The Partnership of Six Sigma and Data Certification
by Duffie Brunson and Sid Frank
Since Six Sigma works to reduce defects, data certification improvement programs are often beneficial for the application of their methodologies.

Spending Trend Demonstrates Value in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
by Tim Furey
Increased expenditures demonstrate that clients are acknowledging the inherent value in providing consistent, accurate and trusted views of integrated drug discovery and development data to key stakeholders.

Jump-Start Your Data Quality Initiative
Are you looking to jump-start a data quality initiative in 2006? Join Firstlogic and industry experts for three upcoming Web seminars on topics from getting your data quality project approved to leveraging a data steward and translating your data quality strategy into a series of tactical steps. Event dates: Feb. 1, Feb. 15 and Feb. 23.
Register today at www.firstlogic.com/jump-start

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.
Register for this free event!

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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Ready to jump on the Blog bandwagon? Here's your chance! The Business Intelligence Network™ is launching a community blogging site! It's free, fun and you get access to our entire network audience. Spots are limited, so act fast!
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Aligning Planning and Budgeting to your Strategy
January 25 - 27, 2006 Miami, FL
Executing an integrated approach to business planning and budgeting is critical to improving enterprise performance. Join us this January, for the most powerful financial conference of the year. This three day event showcases Drs. Kaplan & Norton along with leading practitioners, case studies, hands on clinics and interactive forums.
Don't miss out on the year’s most exciting financial conference.

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.

DCI’s Portals, Collaboration and Content Management Conference
April 4-6, 2006 Hotel del Coronado - San Diego, CA
B-EYE-Network Members are entitled to a $400* discount. Register by 2/17/06 and provide priority code BBZTL22 to take advantage of this offer! Call 781.995.4740 or visit www.PortalsEvent.com.