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July 23, 2007

Catching up with alpacas and yoga

I'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.

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June 12, 2007

United States I have NOT had a client in during career

Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Arkansas, West Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Alaska, Hawaii

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June 21, 2006

Client wins award in Radical BI and DW Implementation

The Data Warehousing Institute recently named its 2006 annual list of "best practice" award winners. A CSI client is a winner. Business Intelligence has become the “center of the universe” for the AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group (ABSG). This is no more evident then when you visit the main page of the ABSG website (www.absg.com). Two words are repeated and have become the mantra for ABSG employees in 2006 - “Knowledge Driven". Now that's radical!

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November 9, 2005

Upcoming webinar on Master Data Management

On November 17th at 2:00 ET, I will be giving a webinar on the B-EYE-Network with Mark Smith of Ventana Research titled "Justifying and Implementing Master Data Management for the Enterprise." You can sign up for it at this link.

Here is the abstract:
More complex and demanding business environments are forcing more heterogeneous systems environments. Data integration is required to synchronize master data to get a single, consistent view of an enterprise’s core business entities like customers, products, suppliers and employees. Effective master data for any subject area requires input from multiple applications and business units; and enterprise master data needs a formal management system. Business approval, business process change and capture of master data at optimal, early points in the data lifecycle are essential to achieving true enterprise master data.

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October 28, 2005

Murray from the Wiggles

It's time to reveal my side job: Being Murray on The Wiggles.

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October 20, 2005

McKnight Associates, Inc. makes Inc. 500

I learned today that my former company, McKnight Associates, Inc., which I sold to CSI, placed 306 in the Inc. 500 for 2005.

This is quite an honor and I'm sure we'll get the appropriate press release out so I'll spare you from that verbage here.

My next challenge is to...

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October 9, 2005

CSI Rings the AMEX Opening Bell

My company, Conversion Services International, marked a major milestone last week. Positioned on the platform overlooking the trading floor and surrounding by blue and orange balloons, Scott Newman and Glenn Peipert, company founders, reached for their golden gavels and together gave the American Stock Exchange opening bell several hearty strikes to officially ring in the day’s trading at 9:30 A.M EDIT on Monday. The opening bell ceremony served to commemorate CSI’s recent listing on the Exchange which began Sept. 21 (trading symbol: CVN).

We were listed over-the-counter until Sept. 21 and remain the only public company fully focused on data warehousing and business intelligence services.

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September 24, 2005

I don't know Mindy McCready

I've received few phone calls and emails about the William McKnight in the news. Though mostly coming from people who know better, I thought I'd say here that it's not me folks.

Reminds me of a similar happening in 2002, shortly after I moved away from the San Francisco area and many people still thought I lived there (I live in Texas now.) That wasn't me either.

This one is me. And hey, it's just about this blog, nothing as exciting as aggravated burglary of a country star.

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