Education

Business Intelligence

Product Direction: CGI infoAdvantage
(Business Intelligence)
115
Monday 9:45 am – 10:45 am
Type/Level: Update

State and local governments require a solution that provides easy access to information across the organization to drive improved decision making. CGI infoAdvantage continues to add additional features and functionality to enhance reporting and information gathering processes. Significant changes are planned in the next few years. This session describes the product direction of CGI infoAdvantage, including exciting new features planned for Release 3.10 and beyond.

Best Practices for Report Design and Development
(Business Intelligence)
125
Monday 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Type/Level: Intermediate

CGI infoAdvantage provides users at all levels with real-time access to data in searchable online reports to quickly visualize key metrics and manage day-to-day operations. This session provides an opportunity to learn about report design and development best practices including how users overcame challenges and helpful suggestions for report implementation.

Putting It All Together: Reporting Across Modules
(Business Intelligence)
135
Monday 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Type/Level: Advanced

With decision support data residing in multiple locations, state and local governments are challenged to obtain accurate and consistent information. Many are looking for solutions to consolidate data from multiple sources in a meaningful way. Decision making and decision monitoring can improve significantly when information is available in one place for analysis and comparison. CGI infoAdvantage provides the reporting solution for the CGI Advantage ERP components–Financial Management, Human Resource Management and Performance Budgeting. This session describes how infoAdvantage can be used to get a central view of data from these CGI Advantage components.

Re-Thinking Your Comprehensive Annual Financial Reporting (CAFR)
(Business Intelligence, Financial)
141
Monday 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Type/Level: Overview

The CAFR module was introduced in Release 3.9. This module offers the ability to automate many of the CAFR statements and allows for the elimination of many of the external spreadsheets and systems that are used in statement preparation. This session prepares financial managers for implementation of the CAFR module. The emphasis is on CAFR planning becoming an integral part of year-end planning—facilitating a more streamlined end-to-end process. Planning early also allows organizations to address changes in reporting requirements such as GASB 54.

Drive Enterprise-Wide Visibility and Decision Making
(Business Intelligence)
145
Monday 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Type/Level: Overview

CGI Enterprise Intelligence360™ delivers a powerful combination of industry-leading business intelligence (BI) tools and services to integrate disparate enterprise systems into a single, unified information system. The result is end-to-end information access that reduces the search for data and improves visibility into daily operations. Learn more about:

• Advanced analytics to accelerate decision making
• Self-service for casual users that ask questions which will return "Google-like" search results from your BI content
• Mobile strategies to deliver information anytime, anywhere
• Growth strategies for key areas of government.

Central Management Console Security in CGI infoAdvantage
(Business Intelligence)
215
Tuesday 9:45 am – 10:45 am
Type/Level: Advanced

Security is always a challenging and exciting task for any project. This session provides techniques on how to use infoAdvantage security to better meet the needs of your users. This session includes several security topics such as: how to use report security; implementing object and class security for a Universe; and options to secure folders and reports for users.

How Performance Budgeting Dashboard Empowers Users to Make Effective Decisions
(Budget, Business Intelligence)
224
Tuesday 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Type/Level: Advanced

CGI Advantage Performance Budgeting dashboards bring crucial financial, position and performance data to your fingertips, providing you with information on which data is being impacted to enable quick reaction. This session describes how dashboards can be effectively used to improve decision-making. Identify which standard dashboards are available and learn tips and helpful hints to configure them to maximize effectiveness. In addition, client examples will illustrate how dashboards are incorporated into business processes.

Powerful Management Reporting
(Business Intelligence)
225
Tuesday 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Type/Level: Advanced

Effective reporting empowers actionable decision-making by enabling management and users to proactively identify and resolve issues early. It also provides an easier method to communicate and visualize data (via graphs and charts). This session describes how to create reports using some of the more advanced features of CGI infoAdvantage using charts, graphs, scorecards, etc. to help users focus on important information and avoid data overload. Learn powerful and advanced report techniques using Web Intelligence to help meet reporting requirements.

Implementing CGI infoAdvantage from Start to Finish
(Business Intelligence)
235
Tuesday 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Type/Level: Intermediate

Implementing infoAdvantage is always an exciting time for a project. Organizations are eager to start using the new features and functionality available and a good implementation strategy is the key to success. This session defines key issues for consideration during each implementation phase (Envision, Build and Achieve). Learn real implementation examples and lessons learned to help make your next project a success.

Exploring Dashboards
(Business Intelligence)
245
Tuesday 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Type/Level: Overview

The CGI infoAdvantage dashboard opens up a new world of reporting and communication possibilities using a rich, interactive graphical user interface. This session describes features and benefits of the CGI infoAdvantage dashboard, such as the ability to easily view progress. Learn about the ability to focus on high-level trends and measures and how to drill down into the details. Understand CGI infoAdvantage dashboards today as well as enhancements planned for the future.

CGI infoAdvantage and Dashboards for Human Resource Management (HRM) Users
(Business Intelligence, HR/Payroll)
253
Tuesday 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Type/Level: Intermediate

Learn practical information on how infoAdvantage reports and dashboards can be used to meet HRM reporting and information requirements. This session also includes examples of existing baseline reports and dashboards along with what is being used by organizations.

How to Build More Effective Decision Making Processes with CGI Advantage Performance Budgeting
(Budget, Business Intelligence)
254
Tuesday 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Type/Level: Advanced

Shrinking revenues, limited public funds and increasing regulatory demands make it difficult to determine the right budget choices. In this environment, it is critical to ensure the right data is readily available to the right people at the right time. In this session, representatives from Wake County, NC will share how they have used innovative reporting techniques to consolidate all of the components of the budget process together as an effective decision making tool. Join us as they share how their configuration of system functionality within Performance Budgeting generates management-level reports that have helped create greater insight into budget data and stronger analytic capabilities to enable more effective decisions.

Managing Your Report Migration from Development to Production
(Business Intelligence)
255
Tuesday 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Type/Level: Advanced

It is important that state and local governments effectively manage their data and the content of their business intelligence enterprise. This session describes the BusinessObjects Life Cycle Manager, designed to help organizations gain better control with BusinessObjects content management. Learn to identify data assurance features which can be used to help validate information in the data warehouse.