Kim Stanick, VP of Marketing for ParAccel
Kim sheds light on the causes of data volume explosion, discusses the multiple benefits that data warehouse appliances provide, describes the role of data warehouse appliances for operational BI and provides a real-world success story.

Donald Farmer, Principal Program Manager for Microsoft SQL Server Data Mining
Donald explains how everyday users of Microsoft Office can now do data mining without having to know algorithms and statistical techniques, describes how business users benefit from data mining and shares the positive feedback from their customers.

Karen Steele, Vice President of Marketing for Xactly Corporation
Karen explains their focus, their Software-as-a-Service approach, and how they enable organizations to align their sales and finance operations to do things such as incentive compensation management, quota management and territory management.

Scott Davis, CEO and Founder of Eyeris
Scott provides an overview of Eyeris and their business intelligence focus, shares his perspective on business intelligence today, and describes the usability impediments that inhibit some organizations from adopting business intelligence.

Steve Smythe, Director of Product Management at Cognos
Steve describes Cognos On Demand and this business division’s focus on the delivery of business intelligence in three areas: for operational business intelligence, for entry-level BI solutions for the mid-market, and as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

Greg Lauckhart, CTO of QL2
Greg explains the relationship between market intelligence, business intelligence and syndicated data, and shares how their on-demand platform enables businesses to leverage market intelligence in their operational BI strategy.

Jeff Dandridge, President and COO of InfoCentricity
Jeff discusses the reemergence of data mining and predictive analytics and how they are being used to foster targeted marketing for a greater return on investment. He also shares examples of how companies are taking advantage of this strategy.

Tamara Dull, Senior Market Manager for Engineering Technology for Noetix
Tamara paints a picture of the Noetix brand of offerings and talks about the many important partnerships they've made with companies such as Oracle, Cognos, and Business Objects and what that means for their customers.

Joe Zurawski, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for SPSS
Joe, a first-timer to the conference, offers his take on the renewed interest in data mining and CRM. He notes that businesses have a desire to gain a "global understanding" of their customers so that they can serve them better.

Jill Dyché, Partner and Cofounder of Baseline Consulting
Jill Dyché discusses why a business process focus is most successful for aligning business and IT. She also describes why governance is an enabler of business alignment and why business intelligence is a really effective petri dish for business/IT

Claudia Imhoff, President and Founder, Intelligent Solutions, Inc.
Claudia discusses business intelligence and software-as-a-service (SaaS) from the vendor perspective, describing four advantages of SaaS and also looking at the drawbacks.

William McKnight, Senior Vice President of Data Warehousing for Conversion Services International
William shares the latest news in the field of RFID, explains the uses of RFID for supply chain applications, and describes how RFID data will impact systems and processes.

Colin White, Founder of BI Research
Colin talks about BI 2.0 and the disruptive technologies that may change the way vendors build and market products and also the way that we implement them. He then focuses his discussion on data warehouse appliances, one of these disruptive technologies.

Daryl Orts, Vice President of Engineering Technologies for Noetix
Daryl Orts provides an overview of Noetix's specific approach to business intelligence and shares examples of the results their customers achieve.

John Senor, President of iWay Software
John Senor describes process-driven business intelligence, providing examples of how organizations can benefit from embedding business intelligence in the transactional process.

Vickie Farrell, Strategic Planning and Market Development Manager for Neoview at HP
Vickie Farrell explains that companies are sending a strong message about what they're looking for in an appliance and explains Neoview's strengths, describing how it supports companies as they move to operational business intelligence.

Martin Query, Vice President of North America Sales at Zoomix
Martin Query provides an overview of Zoomix, and discusses their data quality focus and recent entrance into the U.S. market, commenting on the timing, opportunity and their expansion plans.

David Ehrlich, CEO of ParAccel
David Ehrlich discusses his recent appointment as CEO of ParAccel and shares his perspective on ad hoc query capabilities and the latest trends in appliances.

Stuart Frost, CEO of DATAllegro
Stuart Frost explains grid technology and how this technology has been incorporated into DATAllegro's data warehouse appliance, providing insight into why they have succeeded where others have not.

Stephan Harris, Managing Director for SilverTrain
Stephan Harris describes how to establish a framework to meet business improvement needs; how to measure, monitor and analyze business performance; and how to identify what should be measured to improve performance.

Rich Pilkington, Manager of Market Research for Syncsort
Rich Pilkington talks about the new release of Syncsort's DMExpress and explains how this new release keeps pace with the ever-changing trends in the data management market.

