September 22- 23, 2021
Hotel Indigo Nashville
& Virtual Event
Agenda Topics at Dodeca Summit21
Presentations by GE, Kroger, Belcan, LexisNexis, and Abbott.
Participation by HCA, Mastercard, Wyndham, Gap, Continental Mills, HBO, LinkedIn,
Lennox International, Principal Financial, Wells Fargo, and more.
Innovating with Dodeca
Teams shared how they enabled business transformation using Dodeca. Each participating organization presented how they started using Dodeca (share functional user groups, business process, use cases, etc.), where they are today and plans for what’s next.
Technical Considerations and Demonstrations
Aimed to answer “How to sustainably scale Dodeca across an enterprise?” Topic focused on the most effective models / practices for staffing and training technical Dodeca resources. Includes sharing of specific tools to enable sustainable growth with Dodeca (style guides, etc.) and other architecture guidelines.
• Dodeca Development documentation – how to expose and document the configurations (version control) of a Dodeca application.
Operations and Ongoing Dodeca Support
Concentrated on the Dodeca support model and approach at each organization in attendance – highlighting the common support activities, the workload associated operational support, and the lifecycle of an application or instance once in production. Other questions for consideration / discussion include: what tasks can be pushed to end-users?
Product Management with Dodeca
Panel discussion exploring how teams establish long-term strategy, decide what to build, estimate level of effort, and manage resource capacity planning. (ie – previously, Elizabeth Ferrell from The Kroger Co. shared the standard reporting package Kroger uses to deliver a minimally-custom solution in two weeks).
Project Management with Dodeca
Knowledge transfer pertaining to the execution of a Dodeca development program topics include: UAT, day-to-day management, cross-functional communication rhythms and more!
Applied OLAP Dodeca Discussion
Our team demonstrated the new and innovative features recently released in Dodeca Version 8, including EssJet technology. We shared our short and long term roadmap. Provided a session on most requested tips & tricks. Moderated an open Q & A.
Dodeca Summit21 was a great success!
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