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Orlando, here comes Business Intelligence

I was in Orlando last week for the Teradata Partners Conference. This was my fourth Partners and it is one extremely well done conference which reinforces the great customer satisfaction that Teradata clients have for Teradata technology. Teradata has always been a leader in terms of data warehousing best practices and that came across through its customer case examples and promotion of best practices in the sessions.

I gave a session on "Enabling Business Intelligence Across the Enterprise." It was designed for those numerous programs who have achieved some early returns on their BI program and have met first targets but find themselves challenged in getting beyond those targets. My goal was to enable the attendees with advice to convert prospective users to daily users of the warehouse, using examples from numerous programs I've worked on that have crossed that chasm.

I caught Marcus Buckingham's keynote on Wednesday and I'm glad I did as I am very interested in how people achieve success and this is exactly where he focuses. He gave a presentation on becoming an excellent leader (one who targets a clear, optimistic future) or an excellent manager (one who focuses on enhancing people's strengths).

In succession, the following conferences are in Orlando in the next 7 weeks: DCI (Sept. 26-29), TDWI and Business Objects Insight. If you're going to be at any of these conferences and would like to meet, please let me know.

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