How Federated Databases Benefit Bioinformatics Research
by Richard Casey
Federated database systems are rapidly becoming a mainstream approach for providing integrated resources to the life sciences community.

Entertainment Retailer Focuses Business Intelligence on Vendor Performance
by Dave Stark
Retailers are using business intelligence to optimize spend management and improve the terms and conditions they get from vendors.

Is ETL becoming obsolete?
"E-LT" is an approach that changes where and how data transformation takes place, and leverages existing developer skills, RDBMS engines and server hardware to provide the best price/performance. Learn about the benefits of the E-LT approach, and how automatically generating RDBMS native code to execute your data integration processes will provide you with the best price/performance ratio ever reached.
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Application Usage Management: Mission Critical
January 19th, 2005 at 2:00 pm EDT
The data warehouse is now a production system critical to the entire enterprise - simply monitoring your application usage isn’t enough. Join Bill Inmon to discuss why it is crucial to give your business and IT a centralized view of who is accessing what information - when, where and how.
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A Webcast Series with DataFlux:
Part I: How to Win Support and Influence Decision-makers: Taking CDI to the Executive Suite
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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Part II: Recycling Business Logic: Take CDI across the Enterprise with Web Services
February 21, 2006 at 1:00 p.m. ET
The evolution of Web services is transforming the way that 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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Gartner Business Intelligence Summit
March 6-8, 2006 Hyatt Regency Chicago
Gartner BI Summit will provide you with the latest industry intelligence on the areas that matter most, including trends and directions, strategies, organizational competencies, corporate performance management, governance, metrics, data quality, application analytics, service-oriented architectures and key marketplace and vendor developments.
A must attend event on how to maximize the value of BI.