Business and Data Integration

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		My article, Integration Trends for 2006, highlights what I consider to be the major trends for integration as they pertain to user interaction, business process, applications and data. I discuss how IT organizations will be allocating their budgets in addressing these integration trends as they evolve their enterprise-wide integration infrastructure.
		In my article, Simple Business Rules for Business Intelligence, I examine how a simplified business rule framework can provide the foundation for integrating more complex business rules into your environment. By doing this, these organizations can eliminate confusion and provide simplified reporting about how information correlates to achieving business objectives. Please continue to use the Business Intelligence Network as your premier source for information regarding Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Information Quality and Data Warehousing Information.

New Articles

Integration Trends for 2006
by Colin White
As investment in integration technology and products increases, IT organizations will need to continue to evolve their enterprise-wide integration infrastructure to handle user interaction, business process, applications and data.

Simple Business Rules for Business Intelligence
by David Loshin
For organizations to effectively eliminate confusion, they must employ standard definitions to describe simple business rules.

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Web Events

How to Win Support and Influence Decision-makers: Taking CDI to the Executive Suite - Part I
January 31, 2006 at 1:00 p.m. ET
As customer data integration (CDI) matures in 2006, organizations will look to these solutions to build a single, unified view of the enterprise – a critical shortcoming of CRM, ERP and other business applications. The first step is to provide a compelling business reason for starting a CDI project that will persuade executive-level management to approve and support CDI
initiatives.
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Recycling Business Logic: Take CDI across the Enterprise with Web Services - Part II
February 21, 2006 at 1:00 p.m. ET
The evolution of Web services is transforming the way companies do business. For customer data integration (CDI) implementations, a service oriented architecture (SOA) provides the freedom to build business rules for standardizing, verifying and merging data – and then apply those rules across the enterprise. Sponsored by DataFlux, this webcast features Aaron Zornes of The CDI Institute.
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Visual Analysis from Tableau Software and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - Hosted by Bill Baker, GM, BI and Applications, Microsoft Corporation
Available On Demand
Business users want new BI tools to see and understand their data. They want usability, low cost and results – fast. Join us to see how we empower business users with SQL Server 2005 and Tableau.
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