Bill Baker, Distinguished Engineer and General Manager of Business Intelligence for the Microsoft Office Business Platform and Donald Farmer, Principal Program Manager for Microsoft SQL Server Data Mining
Donald Farmer and Bill Baker discuss the key milestones Microsoft has achieved within the BI marketplace, explain how PerformancePoint Server 2007 fits into Microsoft’s overall BI strategy, and talk about predictive analytics.

Chris Doolittle, VP of Marketing for Teleran Technologies
Chris Doolittle looks at the business issues driving business intelligence and data warehousing change today, and also talks about their recently announced alliance with Microsoft.

Mike Stephens, Chief Operating Officer for XLCubed
Mike Stephens talks about XLCubed's recent acquisistion of BonaVista Systems, provides insight on their product plans for BonaVista's MicroCharts, and explains how the acquisition will impact their customers and partners.

Rich Zbylut, General Manager of The Data Warehousing Institute and Shawn Rogers, Executive Vice President of the Business Intelligence Network
Rich Zbylut and Shawn Rogers share their thoughts on the Best Practice Luncheon held at the conference, discuss their partnership and then Rich explains TDWI’s new online tool – the BI Maturity Assessment and Benchmark.

Lisa Dreyer, Director of Product Marketing for Sybase
Lisa Dreyer looks at the trends that Sybase is seeing in the area of data warehousing and analytics, explains Sybase’s offerings to address the needs of this market segment and shares examples of how their customers benefit from these offerings.

Justin Langseth, Cofounder, President and CTO of Clarabridge
Justin Langseth describes why text analytics is a solution that supports "customer experience management" for business users and provides an example of how their customers are using text analytics.

Lance Miller, Director of Services Marketing, and Imad Birouty, Program Marketing Manager, of Teradata
Lance Miller and Imad Birouty discuss data mart consolidation, why Teradata is a good choice for data mart consolidation, how Teradata differs from appliance vendors, and how customers benefit from Teradata Professional Services.

John O’Brien, CTO of Dataupia
John O’Brien discusses the impact of increased Internet communications, explains how implementing a data warehouse appliance makes a technology infrastructure more cost-effective and shares how Sendio is using the Dataupia Satori Server.

Conor O'Mahony, Information Management Product Marketing for IBM
Conor O'Mahony provides highlights of the new release of IBM's OmniFind Analytics Edition, explains how it ties into IBM's Dynamic Warehouse and describes specific ways their customers are leveraging this technology.

Don Tirsell, Senior Director, Product Marketing for Informatica
Don Tirsell discusses mergers and acquisitions, the role that data plays in the success or failure of merging companies, and how enterprise data integration can help ensure success.

Harriet Fryman, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Cognos
Harriet Fryman provides her perspective on the hot topic of dashboarding, talks about the Cognos acquisition of Celequest and describes the two products Cognos offers for dashboards, including a customer example.

Paul Dosher, CEO of JasperSoft
Claudia Imhoff interviews Paul Dosher, CEO of JasperSoft, to get information about JasperSoft's latest release.

Performance Dashboards and the Service-Profit Chain

David Loshin, President of Knowledge Integrity, Inc.
David Loshin shares his expertise on the topics of data quality, predictive analytics, master data management programs, data stewardship and data governance.

Jill Dyché and Evan Levy, partners with Baseline Consulting
Jill Dyché and Evan Levy discuss the relationship between data governance, CDI and MDM, provide insightful comments on how to succeed with data governance, and provide advice about how to begin a data governance initiative.

Peter Harvey, President and CEO of Intellidyn
Peter Harvey provides an overview of their data quality program, including the goals of their corporate data strategy and the importance of executive-level support for data quality initiatives.

Mike Hall of Experian
Mike Hall discusses the DataFlux Users Event and shares highlights of Experian’s data quality program.

Tony Fisher, President and CEO of DataFlux
Tony Fisher describes DataFlux’s growth plans, his vision for the future of DataFlux and shares his thoughts on this year’s very successful Users Event.

Katie Fabiszak, Vice President of Marketing for DataFlux
Katie Fabiszak talks about their continuing international growth, describes the data quality market trends and provides a synopsis of international attitudes toward data quality.

Scott Gidley, Senior Director of R&D for DataFlux
Scott Gidley explains the importance of service-oriented architectures, how data quality affects the way organizations build their infrastructures, and the key features of DataFlux Versison 8.

Ron Agresta, Product Manager for DataFlux
Ron Agresta talks about master data management, particularly the relationship between master data management and data governance.

Robert Becklund, Execuive Vice President of Business Development and Marketing for 10e Solutions
Robert Becklund provides an overview of 10e Solutions, explains the reasons they have partnered with Netezza, talks about data-related trends, and describes how 10e Solutions enables companies to analyze cost and value on very large data sets.

