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International Institute of Business Analysis

International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA®) is a professional association dedicated to supporting lifetime learning opportunities for business and professional success. Through a global network, IIBA connects with over 29,000 Members and more than 300 Corporate Members and 120 Chapters. As the recognized voice of the business analysis community, IIBA supports the recognition of the profession, maintains the global standard for professional certifications, and curates the collective body of knowledge (BABOK®) for the industry. For more information visit iiba.org. Please visit the IIBA booth to learn about the value of membership, certification programs, and the new online BABOK®.

Capsifi is a leading provider of software for business model innovation. Our cloud-based modelling platform, Jalapeno, supports planning and managing a business transformation from conception through to execution. We help customers optimize their agility & business performance, establishing the business model as a dynamic, interactive and enduring business asset.

Jalapeno is underpinned by an integrated semantic meta-model that enables traceability and alignment of business knowledge to provide full line-of-sight from strategy to delivery.

Founded in 2013, our company and product have been built around the core philosophy of placing customers at the heart of everything we do. This principle continues to guide our vision, our imagination and the innovation in our offerings to ensure we are delivering the highest value to our customers in both meeting their needs and providing a stellar experience.

With the Global Headquarters in Sydney, Capsifi has clients in the USA, Europe, New Zealand and Australia.

ABACUS is used by companies worldwide to manage Enterprise Architecture, IT and Business Strategy and Digital Transformation. ABACUS users deliver insights and value quickly:  

-Import data in minutes from SharePoint, Excel, Visio, Technopedia, ServiceNow and CMDBs, and using ABACUS’ REST API.   
-Choose an off-the-shelf framework or metamodel. Configure a metamodel specific to your enterprise.  
-Lighten your data workload by allowing data owners across your organization to collaborate with editable cloud-based data registers and dashboards. Embed in MS Teams, Slack etc. 
-Analyze your architecture using bespoke no-code or pre-configured algorithms for metrics such as TCO, Performance, Availability, Agility etc. Create future state architectures and roadmaps. 
-Report with rich visuals including interactive Gantt charts, heat maps, treemaps, timelines, Graph View, charts and dashboards  

ABACUS is used across Enterprise Architecture strategy, Application Portfolio Management, Solution, Information and Data Architecture, Cybersecurity, Cloud Migration, Technical Debt Management, Data Privacy, Business Process Management, IT Service Management, Innovation & Change Management. It is available either on-premise or as a browser-based SaaS tool.  

NTT COMWARE is the “one-stop” solution enterprise that delivers total support for today’s cutting-edge information technology.

Our core expertise in networks, middleware, and system development ranks among the best in Japan, and is supported by an array of state-of-the-art facilities.

ValueBlue‘s collaborative transformation software, BlueDolphin, helps CxOs, architects, and solution teams to accelerate their business transformation through agile, data-driven, intelligent collaboration. With BlueDolphin, stakeholders from across IT and the business can direct organizational strategy and collaborate on solution design.

Used by market-leaders like A.S. Watson, Wyndham Hotel Group and Wakefern Food Corp., the BlueDolphin platform brings your organization’s Enterprise Architecture together with solution teams to facilitate the coordination of more effective, efficient, and agile business transformation. With BlueDolphin, organizations can innovate faster, coordinate their transformation activities, and reduce risk.

Ardoq is a SaaS company reinventing Enterprise Architecture for today’s digital enterprise. The company’s dynamic, data-driven EA platform is designed to plan and execute major change initiatives. The tool provides a digital twin of an organization’s people, processes, systems, data, and infrastructure. With Ardoq, CIOs can confidently deliver digital transformations, and IT leaders can make better technology decisions based on real-time information. With Ardoq, EAs can serve as change agents, supporting business and IT collaboration for better outcomes.

Blackmetric is a niche consultancy specializing in business analysis consultancy and training. Whether you’re looking for a practical, hands-on and tailored virtual training course for your BA team, or remote help when setting up a project, we can help. Check out our website at www.blackmetric.com for more information. Also, be sure to check out our regular courses and free #BACommunity webinars at www.blackmetric.com/events We look forward to seeing you at the conference!  

BRS is the world authority on business rules, policy interpretation, decision engineering, concept models, and business vocabulary. Our mission is to provide leadership, guidance, education, and support for organizations seeking to apply business-oriented analysis techniques. Our practices are proven in leading organizations toward producing better business outcomes, working smarter, managing change and complexity, and developing better requirements. Our training is recognized world-wide for providing critical skills for effective analysis and transformation. We literally teach you how to think differently.

Reimagine the way people work with the ease and power of Nintex.

Today 10,000+ public and private sector organizations, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500, turn to the Nintex Process Platform to accelerate digital transformation.

