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Best Practices for Enterprise Risk Management Sam Harris, Director of Enterprise Risk Management for Teradata, talks with Ron Powell of the BeyeNetwork about how the worldwide financial industry is coping with the wave of new financial regulations. Sam also shares compliance and enterprise risk manag Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cyber Threats - How Performance Analytics Can Thwart Cyber Attacks In this podcast with Ron Powell of the BeyeNetwork, Jim Wakefield, Senior Solution Architect for Teradata's Government Systems Division, provides insight into the various types of cyber attacks and the implications for IT organizations, including governme Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Update on Active Intelligence: What's New? Teradata's Dave Schrader, Director of Marketing and Strategy, provides an update on Active Intelligence, explaining explaining how Reach includes not just frontline people and systems within the enterprise, but also external customers and partners, coinin Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rise of Data Management and Analytics in Utilities Diego Klabjan, Professor at Northwestern University, describes the upcoming roundtable he is facilitating to discuss the new data streams such as smart grid and incorporating new data streams into the data warehouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Major Technology Trends in the Capital Markets Bijan Olfati, Program Director, Capital Markets, for Teradata, discusses the technology trends in the capital markets and explains what is driving those trends. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Predictive Analytics for Insurance Fraud - Proactive versus Reactive Response Peter Hughes, Director of Insurance at the Global Industry Solutions Group at Teradata, shares the various types of fraud encountered in the insurance industry and why a proactive approach using predictive analytics is more effective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Role of Analytics in the Battle for the Living Room Colleen Quinn, Senior Program Director, Interactive Advertising for Teradata, Xavier Dreze, Associate Professor UCLA, and Sanjay Sood, Associate Professor of Marketing at UCLA and Co-Faculty Director of MEMES (Managing Enterprises in Media, Entertainment, Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Banks Recognizing Benefits of Active Client Engagement Ray Wilson, Program Director of Banking Solutions for Teradata, describes the related analytics and the benefits of active client engagement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dynamic Strategy at Cabela's Jeff Tanner, Professor at Baylor University, shares how Cabela's data-centered culture enables them to tie overall corporate strategy to tactical operations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Conquering the Complexity of Social Media and More! Dr. Dave Schrader, Director of Marketing and Strategy for Teradata, explains explains what forward-looking companies can accomplish using mobile and social media technologies in conjunction with Teradata, Aster Data, and Aprimo. He also highlights some cr Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Data Warehousing is Here Imad Birouty, Program Marketing Manager for Teradata, explains that the Teradata Analytical Ecosystem provides a complete end-to-end solution from management all the way through the delivery of information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 3 Main Benefits of Teradata Unity Terdata's Program Marketing Manager Imad Birouty explains Teradata Unity, a powerful product that stitches a multi-system data warehouse environment into an integrated, orchestrated analytical ecosystem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Build Data Warehouses Faster and Change Them Easier Michael Whitehead, CEO of WhereScape, explains how WhereScape improves time to value for data warehousing. He also explains their relationship with Teradata. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Understanding the Value of Data Warehousing Shaun Connolly, Teradata's Global Program Director, Transportation and Elisia Getts, Teradata Senior Product Manager for Architecture Modeling Solutions, talk with Lyndsay Wise, BeyeNetwork Expert, about how they help customers understand the foundation r Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Integrated Data for the Transportation Industry Mikkel Lund talks with BeyeNetwork Expert Lyndsay Wise about the transportation/logistics industry and how integrated data provides one version of the truth. Mikkel also explains the negative consequences of not having this single version of the truth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting the Maximum Benefit from a Retail Enterprise Data Warehouse Lyndsay Wise, BeyeNetwork Expert, interviews Dennis Jeng, Senior Product Manager, Retail - Teradata, and Karen Papierniak, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Retail - Teradata, to learn how retailers can receive maximum benefit from their enterprise data w Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Features in Teradata Geospatial Technology Arlene Zaima, Integrated Analytics Program Manager at Teradata, talks with BeyeNetwork Telecom Channel Expert John Myers, about the expansion of Teradata's geospatial solution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don DeLoach, Infobright Don DeLoach talks with Ron Powell about the "big data" world and explains why Infobright's high-performance database is the preferred choice for applications and data marts that analyze large volumes of "machine-generated data" such as web data, network l Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Vogan, Capgemini Scott Vogan, who leads the North American EIM Practice for Capgemini, discusses the primary drivers for Enterprise Information Management (EIM), the barriers to successful EIM and Capgemini's approach to EIM. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trends Shaping CRM in the Travel Industry Gretchen Weber, Travel Industry Consultant for Teradata, discusses why customer data must be available and managed across multiple channels, and she shares examples of how this availability across channels results in satisfied customers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Managing and Sustaining a Data Warehouse Environment Ashar Naseer, Solution Sales Manager for the Americas Development Center, explains Teradata Managed Services as well as its exciting new features, and he shares how companies benefit from Teradata's experience and best practices when they select Teradata Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Telematics: Now and in the Future Kamau Njenga, Program Director of Global Industry Solutions for Teradata, speaks with William McKnight, BeyeNETWORK Information Management Expert, about how the application of telematics provides value now and new uses that will be available in the future Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website High Availability for Mission-Critical Systems Dan Odette, Partner, Americas Availability Center of Excellence for Teradata, talks about how they assist Teradata customers to ensure that critical systems are available at the highest possible level. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Retail Implications of Increased Adoption of Mobile Devices John Myers, BeyeNETWORK Telecommunications Channel Expert, converses with Mark Gallardo, Director of Retail Intelligence for Teradata, about how the increased adoption of mobile devices impacts retailers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website High Availability for Mission-Critical Systems Dan Odette, Partner, Americas Availability Center of Excellence for Teradata, talks about how they assist Teradata customers to ensure that critical systems are available at the highest possible level. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Next Step in the Evolution of the Use of BI Ron Swift, Vice President, Cross Industry Business Solutions for Teradata, talks about the challenges companies are facing with the overwhelming amounts of data, and then offers a glimpse into the BI of the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Do Companies Move to Teradata? Mark Madsen, BeyeNETWORK expert, and Mark Shainman, Global Manager of Competitive Programs for Teradata, talk about migrations and what drives people to migrate to Teradata – the business drivers and the technology drivers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teradata and Mobile - What's the Connection? Dr. Dave Schrader, Director of Marketing and Strategy for Active Enterprise Intelligence for Teradata, provides an overview of the special interest group panel discussion held at PARTNERs that focused on the tremendous growth of mobile. He then talks abou Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Integrated Web Intelligence to Drive Better Intelligence Mark Madsen, BeyeNETWORK expert, talks with Joe Guy, Director of Industry Marketing and Solutions for Teradata, and Paul Barrett, Global Director of Integrated Web Intelligence for Teradata, about integrated web intelligence, focusing on the benefits it p Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Image Analysis Provides New Capabilities for Data Warehousing Jim Wakefield, Senior Solution Architect at Teradata, explains that image analysis is a method for storing images in the data warehouse so that analysis can be run on them. He also provides examples of how organizations benefit from image analysis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moving Data Warehousing into a New Realm: Solid State Disk Technology John Myers, BeyeNETWORK Telecommunications Channel Expert, talks with Jim Dietz, Enterprise Product Marketing Manager at Teradata, talks about the importance of solid state disk technology and the benefits this technology provides. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tax Compliance Solution Based on Teradata Replaces Siloed Systems Jim Fourcade, Director for the Compliance Division of the Oklahoma Tax Commission, describes their tax compliance solution that consists of a Teradata data warehouse and includes business intelligence reporting, analytical models and a case management app Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Value of a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) Steven Gordon, Senior Partner for the Retail/Commercial Practice at Claraview, explains how a business intelligence competency center can ensure that the business and IT are properly aligned and how a BICC helps companies understand the value of their dat Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Viewpoint – Teradata's Portal-Based System Management Solution Sam Tawfik, Product Marketing Manager for Teradata, describes how Viewpoint gives DBAs and system administrators one single view of their Teradata systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Smart Grid: Getting More Data and Taking More Intelligent Action Jill Feblowitz, Practice Director, Business Technology at IDC Energy Insights, and Bryan Truex, Senior Director Industry Solutions for Utilities at Teradata, explain smart grid technology and how data can be used by utilities to understand how their opera Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Improving Promotional Execution Performance John Myers, BeyeNETWORK Telecommunications Channel Expert, talks with Greg Moore, Solution Director of the Demand Chain Management Center of Excellence at Teradata, about the challenges that promotions can cause in the supply chain in terms of inventory a Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Key Trends and Innovations John Myers, BeyeNETWORK Telecommunications Channel Expert, talks with Jim Donovan, Vice President of Industry Marketing and Solutions at Teradata, about two key trends: mobility and "big data," explaining Teradata's capabilities in both areas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teradata and Diio Partnership Provides Analytic Environment for Airline Industry Customers Frank Bush, Senior Industry Consultant for Travel and Transportation at Teradata, talks about Teradata's partnership with Diio, provides an overview of Diio, and explains how this relationship provides value for Teradata's airline customers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collaborative Research Between Teradata and Ohio State University Dave Schrader, Director of Marketing and Strategy for Active Enterprise Intelligence at Teradata, explains the goals of active value curve research and provides interesting examples of the research results. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Complementing the SAP Investment with Enterprise Analytics for the Manufacturing Industry Keith Henry, Vice President for the Manufacturing Industry Marketing & Solutions for Teradata, talks about the power of enterprise analytics and how to create the enterprise infrastructure to provide answers to the right people at the speed of busines Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Role of Technology in the Digital Entertainment Industry Ron Powell of the BeyeNETWORK talks with Colleen Quinn, Senior Program Director for Interactive Advertising for Teradata; Sanjay Sood, Associate Professor of Marketing at UCLA Anderson School of Management; and James Maysonet, Principal Consultant for Med Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Data Warehouse and Analytics Capabilities with Teradata 13.10 Enhancements Alan Greenspan, Product Marketing Manager for Teradata, provides an overview of Teradata 13.10 and the new data warehouse and analtyics capabilities it provides in 4 areas: temporal data management and temporal query processing, advanced compression, open Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is Big Data, Why Should You Care and How Can You Deal with Big Data Challenges? Dan Graham, General Manager for Enterprise Systems at Teradata Labs, defines "big data," explains why big data presents challenges for many organizations, and how Teradata helps their customers effectively use big data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Evolution of Pharmacy and Healthcare Dr. David Butler, Senior Industry Consultant for the National Consulting Practice at Teradata, looks at the complexity of disconnected sets of data in healthcare and pharmaceutical companies today. He talks about how Teradata provides expertise in pharmac Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Impact of the Current Economy on Today's Retailers Ed Dupee, Vice President of Industry Marketing for Retail for Teradata, talks about the new economic reality, why good data is so vitally critical in these conditions, and how Teradata assists retailers in outpacing the competition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Geospatial Revolution Bill Smith, Principal of Claraview, talks about the benefits of geospatial analytics and how customers are using Teradata Geospatial. Bill provides examples of how customers in the finance, retail, insurance and healthcare industries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Customer Analytics - Gathering Insights from Millions of Conversations Michelle de Haaff, Chief Marketing Officer for Attensity, explains how they enable companies to access information from social media, email, phone calls, SMS mesages and CRM notes, analyze that information with text analytics and then take action on the i Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unlocking the Value of Data to Get Results Bob Potter, CEO at Expressor, provides an overview of the company. He describes how they work with Teradata and their goal to be the fastest, most affordable data integration solution provider for Teradata. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Benefits of Location Intelligence Mark Madsen talks with Allen Pym, Vice President of Sales at APOS, about the benefits companies receive through the combination of capabilities of geographic information systems and business intelligence solutions. Allen also provides background informati Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All About R and Why It's Appealing to Innovative Companies Arlene Zaima, Strategic Intelligence Program Manager for Teradata, explains R and why it is being used by so many companies. She explains that it is cost-effective for small companies, but that it is also being used by larger companies because of the emer Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Expanding the Box: Business Analytics Innovation Center Bill Franks, Chief Analytics Officer Associated with the Global SAS Program, talks with John Myers, BeyeNETWORK telecommunications expert. Bill explains that the Business Analytics Innovation Center is a cooperative effort between SAS and Teradata and tha Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Predictive Analytics with Information Builders RStat Eric Greisdorf, Senior Solutions Architect at Information Builders, speaks to William McKnight, BeyeNETWORK Information Management Expert, about the addition to WebFOCUS that is called RStat. He also explains how it works with Teradata for in-database ana Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Avoid Data and Analytic Silos Chris Twogood, Director of Product and Services Marketing for Teradata explains Teradata Accelerated Analytics, which is a portfolio of analytic services. Including new data types, emerging technologies as well as partner optimizations, Teradata Accelerat Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Analyzing Customer Behavioral Data in Time to Make a Difference John Myers, BeyeNETWORK Telecommunications Channel Expert, talks with Brian Griffith, Gaming Industry Consultant for the Teradata Solutions Group, about the primary business analytics trends in the gaming industry and how various industries are effective Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SIM – The Answer for Managing Complex Assets Peeter Kivestu, Director of Global Industry Solutions for Travel, Transport and Government at Teradata, talks about SIM – serialized item management. He explains the benefits that SIM provides for managing complex assets, such as aircraft components. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Economic Driver for a Teradata Solution in Oil & Gas Cary Purdy, Chief Product Manager of Landmark Software, which is the software group within Halliburton, and Glen Sartain, Senior Industry Consultant - Oil and Gas, for Teradata, discuss how analytics provide the ability for drilling operations to move fro Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The End of BI and the Start of Rapid-Fire Analytics Deepak Ghodke, Director of Strategic Sales at Tableau, explains why rapid-fire analytics with a heavy focus on visualization is a breakthrough technology especially relevant for Teradata customers who need to get rapid answers to their business questions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon Ludwig, Capgemini Jon Ludwig, who leads the Enterprise Content Management practice in North America for Capgemini, describes the changing enterprise content management landscape and explains why the line between traditional BI and enterprise content management will continu Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Luc Ducrocq, Capgemini Luc Ducrocq, North American Intelligent Enterprise Lead for Business Information Management at Capgemini,talks about the informational challenges companies are facing today and describes Capgemini's intelligent enterprise roadmap. