’s Cloud strategy, while driving development of
Cloud services across of Intel. He was also the Platforms Department Manager in R&D division of Intel Manufacturing. In his 14+
years in the industry, he has initiated and led various initiatives in Continuous Availability, HPC, Manageability, Automation,
Operational efficiency, MES, and DSS spanning the complete compute stack. He has a Master's Degree from UTA and is an
inventor of several patented and patent pending solutions.
What is BI on the Cloud? Hari Devarapalli, Head, BI/PM Service Technology Office, TCS
Hari heads BIPM Service Technology Office, supporting infrastructural needs for Business Intelligence, Business Process
Management and Enterprise Application Integration services from TCS. He has developed tools and methodologies in Enterprise
data management space and is passionate about simple, structured and practical implementations. He has Masters in Computer
Science from JNTU Hyderabad and Masters degree in Electrical Machines and Industrial Drives from NIT Warangal. He has more
than 20 years of experience in the industry and teaching in the space, with deep Architectural focus.
Cloud Computing for BI/DW Rohit Chattar, Architect, Yahoo
Rohit Chatter has more than 15 years of experience working in Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence tools and technology,
Cloud Computing & web applications. Currently he is working as Architect at Yahoo! and is responsible for solutions for
Search analytics, Publisher analytics and Web analytics. He led one of the early initiatives at Yahoo! using cloud for Business
Intelligence. His work included implementation of data pipeline on cloud, using Web Services leveraging Dimensional Model,
building Meta data layer for script generation for querying Grid, developing Hive for SQL like data access on Grid etc.
Previously Rohit has worked for companies like Alcatel-Lucent, Sony, Toyota and others.
Big Data Appliances Mr. Sathyanarayana Ranganatha, Sr. Manager, EMC
Sathya is the practice lead of EIMA (enterprise information management and analytics practice) with EMC Consulting,
India COE. He brings over thirteen years of consulting experience around business intelligence, performance
management and business transformation initiatives of blue chip clientele. He is a MBA from Indian School of
Business and B Tech Computer Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka. He is a member of
Scrum Alliance and a certified scrum master
DW Infrastructure for Cloud Praveen Hebbagodi, Director, Akamai Technologies
Praveen heads Analytics Product line for Akamai including Media Analytics, Download Analytics, QOSMonitor, Site analyzer
and Stream Analyzer as part of the Performance Analytics. Praveen has successfully incubated teams growing them into
independent functions. As the Site Leader of India Engineering, he is also responsible for facilitating operations for other
Engineering teams in India. He joined Akamai from Speedera acquisition, holds several patents in the area of Fault Tolerant
Distributed Systems
Cloud for BI:A Business Perspective K L Mukesh, Chief Operating Officer, TATA Sky
K L Mukesh is the CIO for Tata Sky for the last year and a half. Prior to joining Tata Sky, Mukesh has spent 15 years with
DIRECTV as a VP of operations in the Japan, US and South America. At DIRECTV he has had a variety of roles ranging
from customer operations, credit and collections, field services product development etc. He has also worked on
bankruptcy turnaround, operational aspects of mergers. Mukesh is an alumnus of IIM Ahmadabad and Indian Statistical
Institute.

2. Speakers
Viewpoints: Transformational impact of Cloud on DW/BI
Rajesh Shenoy, BI Head, Intel
Rajesh Shenoy Leads the Engineering BI, BPMS and B2B Platforms for Intel. He comes with deep expertise on
DW / BI / Analytics platforms with over 15 years of experience. Prior to Intel, Rajesh was with Teradata. Over his
seven years at Intel, Rajesh has overseen DW, BI, Analytics and DBA Management in his prior roles. He has a
multiple industry certifications and accreditations.
