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This issue features an outstanding best practices article. Best Practices for Business Intelligence Tool Selection by Tim Furey outlines a streamlined process that mitigates business risk and reduces the time, cost and effort involved in selecting a business intelligence tool.
In the second article, Telecom ETL Hubris, John Myers shares his experiences related to ETL and call detail records, his data modeling experience at a recent conference and the lessons he learned from both.
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Best Practices for Business Intelligence Tool Selection
by Tim Furey
Proven best practices mitigate business risk and reduce time, cost and effort involved in selecting a business intelligence tool – by as much as 40 percent.
Telecom ETL Hubris
by John Myers
Because of telecom service providers’ overwhelming amount of customer and transaction data, it is necessary to pay careful attention to the data analysis and data modeling processes.
Extending SAP BW Business Intelligence Capabilities
March 23 at 2 p.m. ET
Get the most from SAP BW’s business intelligence capabilities! Can third-party tools enhance business intelligence? Join Colin White and Mike Garrett to learn the strengths of BW and third-party tools.
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Master Data Management: An Introduction
March 28 at 2 p.m. ET
Everyone is talking about master data management (MDM) and its role in creating a unified view of customers and products. But, do you really understand the benefits and challenges of MDM? Join us for the answers – and even ask some questions of your own.
Free live Web seminar – register today!
What's Your IQ? A Step-By-Step Approach to Improved Information Quality
March 29 at 12 p.m. ET
Significant focus is being placed on ensuring federal regulatory compliance – requiring information be of sound and acceptable quality. How does an enterprise improve its Information Quality (IQ)? We demonstrate how to implement an IQ program using IQ Assessment and Information Risk Models.
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Business Intelligence Analytics for IT Performance
April 5 at 2 p.m. ET
Claudia Imhoff discusses the value of developing a strategy and methodology for analyzing data and query utilization to improve performance, increase productivity and reduce support costs of business intelligence and data warehouse deployments.
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Extending the Smart Business Toward Real-Time Business Intelligence
Available On Demand
Join Claudia Imhoff, Colin White and Judy Davis for a roundtable discussion on the latest research study on real-time business intelligence. Discover what real companies are doing to implement business intelligence platforms to support timely, effective business decisions.
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DCI’s Portals, Collaboration and Content Management Conference
April 4-6, Hotel del Coronado – San Diego, CA
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Executing an Analytics Based Strategy
May 17-19 in Chicago, IL
Join the creators of the Balanced Scorecard for a landmark conference that showcases the best practices of implementing a successful analytics based strategy. It will change the way you do business!
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