Back to newsletter listIn this month's TDWI Education & Research Update:
- TDWI World Conference in Orlando
- Webinar: Collaborative Data Integration
- TDWI's New Poster
- New Data Warehouse Appliances Solutions Gateway
- Webinar: BI Solutions for SAP
- Upcoming Events
TDWI World Conference in Orlando
October 28–November 2, 2007
Orlando, FL
The TDWI World Conference in Orlando brings together leading industry visionaries to deliver a unique program of cutting-edge education, best practices, one-on-one consulting, peer networking, business intelligence certification, and product demos. From business intelligence fundamentals to business analytics, TDWI's program of more than 50 full-day, half-day, and night school courses offers something for your entire team.
Hot Topics
- Data Quality Techniques for Practitioners
- Master Data Management
- Data Warehouse Appliance Landscape
- Corporate Performance Management
- Business Analyst Career Insights
TDWI Webinar—Collaborative Data Integration: Coordinating Efforts within Teams and Beyond
Date: October 17, 2007
Time: 9:00 am PT/12:00 noon ET
Presenter: Philip Russom, Senior Manager, TDWI Research
TDWI Research defines collaborative data integration as a collection of user best practices and software tool functions that foster collaboration among the growing number of technical and business people involved in data integration projects and initiatives. Two-thirds of users surveyed by TDWI say that collaborative data integration is an issue for them-and for good reasons. On the technology side, data integration specialists are growing in number and data integration work is ever more dispersed geographically. On the business side, business people have long taken an interest in data integration related to business intelligence and mergers, but they now need direct involvement due to new requirements for compliance and governance.
Attend this Webinar, and you will learn:
- Why collaborative data integration is growing and increasingly important
- How collaboration for data integration reaches both technical and non-technical people, who may work in multiple organizations
- Which approaches foster collaboration to bring the extended team together
- How collaborative data integration's requirements for tools, techniques, and teams vary among organizations and projects
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Request TDWI's New Poster
Performance dashboards are the new face of business intelligence. Today's dashboards are full-fledged business information systems, designed to help organizations communicate strategy, monitor and adjust the execution of strategy, and deliver insights and information to all.
Illustrated on TDWI's latest poster, performance dashboards provide a layered interface that conforms to the way users work, helping them move through successive layers of information in a carefully guided and systematic manner. When aligned with strategic objectives and plans, performance dashboards empower users to work more efficiently and effectively toward a common set of goals. They help measure the past, monitor the present, and forecast the future, allowing an organization to adjust its strategy and tactics in real time to optimize performance.
Request Your Complimentary Copy of TDWI's Poster
New TDWI Solutions Gateway: Data Warehouse Appliances
The Data Warehouse Appliances Solutions Gateway offers a collection of DWA resources and information, including white papers, product demos, Webcasts, and popular TDWI podcasts, all brought to you by the gateway sponsor—Dataupia.
Top resources within the DWA Gateway:
- Some Straight Talk About the Costs of Data Warehousing
- White Paper: Data Management Appliances
- Barbarians at the Gate—Data Warehouse Appliances Challenge Existing Storage Paradigm
Visit the New Data Warehouse Appliances Solutions Gateway
TDWI Webinar—Business Intelligence Solutions for SAP
Date: October 10, 2007
Time: 9:00 am PT/12:00 noon ET
Presenter: Philip Russom, Senior Manager, TDWI Research
Deciding how to approach BI in an SAP-centric organization has its challenges. First, there's a dizzying array of BI solutions available from SAP, third-party software vendors, external consultants, and IT custom development. Then, there's the SAP environment itself, a mature and feature-rich platform that has many options for accessing, integrating, and presenting data. And there are inevitably non-SAP systems that must tie into the BI solution. Hence, SAP users need help understanding the challenges and available solutions for BI, as well as which combinations of solutions are best suited to common situations.
Attend this Webinar, and you will learn:
- Architectural approaches to data warehousing and BI that encompass SAP applications and the entire enterprise
- Which technology options are available, including various software tool types and the vendors who provide them
- How technology approaches vary at different layers of the data warehouse and BI technology stack, as well as the SAP technology stack
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Upcoming Educational Events
TDWI provides a comprehensive source for the highest quality business intelligence and data warehousing education on the market today. If you are looking for unbiased, hype-free education for every member of your BI and DW team, take advantage of our unique educational opportunities, listed below.
| UPCOMING EVENTS | LOCATIONS | DATES |
|---|---|---|
| Seminar | Boston, MA | Oct. 15 - 19 |
| World Conference | Orlando, FL | Oct. 28 - Nov. 2 |
| World Conference | Las Vegas, NV | Feb. 17-22, 2008 |
| World Conference | Chicago, IL | May 11-16, 2008 |
| World Conference | San Diego, CA | Aug. 17-22, 2008 |
| World Conference | New Orleans, LA | Nov. 2-7, 2008 |
| UPCOMING WEBINARS | DATES | |
| Overcoming Challenges to Master Data Management Success | Oct. 3 | |
| Business Intelligence Solutions for SAP | Oct. 10 | |
| Collaborative Data Integration | Oct. 17 | |
| The Ins and Outs of Open-Source Business Intelligence | Oct. 24 | |
| Determining the Success of Your BI Initiative | Nov. 14 | |
| Dealing with Spreadmarts | Jan. 16 |
Upcoming TDWI Chapter Meetings
| UPCOMING CHAPTER MEETINGS | DATES | |
| Colorado Chapter Meeting | Oct. 9 | |
| Washington, D.C. Chapter Meeting | Oct. 25 | |
| Memphis Chapter Meeting | Nov. 6 | |
| Los Angeles Chapter Meeting | Nov. 13 | |
| Benelux Chapter Meeting | Nov. 15 |
