Welcome Business Performance Management Newsletter Subscribers!
This month's edition of the BPM newsletter features two timely articles that are sure to assist you in your performance management initiatives.
I encourage you to continue to use the Business Intelligence Network as your premier source for information regarding business intelligence, performance management, data warehousing and information quality.
In This Issue
What’s Driving the Latest Wave of Business Performance Management Mergers and Acquisitions?
by Craig Schiff
Purchasers of business performance management (BPM) software should benefit from the M&A activity in the BPM space.
Oracle Acquisition of Hyperion
by John Colbert
What does Oracle’s acquisition of Hyperion mean for business performance management and business intelligence buyers?
Join BeyeBLOGS
Join BeyeBLOGS
Ready to jump on the blog bandwagon? Here's your chance! It's free, fun and you get access to our entire network audience. Spots are limited, so act fast!
Start blogging now!
Web Events
Using Operational Business Intelligence for Intra-Day Analysis and Decision Making
Learn how operational business intelligence (BI) optimizes the business intelligence decision cycle. Join Claudia Imhoff, Colin White and Judith Davis as they discuss the technologies for implementing operational BI.
View now!
BI and Data Warehouse Life Cycle Management – Techniques and Best Practices
March 15 at 2 p.m. ET
Today’s data warehouse implementations are complex, near real-time systems that are tightly integrated with core business practices. These sophisticated systems require careful management. Learn best practices and implementation techniques for managing enterprise data warehouse deployments.
Register today!
Web Automation Made Simple
March 21 at 12 p.m. ET
Take a sneak peek at how Denodo Platform 4.0 dramatically simplifies data extraction and integration. Learn how to create a single customer view, enrich data for competitive and business intelligence, exchange data for B2B/B2C, and generate composite Web applications.
Register today!
The Score: IT-Centric BI – 5, Information Worker – 0
March 22 at 2 p.m. ET
We have plenty of data, but despite the big, IT-centric BI solutions that exist in our organizations, it's the tools and skills for investigating and making sense of "everyday data" that we're missing. Join us for this free Web seminar to learn to empower the "everyday data" analysts.
Register today!
Driving Profits with Incentive Pay Programs
March 22 at 2 p.m. ET
Join CFO Magazine, Watson Wyatt, Iconixx and Varicent on a Web cast roundtable discussing the results of groundbreaking new research from CFO Research Services entitled "Sales Incentive Compensation: Issues, Problems, and Solutions."
Register today!
The Future of Business Intelligence – Delivering Benefits Today
March 29 at 2 p.m. ET
BT, one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services, and Colin White outline the new key trends in business intelligence (BI) and how your organization can benefit from next generation BI systems.
Register today!
Fresher Data for the Data Warehouse: What’s the Cost?
April 5 at 1 p.m. ET
What are the costs to deliver fresher data – integrated more than once a day – to the data warehouse? Join industry expert Dr. Richard Hackathorn and GoldenGate Software to hear analyses of 5 data integration architectures that offer low-latency, even real-time, data.
Register today!
The Next Generation of Data Warehouse Appliances: From Feeds & Speeds to Solving Real Business Problems
April 5 at 2 p.m. ET
First generation data warehouse appliances made many promises but failed to solve some of the challenging business issues. However, 2007 is ushering in new data warehouse technology that lives up to its expectations. Join Colin White as he discusses the differences and benefits of the next generation.
Register today!
Featured Industry Channel - Telecom
Did you know that the wealth of content on the Business Intelligence Network is also presented in specific industry sectors, allowing you to navigate directly to the channel that represents your industry? Each channel features timely articles, news, events and other resources, and each channel leader is a seasoned practitioner, well-versed in the challenges and solutions for that industry. The featured channel this week is Telecom, led by John Myers. John has more than 10 years of information technology and consulting experience in positions including business intelligence subject-matter expert, technical architect and systems integrator. Over the past eight years, he has a wealth of business and information technology consulting experience in the telecommunications industry. John specializes in business intelligence/data warehousing and systems integration solutions.
Click here to visit this channel.
