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February 18, 2008

DAMA International Symposium & WILSHIRE Meta-Data Conference $100 off

I'm presenting “MDM and CDI ROI and Justification” on Tuesday, March 18th at 1:45pm, and the session is a highlight of a Master Data Management track that is packed with useful information and practical case studies. The conference is taking place March 16-20, 2008 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina in San Diego, CA.

At this link, there's $100 off for my blog readers.

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"Modernizing and Advancing Information Management Across the Enterprise" Webinar in one week

Registration Link. Join me Tuesday, Feb. 26 to learn about the modern components of information management and how these innovations can be put to work in today's ever more complex IT environment. This seminar looks at those items that a cross-section of best practice information management programs are doing to innovate and continually justify their existence, budgets, and high value to their organizations.

I'm going to be talking about:
Trends and Organization for Information Management Leadership
Architecting the Data Warehouse for these days
The Analytic Access Layer
The Operational World

I'll be providing checklists in each area of those items that every organization needs to be answering in order to have information leadership.

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence 2008

Gartner came out with the 2008 BI Platforms Magic Quadrant with all the market heavies in the upper right (Microsoft, Cognos/IBM, Business Objects/SAP and Oracle). SAS is also there and Microstrategy also clears the center. Though it may appear as the safe way to go, this quadrant is consistent with earlier quadrant criteria and shows some minor progress by Microsoft and Cognos, both deserved, and the absorption of Hyperion into Oracle, which surprisingly did not boost Oracle much. In effect, Gartner is commodifying itself along with the toolsets. This quadrant will need to get less top heavy and some recalibration is in order so that the subtler differentiation stands out amongst the BI toolsets. There are also the dozens of smaller BI players that Gartner could highlight and add value in that way. Most BI buyers would (should) know the list of major players already.

Some of the softer factors like local representation, availability of resources, internal skills and synergy with existing technologies becoming more interesting these days in BI selection.

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