The Process Renewal Group is a consulting organization committed to helping its clients successfully manage business change. Our mission is to help dramatically improve our client’s performance through the renewal of business strategies, capabilities and business processes as well as the innovative application of information technologies. Our services include Business Architecture, Business Process Management, Process Improvement and Culture Change. We do this through hands on consulting, training classes, workshop facilitation as well as coaching and mentoring. Our goal to make a lasting difference in our clients’ effectiveness by helping them to deliver creative, sustainable and pragmatic business approaches and solutions. PRG is the longest running and most experienced BPM professional services company in the world having formed in 1993 and having sustained long-term business relationships with many organizations. We have chaired over fifty conferences and trained over seventy five thousand professionals on advanced process and architectural approaches in this time. PRG is also a founding partner in the establishment of BPTrends.

Sapiens Decision is a division of Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS), a leader in digital software platforms, solutions and services. Sapiens Decision transforms how businesses are approaching change, by modernizing traditional business rules management. Our solutions enable businesses to respond to market needs through accurate and consistent enforcement of business rules and policies. Sapiens Decision is used by major corporations in Banking, Insurance, Retail and Public Sector to implement process automation and drive digital transformation. For more information: www.sapiensdecision.com

International Institute for Learning, Inc. (IIL) is a global leader in Project, Program, and Portfolio Management, Business Analysis, Microsoft® Office Project and Lean Six Sigma training and implementation solutions. Our Many Methods of Learning™ enable IIL offices around the world to deliver innovative, effective, and consistent training solutions. IIL is an IIBA® Endorsed Education Provider™ (EEP™)

BA-Cube is a one-of-a-kind online training platform led by business analysis experts Angela Wick & Kupe Kupersmith. BA-Cube offers a fantastic variety of learning formats including interactive virtual workshops, live online classes, small group mentoring, recorded webinars, quick-tip videos, our new BA-Cube app, podcasts, blogs and more. It’s the best way to learn modern business analysis and agile analysis—with new content every week and new online training events every month. Members choose the content, delivery method and timeline that work best for them. Join BA-Cube today and develop the skills you need to delight your customers and advance your career!

Founded as a remote company in 1999, Centric is an international management consulting firm with more than 1,400 experts in digital, technology, and business consulting who help to solve significant business challenges. Our mission is to deliver an unmatched experience that you won’t get anywhere else.

We bring firm-wide support to local delivery. We think of ourselves as a big company with a small company feel – a local player with global reach.

Clients choose us because of our ability to deliver solutions at a pace, quality, cost point, and flexibility level that fits their goals, timeline, budget, and needs. Our model is proven, successful, and is customizable to meet the specific client needs.

The results of business capability development using Envision from Future Tech Systems have been at the root of some substantial strategy changes for corporations that are household names in the US.

Envision enables government and commercial enterprises to model business capabilities and then leverage that knowledge to drive optimisation.  Managers use Envision to create better business strategies, to mitigate risk, and to focus diverse resources on value creation.

Future Tech Systems Inc have been continually improving their flagship product, Envision, for over 30 years.  A function-rich business object repository, Envision is used by organisations large and small as a portfolio of closely coupled business transformation apps in one highly secure domain.

The Future Tech Team are committed to delivering product and services that provide comprehensive insight of current business dynamics, adopting standard methodologies where appropriate; and rapidly developing new specific techniques to sustain our customers’ agility.

UBC Sauder Continuing Business Studies
Start, Advance or Change Your Career.

Explore UBC Sauder Continuing Business Studies innovative award-winning Certificates and courses that are widely recognized by employers in the local business community and beyond. Designed for early to mid-career professionals who are looking to start, change or advance their career:

• Agile Leadership – Associate Certificate Program
• Behavioral Insights – Advanced Professional Certificate Program
• Business Analysis – Certificate Program
• Change Management – Certificate Program
• Data and Marketing Analytics – Certificate Program (new)
• Leading Professional Teams – Associate Certificate Program (new)
• Product Management – (new)
• Project Management – Certificate Program
• Professional Exam and Test Preparation Courses

Providing a transformative experience. Taught by experienced industry professionals, engage in a transformative and collaborative learning experience. You will learn through doing and applying concepts that can easily be translated to the workplace.

Future proofing your career. We prepare you not just for the jobs of today but also for the jobs of tomorrow and what you need to stay competitive. You will also earn course digital badges, that are verifiable, blockchain-based and electronically shareable through social media that highlight your educational achievements and competencies, to employers.

For over 30 years, Watermark Learning, an Educate360 brand, has been a leader in the Business Analysis, Business Process Management, and Leadership skills and certification preparation training, consulting, and coaching space. Watermark Learning courses are interactive sessions that teach complex industry standards through practical application to support enduring performance results in organizations. Watermark Learning is an IIBA Endorsed Education Provider, an APMG Accredited Training Organization, and a Business Relationship Management Institute (BRMi) Knowledge Provider. Watermark Learning instructors have an average of 25+ years business experience and are practicing consultants and authorities in their respective fields. The company’s founders and instructors are published authors of articles, books, and contributors to BOKs across industry-leading governing bodies, including IIBA and PMI. Visit us at: www.watermarklearning.com | www.educate360.com.

Modern Analyst is the premier online community and resource portal for Business Analysts and other professionals involved in business analysis.