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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 Business Intelligence: Build or Buy - Considerations for Healthcare Organizations Laura Madsen looks the important factors that healthcare organizations need to consider as they decide whether their business intelligence will be of the "build" or "buy" variety. 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 Rethinking Definition Malcolm Chisholm explains that acknowledging definitions have to be captured rather than gathered, and that they can be continuously improved, will make them more valuable to the enterprise over time. 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. 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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. 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Rick Abbott looks at how technology and business intelligence products are helping to reduce our country's overall energy consumption. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Closed-Loop Business Intelligence: Reality or Simply Another Buzzword? 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today's "Analytic Applications" - Misnamed and Mistargeted Merv Adrian marks the launch of his BeyeNETWORK expert channel with this article that discusses the marketplace impacts of the transition to the next generation business analytics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Different Flavors of Design for Business Intelligence Databases Chuck Kelley looks at some of the different approaches to designing databases for business intelligence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Data Degradation Bill Inmon explores data degradation or data corrosion including definition of the term and examples. 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On Performance Shock after shock over $15,000 toilet seats, trillion dollar deficits and a tragically impressive collection of failed federal programs became the drivers for a federal Chief Performance Officer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sales and Marketing: Why Do We Care About Lead Management? Larry Goldman explains that as organizations develop their strategies to react to the economy, one thing is clear: every opportunity counts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Book Review: Implementing Enterprise Data Warehousing Bill Inmon shares why Implementing Enterprise Data Warehousing by Alan Schlukbier is an essential meta book for executives. 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 Management by Spreadsheet Inmon shares the best way to understand the value provided by a data warehouse. 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 What Are Universal Patterns for Data Modeling? There are universal patterns that apply to well over 50 percent of most data model constructs and that can be reused. This article discusses those universal patterns. 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 Robert Eve, Vice President of Marketing for Composite Software Robert Eve explains how the Composite Information Server enables users to virtualize, abstract, federate and deliver disparate data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Terry Cunningham, Chief Executive Officer of Coral8 Terry Cunningham describes Coral8’s complex event processing technology that provides the continuous intelligence necessary to analyze, understand and execute instantly in a rapidly changing marketplace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sid Probstein, Chief Technology Officer of Attivio Sid Probstein explains how Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) is powering the next generation of information access, integrating enterprise search and BI capabilities through its unique ability to combine structured data and unstructured content in one universal index. 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! 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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. 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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 | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kim Stanick, Vice President of Marketing for ParAccel Kim Stanick explains why columnar databases like ParAccel are such a great fit for analytic processing. She also talks about their partnerships with software vendors and what ParAccel is doing to differentiate itself from the competition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Soceanu, Product Marketing Manager at DataFlux Dan Soceanu provides advice on how to avoid the pitfalls of master data management (MDM), how to build a business case for MDM and what is required for a successful MDM implementation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Meyer, CTO and Vice President of Engineering for Insights On Demand David Meyer explains that they provide business intelligence using the software as a service model, and describes that they chose Corda because of its power and strong programmatic support, allowing them to provide the BI their customers need. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ben Knowles, Dashboard Designer and Developer for Autometrics Ben Knowles provides an overview of Autometrics, a leading software as a service on-demand dashboard provider, and explains how they use CenterView to bring data sources together and put them into a visually understandable dashboard format. