Business and Data Integration

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		The first article in today's newsletter, What Do SOA and ESB Mean in Business Intelligence, by Colin White reviews two evolving enterprise integration and Web technologies that are going to have a profound effect on the business intelligence marketplace.
		In the second article, The NSA, Telephone Calls, Privacy and Social Network Analysis, David Loshin discusses social network analysis as it relates to the government's surveillance of domestic telephone calls. Please continue to use the Business Intelligence Network as your premier source for information regarding business intelligence, performance management, information quality and data warehousing.

New Articles

What Do SOA and ESB Mean in Business Intelligence?
by Colin White
SOA and ESB technologies are immature and still evolving, but all business intelligence users should have a plan to move to an SOA environment.

The NSA, Telephone Calls, Privacy and Social Network Analysis
by David Loshin
When applied to call detail records, social network analysis can reveal patterns of connectedness.

Featured Web Seminar

Increasing the Value of Corporate Information through Metadata Management
July 19, 2006, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. (ET)
Presented by DataFlux, this Web seminar features David Marco, president of EW Solutions, who will examine the role of metadata management strategies within data quality and data integration efforts.
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Web Events

Free Insightful Web Cast
June 20 at 11 a.m. ET
S-PLUS Working with Big Data
When you need to efficiently work with gigabyte size data sets, you want to have all the techniques and tricks at your fingertips. Join us for this free Web cast and learn how to manipulate "Big Data" effectively when building and deploying your analytics.
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Ten Ways to Improve Data Warehouse Performance:
Building for Performance
June 27 at 1 p.m. ET
Join business intelligence expert Dr. Claudia Imhoff as she presents the key criteria for successful data warehouse initiatives.
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Realizing the Value of Business Performance Management
July 13 at 2 p.m. ET
Why is there such a buzz surrounding business performance management (BPM)? Join this Web seminar to understand how BPM evolved to where it is today, the problems it solves and the benefits of a BPM implementation.
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