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The Data Warehouse Institute Winter Conference: Las Vegas

Were you there? If not, you should have been. Sure seemed like there were a lot of new as well as familiar faces there. Certainly it was not a bad time to catch up on the latest and greatest from the BI front at this year’s TDWI Winter Conference. According to TDWI, there were somewhere around 800 attendees! A banner conference for the dead of winter AND for business intelligence in general!

The vendor line up was not shabby either. The major players were all there but so were a number of exciting newbies. See more on the vendors in tomorrow’s blog.

The conference offered a combination of the old standards – introductory courses to BI, its methodology and project management, multi-dimensional modeling, and more advanced courses (including my own course on implementing the Corporate Information Factory) – as well as new offerings on meta data management (Jonathan Geiger), data profiling tips and techniques (Lisa Loftis), and data visualization (Stephen Few). There was something for everyone from the experienced BI professional to the brand new team member.

I was particularly impressed with the level of sophisticated interaction from attendees in my guru sessions and my course. The questions and contributions from the attendees were thought-provoking and, in many cases, visionary. My thanks to all of you. You make conferences like these so worthwhile.

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