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Bean, Cofounder and Chief Technology Officer of Attensity David Bean explains how Attensity’s text analytics provides a Voice of the Customer platform that extracts revelations from customer feedback and captures "signals" of intent, value and context to provide insight into customer expectations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Hornschild-Bear, Product Manager for Conpros Robert Hornschild-Bear provides an overview of Conpros. He also explains that they had 15 criteria when they were searching for a dashboard solution that would integrate with their product and that Corda met all their requirements. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jamey Becker, Implementer with Answers On Demand Jamey Becker provides an overview of Answers On Demand and their focus. He describes how Answers on Demand partners with Corda to provide customers with a complete data visualization and dashboard version of their software. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Rome, Associate Vice President at Arizona State University John Rome recaps his keynote presentation at Corda's Visual Evolution that focused on how to design dashboards. He also tells how dashboards give Arizona State the ability to deliver performance management and lower the cost of consumption of information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nef Roldan, Lead Manager for GTS Metrics and Reporting at Dow Jones Nef Roldan describes the issues Dow Jones solves with CenterView dashboards from Corda and how the managers use the dashboards to make timely decisions. He emphasizes that the product is very intuitive and user friendly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andy Beier, CTO of Speekback.com Andy Beier talks about how speekback.com, a new company, uses Corda dashboards to acquire advertisers and users. Andy also explains why this new startup chose Corda to help them grow their company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Skolmoski, Senior Engineer with the LDS Church Mark Skolmoski explains they are a Business Objects shop and describes how they implemented Corda dashboards without having to do redundant work or maintain dual systems. They use the dashboards to track their performance against project work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Horn, Principal with Deloitte Consulting's Strategy and Operations Practice Mark Horn shares his thoughts on the role executives play in the creation of a vibrant performance management environment and the successful adoption of performance management solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Gragg, Vice President of Customer Management Solutions for Teradata Sam Gragg discusses how drivers for consumers and customer relationship management are evolving. He also shares how marketers need to be able to model customer behavior and bring in the personal touch to enable smarter conversations to ensure customer loyalty. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alok Pareek, Vice President of Technology for GoldenGate Running a dual-active data warehouse is becoming more popular, and Alok Pareek explains why. He also talks about the rise of operational business intelligence and how that impacts the interest in dual-active data warehousing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barb Vostmyer, Senior Product Manager for Industry Solutions for Teradata Barb Vostmyer discusses the manufacturing industry and how that industry benefits from real-time data integration, unstructured text and text analytics, and out-of-the-box models. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Clayton, Vice President of Marketing of BI & Performance Management, EPM Global Business Unit for Oracle Richard Clayton looks at enterprise performance management (EPM), Oracle's EPM strategy and the role of the data warehouse in EPM. He also describes the strong partnership between Oracle and Teradata. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kevin Brown, Vice President of Alliances and Partnerships for Tableau Kevin Brown shares how Tableau in partnership with Teradata broadens the use of BI throughout the enterprise. Power users to nontechnical workers can effectively use the data warehouse in ways they never could before. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Cardno, Chief Technology Officer for Business Intelligence Systems Solutions Andrew Cardno explains data visualization with heat maps and explains its impact on the business community. Andrew shares why he considers Business Intelligence Systems Solutions as the visual window into the Teradata warehouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ray Wilson, Program Director, Global Industry Solutions at Teradata Ray Wilson talks about anti-money laundering (AML) and the regulations that require financial service institutions to evaluate transactions, looking for suspicious activities. He explains how SAS and Teradata help with AML compliance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roger Haddad, Chairman and CEO of KXEN Roger Haddad provides an overview of KXEN, explaining how KXEN delivers on getting insight from data, and he discusses how they work with Teradata customers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peeter Kivestu, Director of Global Industry Solutions for Travel, Transport and Government for Teradata Peeter Kivestu discusses the Teradata vision for customer management, focusing on the airline industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Matera, Senior Product Manager for Teradata Bill Matera talks about the healthcare logical data model and the acquisition of the Triad model from American Information Modeling Group (AIMG). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yves de Montcheuil, VP of Marketing for Talend Announcing Talend's partnership with Teradata, Yves de Montcheuil shares the Talend value proposition for Teradata’s customers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live from the floor: Mike Lawson, Business Intelligence Developer from the University of Michigan Mike Lawson explains the University's BI structure, describing how they use Microsoft solutions. He says the tools are fantastic, enabling them to deliver reports in an easy-to-use format and get information in front of key decision makers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jason Carlson, Partner Product Unit Manager for Microsoft Jason Carlson recaps the announcements made during the conference and shares the most exciting new features of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bruno Aziza, Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Bruno Aziza looks at what's new in BI today, explains why Microsoft BI is different from other BI offerings and shares best practices for driving business performance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Todd, Senior Executive for Accenture Information Management Services Greg Todd provides an overview of Accenture Information Management Services, describes their approach to BI for their customers, and shares how Microsoft BI solutions fit into the advice Accenture gives its clients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Collins, Vice President of Global Alliances for Teradata Scott Collins discusses Teradata's partnership with Microsoft and the value Teradata technologies bring to customers. Scott also shares customer success stories and looks at the other areas of collaboration between Microsoft and Teradata. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Donald Farmer, Principal Program Manager Lead for Microsoft Donald Farmer describes conference reaction to Project Gemini, sharing the questions attendees are asking about the project. He also talks about the target audience for Project Gemini and the competitive landscape. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Bull, Principal Group Program Manager for Microsoft Peter Bull talks about the types of customers that are purchasing PerformancePoint Server, how customers are using the product, and the kind of feedback those customers are providing to Microsoft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amir Netz, Partner Architect for Microsoft Amir Netz explains Project Gemini and how Gemini technology is related to the rest of Microsoft's BI technologies. He also shares why there is so much excitement surrounding Project Gemini. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ron Martinez, Director of Sales for ProfitBase NA Inc. Ron Martinez shares how ProfitBase fits into the Microsoft BI vision and describes how Microsoft customers benefit from ProfitBase solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kamal Hathi, Partner Product Unit Manager, SQL Server Analysis Services for Microsoft Kamal Hathi talks about the core theme for the Analysis Services features in the SQL 2008 release and shares the next "big thing" planned for SQL Server. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pej Javaheri, Senior Product Manager, IWPMG Sharepoint at Microsoft Pej Javaheri looks at how to enhance and enable pervasive BI, describes the trends being seen in organizations looking to maximize resources and maintain costs, and explains OBAs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guy Weismantel, Director of Marketing, Office Business Applications for Microsoft Guy Weismantel looks at how finance executives and finance departments use BI, explains what solutions Microsoft offers for finance departments, and explains how BI benefits the finance department and the entire organization. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jitendra Pal Thethi, Principal Architect, Microsoft BI Solutions at Infosys Technologies Limited Jitendra Pal Thethi provides an overview of Infosys Technologies, describes the Microsoft BI solutions they sell and talks about the approach they use to ensure that their customers find the BI solution that meets their needs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Gainer, Microsoft Principal Group Program Manager, and Steve Tullis, Microsoft Senior Program Manager Lead for Microsoft Excel David Gainer and Steve Tullis discuss why XL 2007 is a great business intelligence tool. They also explain the features of the server version of Excel and describe what customers are doing with XL Services. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Drew Naukam, Managing Vice President of the Microsoft Strategic Service Line for Hitachi Consulting Drew Naukam provides a brief overview of Hitachi Consulting, explains how they help their customers find a business intelligence (BI) solution that meets their needs and shares recent Microsoft BI customer success stories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alyson Powell Erwin, Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Alyson Powell Erwin explains how PerformancePoint fits into Microsoft's BI offering and shares the 3 ways that Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Monitoring Server helps customers drive their business performance more effectively. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Todd Daniell, Manager of the Business Intelligence Group at Raymond James Todd Daniel shares that they utilize the full BI stack from Microsoft at Raymond James, a full-service financial services company. As an early adopter of SQL Server 2008, he shares that the best enhancement of the product is its scalability. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Grondin, Vice President of R&D, and Linda Ahrens, Vice President of Marketing and Glocal Alliances for SAND Technology Linda talks about BI and DW platform-independent software solutions that SAND offers for customers with and without existing data warehouses. Richard explains how their solutions keep your warehouses lean and mean. