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Blog: William McKnightApril 2, 2008Dallas Information Management SeminarWe will be having the Information Management seminar in my home area of Dallas, TX on April 14 at 2:00. The registration link is here. LOCATION: DRIVING DIRECTIONS: FROM LOVE FIELD AIRPORT April 1, 2008New York seminar location for April 21The location for the New York seminar is 11 Penn Plaza, 5th Floor DIRECTIONS: March 31, 2008The Information Management Seminar is coming to NYCApril 21 in Manhattan. I look forward to meeting and sharing my perspective on modernizing information strategy from the related disciplines of data warehousing, business intelligence, analytics, data quality, operational business intelligence and master data management.
March 25, 2008MDM ROI and Justification at the MDM SummitI'll be speaking on "MDM ROI and Justification" at the MDM Summit this Sunday, March 30 from 6:30 - 8:00 in the night school program at the San Francisco Hilton. Why would you want to do such a thing? No, I don't mean come to the session, I mean MDM itself. Come to find out. The top six frameworks for MDM justification will be presented. Link. February 18, 2008DAMA International Symposium & WILSHIRE Meta-Data Conference $100 offI'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. November 1, 2007Oracle Open World: Data Governance, Data Stewardship and Data QualityI'll be speaking at Oracle Open World with Haidong Song, Principal Product Strategy Manager, Master Data Management, Oracle Corp and Gino Fortunato, Solution Architect, Oracle Consulting, on November 13 in San Francisco on the topic “Data Governance, Data Stewardship and Data Quality” and will attempt to clear up the interfaces and responsibilities between these concepts. 10:45 am at Marriott Nob Hill AB. July 23, 2007Catching up with alpacas and yogaI've been busy, even to the point of looking at www.ilovealpacas.com once or twice. I have a speaking enagement with SetFocus in Parsippany, NJ and available via a live stream on Friday, August 10. The title is "Modernizing and Advancing Information Management across the Enterprise" and the abstract is below. Next week, I'll be at the "Bilderberg of business intelligence" - the Pacific Northwest BI Summit. Link to last year's event. It's hosted by Scott Humphrey, who I strongly recommend for any vendor in this space seeking the highest quality public relations. I will speak on RFID business intelligence and also take the opportunity to torture some members of the BI community. I know - I already do that frequently with my blog postings. However, this torture will come in the form of leading yoga sessions. Continue reading "Catching up with alpacas and yoga" » April 25, 2007Information Management Conference 2007 in CopenhagenI'll be headlining this conference, Scandinavia's most ambitious data warehouse and business intelligence conference ever. March 14, 2007CDI-MDM ROI & JustificationI'll be speaking at the CDI-MDM Summit March 26 in San Francisco on the topic of "CDI-MDM ROI & Justification." The abstract... Data integration is required to synchronize master data in order to get a single consistent view of an enterprise's core business entities like customers, products, suppliers, and employees. Yet many executives question economic payback. IT professionals must calculate and present the business value of MDM in terms business executives can understand. Unfortunately, most IT professionals lack the knowledge required to develop comprehensive cost-benefit analyses and return on investment (ROI) measurements. This session provides a framework for the research, measurement, and presentation of the economic value of a proposed or existing CDI-MDM initiative, including practical advice about how to calculate ROI, which formulas to use, and how to collect necessary information. Topics include: * Determining indirect ROI Technorati tags: Master Data Management, CDI , ROI August 5, 2006Fall Speaking ScheduleShared Insights Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse Conference 8/16 San Francisco - Roundtable on Master Data Management, Keynote Panel Moderator: "Around the Horn 3", and "Scotia Bank Case Study: Providing ROI with Business Intelligence" with client Scotia Bank. Teradata Partners 9/21 Orlando - "Enabling Business Intelligence Across the Enterprise." CDI-MDM Summit 10/15-16 New York City - "Retail Customer MDM Opportunities Night School" and "MDM & CDI ROI and Justification." The Data Warehousing Institute World Conference 11/9 Orlando - "Justifying and Implementing Master Data Management for the Enterprise." April 13, 2006Make your plans for the Data Warehousing Insitute in ChicagoAlways a tour-de-force of data warehousing and business intelligence education, TDWI will be in Chicago May 14-19. Link. The emergence of master data management is evident by TDWI's first full day session on the topic, which will be given by yours truly on Thursday. I'll also be at the CSI booth on Tuesday and Wednesday in the exhibit hall, from 11:15 - 2:15. Stop by and say hello. If you want to talk more in-depth, just contact me or sign up for one of my Guru sessions to be held Tuesday from 2:30 - 4:30 (1/2 hour each.) Finally, those of you who have been noting my interest in RFID may be interested in the "Night School" session by Mark Albala, also from my company, CSI: "Using the Data Warehouse to Derive Income Generation Uses of RFID." See you in Chicago. September 26, 2005Orlando, here comes Business IntelligenceI 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. September 9, 2005Going "Around the Horn" with Business IntelligenceAt DCI's Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Conference Sept. 27-29 in Orlando: My 3 panelists will be Steve Pratt from FairIssac, Justin Lan from Data Management Group and John Williams from Collaborative Consulting. I came up with this idea in an effort to "spice up" the boring panel format. I also didn't want any panelist dominating or getting off topic like I've experienced in the past so I wanted a hard and fast clock put on the answers. They'll be no dead time. This is an hour you can give in to attention span deprivation. Here's how it will flow - after introductions, we will go through about 30 questions with each panelist having 30 seconds (or until they stop to catch a breath) for each response. So, you won't get the full day, or full hour, on any topic. Actually, you'll get a minute and a half plus my banter. Panelists will be SCORED on their answers by me and the winner will get a free minute with the audience at the end. I've picked topics, and I have the panelists, to deliver a full fire-hose business intelligence what-you-need-to-know overview. Here are some of the questions: If you have some ideas for questions, please let me know. We can still accommodate a few more. I'm a little apprehensive about it since it hasn't been tried before. I thank DCI for the opportunity to try something new. I hope we get a good crowd and it goes over well. We will see... and I will let you know here. Here is the Priority Code that will enable you to get a $400 discount off of the conference tuition of $1295: IEDTLSP. |
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