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Justin Norwood, Capgemini Justin Norwood, a principal in the Business Information Management Service Line within Capgemini Consulting, talks about the trends they're seeing regarding the adoption of BusinessObjects and Sybase within SAP's customers and describes what organizations Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's New with Tableau 6 Andrew Beers, VP of Product Development, shares new features of Tableau 6.0. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Server Manageability Features in Tableau 6.0 James Baker and Dave Lion, software engineers, explain the new features of Server Manageability to help manage increasing numbers of users. Ordinary tasks such as finding a user have been simplified as well as day-to-day operations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Internet Scale Performace VP of Product Development Andrew Beers discusses the improved scalability of Tableau 6.0 Server. He also talks about Tableau Public. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Combination Views in Tableau 6.0 Dirk Karis, senior software engineer, defines combination views, explains how they can be used and shares tips for more advantages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jock MacKinley Describes the Animated History Function Director of Visual Analysis, Jock MacKinley, talks about the new capiblities of animated history within Tableau 6.0 such as details on demand, historical views and display formatting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Data Engine is Tableau's New Fast Analytic Database Ron Powell chats with Matt Eldridge, chief architect, about huge performance increases of the Data Engine which is replacing the extract function in Tableau 6.0. Fine-tuned algorithms can make your queries hum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt Eldridge Explains Efficient Use of Computer Memory in Data Engine The Data Engine uses different types of memory to get the highest performance possible. Matt Eldrige, chief architect, explains the meaning of "architecture aware" and the importance of this distinction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ross Bunker Talks about Tableau Data Integration Features Ron Powell and Ross Bunker, Tableau Senior Software Engineer, discuss the ability to bring in extra information and contextual data for better analysis and conduct what-if modeling with new data integration features. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Advanced Calculations in Tableau 6.0 Ross Bunker, senior software engineer, explains how Tableau can define complex calculation once and tweak for re-use in multiple formulas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Pellegrin Explains Rich Calculation Parameters Steve is the Software Development Lead for Tableau Desktop and describes the new parameter controls in Tableau Version 6.0 to enhance analysis and what-if modeling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Niraj Tenany, Netwoven, Inc. Niraj Tenany discusses how developing a corporate-wide BI strategy involves ensuring that a company covers all aspects of BI - reports, ad hoc analysis, advanced analytics and executive dashboards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Borge Hald, Medallia Borge Hald discusses how Medallia’s solutions enable companies to gather, monitor, and act on feedback from customers, partners and employees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's Baaaack! A Fresh Look at CRM Jill Dyche looks at three approaches to the current state of customer relationship management. She discusses the voice of the customer, the intersection of master data management and customer data integration and the data quality focus. All can lead to cr Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BI on the Road: iPad and All Things Mobile Colin White leads a discussion on mobile BI applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Information Worker in the 21st Century - The Collaborator Claudia Imhoff reviews the way information workers consume data and focuses the discussion on the collaboration aspects of modern communication. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Columnar DBMS: Data Does the Twist and Analytics Shout William McKnight describes columnar databases and the best places to apply this methodology. He extols a mix and match approach to analytics that can work for any size organization. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SaaS: The Hottest Trend in Business Intelligence Shawn Rogers talks about cloud computing including definitions, service and deployment models, drivers and expectations, and barriers to success. He shares research results about future trends. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Suresh Chandrasekaran, Denodo Technologies Suresh Chandrasekaran of Denodo Technologies describes the benefits of data virtualization for business intelligence (BI) and shares how their customers use Denodo for agile reporting and operational BI. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Santaferraro, BI Evangelist at HP John discusses real-time intelligence with Colin White at the Pacific NW BI Summit. Analyzing data in motion with universal visibility across an organization creates the ability to respond dynamically to business events. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Gentile, Jaspersoft Brian Gentile describes why Jaspersoft has experienced strong growth and looks at the trends that are currently shaping the software industry and impacting business intelligence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kristina H. Robinson, HP Software & Solutions Kristina Robinson, Vice President and General Manager of Business Intelligence Solutions for HP Software & Solutions, talks with Ron Powell about why some organizations are not able to realize the full potential of their business intelligence investme Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Microsoft SharePoint is Key to Collaboration, Says Donald Farmer Donald Farmer of the Microsoft BI Leadership Team and Claudia Imhoff discuss the impact of collaboration on BI. SharePoint is central to Microsoft's BI software solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Agile Data Warehousing is Described by Michael Whitehead Michael Whitehead, CEO of WhereScape Software, and William McKnight talk about the ways WhereScape supports agile practices for a data warehouse that is designed for business change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kim Dossey, Influencer Relations for Teradata William McKnight and Kim Dossey discuss Teradata's platform of products that scale to any size business. They focus on BI trends around the ability and necessity of integrating operational transactions and web data with traditional data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Predixion Software Introduced to Market Simon Arkell, CEO and Co-Founder of Predixion Software introduces his new start-up focused on self-service predictive analytics. This easy-to-use and accessible analytics solution launches at the end of August. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Clark Shares His Thoughts on Trends in BI Paul Clark, Senior Director Marketing, SAP/BusinessObjects discusses trends in BI with Claudia Imhoff: changing expectations about information consumption and in-memory computing and how they are going to radically change the way we do business and design Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Karen Steele Updates Jill Dyché on Cloud9 Analytics Karen Steele, Cloud9 Analytics VP of Marketing, shares recent innovations at Cloud9. Cloud9 offers sales performance management as a service, empowering business users with front-end reporting and revolutionizing the back end by configuring applications a Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Harriet Fryman and Colin White Discuss Business Analytics Harriet Fryman, Head of Product Marketing for IBM, describes the business analytics landscape and how IBM Cognos products fit into the IBM analytic message. Historical data, real time and predictive analytics are three perspectives that provide a complete Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talend Extends Platform to Include Data Management and Master Data Management Yves de Montcheuil, Talend VP of Marketing, shares with William McKnight how Talend extends its platform from data integration and data quality to include data management and master data management solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elissa Fink, Tableau Software Elissa Fink describes why visualization is so important for business intelligence and describes successes companies have achieved with "rapid-fire" business intelligence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Eve Introduces Composite's Data Virtualization Leadership Series Bob Eve, EVP of Marketing, speaks with Jill Dyché at the Pacific NW BI Summit about the launch of Composite's Data Virtualization Leadership Series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Soceanu Describes the DataFlux Product Road Map Dan Soceanu, DataFlux Product Marketing Manager, and Jill Dyché take a look at DataFlux's data management platform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Davis Explains Lyzasoft's New Approach to Business Intelligence Scott Davis, Founder and CEO of Lyzasoft, and Colin White discuss the role of collaboration in business intelligence. Context of data helps give it meaning but equally important is the conversation around the context required for decision making. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Norman H. Nie, Revolution Analytics Norman Nie, CEO of Revolution Analytics, talks with Mary Jo Nott of the BeyeNETWORK about the market conditions that are causing organizations to use predictive analytics and why they are turning to Revolution and R. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jake Bittner, Qlarion Jake Bittner, President and CEO of Qlarion, talks with Ron Powell about Qlarion's spin-off from CadenceQuest; their focus on providing business intelligence, data mining and data management solutions to government agencies, government-sponsored enterprise Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brett Jackson, LogiXML Brett Jackson discusses business intelligence with Ron Powell. Brett talks about what differentiates LogiXML from other business intelligence providers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taking Inventory of the Unstructured World Creating an inventory of corporate documents is an activity that represents the first start in managing the unstructured environment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What’s Not to Love About the Spreadsheet? Because of all the pros of spreadsheets, it is safe to assume that they will not go away anytime soon. Thus, Bill Inmon shares ways to make them work within your organization. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Eve, Composite Software Bob Eve discusses how Composite data virtualization leverages high-performance query middleware to integrate data from multiple, disparate sources in a unified, logically virtualized manner for on-demand consumption by multiple front-end business solution Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who is Building Systems Today? According to Bill Inmon, as long as economic circumstances remain the same, it is doubtful there will ever be a return to corporate system development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June BeyePERSPECTIVE Topics: Agile BI, DW ROI, smart data quality, future of IT The month's discussion covers a number of ways to build bridges between business and IT. The panel describes how agile BI meets changing business needs, names critical factors for determining DW ROI and explains how applications of smart data quality init Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Did Bad Data Get Into the System? Bill Inmon describes common "bad data" problems and suggests that the solution for these problems is not simply correcting the data. To avoid recurring problems, the causes of bad data must be discovered. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeffrey Bunting, ActiveStrategy Jeffrey Bunting discusses how ActiveStrategy makes it easy for anyone in an organization to manage, view and take actions to improve performance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sid Banerjee, Clarabridge Sid Banerjee discusses how Clarabridge provides Global 1000 enterprises an analytical view of text-based verbatims found in voice of the customer feedback channels - as a result, businesses can improve marketing, product/service management and customer se Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Healthcare Performance Dashboard: Linking Strategy to Metrics In this article, Greg Nelson discusses opportunities for utilizing data for effective decision making – both at the strategic as well as operational levels. As one of many decision support tools, the “dashboard” can help provide insights that are seldom s Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Agile Development for Healthcare Business Intelligence Many healthcare organizations are learning they can do more with less by using agile development for their business intelligence and data warehousing projects. This article provides helpful advice for using agile development to deliver value-added content Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Lorion, TIBCO Spotfire Mark Lorion discusses how Spotfire analytics addresses a key analysis gap in the BI space that has forced countless users to rely on spreadsheets to find answers to specific questions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Diehl, Diehl Technology LLC Richard Diehl discusses how TABULUS provides intuitive tools that minimize technical overhead and maximize productivity all while seamlessly generating stunning presentations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting It Right Bill Inmon shares observations about those who are successful with technology and those who are not. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lou Ennuso, Adeptia Lou Ennuso discusses how Adeptia’s ETL Suite offers a powerful middleware application to document, automate and execute critical data processes especially for creating and populating data marts from various internal or external data sources. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Managing Data Quality in the Face of Organizational Change The policies, processes, and procedures of an ongoing data quality program must be able to persist even in the face of change. This article provides examples of organizational change that have ramifications in association with an organization’s data quali Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May BeyePERSPECTIVE Topics: SAP acquisition of Sybase, current data management approaches, analytic database platforms and data integration strategies This month's panel of experts discusses the implications of the recent SAP acquisition of Sybase as key for evolving its mobile strategy and real-time delivery capabilities. The panel agreed there is no single ideal architecture for analytics, but there a Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power of Mobile Business Intelligence Douglas Chope, Director at MicroStrategy, talks about "transaction velocity" and why mobile intelligence is more powerful than traditionally delivered business intelligence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Address Data Quality Affects Organizations Charles Gaddy, Key Accounts Manager at AddressDoctor, looks at how poor quality address data is affecting organizations today and explains how AddressDoctor differs from the competition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Broadening the Scope of Data Integration Deployment Options Robert Eve, Executive Vice President of Marketing at Composite Software, describes how data virtualization is a well-established solution at many large enterprises and provides a customer example. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting the Business More Involved in Governing Data John Haddad, Director of Product Marketing for Informatica, shares information on a variety of topics including data governance, data virtualization, master data management and a soon-to-be-released book on lean integration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cloud-Based Implementation of Business Intelligence/Analytics Initiatives Sean Jackson, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Kognitio, talks about IDC's recent report about BI in the cloud. He then explains Kognitio's extended partnership with Quomation, describing how they offer on-demand pricing and other services aimed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website External-Facing Business Intelligence Michael Corcoran, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Information Builders, explains external-facing BI, describes the kinds of organizations that can benefit from it and shares customer examples. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Integrating Predictive Analytics with BI Platforms Steve Miller, Cofounder and President of OpenBI talks about the "science of business," provides an overview of the company, describes their relationship with various vendors and describes how they are working with these vendors to integrate predictive ana Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Open Source BI Gaining Traction Open source BI is gaining traction, and Mike Boyarski, Senior Product Marketing Manager at JasperSoft, describes their typical customers and how their profiles have changed over the past few years. He explains how the open source as a software model is go Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Relationship Between the Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Sam Tawfik, Product Marketing Manager at Teradata, explains that there is a tight relationship between the data warehouse and business intelligence (BI). He also looks at the role of Excel in delivering BI solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Delivering High Value Analytics The most challenging aspect of delivering high value analytics is described by Elif Tutuk, Technical Advisor and Certified Business Intelligence Professional at QlikTech. He also provides advice for companies that want to move up the analytic curve. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Connected Intelligence – Why Is It Revolutionary? John Santaferraro, Marketing Communications & Industry Marketing Lead for Business Intelligence Solutions at HP, talks about HP's journey toward the world of connected intelligence and what this means for HP customers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Suresh Katta, Saama Technologies Suresh Katta discusses how Saama Technologies life science BI practice helps life science business managers to more quickly and effectively access, integrate and make decisions from data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phyllis Wykoff, Miami University Phyllis Wykoff discusses how Miami University uses Incisive Analytics' for their business intelligence needs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reinventing Business: Enterprise Data Warehouse Business Opportunities for Manufacturing, Part 3 This installment covers 10 enterprise data warehouse-enabled business improvement opportunities in marketing and sales. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three Types of Data Models Bill Inmon discusses operational data models, data warehouse (or analytical) data models and global data models. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Technical Planning for Data Warehouse Migration This article by Binayak Dutta highlights and discusses some of the important technical aspects of data warehouse migration. It assumes a state where the decision for migration has already been made and the solutions identified. The article focuses on dime Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence and Federal CIO Priorities Are the priorities of CIOs skewed in the wrong direction? Ramon Barquin posits that CIOs, whether in government or in the private sector, must have priorities that mirror and support the goals and strategies of their enterprises. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Advantages of Data Warehouse Appliances Revisited Rick van der Lans suggests that the extra advantage of a data warehouse appliance is that the business intelligence architecture can be simplified. He explains that a data warehouse appliance can also reduce complexity, improve flexibility and reduce cost Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Edward Peters, OpenConnect Systems Edward Peters discusses how Comprehend provides event-driven intelligence to automatically discover workforce, process and customer variations that hinder operational efficiency. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Master Data Management Drivers and the Reliance on Data Governance In the rush to realize the benefits of a master data management (MDM) solution, the deployment of MDM often precedes two important aspects of any significant undertaking. David Loshin cautions against this approach and provides a list of critical MDM and Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Information Architects and Technicians There are many differences between technicians and architects, but Bill Inmon notes that there is ample room in the data warehousing world for both professions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April BeyePERSPECTIVE Topics: Expanding BI frontiers, data integration in the cloud, expanding data volumes and skill set development. Upbeat discussion on the current state of business intelligence (BI) and a roadmap for the future, data integration in the cloud, a philosophical look at the explosion of data and how to manage people during this culture change on the BI journey. Panelist Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Managing Enterprise Data in a Time of Change: From MDM to Columnar to Open Source William McKnight suggests that enterprises should look for opportunities, perhaps on the edges of your enterprise workload, to bring in the platform with characteristics of cloud, open source, appliance model, memory efficiency, or columnar orientation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Corporate Contracts Application Bill Inmon discusses the benefits of having the data from corporate contracts in a standard relational database. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AIDE – A Business Intelligence Consulting Methodology This article describes how business intelligence (BI) consulting differs from typical IT consulting and recommends a BI consulting methodology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Top 6 Customer Service Tips in E-Retail Al Cordoba provide useful tips for improving customer service by providing an additional channel beyond voice communications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sustainability in the Federal Government: The State of Green IT Sustainable or "green" IT means different things to different people but it has implications for the manufacture, management, utilization and disposal of IT, and, thus, indicates opportunity for business intelligence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ravi Shankar, Informatica Ravi Shankar discusses how Informatica delivers a comprehensive, unified, open, and economical MDM on a single platform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reinventing Business: Enterprise Data Warehouse Business Opportunities for Manufacturing, Part 2 Part 2 of this continuing series covers how the enterprise data warehouse is used to reinvent business in the enterprise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Eternal Data Warehouse Bill Inmon provides his perspective on how much data should be kept in a data warehouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Determining Patterns in Customer Behavior Markus Guggenbuhler and Dirk Muhlhauser from Valora explain that they have massive data volumes and use Teradata to determine patterns in customer behavior. They talk about the benefits of networking at the conference and how the conference gives them the Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Enterprise Data Warehouse Allows Delivery of Information in a Coherent Way Davide Artioli, Data Warehouse Manager, and Stefano Orsini, Remote Controls Manager, from Credem, explain how they are developing a system to address their customer needs and to meet those needs as best they can. They explain the steps they took in their Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Capturing Social Media Data Christian Howes, Head of Solutions EMEA for Webtrends, and Paul Barrett, Global Director of Industry Marketing and Solutions for Teradata, discuss integrated web intelligence and the 3 areas of the social media space that are impacting enterprises today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teradata Provides Required Response and Scalability Farouk Dawood, Senior Manager of Architecture, Process and Governance from Standard Bank, shares the reasons that they chose Teradata and explains why he attended this conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Teradata River John McKean, a best-selling author and Executive Director of the Center for Information Based Competition, explains Teradata River, an online community "think-tank" where peers can exchange ideas and innovations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Using Active Information in the Enterprise Alys Woodward, Program Manager for BI and Analytic Applications in Europe for IDC, provides an overview of a recent survey entitled "Active Information in Europe." Then Martin Willcox of Teradata explains why there isn't more pervasive use of active infor Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Analytics is a Key Driver for Success Dr. Michael Benz, Senior Consultant of Teradata describes his role at Teradata and then looks at the challenges facing the automotive industry. He then explains why analytics is a key driver for success and how Teradata can help the automotive industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Cresse, CloverETL Peter Cresse explains how CloverETL is a robust, high performance and highly scalable ETL platform that allows users to execute data processing tasks on a standalone laptop just as comfortably as on a cluster of high performance servers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Data Governance from the Ground Up: A Case Study This article describes the data governance efforts of a Midwestern furniture manufacturer. This manufacturer turned to data governance because they could not afford to tolerate the waste and frustration of data quality issues that were eroding their abili Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Vogel, Calpont Jeff Vogel discusses how InfiniDB enables organizations of every size to extract and leverage the value of their data asset. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reflections on Identity and Master Data Management Identity is one particular problem in master data management (MDM). Actually, it is one of the key problems that MDM is trying to solve. But just what is identity, and why is it so difficult? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Good Reading: Analytics at Work Richard Herschel reviews Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions Better Results by Thomas Davenport, Jeanne Harris, and Robert Morison. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence 2.0: Are We There Yet? Greg Nelson outlines what should be contained in the next chapter of innovation for business intelligence, analytics and data integration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why is Extensibility Important to BI Users? Mike Psenka, Founder, President and CEO of eThority, discusses extensibility and why extensibility is important for business intelligence users. He also explains how their user-obvious interface can be used to leverage extensibility. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Including Unstructured Text in the Data Warehouse Bill Inmon examines the value of unstructured text for businesses today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cleaning Structured Transaction-Based Data Bill Inmon compares the task of cleaning structured transaction-based data to that of sweeping sand in a beach house – it's a losing proposition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Application Contexts for Data Profiling The review of some basic application contexts in which profiling plays a part, says David Loshin, will ultimately help to demonstrate how a collection of relatively straightforward analytic techniques can be combined to shed light on the fundamental persp Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emerging Business Intelligence Opportunity – Mobilizing the Federal Workforce The focus of this article is the move to “mobilize” the Federal workforce and redefine where it does its work. Workforce and workplace mobilization will create significant new opportunities for business intelligence providers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Partnerships Don't Work - Or Do They? Developing a partnership strategy is a critical concern for any company. Key to its formulation is an understanding of why partnerships make sense and under what circumstances they should be pursued. Understanding the context for developing a partnership Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An IT Progression Bill Inmon takes a look at the amazing transformations IT has undergone since the 1960s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Performance Trade-Offs - Joins vs. Storage Chuck Kelley's hypothesis is that landing data on disk (and hence requiring more space) may be worth the added cost based on being able to build the data warehouses and data marts faster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March BeyePERSPECTIVE Topics: BI/DW vendor consolidation and the future of the enterprise data warehouse Description: Interactive panel discussion on some recent vendor consolidation (Oracle/ Silver Creek, Informatica/Siperian, IBM/Initiate Systems, SAP’s management change) and how disruptive technologies are impacting the data warehouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Performance Management in 2010, Part 4 Craig Schiff describes some of the ways that the long-term costs of performance management can be minimized. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sid Probstein, Attivio Sid Probstein discusses how Attivio’s Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) delivers the on-demand insight that is critical to the success of your business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reinventing Business: Enterprise Data Warehouse Business Opportunities for Manufacturing, Part 1 This series of 12 articles by Allen Messerli describes an enterprise data warehouse and how it can be used to run the business, and quantifies dramatic business improvement potentials for the manufacturing industry. Part 1 begins with an overview of the s Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website And a Sawyer Takes the Pot Bill Inmon contradicts the flawed logic of the corporate bully. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Burton, Infobright Mark Burton discusses how Infobright’s high performance analytic database delivers fast query performance against large volumes of data with minimal administrative effort and no manual tuning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Business Intelligence to Enterprise IT Architecture, Part 1 The boundaries between operational and informational computing are becoming increasingly blurred. This series of articles explores the business and technological drivers for this change and its far-reaching implications for architects, developers and vend Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sales Performance Management: TARP Restrictions May Affect Salespeople at Non-TARP Companies The effect of TARP restrictions will be far ranging, affecting salespeople in many industries, whether or not their companies have accepted government monies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Does It Mean to “Govern Data ”? In order to have an effective data governance program, it is necessary to understand exactly what it means to govern data, and Robert S. Seiner provides an overview of the most important aspects of governing data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is Corporate Data? Bill Inmon delineates the characteristics of corporate data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Master Data Management: Moving Forward David Loshin provides an insightful look at the master data management (MDM) market, specifically Talend’s recent product announcement and the acquisitions by Informatica and IBM. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arshad Hussain, Open Text Arshad Hussain discusses how the Open Text Integration Center offers a data and content integration platform that unifies information silos that cross application boundaries, consolidating and transforming data and content throughout the entire informatio Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Eve of Composite Turns the Table on Ron Powell of the BeyeNETWORK Bob Eve, Vice President of Marketing at Composite Software, shares why Composite was so successful in 2009. Then Bob "turns the table" on Ron Powell, Cofounder and Editorial Director of the BeyeNETWORK, and interviews Ron about why thousands of business i Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flash-Memory Based Appliance and the Future of Business Intelligence Barry Zane, CTO of ParAccel, explains how their flash-memory based appliance with an ultra-performance configuration can be 15 times faster than traditional storage and describes the environments and applications that are a good fit for this kind of perfo Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “Appliantizing” Complex Analytics for Big Data Phil Francisco, Vice President of Product Marketing at Netezza, talks about the company’s increased focus on analytics, their partnership with SAS, and what businesses need to know about Netezza’s strategy to “appliantize complex analytics for big data.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Recent MDM Acquisitions, Data Governance, the Kalido Information Engine and Kalido KONA Information Appliance John Evans, Director of Product Marketing for Kalido, provides his take on the recent acquisitions in the master data management (MDM) space, explains how Kalido supports data governance, provides an overview of the latest release of the Kalido Informatio Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Data Management Platform Tony Fisher, President and CEO of DataFlux, explains why their new Data Management Platform is unique and describes the business problems the Platform can address. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Analytic Appliances Richard Nieset, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Kickfire, describes how the Kickfire analytic appliance differs from others in the market. He also talks about their recently announced partnership with Rackspace and what that partnership means fo Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Customer Adoption and Use of WhereScape Mark Budzinski, Vice President and General Manager of WhereScape USA, indicates that in spite of the down economy, WhereScape had a good year. He shares customer successes, and then explains how WhereScape RED and ETL tools can coexist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Implementing BI Apps Faster and Easier Jared Cornelius, Product Marketing Manager for Pentaho, talks about cost savings and the main reasons that organizations look to Pentaho. He also explains what Pentaho is doing to make BI applications faster and easier to get up and running and shares wha Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Executives Need to Know About Analytics Roger Llewellyn, CEO of Kognitio, looks at the issues companies face when considering analytics: Is it too hard? Too expensive? Should social media data be included? Are more companies realizing the benefits of data analytics/BI? Roger shares his insight Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CapGemini Helps with Smooth Transition When Adopting Technologies Stephen Harris, Senior Manager of Business Intelligence for CapGemini, explains how they assist companies when there are adopting technologies such as SAP Business Objects, and describes the challenges that companies face in the adoption process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Planning to Replace Current Primary Data Warehouse Platform? Vickie Farrell, Strategic Marketing Manager for HP’s BI Solutions business, talks about trends they’re seeing in 2010, advanced analytics and and why organizations may be considering replacing their current data warehousing platforms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Open Source Master Data Management (MDM) Yves de Montcheuil, Vice President of Marketing at Talend, explains why open source will help enterprises with master data management (MDM) projects and also shares his views on the consolidation that has taken place recently in the MDM space. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Analytics and Data Warehousing Dan Lahl, Director of Analytics for Sybase, talks about how Sybase IQ compares to a data warehouse appliance, describes how the Sybase IQ SMP architecture compares with the MPP architecture and then concludes by explaining how Sybase IQ fits into the over Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lyzasoft and the Convergence of Social Networking and Business Intelligence Scott Davis, CEO of Lyzasoft, shares Lyzasoft’s recent product announcement, talks about how Standard & Poor’s uses Lyza and then provides his perspective on the convergence of social networking and business intelligence (BI), including what is requir Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TDWI Best Practices TDWI has a Best Practices Report on unified data management (UDM) in the pipeline, and Philip Russom, Senior Manager of Research and Services at TDWI, describes UDM and how it is used by organizations today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teradata and SAS Address the Challenges of Advanced Business Analytics Rob Berman, Teradata Vice President, and Scott Van Valkenburgh, Director of Global Alliances at SAS, present the top challenges facing today’s business leaders trying to leverage advanced business analytics, and they describe the SAS and Teradata partners Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Extending the Scope and Reach of Business Intelligence, Part 1 Claudia Imhoff and Colin White provide an introduction to new and evolving technologies that enable companies to extend the scope as well as the reach of their business intelligence environments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doug Leupen, Entrinsik Doug Leupen discusses how Entrinsik's Informer Web Reporting software delivers true real-time access to multiple data sources simply and easily using a built-in Web-based query engine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reversing the High Costs of Poor Quality Information Larry English describes a six-step process for measuring and quantifying the costs of poor quality information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thin Air in the Ivory Tower According to David McCleary, relationship is the leader’s quintessential job. To flawlessly lead, leaders must do what they fight diligently to avoid: they must surrender. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rule of 151: How to Move Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence from Margin to Mainstream Ramon Barquin and Chris Coleman describe the three principles you need to follow if you are charged with introducing business intelligence or knowledge management to your organization. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marketing Business Intelligence Richard Herschel emphasizes that business intelligence should be described through success stories rather than through traditional definitions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Research Informatics: Infrastructure or Competitive Advantage? Greg Nelson looks at a few examples from clinical research and healthcare delivery environments and discusses how the creation of informatics environments can be positioned for value beyond just another IT infrastructure component. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First Person with Claudia Imhoff: Andre Boisevert Claudia talks with independent consultant and investor Andre Boisevert. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Performance Management in 2010, Part 3 Craig Schiff explores another challenge of business performance management: What will the system measure? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Data Governance, Your Metrics Facilitator Frank Dravis relates that if you find the questions that get asked often enough, you’ve found your key metrics. Determining the correct metrics is a core data governance function that helps establish the policy of what data to use in managing the business Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 2010 BeyePERSPECTIVE topics: Data delivery via 21st century devices, mobile BI and information visualization Overview: The panelists use the introduction of the iPad as a basis for discussing how this disruptive technology will affect mobile BI, dashboard technology and data visualization delivery to myriad users and multiple types of devices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daniel Heimlich, Netuitive Daniel Heimlich discusses how Netuitive’s Virtual Data Center solution reduces the risk of enter¬prise-level virtualization by providing the insight and analytics that allow you to proactively manage the performance of any service or application. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence: Identifying Profitable Niches Janet Kuster details why business intelligence is the tool your program managers need for visibility into your most profitable and unprofitable niches. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Coffing, Coffing Data Warehousing Tom Coffing explains how the Nexus allows business and technical users to integrate data across all databases. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Text Analytics Opportunities and Challenges for 2010 Based on interviews with various text analytics vendors, Seth Grimes provides the most important text-analytics technologies, solutions and market challenges for 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ermis Sfakiyanudis, eTelemetry Ermis Sfakiyanudis discusses how eTelemetry's products provide information leading to increased productivity, risk identification, reduced costs, greater E911 compliance, improved network efficiencies and insights into how people collaborate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are You Kidding Me? Bill Inmon is of the opinion that when it comes to software, you can have inexpensive or you can have complete, but you can't have both. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Requirements of the Data Delivery Platform To avoid confusion and misconceptions with respect to the data delivery platform (DDP), Rick van der Lans lists the minimum requirements of a DDP-based business intelligence system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Cunningham, Indicee Mark Cunningham discusses how Indicee provides a faster way to create reports, for people who are frustrated with cutting and pasting data into spreadsheets - users with no IT expertise, can combine data and set up reports in minutes by accessing Indicee’ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Climate Change for Business Intelligence Leaders and Sponsors Maureen Clarry emphasizes that creating a climate of urgency and combating complacency are key success factors for true leadership. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Role of Business Intelligence as a Business Enabler Lyndsay Wise takes a look into the future of progressive business intelligence use. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sales and Marketing: Web 2.0 New York Revenue models are circling and will land shortly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Corporate Data: A Brief History Bill Inmon considers the role corporate data plays in making appropriate and timely decisions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social Media, Content, Structure and Wagging the Long Tail David Loshin questions whether or not social media data has anything to contribute to business analytics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Come and Get It! Making Business Intelligence More Consumable, Part 4 Claudia Imhoff and Colin White conclude their 4-part series with this article that discusses a maturity model for evolving your current business intelligence environment to one that promotes and sustains information workers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Relevance The recession, says Bill Inmon, may be the impetus technicians need to become relevant to their business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Definition of the Data Delivery Platform Rick van der Lans proposes an initial definition for the business intelligence architecture called the data delivery platform, explains its functionality and compares it to the corporate information factory and the data warehouse bus architecture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ram Mohan, FusionOps Ram Mohan discusses how FusionOps provides on-demand enterprise performance solutions that enable manufacturing companies to get immediate visibility into business performance and improve business performance through intelligent business process managemen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Enhancing Your Enterprise Reporting Arsenal with Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) Formerly available only to sophisticated developers, explain Matt Caton and Steve Dine, MDX allows developers to satisfy a wider range of report requirements and utilize multidimensional sources for more than just ad hoc analysis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence – Repositioning Information in the Organizational Psyche Nancy Williams emphasizes that achieving true business intelligence (BI) requires a significant organizational paradigm shift, and she explains how organizations that are BI leaders differ from other organizations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Importance of Being Accurate – Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting: A Critical Business Process Whether an organization is looking to create a performance management framework or if one already exists, Chris Colvin identifies changes that will improve the efficiency of the performance management team and enable organizations to react more quickly as Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesse Davis, Progress DataDirect Jesse Davis discusses how Progress DataDirect Connect family of database drivers and providers with Bulk Load improves and expands upon current methods for inserting mass amounts of data into a database as quickly as possible. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Improve Top Line Revenue with the Right Customer Risk Analysis: Rethinking Customer Profiling after the Recession Christina Rouse and Janet Kuster explain that it is possible for companies to profit despite the recent recession. They provide guidelines to follow as you evaluate your options. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 2009 BeyePERSPECTIVE Topic: BI in Healthcare Panelists discuss how BI can influence healthcare reform and improve the quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of patient care; describe the current state of BI in healthcare and elaborate on the solutions that traditional BI tools could provide to curre Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ken Bero, Datawatch Ken Bero discusses how Monarch V10.5 allows users the ability to create and export Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets containing the original source of the data—eliminating spreadsheet-induced uncertainty, reducing the audit cycle and easing compliance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DAMA Bill Inmon shares his concerns about the future of data administration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence: The Trinity of User Adoption The most consistent way to find a solid ROI for your business intelligence program is to have a solid base of users using the tool for everyday business decisions. Laura Madsen explains the importance ease of use, training and trust as components of your Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Promise of Free Business Intelligence Free business intelligence solutions may provide organizations with an easy entry point to business intelligence analytics and more data visibility, while giving vendors the advantage of a potential increase in market share. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony Agresta, Centrifuge Systems Tony Agresta discusses how Centrifuge provides technology that falls into the next generation BI category - Centrifuge's form of BI is called Interactive Analytics which is composed of three key components: interactive data visualization, unified data Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What the Healthcare Reform Effort Needs is Better Business Intelligence Decision making in health reform, as in so many other areas, will depend on how we can inform ourselves and our lawmakers about the facts. Dr. Barquin emphatically states that business intelligence tools and techniques need to be applied to this critical Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sergei Ananyan, Megaputer Intelligence Sergei Ananyan discusses how the Megaputer flagship text and data mining platform PolyAnalyst provides the foundation for a rapid development of custom analytic solutions addressing important business tasks in various application domains. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Tale of Two People Bill Inmon notes that one of the lessons to be learned from the recession is that people aligned with the business, as opposed to a technology, are more likely to be considered essential when a company is forced to make difficult layoff decisions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sales and Marketing: Feeling Frugal Larry Goldman looks at web analytics and social media, describing free analytical tools for measuring online activity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Lokken, WhiteCloud Analytics Bob Lokken discusses how WhiteCloud Analytics focuses on BI services and solutions for hospitals and health systems that span clinical, financial and operational systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Operational Business Intelligence by Accident Operational business intelligence should not be that complicated, says Rick van der Lans, provided that the correct architecture is set up for the data warehouse environment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Developing Capabilities in Agile Business Intelligence Organizations If you proactively lead the development of skills in your team by creating challenging work and enhancing skills, you will directly influence retention and job satisfaction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Geoffrey P. Malafsky, Phasic Systems Inc Geoffrey Malafsky discusses how DataStar is an integrated governance, quality, analytics and SOA services data management system - that simplifies MDM, streamlines semantic data quality and integration and produces trustworthy & accurate authoritative Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sachin Chawla of Oracle on Acquisition of GoldenGate Software Summary: Sachin Chawla, VP of Development for Oracle talks about the drivers behind Oracle’s acquisition of GoldenGate Software and how it fits into existing Oracle data integration products. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Irem Radzik of Oracle on Real-Time BI with Oracle GoldenGate Irem Radzik, Director of Product Marketing talks about Oracle’s recently acquired product for real-time data integration, Oracle GoldenGate. She discusses the key reasons for implementing real-time BI solutions and provides customer examples. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ryan Sauve, BI Builders Ryan Sauve shares some successful applications of business intelligence, and sage advice on building a BI practice and avoiding pitfalls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bruce Williams, Software AG Bruce Williams discusses the rise of the process paradigm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Modern Gothic Tale Moving from one release of VB.NET to another can be a huge challenge. Bill Inmon recounts his recent experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Customer Analytics The starting point for a customer analytics program, says David Loshin, should focus on four conceptual value areas: decreasing costs, increasing revenue, maximizing productivity and establishing trust. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Come and Get it! Making Business Intelligence More Consumable, Part 3 Recent innovations in six areas of technology can significantly impact the overall business intelligence deployments in terms of performance, scalability and low cost. Claudia Imhoff and Colin White provide a guide to help you understand how these advance Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Logical Arguments and Business Intelligence Richard Herschel uses the Toulmin Model of Argumentation (or Toulmin Logic) to frame business intelligence arguments to insure that they are being made in a logical manner. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Last Mile in Data Governance The effectiveness of every data governance and stewardship initiative rests on the entire organization’s awareness and willingness to help. Frank Dravis explains why every data governance initiative requires a public relations and education component. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Staples, MindTree Scott Staples explains how MindTree’s Knowledge Services business provides a one-stop-shop for all of their clients' data-specific needs including data management, data services, analytics and business intelligence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 2009 show topics: BI high and low points for the year, self-service BI, the impact of data virtualization and eCommerce during this holiday season The panelists engage in a lively discussion of current trends in BI, whether self-service BI is a myth or a reality, ways to use data virtualization to improve data warehouse effectiveness and the reasons for an increase in online shopping (as well as car Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website For Text Data Quality, Focus on Sources Seth Grimes discusses emerging best practices for selection and processing of text sources that can lead to better text data quality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Performance Management in 2010, Part 1 Business performance management, which uses business intelligence tools to convert data from transactional systems into meaningful and actionable information, is expanding beyond its core foundation into management reporting, predictive analytics, profita Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Billy Bosworth, Quest Software Billy Bosworth explains how Toad for Data Analysts is a multi-platform database tool for IT and business professionals who need to gather, investigate and report on data directly from almost any database or data source. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Five Steps to Keep an Organization from Fumbling Its Analytics Implementation Royce Bell explains that organizations that can effectively address the five concerns addressed in this article and get to the point of having real-time analytic data drive their decision making will, as a result, make better and more timely decisions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clive Humby: Chairman of dunnhumby talks about SAND Technology Clive Humby, Chairman and Co-founder of dunnhumby, talks about using SAND Technology for retail analytics on 350 million customers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Compliance and the Recession Basel II, says Bill Inmon, put to proper use, may have alerted banks to the subprime mortgage crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cultural Preparation and Adoption of a New Sales Performance Management System Doesn’t Happen by Chance The implementation of a new sales performance management system is monumental, and it is best to take some time at the onset of the process to prepare your organization for the change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What a Data Warehouse is Not What IS a data warehouse? Once and for all, Bill Inmon hopes to set the record straight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Master Data Management Checklist #5: Data Quality Mechanics David Loshin reminds us that because master data management (MDM) is firmly rooted in data quality techniques, it is necessary to arm yourselves with the most appropriate tools for the job. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Come and Get it! Making Business Intelligence More Consumable Business intelligence (BI) users are faced with problems on a scale hardly imagined just a few years ago. Responding to these problems requires an understanding of who the information workers are, what technologies work best for them and how to change their BI environments. In this first part of a three-part series, Claudia Imhoff and Colin White describe the history of information workers and discuss their characteristics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rami Ghandour, Industry Intelligence Inc. Rami Ghandour explains how Industry Intelligence delivers must-have information to people and businesses when and where they need it, resulting in increased corporate profitability and optimizeddecision-making. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tracking the Elusive Key Performance Indicator Bill Inmon gives the reasons for key performance indicator (KPI) restlessness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cloud Computing for the Enterprise In Cyrus Golkar's interview with Chet Kapoor, Kapoor insists that now is the time for cloud computing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ed Dupee of Teradata Ed Dupee, Vice President, Global Industry Solutions at Teradata, recounts the key areas that retailers should pay attention to in this economy and describes the types of technology that retailers are leveraging or should leverage to support these areas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peeter Kivestu of Teradata Peeter Kivestu, Global Industry Solutions, Travel, Transportation & Government at Teradata, describes event-based marketing (EBM) and why it is used in the travel industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ernie Loomis of Teradata Ernie Loomis, Director - Industry Logical Data Models at Teradata, explains the "LDM Unification" project and what it means for LDM subscribers and for new LDM clients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Barrett of Teradata Paul Barrett, Director of Global Industry Solutions at Teradata, examines the importance and the value proposition of integrating online and offline data. He also shares what Teradata is investing in this space. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bijan Olfati of Teradata The biggest challenges facing risk and finance officers today are described by Bijan Olfati, Program Director - Capital Markets and Compliance, Teradata Global Industry Solutions. Bijan also offers advice on how capital markets firms can best position themselves to meet new regulations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rebecca Bucnis of Teradata and Malcolm Duckett of Speed-Trap Rebecca Bucnis, Program Director of Customer Management Solutions of Teradata, explains that today consumers are really interactive and because of that there is a great opportunity to learn and see so much more about consumers in order to truly understand them. Malcolm Duckett, Vice President of Marketing at Speed-Trap, explains how the web and real-time web data really help build a true 360-degree view of the customer in order to market to them more effectively. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Linda Crow of Hallmark Cards, Inc. Linda Crow, Senior Applications Analyst at Hallmark Cards, Inc., shares how they combine Teradata Customer Management (CRM) with their Teradata warehouse and print on demand technology for their consumer marketing efforts. She also describes the benefits they've received. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rebecca Bucnis of Teradata and Christian Howes of Webtrends Rebecca Bucnis, Program Director of Customer Management Solutions for Teradata, explains why Teradata is so focused on web intelligence, and Christian Howes, Digital Solutions Architect for Webtrends, provides examples of how customers have effectively used the offering from Teradata and Webtrends to be able to take advantage of the wide range of digital information now available. They both provide insightful commentary on what we can expect in the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Easy Way for Mid-Market Companies to Get into the Business Intelligence Game Lyndsay Wise looks at the proliferation of dashboard use and the concept of using dashboards as a bridge between operational solutions and insight into business practices and data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Practical Approaches to Data Quality Management in Business Intelligence and Performance Management John Thuma explains how fixing data quality at the source will enable businesses to grow, scale and reduce risk. Data quality management also means fewer silos, less reliance on expensive human talent and much less uncertainty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yves de Montcheuil, Talend Yves de Montcheuil discusses how Talend's master data management solutions provide organizations with the ability to define and maintain a "single version of the truth" for all their mission-critical reference data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Barsch and Ashar Naseer of Teradata Paul Barsch, Global Services Marketing at Teradata, and Ashar Naseer, Solution Sales Manager at Terdata, explain managed services and describe how Teradata differs from other managed services providers. They also share stories of innovative solutions from Teradata customers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Budzinski of WhereScape USA and Dan Mosher of United Rentals Mark Budzinski, Vice President and General Manager at WhereScape USA, talks about the value proposition that WhereScape RED brings to the data warehouse development process. Dan Mosher, Director of Enterprise Data Warehousing at United Rentals, describes the primary business drives of their data warehouse development efforts and explains how they have benefitted from using WhereScape RED. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Moore of Teradata Greg Moore, Solution Director of Demand & Supply Chain Solutions at Teradata, talks about why demand and supply chain management is so critical for retailers given the current economic situation. Greg also describes time-phased replenishment and how Teradata supports retailers in managing this activity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Todd Osborne of Sun Microsystems Todd Osborne, Director of Systems OEM Sales at Sun Microsystems, explains the BAR zone and the role Sun Microsytems has with BAR. He also talks about the innovative storage technologies that Sun is working on and about Sun's relationship with Teradata. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Goul from Arizona State University Michael Goul, Professor at Arizona State University, shares how Teradata University Network plays a role in preparing the next generation of business intelligence analysts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Eades of Symantec Jim Eades, Senior Account Manager at Symantec, addresses the question of why the leaders in data warehousing and data protection (Symantec/Veritas) are teaming up and explains the advanced data protection capabilities that Symantec and Teradata/BAR deliver. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dave Schrader from Teradata Dave Schrader, Director of Marketing and Strategy at Teradata, shares new stories about customers who are "going active" using Teradata. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ron Swift of Teradata Ron Swift, VP of Industry Solutions at Teradata, talks about what companies are doing with business intelligence and provides specific case examples that drive greater profitability, stability or customer retention. Ron also explains the FOUR "C's" and why they are priorities for companies today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Redington and Neil Thomson of Microgen Martin Redington, Director of Microgen, and Neil Thomson, CTO of Microgen, explain the business problems that Microgen helps it customers solve. They explain the concept of an accounting hub and also describe how their customers benefit from Microgen Aptitude. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lance Miller and Gary Richard of Terdata Lance Miller, Vice President of Global Services Marketing at Teradata, and Gary Richard, Senior Solution Architect at Teradata, explain the small system elements of the Teradata product family and describe the types of companies that successfully use these products. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aaron Raines of Teradata Aaron Raines, Program Director of Global Industry Solutions at Teradata, describes Teradata's recently announced demand chain software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering. He also talks about Teradata's partnership with Silk Route Global and the key benefits customers could expect from deploying a DCM SaaS model. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marc Rueter of Tableau Marc Rueter, Director of Consulting at Tableau, explains how Tableau helps DBAs and IT staff leverage their Teradata investment, and he describes what is required to deploy Tableau. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Malcolm Duckett of Speed-Trap Malcolm Duckett, Vice President of Marketing at Speed-Trap, shares a typical example of a Speed-Trap and Teradata solution and explains the key benefits customers can realize from such joint solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monica Smith of Teradata Monica Smith, Senior Program Director of Global Industry Solutions for Government at Teradata, shares why analytics are so important for global governments today, and she provides examples of how Teradata is assisting government agencies and departments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julianna DeLua of Informatica Julianna DeLua, Enterprise Solutions Manager at Informatica, talks about what Informatica does for master data management (MDM) and enterprise data warehousing. She provides a customer example and describes the key success factors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barb Wixom from the University of Virginia Barb Wixom, Associate Professor at University of Virginia, gives an update on the Teradata University Network and talks about the upcoming BI Congress. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don Murray of Safe Software Inc. Don Murray, President of Safe Software, provides an overview of the company and its solutions. He also explains how their approach differs from the approaches of other software companies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Johnson of Attensity Corporation Jeff Johnson, Vice President, Americas at Attensity Corporation, describes the value that Attensity's partnership with Teradata brings to the market and provides a deployment example of a joint Teradata/Attensity solution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shaun Connolly of Teradata Shaun Connolly, Program Director of Global Industry Solutions at Teradata, talks about the importance of customer data integration (CDI) and the CDI component of Teradata's master data management solution. In addition, Shaun explains why CDI is so important and looks specifically at the transportation industry's need for CDI. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ashish Verma of Deloitte Consulting Ashish Verma, Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting, provides an overview of Deloitte Consulting and talks about the areas where Deloitte is collaborating with Teradata. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jane Griffin of Deloitte Consulting Jane Griffin, Principal and Information Management Service Line Leader at Deloitte Consulting, talks about data warehousing and business intelligence challenges, and she describes the key benefits customers can realize from joint Deloitte Consulting/Teradata solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daniel Teachey of DataFlux Daniel Teachey, Senior Director of Marketing for DataFlux, discusses the changes he has seen at DataFlux and at the IDEAS events over the years, and the marketing impact of the new data quality and data integration platform that is on the horizon for DataFlux. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bruce McIndoe and Richard Murnane of iJET International Bruce McIndoe, President, and Richard Murnane, Manager of Enterprise Data Operations, of iJET International share their thoughts on data management trends and challenges. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Master Data Management and the Challenge of Reality Malcolm Chisholm reminds us that records cannot be created in the absence of governance with the expectation that theycan be matched up later. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony Fisher of DataFlux The most exciting developments in the marketplace today are described by Tony Fisher, President and CEO of DataFlux. Tony also talks about what the upcoming Unity product release means for DataFlux and its customers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Allen of Sun Microsystems Mark Allen, Program Manager and Customer Data Steward at Sun Microsystems, describes the key business drivers for using DataFlux at Sun. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Gidley of DataFlux Scott Gidley, Senior Director of Research and Development at DataFlux, reveals the most impressive change that he's witnessed since he co-founded the company. He also describes Project Unity and explains why it gives DataFlux a competitive advantage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frank Jaschinski of PPL Frank Jaschinski, Director of IT at PPL, explains how PPL works with DataFlux, and he describes the most challenging aspect of rolling out a data management strategy for customers today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Katie Fabiszak of DataFlux Katie Fabiszak, Vice President of Marketing at DataFlux, shares customer success stories and explains why DataFlux has become the leader in data quality and data integration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joyce Norris-Montanari of DBTech Solutions Joyce Norris-Montanari, President of DBTech Solutions, discusses the effect of the economic downturn on software purchases and shares her specific approach to helping customers find a solution to satisfy their requirements. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gwen Thomas of The Data Governance Institute Gwen Thomas, President of The Data Governance Institute, talks about the next big technology trend taking place in data governance and shares how to solve data governance challenges. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Abernethy, Strategy Companion Corporation Bob Abernethy discusses how Analyzer is a proven solution for large-scale, enterprise-wide mission-critical BI deployments, and unlocks the value of SQL Server's Analysis Services OLAP engine,making the cubed data easily accessible to non-technical business users and greatly increasing its value to the organization. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Extremes of Web Analytics: From Google to BAM and Business Intelligence In this article, Colin White reviews technologies and tools for producing web analytics and looks at how these analytics can be integrated into the enterprise business intelligence environment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elad Israeli, SiSense Elad Israeli discusses how SiSense's flagship product, PrismCubed, is a BI platform that can be used by non-programmers to create any type of report, dashboard or analysis in days, rather than months. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Textual Discovery and Textual Analysis Bill Inmon discusses the symbiotic relationship between textual discovery and analysis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Fout, Aquilent David Fout discusses how Aquilent delivers Web-based solutions for the federal government. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Healthcare Electronic Records Technology and Government Funding: Improving Patient Care? To be sure, the adoption of electronic health records systems isn't a cure-all for the healthcare industry's ills. The up-front costs of adoption are significant and there is risk of failure. However, Sue Hildreth points out that adoption of this technology does have the potential to significantly reduce paperwork and administrative overhead, as well as the cost of housing massive paper archives, and it can improve the speed and accuracy of medical care. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roger Llewellyn, Kognitio Roger Llewellyn discusses how Kognitio develops WX2 - a scalable, software-only, in-memory, analytical database that is ideal for high-speed data analytics and data warehousing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 2009 Show Topics: The SPSS and GoldenGate acquisitions, Netezza's TwinFin and stories about Cloud Computing The experts talked about two recent purchases in the industry: GoldenGate by Oracle and SPSS by IBM. They also discuss whether Netezza's TwinFin is a game-changing product and talk about companies who are using cloud computing technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Measuring Intangibles: Breaking Down Analytic Barriers Often, companies measure what is easy to measure rather than what is really needed for effective analytics. Dave Wells provides a comprehensive explanation of why it is necessary to change the focus from measuring outcomes to measuring influences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 2-Month Data Model Bill Inmon reminds us that the construction of a data model does not have to be a lengthy and costly process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arvind Handu, Datavibes, Inc. Arvind Handu discusses how Datavibes is a business intelligence and analytics consulting firm that has helps companies leverage their data assets for making insightful and fact-based decisions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In-Store Video Business Intelligence for Casinos/Resorts Al Cordoba describes the myriad of ways that an in-store business intelligence and decision support system can provide an open, flexible and future-proof system at a fraction of the cost of in-store observation studies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nate Coate, Key Performance Ideas Nate Coate discusses how Key Peformance Ideas, can help you create and realize a vision of how EPM and BI technology solutions can help you better understand and operate your business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ron Hildebrandt, Enkata Ron Hildebrandt explains how Enkata strives to help companies maximize the value of every customer contact. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Steven Armentrout, Parabon Computation Dr. Steven Armentrout discusses how the Frontier Grid Platform aggregates the computational capacity of existing IT resources and delivers it as a flexible and scalable utility service. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Information Quality Management as a Business Management Tool Larry English reminds us that learning and applying the principles with the proven quality management tools described in this article will enable your enterprise to begin the transformation to an effective - and sustainable - information quality culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence and Decision-Making Issues Richard Herschel explains that despite the business intelligence goal of evidenced-based decision making, the deck can be stacked against it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Drew Rockwell, Martin Dawes Analytics Drew Rockwell discusses how Martin Dawes Analytics delivers data analytic software to help their customers generate increased cash from their internal operations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Database Technology for the Web: Part 3 - Hadoop In his continuing series on database technology for the Web, Colin White looks at Hadoop, concluding that while it is not an alternative to a relational DBMS for many enterprise applications, it is useful for certain specialized data-intensive applications that relational DBMSs may not be able to handle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence Team Structure Phase Alignment One of the keys to success in delivering a complex business intelligence solution is to have the right people with the right mix of skills, experience and capabilities at the appropriate times in the engagement life cycle. Todd Saunders provides tips for getting the right team in place. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Francis Carden, OpenSpan Francis explains how OpenSpan enables enterprises to improve visibility and control over business processes that span one or more desktop applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Catterall, Catterall Consulting Robert Catterall discusses how Catterall Consulting is focused on one overarching goal: to help organizations effectively leverage DB2 technology to achieve business objectives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Specific and Generic Textual References Bill Inmon explains how with textual data, taxonomies are applied against raw text to create a structuring of data that serves to address the issues of terminology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Master Data Management Checklist #4: Data Governance The issues relating to oversight of data quality, says David Loshin, must be considered as a prerequisite to installing master data management software so that when you have begun to merge data sets, you are not surprised by the results. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stacy Hayes, DS3 DataVaulting Stacy Hayes discusses the term business continuity/disaster mitigation (BCDM), which encompasses a full range of data management capabilities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Incorporating Business Intelligence in the Cloud With the backdrop of today's tough economy, cloud computing is poised to change the economics of business intelligence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Cloud Computing Tsunami Cyrus Golkar looks at the impact of cloud computing and the associated effects on data centers, IT organizations, cloud computing organizations, software-as-a-service vendors, infrastructure vendors and application software vendors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gathering the Best Business Requirements to Help Ensure Business Intelligence Success, Part 2 Lyndsay Wise examines how mid-market companies can take advantage of internal business analysts, external consultants or vendor services. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Important Benchmark for Federal Knowledge Management Ramon Barquin describes how the Knowledge Management Conference has become the premier forum for knowledge management in the public sector. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matthew Busch, UC4 Software Inc. Matthew Busch discusses UC4 Software's complete workload automation solutions, unbeaten in breadth of infrastructure coverage and depth of application integration and supported by unparalleled 24x7 professional services worldwide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sales and Marketing: Trends in Media Larry Goldman writes about a recent conference where it was evident that innovative uses of customer information are starting to impress advertisers, and the ability to leverage Web 2.0 and benchmark your content against your competitors is a reality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Hartlen, Varicent Brian Hartlen explains how Varicent sales performance management delivers a single application that allows sales organizations to see how they are performing and being compensated - quickly, efficiently and accurately. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Book Review of The Data Model Resource Book Steve Hoberman reviews Volume 3 of The Data Model Resource Book series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introducing Principles-Based Data Governance A principles-based data governance approach will seek to replace poor existing principles with better ones and empower stakeholders to implement them without prescribing how it should be done. Malcolm Chisholm explains how this will avoid creating bureaucratic overhead and give the enterprise a reasonable way to implement effective data governance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Data Governance and Playing Whack-a-Mole Taking inspiration and lessons from the recent Data Governance Conference, Steve Palmer describes a few critical things that can be done to transform the data "mess" that exists in many organizations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joydeep Das, Sybase Joydeep Das discusses how Sybase IQ is a highly optimized analytics server designed specifically to deliver faster results for mission-critical business intelligence, data warehouse and reporting solutions on any standard hardware and operating systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Franz Aman, SAP Franz Aman explains how SAP BusinessObjects Explorer brings together search and navigation capabilities from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio with SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator software, enabling customers to navigate mountains of business data at the speed of thought and giving them a clear view across their organizations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Houle,Quantrix Chris Houle explains how the combined DataNAV and Quantrix Modeler solution represents a practical and easily deployed alternative to the widespread yet highly problematic practice of pairing of spreadsheets with BI tools for corporate business analysis and planning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Master Data Management Checklist #2: Organizational Preparation David Loshin's first checklist focused on identifying the business processes whose success was impeded by the absence of a unified view of master data, or that could be significantly improved by master data consolidation. This checklist centers on readying the organization for MDM and socializing the concepts that accompany a transition to centrally managed corporate information resources. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Predicting the Future Bill Inmon reminds us that predicting the future is a very worthwhile activity if it can actually be done with any degree of accuracy, and he reviews the various approaches that can be used. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 2009 Show Topics: Growth in the BI industry, Business Analytics vs Business Intelligence, and a Summer Reading list The group comments on a recent Gartner report stating a 22% growth in business intelligence, explains the difference between business analytics and business intelligence and puts together a summer reading list. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Database Technology for the Web: Part 1 - The MapReduce Debate Colin White weighs in on the MapReduce debate, reviewing this technology and describing its pros and cons. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Donna Burbank, CA ERwin Donna Burbank explains how CA ERwin Data Modeler supports organizations in designing data models that support both high-level business needs and implementation-level database design and deployment on a wide range of platforms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sun's Open Business Analytics Solution This podcast focuses on focusing on some recent developments coming out of Sun, concerning hardware and open source software applications, targeting business intelligence and data warehousing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business and IT Communication Stumbling Blocks to Successful Business Intelligence Deployments Lyndsay Wise explains why the ability to communicate effectively with various departments within the organization is an important aspect to getting the most out of a business intelligence environment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cracking the Code: Capture, Analysis and Utilization of Customer Information Leslie Ament reminds us that use of marketing science and information analysis services has moved beyond a competitive advantage for companies that seek to grow aggressively. It has become necessary to stay in the game. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 7 Highly Elegant Business Intelligence Applications for Healthcare Payers Laura Madsen describes 7 ways that healthcare payers can use business intelligence to improve revenue, efficiency and process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Opitz, Altosoft Scott Opitz explains why Altosoft developed a business intelligence solution on the premise that there must be a better way for organizations to take advantage of their business data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Hammergren, Balanced Insight Tom Hammergren explains how Consensus allows customers to swiftly build the infrastructure to facilitate a productive dialog between business leaders and technical delivery personnel to connect users with information and accelerate the delivery of BI throughout the enterprise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Is So Different About Business Intelligence Today? Shaku Atre provides insight into why business intelligence is now a necessity, not a luxury. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pet Peeves Bill Inmon shares issues he has with software vendors and network reconfigurations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Rich, DataQualityFirst Inc. Robert Rich explains how PartyQualityInsight automatically transforms account data from across the enterprise into a customer centric view of who you do business with and the relationships between them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Performance Management in Turbulent Times John Colbert provides an overview of the results of BPM Partners' annual BPM Pulse Survey that monitored performance management market perceptions, strategic initiative interest and vendor satisfaction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Defining and Using Key Performance Drivers John Colbert describes how key performance indicators and key performance drivers enable organizations to make sound operational decisions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence Recipe for Success Steve Palmer emphasizes the importance of a well-coordinated collaborative approach for business intelligence implementation success. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Master Data Management Success Factors - A Checklist David Loshin begins a series of articles that will provide checklists that can be used to identify certain risk factors that may prevent the successful implementation of master data management. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website KPIs and Unstructured Data Bill Inmon explains how the issue of KPIs poses some real issues and challenges once unstructured data is introduced into the data warehouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence Realization: An Agile Answer Steve Palmer explains that the full benefits of business intelligence are often not realized by an enterprise, and he provides an insightful explanation for that failure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Enabling Collaboration Dr. Barquin looks at a recent paper by the National Academy of Public Administration and the implications it contains for business intelligence professionals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 7 Highly Elegant Business Intelligence Applications for Healthcare Providers Scott Wanless describes 7 business intelligence applications that add value at any time, in any economy, at any level of the organization, for any size or type of healthcare organization, and are visible and valuable across the organization. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Different Flavors of Design - The Data Vault Chuck Kelley provides a brief introduction to the data vault technique developed by Dan Linstedt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RFM: A Precursor to Data Mining Jim Stafford explains that RFM, business intelligence and data mining represent a common progression away from mass marketing as marketing efforts become more analytically based and targeted. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Different Kinds of Data Warehouses Bill Inmon explains that there are two basic kinds of data warehouses for text that has been passed through the textual ETL process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fixing a Broken Government in the Information Age Larry English describes why the federal government needs accurate, complete and timely information to identify root causes of defects and to improve business and information processes in order to work effectively. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overspending on Business Performance Management Craig Schiff describes the seemingly innocuous decisions that can cause companies to incur unnecessary costs when purchasing business performance management solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On-Demand Business Performance Management and Business Intelligence John Colbert provides a fresh look at on-demand solutions as an alternative to traditional deployment approaches for performance management and business intelligence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leading Change in Business Intelligence Maureen Clarry explains that the potential for adoption of business intelligence can be improved by using a framework to manage the people dimension of change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Flaws of the Classic Data Warehouse Architecture, Part 3 Rick van der Lans describes the relationship between the data delivery platform and ETL tools, EII tools, the virtual data warehouse and service-oriented architectures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mastering Data Management in Health and Life Sciences Greg Nelson outlines the benefits of a good master data management strategy, talks about the challenges that organizations have to overcome and concludes with a brief discussion on the ROI that is achievable if successful. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Happened to Understanding the Value of Data Quality? Lyndsay Wise emphasizes the importance of maintaining data quality in order to get to get the most value out of business intelligence solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inmon's Hierarchy of Needs for Information Technology, Part 2 Bill Inmon completes his series on Inmon's hierarchy of needs for information technology with a look at how the hierarchy of needs is evident in the attitudes and practices of the world of technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trends in SAP Business Warehousing Lou Agosta looks at firms with highly heterogeneous data, only a fraction of which is in SAP; at global firms with dozens and dozens of SAP instances; and at data warehouse appliance opportunities. His article discusses how these three trends play out in a SAP context. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Introduction to Lean Business Intelligence Steve Dine begins a series of articles on Lean Business Intelligence with this article that provides an introduction to how it can help deliver more value with existing resources. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Telecommunications: Recovery Driver or Luxury Expense? John Myers talks about where telecommunications falls on the "hierarchy" of needs in this economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sales Performance Management and How it Affects Your Bottom Line Susan Major discusses incentive compensation - one of the key elements that has a direct effect on the bottom line impact of sales revenue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inmon's Hierarchy of Needs for Information Technology, Part 1 Bill Inmon begins a discussion on Inmon's hierarchy of needs for information technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future Role of Business Intelligence within the Global Financial Community Michael Brooks looks at the recent financial crisis and suggests that we need a fundamental shift in the use of business intelligence that will allow us to react faster and anticipate changes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Now is the Time: An ROI for Business Intelligence Laura Madsen reviews the ROI analysis for business intelligence and provides tips on finding the hidden value of business intelligence (BI) in your organization, measuring the intangible aspects of BI, and positioning the discussion on value in the context of investment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Capability Model for Business Analytics, Part 1 Dave Wells explains a capability model is required to describe or quantify analytic capability in any meaningful way. This article, the first in a series, provides a top-level view of a capability model for business analytics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Market Outlook for Text Analytics Seth Grimes takes a broad look at the market outlook for text analytics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolution and Technology: Data Warehouse Infrastructure Bill Inmon discusses how the classical data warehouse infrastructure vendors have become "dinosaurs" by not following the traditional evolutionary path. 