Nat Malupillai, BI Head, Target
Nat is a Seasoned Management Professional with expertise in managing Captive Centers, IT Strategy, Sourcing
Analysis, IT Application Development, and Analytics. His focus areas include Management Consulting & Financial
Services including Campaign Management, Risk-based Pricing, Prospect Targeting, Reponses Management, Cross-
Sells, Customer Management, Dot Com Business Models, and Mergers Integration. His expertise include IT Strategy,
Financial Planning, Program Management, Strategic Sourcing, Negotiation, Business Analytics, Risk Management
Raghuram Mutya, Head, BI CoE, Dell Services
Raghuram leads the Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing practice at Dell. He has over 15 years of experience
in the field, including with Perot System and HP. Raghu works with dozens of Dell client organizations of various sizes
to design and deliver BI/DW solutions.
Arup Dastidar, Senior Vice President, Citibank
Arup leads the Strategic Information Solutions within the Advanced Analytics Solutions group for Citibank. His areas of
interest is are to make BI ubiquitous in citibank and in aligning Business and IT functions. Arup has worked with
Fujitsu-ICIM, Gillette, Accenture, GE Money. He was the European DW Manager for Gillette. At Accenture, he
managed the GE Money account, whose DW was widely used for Analytics by Genpact at their Analytics COE. He
graduated from BITS Pilani and has an MBA from Cass Business School, London
Karthik P Hariharan, Business Analytics, IBM
Karthik leads the charter to create industry-specific Analytical Blueprints leveraging technologies within the Business
Analytics family, working with works with Business Analytics team in IBM Software groups such as SPSS and
Cognos.. He comes with over 12 years of experience and has been with IBM for 10+ years. He is a Masters in
Software Systems from BITS PILANI and an Executive General Management Program from IIM Bangalore.
Moderator: Vijay Ramachandran, Chief Editor (CIO, Computerworld)
Vijay is a award-winning journalist and a founder member of the Indian operations of the world’s largest technology
media organization. He helps strategically guide the publications, websites and events of IDG Media. In 2001, Vijay
was Vijay was awarded India’s highest honor for technology journalists, the Polestar Award, for his investigation into
Pakistan-based hacker groups. His specialities include: Editorial Leadership & Strategy; CIOs; Technology Journalism
Event Planning & Moderation; Team Building; Start-up operations; Learning.
Advanced Analytics on the cloud Mr. Arindam Bhattacharjee, Chief Architect, SAP Analytics
Arindam drives the architecture for various Business Analytics product lines that include Content Search, Data Search,
Predictive Services, Usage Analytics, Application Monitoring, Object Life Cycle Management etc. Prior to SAP, he has
worked with HP Systems R&D Division, Ocwen Technology Exchange, Computer Associates, Infosys Technologies etc. His
experience ranges across design and development of software/firmware, application middleware and application framework.
He is a graduate of IT BHU. Closing Keynote : Changing Technology and Business Landscape: Current and Future State Vision
Susheela Venkataraman, MD, Internet Business Solutions, Cisco
Susheela Venkataraman is Managing Director, Internet Business Solutions, Cisco, responsible for strategy consulting for
key clients of Cisco to help them improve business performance through the strategic adoption of technology. In her 25
years of consulting experience, Susheela has worked with clients in several industries and government, in areas ranging
from strategy through to implementation. Prior to Cisco, Susheela was Partner at Coopers & Lybrand/Pricewaterhouse
Coopers / IBM. She led several large-scale enterprise transformation engagements with her clients. Susheela holds a
Masters in Physics from IIT Delhi and MBA from FMS Delhi. She is working on her doctoral thesis on “the global strategies
of emerging Indian multinationals”. She is a Carnatic music vocalist and engaged in many community projects.

3. Program Details
Big Data Appliance
Event Overview Mr. Sathyanarayana Ranganatha, Sr. Manager, EMC
Cloud computing changes the way computing resources are delivered. Over the past decade, there has been an onslaught of ‘appliances’
It is disruptive as well as transformational. We will discuss and targeting data warehousing needs of enterprises addressing terabytes,
and consequently, peta bytes of data. This presentation provides an
deliberate potential benefits and challenges of BI in external, virtual overview of architectural considerations and some of the dominant
computing architectures, the future of cloud for BI, its applicability and players in the ‘big data’ appliances market in the context of Cloud.
availability of technology at present.
