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January 31, 2006

Welcome Business Intelligence Newsletter Subscribers

Claudia Imhoff

It gives me great pleasure to introduce Jim Wirth as the new domain leader for the Manufacturing Channel at the Business Intelligence Network. Prior to joining Knightsbridge as a senior principal and practice area leader for high-technology in 2003, Jim was co-founder and president of BASE Consulting. Jim has over 14 years of experience in information systems consulting, both in solutions delivery and business development. In his debut article, SCORing Big with your Supply Chain Business Intelligence Initiatives, Jim discusses how today's manufacturing companies are using business intelligence to improve their integrated supply chains. Jim describes how the Supply Chain Operations Reference-model (SCOR) is a valuable information source regarding the KPIs and metrics that are used to better manage the supply chain process.

In the second article, Doing Less to Improve Telecom Data Warehouse Value, John Myers examines how telecom companies can add value to their data warehouse. While many people would advocate doing more to add such value, John believes that value is added by spending less time on uncleaned and untranslated data. In fact, he has found situations where raw data was actually better than translated data.

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

Warm regards,

In this issue

SCORing Big with your Supply Chain Business Intelligence Initiatives
by Jim Wirth
Today’s manufacturing companies are using business intelligence to improve their integrated supply chains.

Doing Less to Improve Telecom Data Warehouse Value
by John Myers
Telecom companies can add value to their data warehouse by spending less time on data cleansing and translation.

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