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Colin White explores closed-loop business intelligence and explains that effective decision making requires more than simply giving business users more information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Practical Steps for Small and Mid-Sized Companies Adopting Business Intelligence Lyndsay Wise offers suggestions about how mid-sized companies can get the ball rolling and embark on the road to a business intelligence environment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Cave Paintings to CNN: The Quest for Business Intelligence The way information is communicated in the 21st century has changed, and Steve Palmer recommends a new approach for delivering business intelligence solutions. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Growing Short-Term Business Intelligence Solutions into Long-Term Success In this article, Chris Colvin describes how organizations implement a long-term business intelligence solution that delivers ROI earlier in the development life cycle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Turning Point for Business Performance Management? Craig Schiff explains that lack of proper planning definitely impacts the chances of success - and may cause some to view business performance management negatively. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence New Team Member Orientation Todd Saunders provides advice for getting a new resource ramped up and productive as quickly as possible. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two Converging Trends for Software as a Service Business Intelligence Howard Baldwin and Leslie Ament investigate software-as-a-service business intelligence, including areas of most frequent usage, reasons for its popularity and its general flexibility. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adding the Environmental Context to Customer Analytics The industry examples Kenneth Levin provides in this article illustrate the importance of putting customer-level analysis in the context of the broader environment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Championing Business Intelligence Richard Herschel describes his latest project in his continuing campaign to better inform others about what business intelligence should be and the role it should perform in organizations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence in Health and Life Sciences Greg Nelson challenges us to start thinking differently about clever data presentation and create a clear path forward for bringing the intelligence back to health and life sciences and, ultimately, to improve time to decision. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Book Review: Advanced Data Warehouse Design Advanced Data Warehouse Design is a comprehensive theoretical work on data warehousing with several features that make it a must-have for students and practitioners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nonlinear Data Warehousing Metadata, master data, and correlation of data warehousing information are on the critical path to transforming data warehousing into a nonlinear approach to business intelligence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Flaws of the Classic Data Warehouse Architecture, Part 2 Part 1 of this series described and summarized the flaws of the classic data warehouse architecture with respect to demands and requirements. In this article, Rick van der Lans introduces a new architecture called the data delivery platform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Data Categorization Imperative Data categorization seems to be a path that data management professionals will be increasingly following in the coming years. Besides the utility of the approach, the fusion - at last - of conceptual and logical perspectives is especially satisfying. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One of Your Clinics is Not Like the Others Scott Wanless looks at the factors that determine clinic excellence, describes the tools that differentiate "beacon" clinics, and explains the role of business intelligence in replicating the successes of these clinics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sales Performance Management Susan Major describes the benefits of sales performance management (SPM) solutions and provides the top 10 questions to ask when evaluating SPM solution providers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence Pervasiveness (and is it Wise to Ignore those Shadow Spreadbasemarts?) David Loshin examines the business intelligence competency center and ubiquitous spreadbasemarts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Advantages of Mid-Market Business Intelligence Solutions Lyndsay Wise looks at how targeted mid-market solutions are now shifting toward the enterprise and how enterprise organizations are starting to apply these solutions to maximize performance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sales and Marketing: Analytics in the Cloud Larry Goldman discusses the various vendors providing SaaS models for business intelligence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Applying Real-Time Analytics to the Life Sciences Industry Mike Zubey outlines some of the business applications where real-time analytics can create greater business value for life sciences organizations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Elusive Virtual Data Warehouse Bill Inmon provides his opinion on virtual data warehouses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Green Technology Ecosystem This article provides a full end-to-end view of energy consumption, from the applications that drive your business to the power generation facilities supplying that energy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can Enterprise Data Warehousing and Master Data Management Projects Survive the Recession? The economic downturn is likely to have an impact on IT budgets, but there are a number of new directions IT can still take to benefit the business. Colin White explains how focusing on pragmatic development and data governance approaches will benefit all future enterprise projects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Assessing Analytic Packages for Enterprise Business Intelligence Stuart Mullins explains that determining if an analytics package is right for a particular organization requires careful consideration and understanding of the costs and benefits. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bayes and Business Intelligence, Part 3 Steve Miller interviews Brad Efron whose work on the bootstrap - now a staple in every statistician's tool chest - established his standing at the top of the statistical profession. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Passing the Stimulus Package and the Need for Business Intelligence Dr. Barquin writes about the need for robust business intelligence to assist in the process of helping the legislature make the right decisions on what, how and when it is going to spend the taxpayers' money. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "No Guts, No Glory" Product Launches in Telecom John Myers discusses how business intelligence can help address the challenges of new product/service launches during the current economic downturn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brickbats and Credibility Should the people who speak negatively about information architecture and the evolving nature of information systems be taken seriously? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Order Header/Detail in Star Schema Chuck Kelley provides an example of using the dimensional model technique to create the logical model. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Your Performance Management or Business Intelligence Platform - Is it Frozen in Time? Craig Schiff looks at how customers are impacted when a product they use is no longer offered by the vendor that provided it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The BI Survey 8 Nigel Pendse describes some of the trends uncovered in the analysis of results of The BI Survey 8. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Performance Management? Part 2 Craig Schiff examines the business benefits of performance dashboards/scorecards and operational optimization. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Analytics for Troubled Times Dave Wells explains that in this new and more difficult business climate, the questions are harder and the metrics need to be more robust. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Technical Trends Shaping Business Intelligence Richard Skriletz discusses several interesting trends that may alter the business intelligence landscape within the next three to five years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Assessing Your Business Intelligence Initiative Maureen Clarry explains why evaluating the effectiveness of your business intelligence initiative may be a wise strategy in the current economic climate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Book Review: Lou Agosta reviews Listening to the Future: Why It's Everybody's Business by Dan Rasmus with Rob Salkowitz. (Wiley Press, 2009) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Different Data Warehouses Bill Inmon takes a look at data warehousing across a variety of industries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Flaws of the Classic Data Warehouse Architecture, Part 1 Despite the fact that the classic data warehouse architecture has served us well the last twenty years, Rick van der Lans explains why it may be time for a new architecture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Normalization is Impractical for Master Data Master data tables seem to be particularly sensitive to the limits of normalization, and Malcolm Chisholm believes that a reflexive attachment to normalization can be counterproductive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Sample Graduate Business Intelligence Program Richard Herschel describes a graduate curriculum in business intelligence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canary Metrics - A New Thought Process Janet Kuster and Christina Rouse explain that canary metrics hold the best promise for recognizing a market disruption early, while an organization still has time to adjust its focus, minimize performance risk and exploit the market opportunity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Drivers and Master Data David Loshin suggests that when a technology that is touted as a general solution overwhelms the problem, it poses a risk to good practices in the important situations where the technology truly is the solution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website People Say the Darndest Things About Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Over the years, Bill Inmon has heard some of the strangest, and untrue, things about business intelligence, data warehousing and other technology topics. He sets the record straight in this article. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quality Must Be Designed In Jeff Pettit explains how to reap the benefits of highly productive data for years to come. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Correct Approach to "Data Correction" Larry English addresses common misconceptions about what constitutes information quality management. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Business Intelligence Options Exist in Tough Economic Times? Lyndsay Wise looks at ways to deploy business intelligence and analytics that do not break the bank, providing some alternatives to traditional deployments for organizations contemplating whether they should invest in business intelligence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Impact of the Obama Healthcare Agenda on Business Intelligence Laura Madsen looks at the new opportunities for business intelligence programs in healthcare, driven by President Obama's focus on healthcare. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Green Data Warehouse, Part 2 Rick Abbott presents a pragmatic list of actions you can take today to reduce energy consumption required to run your data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is Unstructured Data? Bill Inmon describes how the world of information processing is on the cusp of an entirely different kind of data and processing - unstructured data and processing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Analyzing and Governing Web Content Web-based content is a powerful source of information for business intelligence analytical processing, but organizations need to carefully select the types of content and technologies used, and need to have a pragmatic approach to governing this content. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sales and Marketing: Hosted Analytics Larry Goldman clarifies the confusion between hosted analytics, outsourced analytics and managed analytics and provides helpful advice for determining which is best for your organization. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Think Tanks and Business Intelligence Ramon Barquin looks at the role of think tanks, why we need more think tanks and why those think tanks need more and better business intelligence tools and programs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Data Cleansing The hard reality is that always problematic and often costly data anomalies do exist. Will Dwinnell explains why it is helpful to have a tool to automatically ferret out a substantial fraction of those anomalies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Business Intelligence Primer for Higher Education Christina Rouse and Janet Kuster describe four highlights of a higher education business intelligence (BI) initiative: getting to "institutional intelligence," application challenges for a typical business intelligence solution, scoping business intelligence deliverables, timeframes and cost, and sample dashboards for revenue and expense management. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fixed Price Contracts Bill Inmon tells why no developer should build a first data warehouse on a fixed-price basis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Performance Management? Part 1 Craig Schiff describes what companies are missing if they haven't implemented business performance management or have just focused on a narrow slice of performance management. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Measure Twice, Cut Once: A Case for More Effective Profit Optimization John Colbert looks at the question of how executives know whether their proposed staff reductions and plant closures will help the company be more competitive in the future, or if they are potentially lopping off productive and profitable parts of the business that have taken years of investment to flourish. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Becoming a Decision-Centric Organization James Taylor looks at monitoring and improving decision making by applying performance management techniques to decision-making results and processes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence is More than OLAP Richard Skriletz explains that it is important to break away from complete reliance on structured analytics in order to find new insights through unstructured analytics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence Team Life Cycle Maureen Clarry describes the six stages of team development and provides strategies for accelerating each phase. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Integrating a Single Data Element Over the years, people have questioned the process of data integration? Why is it so difficult? In this article, Inmon provides some answers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Data Warehousing Between a Rock and a Hard Place The position of this article is a skeptical one that data warehousing, e-discovery (email) and enterprise content (document) management will not converge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can You Really Manage What You Measure? The requirements for effective measurement are better understood, but no road maps can account for human perception. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Brief Review of Indicator and Flag Columns, Part 2 This final installment in a two-part series on indicators explains how they can represent metadata, or derived information. Understanding the nature of indicators and the different classes that compose them can be very helpful in overall data management in physical databases. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bayes and Business Intelligence, Part 2 Steve Milller discusses why prudent companies and business intelligence organizations should adapt and adopt Bayesian analytics as a core asset of their business intelligence portfolios. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence in Life Sciences: The Perfect Storm This article outlines the major trends in life sciences for 2009 and provides the business intelligence (BI) world with potential responses and solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence and Video Content, Part 2 Videos have the capacity to incorporate substantial and meaningful content that can impact decision making. Business intelligence efforts will need to be expanded to include activities that help organizations find, examine, exploit or even delete video content. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Hits, No Runs, No Errors Bill Inmon discusses the pros and cons of the various options for managing errors that are detected at the point of an ETL load. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taxonomies and Search: Master Categories? Does "search" change everything? Well, maybe some things...like business intelligence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence Data Analysis and Visualization: What's in a Name? Part 2 Colin White continues his discussion of data analysis and data visualization by taking a detailed look at how business intelligence is used in the decision-making process, and discussing where data analysis and data visualization fit into this process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Open Source Text Analytics Seth Grimes looks at the variety of available open source text technologies and provides a wealth of open source text analytics resources. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Redefining the Mid-Market and Its Business Intelligence Requirements This article explores whether mid-market business intelligence needs are being met by the solutions that are available. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Development Methodology: What's the Story? One of the great secrets of a successful methodology is that it focuses on what to do, not how to do it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Decision Support Project Management Dan Power describes the importance of project management for decision support systems and looks at the responsibilities of a decision support project manager. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canary Metrics, Part 1 This article, the first of a two-part series, introduces canary metrics and describes how they can provide early notices of challenges and opportunities for the business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collaborative Analytics - An Emerging Practice Dave Wells explains why the old model of business analysis is about to change and describes how collaborative analytics can increase visibility of important business facts and improve alignment of decisions and actions across the entire business. He also looks at the available technologies and the challenges of collaborative practices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Data Warehousing Around the World Bill Inmon looks at the differences and similarities of data warehouses in different parts of the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Green Data Warehouse "Green computing" is taking off in the IT world. Here's how to plan out a green computing strategy for your data warehouse initiative and measure actual results once implemented. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Answers to the Performance Management Year-End Quiz This article offers the correct answers to Craig Schiff's recent quiz, providing you with history and background that should be helpful for understanding performance management vendor offerings and direction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's Ahead for Performance Management in 2009? 2009 should be another great year for business performance management, the established vendors, consultants and, most importantly, the end users of performance management and business intelligence solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Telecom Process Business Intelligence - Doing Things Right? Or the Right Things? Analytical models and predictive analytics can provide great value in terms of the concept of operational business intelligence and process efficiency, but they must be applied properly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Competitive Advantage or Necessary to Compete? Leslie Ament recaps the research that led to the assessment that decision science and customer analysis will move from "competitive advantage" status to "necessary to compete" for the next decade. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Year's Resolutions for Business Intelligence Leadership and Management Maureen Clarry provides suggestions for setting realistic business intelligence resolutions for 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Intelligence and a Culture of Analysis Public sector agencies very often need to work at ensuring that their corporate cultures establish a high value on, and properly reward, a push toward analysis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Incremental Data Warehouse Development - The Only Way to Fly One of the bad pennies that just keeps coming back is the big-bang approach to data warehouse development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Data Warehousing in the Corporate Takeover, Merger or "Shotgun" Wedding Lou Agosta looks at how to leverage data warehousing in instances of corporate mergers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Brief Review of Indicator and Flag Columns Indicators and flags seem to be often passed over as rather simple, but they are worth thinking about. Because not a lot is written about indicator columns, Malcolm Chisholm shares his personal view of them based on his experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BeyePERSPECTIVE - October Show The October show of BeyePERSPECTIVE discusses the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP, the Teradata and SAS partnership and the increase of European companies in the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BeyePERSPECTIVE - November Show This month, the experts talked about the increase of offerings by individual vendors (does that mean the customer gets a one stop shop, or is just a lack of focus?), the acquisition of Cognos by IBM, and the resonance of the business performance management message. Listen in now! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BeyePERSPECTIVE - December Show This month’s panel discusses Barack Obama’s comment last month about electing a Chief Technology Officer to the country, Google breaking into the BI marketplace and predictions for next year in the business intelligence/data warehousing industry. Listen in now! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BeyePERSPECTIVE - January Show This month’s panel discusses 4 M&A’s that were announced in January. The experts weigh in on whether or not the BEA acquisition by Oracle will help or hurt their customers, if the purchase of MySQL by Sun Microsystems signals a transition into a Web 2.0 software company, the implication of SAP closing the Business Objects deal and what FAST’s fresh approach to data warehousing means to Microsoft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BeyePERSPECTIVE - February Show This month the experts discuss the results of the Gartner Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, the ways that CDI is getting mainstream attention (and more ways CDI could make a positive impact in our day to day lives) and Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo. Listen in now! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BeyePERSPECTIVE - March Show This month the experts discuss Gartners Top Ten Strategic Technologies for 2008, the TDWI analytics track and how the GIS presentations on television are changing the expectations of how viewers receive information on TV and in business. Listen in now! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BeyePERSPECTIVE - April Show The panel this month talks about why it appears that a possible recession doesn’t seem to be affecting the business intelligence market, the implications of on-demand BI to the IT department and the recently published top 10 trends from HP’s professional group. Listen in now! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BeyePERSPECTIVE - May Show Our experts engage in lively discussion about what companies need to do to keep up with the 4 BI giants; whether software as a service is fact, fiction or fantasy; and how Informatica's recent acquisition of Identity Systems impacts the data quality space. Listen in now! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BeyePERSPECTIVE - June Show This month, the experts discuss the trend of cloud computing, the business intelligence implication of Yahoo’s partnership and the political issues surrounding data governance. Listen in now! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BeyePERSPECTIVE - July Show This month, the panel discusses the impact of BI applications that go directly to wireless devices, the effect of broadening the scope of the data available for analysis and how they think that business intelligence can assist on "green" efforts. Listen in now! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BeyePERSPECTIVE - August Show This month, the experts dig into the latest at Microsoft: the acquisition of DATAllegro and Zoomix, the departure of Bill Baker – a well-respected and long-time member of the Microsoft team, and predictions for Microsoft in the data warehouse appliance and data quality markets. The panel also discusses software as a service as a way to get the midmarket involved in BI. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BeyePERSPECTIVE - September Show The experts divulge if they agreed with the rankings of the The Forrester Enterprise Business Intelligence Platform report, talk about how the new guidelines on mortgages, credit cards and loans are affected financial institution's ability to utilize operational business intelligence and some of the challenges businesses are facing in delivering information at the speed of business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BeyePERSPECTIVE - October Show The BeyePERSPECTIVE panel talks about the recent Claudia Imhoff/Colin White article in which they coin the term ‘decision intelligence’, discussing whether BI is too closely associated with DW and it should be replaced by a new term. The experts also discussed if technology has (rightly or wrongly) outpaced human oversight and if business intelligence could have prevented the financial crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BeyePERSPECTIVE - November Show This month, the BeyePERSPECTIVE panel discussed what they agreed and disagreed with on Michael Lombard's 2-part article on the 16 best practices for data governance. Additionally, the group gives their candid thoughts on the many organizations joining the financial industry at the "bail out" line, and the role can business intelligence play in the additional oversight that the current administration and the future administration will require. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ian Huckle, CEO, Business & Decision Ian Huckle explains that companies are relying more on BI than in the past based on the current economical situation – BI is allowing companies to make the correct investment decision based on their financial situation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BeyePERSPECTIVE - September Show The September show of BeyePERSPECTIVE discusses the recent acquisition of Longview, the launch of Microsoft's PerformancePoint Server, Cognos' purchase of Applix and controversy surrounding Wal-Mart's RFID mandate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frank Buytendijk, VP and Fellow for Enterprise Performance Management at Oracle Frank reviews his new book, Performance Leadership and explains how he compares corporate performance management organizational development styles to personal development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elliot McClements, EMEA Marketing and Alliance Manager for HP Elliot talks about HP's new business unit focusing exclusively on products and services for business intelligence solutions which is espcially important in the area of operational anaytics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sean Jackson, Vice President Marketing, Kognitio Sean explains how Kognitio provides high speed analytics in three ways: as software only, a data warehouse appliance or as a service. He explains the idea of data as a service and describes new seminars that Kognitio offers on the topic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Simon Holtz, European Commercial Services Director, and Feercrum Woodman, IT Director, at LMG LMG is a loyalty management company that created a new business based on the technology that was available to help them processes very large volumes of data rapidly. Simon and Feercrum shares their successful implementation story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dagmar Klausen, Cognos Solution Specialist Dagmar discusses Cognos performance management which answers the questions: How am I doing (dashboards)? What am I doing (analysis)? What will I do going forward (planning)? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cecile Mondrone, Marketing Products Manager at Talend Cecile stresses the advantages of open source technology and discusses the adoption rate of open source technologies within the enterprise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andy Bayless, Technology Director, SAND Technology Andy explains the term "data right sizing" that SAND is using to explain the concept of near-line data warehousing strategy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris McCallister, GoldenGate Senior Director of Product Marketing Chris introduces GoldenGate 10 which expands the databases they support and provides new information delivery mechanisms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Predictive Analytics in the U. S. Elections Ron Powell of the BeyeNETWORK discusses with Ken Strasma and Alexander Lundry how predictive analytics impacted the 2008 presidential election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Dutcher, Vice President of Product Marketing for SPSS Bob reflects on all of the consolidation in the business intelligence industry and describes how that has created a great opportunity for SPSS, one of the only real open analytic and data mining players. He explains why predictive analytics is becoming the glue that is holding organizations together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Omar Rois, Customer Analysis Manager for Digital +, an SPSS Customer Digital+ is the leading pay TV service in Spain, and Omar explains how they needed call center representatives to be able to access all the important information about customers such as their value to the company, their likes and dislikes, and their family status. He describes how Clementine is the perfect product to unlock those customer insights and shares how its use has benefited Digital+. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kristin Hackney, Vice President WW Strategic Accounts & Services for SPSS The current economy is causing more and more companies to look for competitive advantage, and Kristin describes how predictive analytics can provide that advantage. Additionally, she describes how North American businesses are realizing that they have to kick it up a notch with predictive analytics to match the global competitiveness that is already occurring in other parts of the world. Kristin concludes by describing how SPSS is helping companies effectively implement and benefit from pre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Erick Brethenoux, Vice President of Corporate Development for SPSS Erick comments on the "personal" component of analytics, relating how being able to understand customers and their opinions can enable an organization to impact their customers' purchase decisions. He describes that timing is a critical component, and he explains how companies can relate to their customers in real time and even create an opportunity from negative events or opinions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colin Shearer, Senior Vice President of Strategic Analytics at SPSS Colin describes the 4 quadrants of data that organizations have today: descriptive data, behavioral data, interaction data and attitudinal data. He explains why having all 4 of these within one analytical framework enables organizations to answer the different business questions that are critical today. He concludes with commentary on the analytical revolution – the need for all companies to have a predictive analytics infrastructure embedded within their organizations and how it ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Eve, Vice President of Marketing for Composite Software As we approach 2009, Robert Eve talks about the data integration trends they are seeing, how their customers are able to justify new technology purchases in these tighter times, and the new Composite Discovery Appliance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Philip Russom, Senior Manager of Research and Services for TDWI One of the major focus areas for the TDWI World Conference in New Orleans is master data management (MDM). Philip Russom provides the reasons for implementing MDM and discusses some of the challenges and benefits surrounding MDM. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John O'Brien, CTO of Dataupia How are the traditional database players reacting to a trend of innovation? John O'Brien addresses that topic as well as the value of a data warehouse during times of economic uncertainty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Piekos, Senior Director of Engineering for EasyAsk The author of a recent paper focusing on the importance of usability for BI users, John Piekos discusses key points from that paper and explains what EasyAsk has done to make data access, data analysis and data collaboration easier for users. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Rouse, Chief Architect for Clear Sight Analytics Institutions of higher education can benefit from business intelligence, and Chris Rouse explains the challenges and trends facing these institutions as they implement business intelligence solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lance Walter, Vice President of Marketing for Pentaho A quick overview of Pentaho is provided by Lance Walter. In addition, he explains where they are seeing the most growth and what we can expect from Pentaho in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nate Rhodes, Vice President of Corda Solutions After a brief overview of Corda Solutions, Nate delves into how Corda has evolved toward BPM. He also shares some best practices in BPM that they've learned along the way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rick Burns, Senior Consultant, Teradata Teradata recently introduced an expanded product family, and Rick Burns provides details about the products, including the new data warehouse appliance. He also comments on how competitors' recent announcements affect Teradata's position. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Thompson, CEO of US Operations at Kognitio John reveals the results of a survey Kognitio recently completed on concurrency in operational BI systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jose Morales, Vice President of Business Development for JasperSoft Jaspersoft has been adopted by many technology companies to add BI and reporting. Jose Morales comments on that and on the companies that have standardized on JasperSoft. He also talks about open source as a global phenomenon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Strong, Vice President of Field Operations for expressor software An update on the progress expressor software has been making with its early adopter program is provided by John Strong, who also explains what’s new and different about expressor and describes how customers are using the expressor product. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Seiner, Publisher of The Data Administration Newsletter and President & Principal Consultant of KIK Consulting & Educational Services Bob Seiner recaps the 12 year history of TDAN.com, explaining how the publication got started, how it has evolved and what the future holds. He also recounts the opportunities for TDAN.com authors, sponsors and readers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Brooks, Vice President of Business Development and Marketing for Visual Mining Providing an overview of Visual Mining, Mike Brooks also discusses how Visual Mining is helping companies improve business performance and optimize ROI from their investment in data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yves de Montcheuil, Vice President of Marketing at Talend Open source is helping companies deploy business intelligence, and Yves de Montcheuil explains why. He describes Talend's focus and scope, and discusses the importance of data quality for data integration projects. Listen |