Corda Visual Evolution Conference 2007 Highlights

Visual Evolution 2007 wrapped up in Salt Lake City on October 25, 2007. Attendees enjoyed three days of informative sessions and networking activities.

Highlights of the conference were:

• Industry expert and author, Stephen Few gave a keynote session on Fulfilling the Promise of Business Intelligence. Attendees commented that this session alone was worth the cost of coming to Visual Evolution.
• Corda’s Founder and Chief Scientist, Neal Williams, gave a keynote presentation on Dashboards for Real World. He outlined nine steps to choosing KPIs that allows companies to quickly get to which KPIs are most important.
• Mr. Williams then led a round-table discussion that allowed participants to hear best practices, not only from Corda, but from other CenterView users as well.
• Attendees got a glimpse into the future of business performance management and business intelligence during a panel discussion with John Purvis, Corda CEO and Ron Powell, Editorial Director of the B-Eye Network.
• A new feature this year, the Data Visualization Lounge, gave attendees the chance to work on their dashboard deployments with Corda’s expert Dashboard Technologists^SM.
• Corda’s expert Dashboard Technologists^SM led various sessions that gave attendees the tools and best practices needed to make the most of CenterView.

Stephen Few - Keynote Speaker

Industry expert and author, Stephen Few, sat down during Visual Evolution to discuss how to effectively communicate data.
See the interview:

Watch it now Brief Interview (2:14)

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Visual Evolution Schedule

Tuesday, October 23rd Introduction to CenterView Builder Introduction to Corda Image Builder UI Controls, Shapes, and Maps Deploying Production Servers Advanced CenterView Techniques Datafunnels, Drill-down and Hover Text Advanced CenterView Authentication

Wednesday, October 24th Deploying Dashboards Creating Visually Appealing Graphs, Gauges and Maps CenterView Tips & Tricks #1 Customer Case Study: Arizona State University CenterView Authentication Theme Editing Keynote Address: Stephen Few from Perceptual Edge Writing Server Script CenterView Tips & Tricks #2 Utilizing ITMXL & PCScript Customer Case Study: Sharp Analytics Round Table Discussion - Getting Project Buy-in

Thursday, October 25th Keynote Address: Dashboards for the Real World - Neal Williams, Chief Scientist, Corda Technologies Advanced Datafunnel Techniques Round Table #2 Choosing the Best KPIs Datafunnel Plug-ins & External Transforms Customer Case Study: Comcast The Most Common Pitfalls and Their Solutions Building & Deploying Mobile Dashboards Panel Discussion with John Purvis, CEO of Corda Technologies and Ron Powell, Co-founder and Editorial Director of B-Eye Network

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Podcasts from the Visual Evolution Conference

Gary Ashcraft of Corda Technologies talks about his session, Creating Visually Appealing Graphs & Maps (6:59)

John Purvis, CEO of Corda and Ron Powell of B-Eye Network Discuss Their Session on the Future of Performance Management (10:24)

Bryan Enlow of Washington State discusses how they use Corda CenterView (6:50)

Glenn Hess of Corda Technologies talks about his session, DataFunnels, Drill-Downs & Hover Text (4:54)

Jon Stowell of Sharp Analytics talks about his company’s partnership with Corda and their use of CenterView (5:58)

Jared Mason of Corda Technologies talks about his sessions, Introduction to CenterView Builder and Corda Builder (4:42)

Ned Payne, of United Capital discusses his experience at Visual Evolution and with CenterView (5:59)

Eric Nunn of the Crito Group discusses his company’s partnership with Corda and their use of CenterView (4:01)

John Rome talks about how CenterView has been helping Arizona State University (8:12)

Michael Espinoza, of FST in Peru talks about his company’s partnership with Corda and their use of Corda’s products (7:21)

Jeff Gill of Comcast discusses his company’s use of Corda CenterView (5:14)

Chuck Wu from Autometrics talks about his company’s partnership with Corda and their use of CenterView for companies like BMW. (8:31)

Bob Finn of the Colorado Healthcare Association discusses how Corda is helping improve the quality of healthcare in Colorado. (3:52)