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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®.

Interfacing Technologies is the global leader in business transformation, empowering organizations to efficiently govern business complexity through process based management solutions. Interfacing’s solutions are intuitively designed for business users; facilitating multiple organizational programs within a single platform and covering the full spectrum of quality, governance, improvement and compliance initiatives.   Interfacing’s Enterprise Process Center® (EPC) has been recognized in 2017 by Gartner® as a leader in Enterprise Business Process Analysis (BPA), Operational Intelligence (OI) & Business Operating System (BOS). Additionally, the EPC was also selected by KMWorld as this year’s top trend-setting software, CIO Review’s Top 20 Business Process Management (BPM) solutions, CIO Applications’ Top 25 Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) tools and Frost & Sullivan’s 2017 Product Leadership Award.

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 empowers organizations to gain insights from their data and knowledge.  Our unique focus on data, AI, vocabulary, and rules enables you to produce better business outcomes, work smarter, manage change and complexity, and develop solutions faster. Our training is recognized worldwide for providing critical skills for analysis, business transformation, and AI deployment. We literally teach you how to think differently.

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.

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™)

Modern Requirements (formerly eDevTech), is a requirements management software company headquartered in Toronto Canada.

Recognized worldwide for its products, Modern Requirements4TFS and Smart Office4TFS; it provides a collaborative requirements environment, uniquely built into Microsoft Team Foundation Server, or cloud based Visual Studio Team Services.

The software reduces time to value delivery by providing users with end to end traceability, ingenious process automation, one source of truth, and visualization support; all in a highly scalable and secure environment.

It allows users to define and analyze just the right amount of requirements, in collaboration with their ALM, DevOps, or product development teams. Agile, hybrid and structured requirements teams have consistently reported completing their projects in half the time, reducing development rework, streamlining regulatory compliance and improving project quality.

Modern Requirements4TFS is made available by Microsoft, as part of Visual Studio Enterprise; and is being used by thousands of large, prestigious organizations worldwide. 

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.

B2T Training has been at the forefront of business analysis education since 2000. As charter members of the IIBA® and contributors to Version 1 of the BABOK®, we’ve played a pivotal role in shaping the industry. We joined the IIBA’s Endorsed Education Provider program at its inauguration in 2006. Our extensive catalog of courses is unmatched in its breadth, covering the essential knowledge, skills, and techniques required for business analysis.

What sets us apart is our commitment to practical learning. Our instructors are seasoned practitioners who bring real-world experience to every class. Our students don’t just listen to someone reading slides; they engage in practical, hands-on activities and receive personalized feedback and coaching.
As the business analysis field has evolved, so have we. Our courses now address a wide range of project approaches, including waterfall, hybrid, and agile. We continually update our offerings to reflect emerging trends like Data Analytics, ensuring that professionals of all experience levels can find relevant and up-to-date training at B2T Training.

San Francisco-based kintone is making teamwork better with an agile, cloud-based, no-coding required business application development and deployment platform. Named in Gartner 2016 Enterprise application Platform as a Service (aPaaS), kintone empowers teams of all sizes to collaborate and solve business process inefficiencies by rapidly creating custom database and work flow-driven applications with robust analytics. Custom applications built with kintone range from CRM, project management, asset management, SCM, and much more. More than 5,000 companies and 140,000 end users have built, deployed and use over 300,000 applications on kintone. kintone is provided by Cybozu Inc, a Tokyo-based public company founded in 1997.

SAP Signavio solutions help companies connect strategy to execution and increase business agility. In use at more than 3,000 global customers, SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite strengthens collaboration across business and IT, providing a clear map of how work gets done, which operational systems underlie that work, guidance on potential improvements, and the ability to model and assess the impact of any changes on customers and employees. By giving companies the ability to discover, understand, benchmark, improve, and transform their business processes, SAP Signavio accelerates the journey to digital transformation, operational excellence, and customer centricity.

Scheer Americas helps organizations build and apply value-driven business process management capabilities to achieve the right process performance and digital transformation. With over 40 years of experience and hundreds of successful projects, Scheer is a thought leader within value-driven process management. Our services include rapid process improvement and transformation, preparation for automation, and process management capability building. This includes impact-focused implementation of modeling and mining tools, defining process management and governance structures, and developing tailored process roadmaps. We ensure knowledge transfer and capability building through consulting and education solutions.

Sparkling Logic Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based company dedicated to helping organizations automate and optimize key decisions in daily business operations and customer interactions in a low-code, no-code environment. Our customers include global leaders in financial services, insurance, healthcare, retail, utilities, and IoT.

SMARTS™ by Sparkling Logic is a modern, enterprise-level, application-agnostic, business rules and decision management platform that enables non-technical business analysts and domain experts to leverage their own data to easily design, test, deploy, monitor, and continuously improve business-critical decisions, whether explicit or AI-driven, with minimal IT resources.

To further simplify decision management, Sparkling Logic has recently launched AI Assistant, an interactive, generative-AI powered tool embedded in SMARTS™ that provides guided, on-demand support throughout the decision management lifecycle. Users can chat and interact with AI Assistant to accomplish decision management tasks such as authoring and modifying business rules using natural language.

Learn more at www.sparklinglogic.com.

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FlexRule is a Business Rules and Decision platform that enables intelligent, integrated Business Processes. FlexRule’s common Business and IT language, covering business, decision, rules and data logic, means that nothing is lost in translation. Business People get what they need and IT can deliver fast in a robust, tested and secure environment. What sets FlexRule apart is:

• A three layered approach of Business Logic, Decision Logic and Business Rules.
• Support for Decision Model and Notation – DMN (Decision Requirement Diagram – DRD, Boxed expressions…)
• Spreadsheet style advanced Decision Table which business people quickly grasp.
• Natural Language and Tree & Sub-Tree Logic
• Advanced Data Handling Capabilities, Monadic View, in memory data operations, join, filter, project, etc
• Dynamic Platform that doesn’t require compiling and re-deployment of application code.
• Single click deployment of logic, decisions and rules as REST API Service
• Direct .NET Integration
• Built-in Regression and Unit Testing framework
• Role Based permission management
• Version control and change management
• Advanced IDE for authoring and testing models with debugging and simulating capabilities
• Ready-to-use web-based (pure JavaScript) components for developers to enable view/edit of models on web/mobile applications

FlexRule’s global customers are leveraging these capabilities to achieve outstanding value at a much lower total cost.