DW Infrastructure for Cloud
Inaugural Address Praveen Hebbagodi, Director, Akamai Technologies
Akamai's platform for content delivery and application acceleration
Narendra Vaze, Country Manager, Intel IT consists of 88,000+ servers at1600 + locations in 71 countries and 1100+
Special address and sharing the vision for the future of cloud in networks. Over 3200 customers rely on Akamai services to operate their
business on the cloud. Akamai’s analytics solutions helps its customers
Business Intelligence and Analytics. to get deeper and actionable insights into its end users and their
interaction with their content and its usage. This talk would provide a
Intel IT Cloud Story high-level overview of Akamai’s analytics infrastructure and its
Aravind Doss, Head, Cloud Computing, Intel IT capabilities of handling very large volumes of data (“Big data”) while
touching upon some insights and learning’s from operating such an
Cloud computing is here, and it has important implications in the way infrastructure in the cloud.
applications are designed and hosted. Intel IT has been leading the way
in adopting Cloud for its IT needs. In this key note, the following Cloud for BI:A Business Perspective
thoughts will be shared
 Why does cloud matter to Intel and Intel IT? K L Mukesh, Chief Operating Officer, TATA Sky
 What is Intel IT’s Cloud Adoption Strategy?
 How is cloud implemented across internal application portfolio? Tata Sky has been a pioneer in leveraging cloud based service offerings.
 What are some of the Best practices, tips or lessons learned? We assessed the application portfolio, infrastructure, inventory and
usage-scenarios to create a business-case for cloud adoption. We will
explore the technical and illustrative-financial details of this case.
Overview: What is BI on the Cloud Objective of this session will be explore how they should go about
planning & implementing a BI solution in cloud.
Hari Devarapalli, Head, BI/PM Service Technology Office, TCS  Evaluating cloud solution for a BI/DW application
 Plan a BI cloud solution - things to watch out for!
How are BI applications different from other applications?
 Benefits Analysis of implementing a solution in Cloud
Does BI applications benefit from cloud?
Business decision considerations
Is Cloud ready for BI to take on? Is this right time or we wait?
Understand focused Business case scenarios
What do we mean by BI on the cloud and how does it differ from an
Address one business function (marketing, sales force, finance, HR)
on-premise implementation and from a hosted BI solution.
Viewpoints: Transformational impact of Cloud on
Hari discusses the intersection of Cloud and BI technologies from the
perspective of BI solution architects. DW/BI
One size does not fit all. However, Learning from the community adds to
Cloud Computing on BI/DW the maturity curve. The Practitioners here discuss their strategies. They
Rohit Chattar, Architect, Yahoo explore how to go about planning and implementing a BI solution in cloud.
They share how to leverage on the experiences and the best practices
There is a natural match between data warehouse and cloud computing gained from their BI implementations. How do we build flexible and
where former poses architectural and computational challenges and scalable BI solutions, and yet make them secure on cloud. Evaluating
later provides a scalable, cost effective and massively parallel computing cloud solution for a BI/DW application
environment that can be used to meet those challenges. This session  Plan a BI cloud solution - things to watch out for!
will take you through a typical architecture for business intelligence on  Public or a Private Cloud? When to use which one and why?
cloud, the pros and cons, what the technology offers today and what  Technologies portfolio balancing (risk vs. value)
you may see in future. There will also be a discussion on how Yahoo!  Benefits Analysis of implementing a solution in Cloud
uses cloud computing to meet its data warehousing needs.
Advanced Analytics on the Cloud
Arindam Bhattacharjee, Chief Architect, SAP
This session will focus upon the evolving On Cloud Business Intelligence
areas related to Predictive, Search, Reporting, Exploration,
Dashboarding etc. and the futuristic fast data warehouses.
Closing Address
Susheela Venkataraman, MD, Internet Business Solutions,
Cisco
The technology convergence, pervasiveness and adoption of the cloud in IT has strategic implications
for the business. We will explore how this Changing Technology and Business Landscape is evolving.