Jesse Sims, Global Director of Technology Partnerships for Business Objects
Jesse Sims discusses Business Objects partnership with Netezza, how they provide the full spectrum of BI on top of Netezza, the rise in importance of unstructured data, their SaaS offerings and how their customers benefit from advanced analytics.

Kerry Reilly, Director of Solutions Consulting for Internet Marketing for Unica
Kerry Reilly explains how Unica develops software to help automate and optimize the marketing process, discusses current trends, and describes how Netezza provides the horsepower to process large volumes of marketing data for Unica customers.

Paul Earsy, Manager of Business Development for Ingrian Networks
Paul Earsy shares how Ingrian offers an enterprise-wide encryption and key management solution for protecting personally identifiable information and describes how their customers benefit from Ingrian's partnership with Netezza.

Patrick Crago, President of Multi-Threaded Inc.
Patrick Crago explains their focus on big data management problems, describes how they help manage data and perform analytics against it, adds how Netezza fits into their offerings and shares the benefits of the partnership for their customers.

Neil Cleasby, VP Sales for Europe for Rate Integration
Neil Cleasby talks about Rate Integration's product offering and how it integrates with the Netezza platform, explaining how their product can help answer questions about the impact of different pricing models across a full volume of data.

Rich Zimmerman, Chief Technology Officer of Intelligent Integration Systems, Inc.
Rich gives us insight into the Netezza Developer Network, an initiative that enables third-party developers to move applications to the Netezza platform, and about the spatial toolkit they've developed,

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Goul, Professor, Arizona State University
Michael Goul shares how Teradata University Network (TUN) is used in his course curriculum, the benefits of having Software Resources incorporated in TUN, and his vision for the future of TUN and the Teradata Student Network (TSN).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ron Swift, VP of Cross Industry Solutions
Ron Swift explains how business intelligence (BI) will change in the next several years as organizations partner with each other to share BI technology, bringing increased synchronization with customers, employees and partners.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alex Kormushoff, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for SPSS
Alex Kormushoff shares the excitement surrounding the field of predictive analytics and describes the products and technologies that organizations need to have in place to become predictive enterprises.

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.

Eric Pelander, Partner at Waterstone Management Group
Eric Pelander describes some of the incredible changes taking place in the marketplace that will cause firms to more readily adopt predictive analytics and shares some predictive analytics success stories.

Andy Hasselwander, Vice President of MarketBridge
Andy Hasselwander tells how to get the most from predictive analytics when marketing to key customers and segments and describes the single biggest trend over the next five years for predictive analytics in marketing.

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.

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.

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.

Barry Zane, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of ParAccel
Barry Zane talks about the launch of ParAccel and the ParAccel Analytic Database, and he explains why the ParAccel Analytic Database is columnar in nature, schema neutral and requires no tuning.

Nick Halsey, Vice President of Marketing for JasperSoft
Nick Halsey describes the major new features of JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite 2.1 and the new product line extensions to the Jasper4Salesforce software-as-a-service product line.

Philip Russom, Senior Manager for TDWI Research
Philip Russom discusses TDWI's two-day summit on data governance, describes typical starting points for a company's data governance initiative, and explains the role of a data governance committee.

Scott Opitz, CEO of Altosoft
Scott Opitz explains operational BI, how it differs from traditional BI, how Web 2.0 technologies are incorporated into Altosoft dashboards and how Altosoft can analyze data from multiple data sources without a data warehouse.

Don Tirsell, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Informatica
Don Tirsell discusses the release of Informatica 8.5, the themes and key capabilities of the release, and how this version supports enterprise-wide Integration Competency Center (ICC) deployments.

Dave Randall, Director of Channel and Alliance Engineering for DataMirror
Dave Randall shares the value that DataMirror provides to their clients, discusses the recent acquisition by IBM, and shares the busines intelligence challenges that companies are currently facing.

Irem Radzik, Director of Product Marketing for GoldenGate
Irem talks about real-time business intelligence, focusing on whether it is something every industry requires and whether or not real-time is difficult to implement.

Yves de Montcheuil, Vice President of Marketing for Talend
Yves de Montcheuil talks about Talend's open source package, their software-as-a-service offering for on-demand integration and their enterprise integration product, focusing on how they fit with one another.

Max Rivera, Director of Technology Business Unit at Oracle
Max Rivera discusses Oracle Data Integrator's ELT versus ETL data integration pattern, how it improves data warehouse loading performances, the connection with SOA technologies and how Oracle brings data quality to the table.

