Thursday, April 26, 2007
Welcome Subscribers!

Jill Dyché

Welcome to the Jill Dyché Special Edition of the Bill Inmon Newsletter.

It is once again my privilege to feature our Jill Dyché Special Edition of the Bill Inmon Newsletter. As you know, Jill is a recognized customer data integration expert. In addition to Part 6 of my series on metadata, this Special Edition also features an article from Jill. Her article discusses what a CIO can do to ensure that the ability of their company to compete is not inhibited.

On behalf of the Business Intelligence Network, I encourage you to use the Jill Dyché Special Edition of the Bill Inmon Newsletter as your regular source of information about customer data integration and customer data management. Also, please continue to use the Business Intelligence Network as your premier source for information pertaining to business intelligence, performance management, data warehousing and information quality.

To your continued success,

Bill Inmon


IN THIS ISSUE MORE > 

Metadata, Part 6
by Bill Inmon
Metadata plays a very profound role in the distributed processing environment of today – it defines the interface to and from one distributed processing module to another.

Business Intelligence and the Savvy CIO
by Jill Dyché
Effective IT leaders not only keep one eye on the strategic initiatives of their company, but also have frameworks for ensuring that business intelligence and analytics don’t get short shrift.


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Are Exabytes/Petabytes for Real?
May 3 at 2 p.m. ET
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Data Profiling/Quality Suite and PayAsYouGoDataQuality.com
May 8 at 1 p.m. ET
Join David Loshin, President of Knowledge Integrity to discover predictive data management – the desktop and Web-based, pay-as-you-go low-cost solution. Now all the data profiling/quality and compliance technology you need is just $5,000.
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Software, at Your Service: Introduction to OnDemand Applications by Business Objects
May 10 at 1 p.m. ET
Attend this espresso briefing to learn how on-demand applications provide a new way to transform data into actionable information that will help you keep pace with trends like globalization, worker dispersion and Web 2.0. Complimentary coffee cards for attendees.
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Using Operational Business Intelligence for Intra-Day Analysis and Decision Making
On-demand
Learn how operational business intelligence optimizes the business intelligence (BI) decision cycle. Join Claudia Imhoff, Colin White and Judith Davis as they discuss the technologies for implementing operational BI.
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