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Claudia Imhoff - Software as a Service Claudia gives an overview of the challenges and benefits of the software as a service (SaaS) model. She is on a mission to get acceptance of the term "on premises" as opposed to the common vernacular choice of "on premise" to describe this type of solutio Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colin White - Operational BI Colin lays out the new business requirements for the data and process worlds. Operational BI is just as much art as science and necessitates a simultaneous top-down and bottom-up approach. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Verna Okell, Development Group Manager, and Rich Rosales, Development Manager, at U.S. Bank Verna Okell and Rich Rosales explain how U.S. Bank relies on GoldenGate to provide their customers with the seamless experience they expect from ATMs and talk about other areas in the bank where GoldenGate is used. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Gorman, Development Manager for ATM and Mobile Services at VocaLink Richard Gorman discusses how they have used GoldenGate for almost 10 years without any problems and then describes their most recent project where GoldenGate is a key part of the most important application they have. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Selina McDine, IT Administrator for a major healthcare provider Selina McDine describes how they use GoldenGate for disaster recovery, data warehousing and Brio report writing, and she describes the value that real-time information provides to their organization. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ron Swift, Teradata's Vice President of Cross Industry Solutions Ron Swift talks about how Teradata and GoldenGate partner, explains how GoldenGate helps to set up real-time data warehousing and real-time business intelligence, and also shares how customers have benefited from this partnership. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phil Kloot, Manager of HP NonStop Systems & Integration Services Information Technology for Park Nicollet Health Systems Phil Kloot explains the many ways they use GoldenGate and shares how the flexibility and real-time capabilities of GoldenGate have enabled them to be an innovative organization. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sybase IQ Analytics Server: Column-Based Solution for BI and Data Warehousing Part one of four-part series, Introducing the Analytics Server. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exclusive Interview: Tom Aiello, Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing for Envision Tom Aiello discusses the many ways that organizations communicate with their customers and explains how Envision delivers legendary customer experiences by improving agent, contact center and enterprise performance through workforce optimization. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exclusive Interview: Ron Baker, President & Chief Executive Officer of ETI Ron Baker provides discusses ETI’s data integration platform that allows seamless and flexible data synchronization, data migration and data services and is unmatched in its ability to undertake the largest and most complex integration deployments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exclusive Interview: Wayne Rigney, CEO of Decisions Made Easy – The Nielsen Company Wayne Rigney discusses how Cipher, their consumer goods-intelligence analytic software tool, helps retailers and CPG companies gain powerful insights into SKU and store-level performance by analyzing retailer direct POS and related data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Wood, SAP’s Product Strategist for NetWeaver Enterprise Information Management Brian Wood explains how third-party, non-SAP systems and the data from them can be integrated into BI and analytics and discusses SAP’s metadata management strategy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Cabanski-Dunning, Director of Product Marketing for SAP NetWeaver Andrew Cabanski-Dunning discusses information lifecycle management (ILM), explains how it differs from straight archiving, describes SAP’s ILM solution and provides specific use cases for ILM. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Axel Streichardt, Director of Solution Marketing for SAP Governance, Risk and Compliance Axel Streichardt discusses governance, risk and compliance (GRC), explains why it is important to enterprises, and describes the benefits of SAP GRC. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amit Sinha, VP of Portfolio Marketing for SAP, and Lothar Schubert, Director of Solution Marketing for SAP NetWeaver Amit Sinha and Lothar Schubert provide an explanation of business network transformation or BNT – including the technical imperatives for organizations and the role information management plays – and describe what SAP provides for BNT. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunil Gupta, Director of Solution Marketing for SAP NetWeaver Sunil Gupta comments on the reasons for the growing interest in master data management (MDM), explains the features that are important to customers, provides customer examples, and describes what makes SAP’s MDM solution unique. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lothar Schubert, SAP's Director of Solution Marketing for SAP NetWeaver Lothar Schubert describes the strategy behind SAP NetWeaver 7.0 including its new features, discusses SAP NetWeaver BI and its most popular features, and explains how BI Accelerator differs from other tools that promise speed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ranga Bodla, SAP’s Director of Marketing for Analytics and Performance Management Ranga Bodla talks about SAP’s solution for strategy management, discusses how it interplays with SAP NetWeaver and other non-SAP products, and explains the importance of strategy management. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vincenza Krikorian, Manager of Application Development at ViroPharma Vincenza Krikorian describes ViroPharma, explains why they need to visually represent data and how the conference is helping her gain education on visual tools and dashboards to determine how ViroPharma can best utilize them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tamara Monson, Director of Project Development, and Robert Preciado, Director of Tactical Software Development, for Limelight Networks Tamara Monson and Robert Preciado provide an overview of Limelight Networks, explain why they need to deploy dashboards, and discuss why they're looking at Corda to replace their current solution. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dave Menninger, Vice President of Global Marketing & Product Management for InforSense Dave Menninger offers his opinion about all of the acquisition activity in the business intelligence (BI) market, describes the problems that InforSense solves for customers, and explains how InforSense differs from other BI vendors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Daley, CEO of Pentaho Richard Daley provides an overview of Pentaho, explains open source, describes the current state of the open source business intelligence market and shares his outlook for open source in 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christine Beer, Solutions Manager for SAP Christine Beer explains what companies need to know about predictive analytics and explains how SAP offers predictive analytics products for operational banking and analytical banking, including tips on the infrastructure requirements. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Erick Brethenoux, Vice President of Corporate Development for SPSS Erick Brethenoux looks at why the emergence of predictive analytics in the enterprise represents a "perfect storm" and offers advice so that companies can take advantage of this storm and not be swept away by it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jack Noonan, President and CEO of SPSS Having helped countless customers emerge as successful predictive organizations, Jack Noonan explains why organizations need to compete with analytics and describes how SPSS helps their customers succeed with predictive analytics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kris Nietz, Vice President of Enterprise Solutions at SPSS Kris Nietz talks about what it takes to be on the predictive analytics journey, shares how SPSS customers use predictive analytics and describes how those customers got to where they are today with predictive analytics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Stackowiak, Vice President of Business Intelligence at Oracle Bob Stackowiak explains why competing in today's market conditions requires predictive analytics, describes how Oracle supports companies as they journey toward becoming predictive enterprises and talks about Oracle's partnership with SPSS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt Wroblewski, Director of Marketing Research at Lincoln Financial Matt Wroblewski talks about predictive analytics and how their sales and marketing organization uses predictive analytics to segment their customer base and develop more effective sales and marketing strategies to drive top line growth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exclusive Interview: Gervase Clifton-Bligh, Founder and VP Product Strategy & Development of Fractal: Edge Gervase Clifton-Bligh explains why Fractal:Edge solutions are more effective than traditional tables, graphs and heat maps, allowing companies to access and understand large, complex or fast-moving information sources quickly and accurately. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exclusive Interview: Dan Linstedt, Cofounder of Genesee Academy and RapidACE Dan Linstedt talks about the benefits of data warehousing and explains that RapidACE is a data model consolidation and visualization tool that integrates disparate data models and forward engineers them into a common enterprise data warehouse model. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roger Haddad, Chairman, CEO and Founder of KXEN Roger Haddad describes KXEN, its value proposition for Teradata customers, and explains how they embed advanced analytics into existing enterprise applications, thereby enabling companies to get real insight into their data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exclusive Interview: Michael MacDonald, Chief Executive Officer & Cofounder of Visual Mining Michael MacDonald discusses how NetCharts provides an on-demand business performance dashboard platform that gives end users complete and up-to-date graphical views of KPIs and enables them to succeed in meeting their corporate goals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Kugle, Senior VP and Research Director for Financial Performance Management and ERP for Ventana Research Robert Kugle explains how Ventana Research conducts research benchmarks and analyzes market trends, best practices and technologies for the purpose of helping customers improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their organizations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Distefano, VP and National Practice Leader for Bearing Point John Distefano explains how analytics drive innovation for commercial healthcare companies and describes how they are using analytics to manage and control adminstrative and medical costs and to improve the wellness of their population. