Podcast Interviews

Karen Steele, Vice President of Marketing for Xactly Corporation
Karen Steele discusses Xactly's ability to automate sales performance management as software as a service.

Bob Eve, Vice President of Marketing for Composite Software
The new search interface in the Discovery solution is discussed by Bob Eve as a different approach for a business user to easily access structured data.

Steve Smythe, Director of Product Management for IBM
Steve Smythe talks about the changes at Cognos since the IBM acquisition and the trends he is seeing in operational business intelligence.

Jeff Dandridge, President and COO of InfoCentricity
The InfoCentricity strategy of applying advanced analytics to the CRM space is described by Jeff Dandridge. He also shares client examples of using complex analytics to manage their customers.

Donald Farmer, Principal Program Manager for SQL Server Analysis Services at Microsoft
The recent acquisition of DATAllegro and Zoomix is discussed by Donald Farmer, and he also shares his thoughts about the the new release of SQL 2008.

Dan Soceanu, Product Marketing Manager for DataFlux
Dan Soceanu comments on data governance and the DataFlux MDM and Maturity Model. He also describes what customers are really doing with master data management.

Nan Froisland, Director of Product Strategy for PivotLink
Nan Froisland explains PivotLink's simple approach to data integration which creates a panoramic view of the organization's data.

Kim Dossey, Teradata Manager of Analysts and Third-Party Influencers
Kim Dossey reviews the recent third-party influencers event and describes the resources available to analysts and influencers who participate. She also provides a sneak peek at plans for the upcoming PARTNERS event.

Kim Stanick, Vice President of Marketing for ParAccel
Kim Stanick discusses recent developments in analytic databases and appliances, and she shares some ParAccel customer stories.

Rich Ghiossi, Director of Business Intelligence for HP Software
Rich Ghiossi focuses his comments on operational business intelligence and talks about Neoview's enterprise data warehouse.

Paul Clark, Director of Corporate Product Marketing for Business Objects
Paul Clark comments on how Business Objects is optimizing business performance, combining the worlds of business intelligence, enterprise prformance management and governance/risk/compliance.

Scott Davis, CEO of Eyeris
Scott introduces the new Eyeris product, Lyza, an-all-in-one desktop tool for certain "analytic creatives" to conduct discovery-based analysis.

Podcast Presentations

Jill Dyché - CRM in 2008
Jill gives a brief history of the evolution of CRM and discusses the current state of the CRM environment. Today, companies have the ability to differentiate customers based on behavior and use micromarketing techniques and social networking to better und

William McKnight - Information Management Leadership
Laying out five essential traits of a leader, William elaborates on what it takes to get people to want to do what you want them to. The principles are applicable across any organization, not specific to the IT department.

Colin White - Operational BI
Colin lays out the new business requirements for the data and process worlds. Operational BI is just as much art as science and necessitates a simultaneous top-down and bottom-up approach.

Claudia Imhoff - Software as a Service
Claudia gives an overview of the challenges and benefits of the software as a service (SaaS) model. She is on a mission to get acceptance of the term "on premises" as opposed to the common vernacular choice of "on premise" to describe this type of solutio