Matthew Sell, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Business Objects
Matthew Sell discusses Business Objects recently announced Crystal Reports 2008, the product's new features, its advantages, availability and cost.

Daniel Teachey, Corporate Communications Director for DataFlux
Daniel Teachey describes the notable changes in 2007 that have impacted DataFlux and the data quality market, and provides his perspective on data governance and master data management.

Robert Orf, CEO of DataMentors
Bob Orf discusses their focus on data quality, explains the costs that result from having poor quality data and explains how business intelligence analytics software can help marketers interpret the plethora of information available to them.

Jim McManus, Vice President of Channels and Alliances for Dataupia
Jim McManus shares the latest announcements from Dataupia, describes the top pain points that businesses are citing when implementing a data management system, and explains how Dautaupia is addressing these concerns for their customers.

Miriam Tuerk, President and CEO of Infobright
Miriam Tuerk explains why data warehousing has become a major area of focus for CIOs, enumerates the challenges facing data warehouse professionals today, and explains how Infobright's BrightHouse supports users doing complex analytics.

Ellen Rubin, Vice President of Marketing for Netezza
Ellen Rubin discusses the success of their recent international user conference, explains the Netezza Developer Network, and describes the power of the appliance approach for real-time analysis and predictive analytics.

Amir Biran, CEO of Zoomix
Amir Biran explains their new product, the Zoomix Accelerator, and how it solves the very painful problems of inconsistencies in data and provides the solution at the source as part of a business process in very automatic fashion.

Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research and Services for TDWI
Wayne Eckerson talks about the data governance track at the current conference, their upcoming Master Data Management Insight conference, their Executive Summit event, and the BI Maturity Model.

Gary Ashcraft, Senior Software Engineer at Corda Technologies
Gary Ashcraft describes Corda's ability to assign data to maps and map shapes, explains Corda's method for visualizing data geographically, provides examples and benefits of visually appealing maps and discusses creating themes for dashboards.

Bryan Enlow, an Information Technology Specialist for the State of Washington
Bryan Enlow describes how the State of Washington uses Corda for their dashboards, discusses why they are pleased with Corda products, and shares the networking benefits of Corda's Visual Evolution conference.

Michael Espinoza, Consultant with the EFT Group
Michael Espinoza describes how EFT Group develops dashboards for government program in Peru and explains why they selected Corda for the dashboard projects.

Jared Mason, Sales Engineer at Corda Technologies
Jared Mason discusses his conference presentations that provided an introduction to Corda's Builder and CenterView products, and he explains how CenterView provides unique drill-down capabilities for more effective data visualization.

John Purvis, CEO and President of Corda Technologies
John Purvis provides his definition of performance management – the top down process that bridges the strategy to execution gap – and describes how the performance dashboard is really at the heart of business intelligence.

Ned Payne, Business Analyst at United Capital Financial Advisers
Ned Payne explains the benefits of Corda's Visual Evolution Conference where all the different users come together and show the ways that they deploy Corda as a solution, and describes why they selected Corda for their dashboards.

Jon Stowell, Director of Technology for Sharp Analytics
Jon Stowell describes Sharp Analytics focus on helping customers make the most of the data they have, shares how they provide business intelligence solutions to their customers, and describes how Corda CenterView is used in their solutions.

John Rome, Director of Business Intelligence for Arizona State University
John Rome discusses Arizona's State's history of business intelligence and data warehousing, and provides insight into the "actionable" dashboards that they have deployed for their faculty and students using Corda Technologies products.

Eric Nunn, Consultant for the Crito Group
Eric Nunn provides an overview of the Crito Group and explains the dashboard development that they doing with Corda products, adding that the conference enabled him to learn lots useful dashboard tips and tricks.

Glenn Hess, Sales Engineer at Corda Technologies
Glenn Hess provides an overview of his conference presentation on Effective Advanced Visualization with Datafunnels, Drill-down and Hovers, and provides advice for implementing visualization dashboards.

Jeff Gill, Director of OSS Service at Comcast
Jeff Gill explains how Comcast deploys Corda solutions to develop tactical real-time operational dashboards that explain how the business is running at a glance and enable Comcast to better understand how their customers are using what they sell.

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.

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.

Business Objects Podcast #1 – Why DI from a BI Vendor
Part one in the Business Objects Data Integration Podcast series featuring Philip On

Business Objects Podcast #2 – Standardizing on DI and Business Objects
Part two in the Business Objects Data Integration Podcast series featuring Philip On

Business Objects Podcast #3 – Operational Data Integration
Part three in the Business Objects Data Integration Podcast series featuring Clive Bellmore

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.