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ron Swift, VP of Cross Industry Solutions Ron Swift discusses the technology needed by the academic community and how Teradata created an online network online where professors can load slides, tests and lectures for use when they teach. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Randy Lea, Vice President of Product and Services Marketing for Teradata Randy Lea discusses the launch of Teradata 12, an advanced database that delivers traditional data warehousing for strategic planning, along with usable intelligence to front-line operations throughout the enterprise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ted Garcia, Engagement Director for Capgemini Ted Garcia describes the challenges facing global home entertainment companies and explains how Teradata helps studios and retailers successfully address their data and supply chain challenges. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alan Martin, BI Program Manager for Agilent Technologies Alan Martin describes how Agilent's partnership with Teradata enables them to deliver a truly scalable business intelligence platform that addresses the explosion of data volume and provides near real-time intelligence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Van Valkenberg, Director for Platforms and ISVs for SAS Scott Van Valkenberg discusses their strategic partnership with Teradata that will enable businesses to run and optimize key aspects of SAS solutions and analytic processes within the Teradata database, and also talks about the SAS In-Database initiative. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sanju Bansal, Chief Operating Officer for MicroStrategy Sanju Bansal discusses the resurgence in the popularity of data warehousing as businesses realize its value in monitoring and measuring corporate performance, and decribes how MicroStrategy supports mission-critical business intelligence applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Todd Walter, Chief Technical Officer of Teradata R&D, and Rich Charucki, Director of Product Management for Teradata Todd Walter and Rich Charucki talk about the new features of Teradata Version 12, explain how performance is the cornerstone of Teradata and describe how they continue to extend their lead in the performance category. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Shainman, Program Director of Master Data Management for Teradata Mark Shainman explains master data, the Teradata Master Data Management Solution that enables companies to manage master data in a more holistic fashion versus having to hard code it into an ETL process, and the importance of data governance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Katherine Knowles, Director of Third-Party Influencers for Teradata Katherine Knowles explains why Teradata combined analysts, academics and consultants into one group, describes the resultant synergies and provides highlights of the conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Wiggin, Director of Product Management for Thomson Healthcare David Wiggin describes Thomson Healthcare, explaining that they chose Teradata because of its reputation, innovation in database technology, and for its ability to house large amounts of data, deliver consistent performance and scale at many levels. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clay Stanley, Senior Director of Information Management and Delivery for PayPal Clay Stanley provides an overview of PayPal, highlighting how Teradata provides their world-class data warehouse platform, a 32-node 5400 system with roughly 50 TB of data and more than 1,000 business users across the globe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hugh Watson, Professor, The University of Georgia Hugh Watson, who has been teaching decision support systems since 1974, describes the changes over the years and provides an overview of how the Teradata University Network is used by students and faculty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ann Marie Reynolds, Technical Director, Data Warehouse Group, for Continental Airlinnes Ann Marie Reynolds provides advice for today's college students that choose a career in data warehousing or business intelligence and describes the importance of materials provided on Teradata Student Network, especially the Software Resources. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barb Wixom, Associate Professor, McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia Barb Wixom shares how students use the Teradata University Network (TUN) and explains why she is excited about how TUN helps her teach executives in the Masters for the Management of IT grad program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Gray, Professor Emeritus, Claremont Graduate University Paul Gray shares how Teradata University Network changes what can be done in the classroom and describes the benefits students gain from using the companion site, Teradata Student Network. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Hoffer, Sherman-Standard Register Professor of Data Management, University of Dayton Jeff Hoffer explains why SQL courses at the University of Dayton now use Teradata and SQL Assistant. He also describes how students benefit from SQL Assistant and shares plans for SQL Assistant on Teradata University Network Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Craig Norris, CEO of Attensity Craig Norris describes how text analytics are solving real world business problems, shares his vision for the future of text analytics, and describes their partnership with Teradata. Listen | Listen in your iPhone |