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January 26, 2006
Welcome Inmon newsletter subscribers!
In the first article, Corporate Performance Management Exposed, Sanjeev Vohra discusses the importance of planning, budgeting and forecasting effectively. Sanjeev believes that these activities can help senior managers navigate their way through the organization's data assets to identify weaknesses and opportunities for creating an integrated solution.
It can often be confusing when determining the right question to ask. My article, The Right Question to Ask About Analytics, examines the importance of experience, intuition and new ways of thinking. Finding the right question to ask was particularly difficult when I tried to initially justify the costs of the data warehouse.
I encourage you to use the Business Intelligence Network as your premier source for information pertaining to Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Data Warehousing and Information Quality.
— Bill Inmon
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Corporate Performance Management Exposed
by Sanjeev Vohra
By knowing how to plan, budget and forecast effectively, senior managers can navigate through their organization’s data assets to identify weaknesses and opportunities for creating an integrated solution.
The Right Question to Ask About Analytics
by Bill Inmon
With regard to analytics, experience and intuition are beneficial in determining new ways to ask the right question.
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| + Featured Research Study |
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Optimize your Business with Real Time BI
Get the right information to the right people at the right time in the right format. Real companies are serious about achieving this goal in order to be smarter about the way they do business. Read the research study which examined real-time BI using 5 leading companies and their customers. Claudia Imhoff and Colin White joined Judy Davis for a web event to discuss the study's objectives, findings, and results - and what it means for the future of real-time business intelligence!
Read the Study and Watch the Webinar Now!
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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.
Register for this free event!
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.
View this web seminar today!
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TDWI World Conference
February 19-24, 2006, Las Vegas NV
Attend the TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas, February 19-24, 2006, and experience a unique program of cutting-edge BI and DW education, best practices, one-on-one consulting, peer networking, business intelligence certification and product demos.
Register today for this premier event.
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A University of Colorado Study on Operational Efficiency of Data Warehouses
As data warehouse technology and deployment matures, efficient operation becomes a priority. This study aims to collect a data set of important variables for data warehouse operations to evaluate operational efficiency. Study participants will receive a free report on the study's findings. An addendum to the report will provide customized results to each participating organization. Organizations can use the study results to determine their relative operational efficiency compared to similar organizations.
All data gathered will be held in the strictest confidence. The survey itself should take just 15 to 20 minutes. However, you may need to devote some additional time to provide rough estimates for some variables in the survey. Participants who complete the survey within one month of this publication date will be eligible for a drawing of a micro hard drive MP3 player.
Take the survey.
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