Matthias Weber, SAP’s Solution Marketing Manager for NetWeaver Enterprise Search
Matthias Weber focuses his discussion on enterprise search, including the interplay between search and business intelligence, and describes how he envisions the role of search in the future.

Rishi Diwan, SAP’s Senior Director of Marketing for Analytics and Performance Management
Rishi Diwan describes the new developments surrounding Planning and Consolidation, explains how SAP’s offering differs from others, and provides examples of the Planning and Consolidation achievements of some of SAP customers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Prakash Darji, SAP’s Product Manager of Corporate Performance Management
Prakash Darji explains how widgets work with business intelligence, talks about the new development model he pioneered that is essentially open source, and tells how SAP can help business users collaborate around analytics.

Ravi Mohan, SAP’s VP of Applications Solution Management
Ravi Mohan provides an overview of the key challenges for analytics, describes SAP’s operations performance management solutions and discusses SAP's broad portfolio of both horizontal and industry vertical analytic applications.

Helen Dwight, SAP’s Senior Director of Marketing in Analytics and Performance Management
Helen Dwight discusses profitability management and the problems it solves, explaining why a dedicated solution for profitability management is necessary.

Thomas Grassl, Director of Solutions Marketing for Duet
Thomas Grassl describes Duet, a joint product between SAP and Microsoft that integrates SAP functionality into the Microsoft Office environment, and provides examples of what end users can accomplish with Duet.

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.

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.

Business Objects Data Quality Podcast #1 – Real-time Data Quality using SOA
Part one in the Business Objects Data Quality Podcast Series featuring Kristin McMahon

Business Objects Data Quality Podcast #2 – Applying Data Quality Processes to Industries
Part two in the Business Objects Data Quality Podcast Series featuring Bill Rojas

Business Objects Data Quality Podcast #3 – Data Quality for Global Data
Part three in the Business Objects Data Quality Podcast Series featuring Bill Rojas

Sybase IQ for Analytics as a Service
Part four of four-part series, Introducing the Analytics Server.

Sybase IQ for Advanced Analytics
Part three of four-part series, Introducing the Analytics Server.

Sybase IQ for Rapid Reporting
Part two of four-part series, Introducing the Analytics Server.

Sybase IQ Analytics Server: Column-Based Solution for BI and Data Warehousing
Part one of four-part series, Introducing the Analytics Server.

Geoff Burkholder, WW FSI BI Solutions Director for HP
Geoff Burkholder discusses operational BI, describes HP's Neoview BI strategy for the financial services industry, and talks about the biggest challenge to implementing a successful enterprise data warehouse/business intelligence environment.

Julianna DeLua, Enterprise Solution Manager for Informatica
Julianna DeLua explains pervasive business intelligence (BI) and explains the role of data integration for pervasive BI.

Roger Moore, Sales Manager with DATAllegro
Roger Moore explains what differentiates DATAllegro from its competitors, describes their typical client, and shares how DATAllegro works with MicroStrategy.

Roger Haddad, Chairman and CEO of KXEN
Roger Haddad provides his views on the convergence of business intelligence and other types of analytics, and he describes how KXEN compares to SAS and SPSS.

Vishal Daga, Director of Business Development for Netezza
Vishal Daga shares his views on business intelligence (BI), explains Netezza's current focus, and also discusses their partnership with MicroStrategy and how it has been affected by recent changes in the BI landscape.

Richard Smith, VP of Sales for WhereScape
Richard Smith provides an overview of WhereScape, discussing their approach to data warehousing, their relationships with MicroStrategy and Teradata, and their recent breakthroughs into the Software 500 and the Red Herring 100 lists.

Shailesh Kosambhia, Business Intelligence & Performance Management Practice Manager with Tata Consultancy Services for North America and Canada
Shailesh Kosambhia describes how they help organizations move toward self-service business intelligence (BI), including the challenges as well as the benefits of embracing this environment.

Steve Bourgault, Global Product Manager, Business Intelligence Products, for MapInfo
Steve Bourgault explains the benefits of leveraging location to enhance a business intelligence (BI) platform, and he also provides an overview of what Pitney Bowes MapInfo brings to the BI community.

Shashank Garg, Co-Founder and Principal of InfoCepts
Shashank Garg discusses the use of geographically distributed teams to accelerate business intelligence development, including the challenges and risks associated with this development method.

Randy Mattran, Vice President of Professional Services for Lancet Software
Randy Mattran describes their long-time relationship with MicroStrategy, explains how Lancet's practice has evolved over the years, and talks about one of the interesting offerings they are now featuring.