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My article in today's newsletter, The Role of Embedded Business Intelligence in BI Processing, describes why embedded BI is not a different type of BI processing, but rather an approach for implementing event-driven operational business intelligence.

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Using Unstructured Business Content in Business Intelligence
by Colin White
Business content will have an increasing effect on business intelligence processing over the next few years.

Are Exabytes/Petabytes for Real?
May 3 at 2 p.m. ET
Some trends can be ignored, but you certainly can’t ignore the trend of growing data volumes. Are you prepared to deal with this growth? Join Richard Winter as he outlines data warehouse growth trends and what the future holds.
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Data Profiling/Quality Suite and PayAsYouGoDataQuality.com
May 8 at 1 p.m. ET
Special Guest Speaker: David Loshin – President of Knowledge Integrity
Discover Predictive Data Management – the desktop and Web-based, pay-as-you-go low-cost solution. Now all the data profiling/quality and compliance technology you need is just $5,000.
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Software, at Your Service: Introduction to OnDemand Applications by Business Objects
May 10 at 1 p.m. ET
Attend this espresso briefing to learn how on-demand applications provide a new way to transform data into actionable information that will help you keep pace with trends like globalization, worker dispersion and Web 2.0. Complimentary coffee cards for attendees.
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Using Operational Business Intelligence for Intra-Day Analysis and Decision Making
On-demand
Learn how operational business intelligence optimizes the business intelligence (BI) decision cycle. Join Claudia Imhoff, Colin White and Judith Davis as they discuss the technologies for implementing operational BI.
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