Altair invites you to participate in this important complimentary seminar which will help provide insights into Altair’s Cloud Computing and BI solutions PBS Works and HiQube.
This seminar is being held in conjunction with the HTC 2010, representing a popular HPC and Business Intelligence forum in India, bringing together users from diverse verticals like Manufacturing, Scientific Computing/Research, Life Sciences, Oil/Gas, Animation and many more. Together with PBS Works and HiQube customers and partners, thoughtprovoking keynote addresses and client presentations will highlight the latest industry trends in Cloud Computing and Business Intelligence.

Cut Costs & Improve Efficiency with PBS Works. In today’s world managing the economic pressures is a reality of our business landscape. In this business environment, while IT departments continue to look at adding to their IT/HPC infrastructure, they are first focusing on optimal utilization of current computing infrastructure, by looking at ways and means to extract maximum productivity out of existing investments. This session looks at solutions and case studies on Cloud enabling your organization’s existing IT infrastructure for high performance computing (HPC) and thereby gaining a competitive advantage whilst improving ROI.

What will you learn?

• How to achieve optimal utilization of the overall compute infrastructure and ensure maximum ROI.
• How a well managed HPC setup/data center with near 100% availability combined with a well derived analysis of resource utilization will help IT elevate into a profit center.
• How to accelerate business results and time-to-market while controlling IT costs.
• Customer testimonials describing real life experiences of utilizing a Cloud solution.

2. Just Reports or Actionable Insights: Business Intelligence with HiQube:

Enterprises have invested significantly into IT to ensure that they are in control of their businesses and ready to react to the dynamically changing business environment. In the process, they hold large amounts of data, yet unable to derive the key insights they desire to drive their businesses in the most optimum fashion. Data has never been looked upon as a key asset nor been utilized appropriately for scientific decision making. BI tools are designed to provide that insight to key decision makers in the organisation. It arms them with information in the right form, at the right time, at the right place that makes the difference between just managing an enterprise and managing a highly profitable enterprise. HiQube, a high performance BI application from Altair, helps extract critical business insights from your operations data and ensure that you run an enterprise based on validated insights. HiQube helps your enterprise move beyond reports, putting the power of analytics in your hand. No more the risk of ad-hoc decisions based on superficial MIS reports.

What will you learn?

• Focus on acquiring new customers, increasing revenues and profitability and reduce costs. Will equip you to analyze what is going on and plan for the future rather than spend your energies to solve tactical problems as they arise.
• Have insights into your operations across departments and their resultant effect on profitability
• Scientific decision making capabilities using BI, to ensure that you are better equipped to take validated decisions while reducing risks associated with your strategic decisions.