Back to newsletter listIn this month's TDWI Education & Research Update:
- TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas
- TDWI Executive Summit
- Webinar—BI for Finance
- 2008 Seminar Series
- Master Data Management Insight
- Webinar—Data Quality Management
- New Monograph—Complex Data: A New Challenge for Data Integration
- Upcoming Chapter Meetings
TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas
February 17-22, 2008
Caesars Palace
Early Registration!
Register by January 18, 2008, and receive an early registration discount and bonus gift.
The TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas 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
- Next Generation BI: A Look at the New Horizon
- Affordable BI
- In-Depth Data Modeling
- ITIL/COBIT and Data Warehousing
TDWI Executive Summit
Co-located with TDWI's World Conference
Monday, February 18—Tuesday, February 19
You're a VIP of business intelligence. Join your peers for an exclusive event.
Spend two days with your peers for dialogue and interactive learning focused on optimizing the value of your BI solutions. Translate business intelligence into bottom-line results.
Three Reasons to Join the Summit
- Qualified attendance
- Maintain your competitive edge
- Maximize your time out of the office
Early Registration Discount!
Register before January 18 and save.
For more information and to register for the Executive Summit, visit www.tdwi.org/lasvegas2008/es.
TDWI Webinar—BI for Finance: Transforming the Finance Department from Record Keepers to Strategic Advisors
Date: January 23, 2008
Time: 9:00 am PT/12:00 noon ET
Presenter: Wayne Eckerson, Director, TDWI Research
Many CFOs recognize the need to transform the finance department from a group of back-office accountants who focus on cost control to trusted advisors who deliver insights about how to help the organization achieve strategic objectives and goals. Finance is in a unique position to drive strategy because it gathers data from all departments and lines of business. Finance is the mind of the business, but until recently it has focused on tactical concerns related to financial reporting, budgeting, compliance, and cash and capital management. Learn how finance can employ BI to correlate financial outcomes with business activities and lead the organization in its quest to achieve strategic objectives.
Attend this Webinar, and learn:
- How finance can use BI to focus more on analysis and less on collecting and massaging data
- How finance can use BI to streamline financial reporting and planning tasks
- How finance can use BI to deliver a more balanced view of the business that correlates financial outcomes with business activities
- How performance management can help an organization better communicate and execute strategy and respond quickly to changing market conditions
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TDWI's 2008 Seminar Series
Whether you are embarking on a new business intelligence project or working in a mature data warehousing environment, TDWI Seminars offer a broad range of courses focused on the skills and techniques at the heart of successful business intelligence and data warehousing implementations. The small class size and unique format of TDWI Seminars provide a high-impact learning experience with significant student-teacher interactivity.
| LOCATIONS | DATES |
|---|---|
| Austin, TX | February 4–7 |
| New York, NY | March 3–7 |
| Minneapolis, MN | April 7–11 |
| Boston, MA | June 9–12 |
| Vancouver, BC | June 23–26 |
| Toronto, ON | July 14–18 |
| Washington, DC | July 28–August 1 |
| Chicago, IL | September 22–25 |
| Seattle, WA | November 17–20 |
Courses | Full Schedule | More Information
Master Data Management Insight
March 2-4, 2008
Westin Savannah Harbor
Golf Resort and Spa
Savannah, GA
Business and technology professionals are increasingly turning to an emerging information discipline called master data management (MDM) to improve the quality and consistency of the data driving their customer-facing and other mission-critical applications.
To meet this demand, TDWI and PPM Media have teamed up to create an intimate environment for senior business and technology leaders to accelerate their knowledge about MDM and meet all the key players in the industry. Every qualified business and IT decision maker will receive an all-expenses-paid participation package to attend.
Qualify for your all-expenses-paid participation now!
TDWI Webinar—Data Quality Management: Assessing Business Impacts and Data Quality Requirements
Date: January 09, 2008
Time: 9:00 am PT/12:00 noon ET
Presenter: David Loshin, President, Knowledge Integrity, Inc.
Every business-critical application depends on data that meets the business requirements for information quality. This Webinar focuses on the methods and techniques employed to assess business data quality requirements and the tools and techniques for ensuring the validity, completeness, and consistency of data in order to enable the organization to achieve its business objectives.
Attend this Webinar, and learn to:
- Assess the business impacts of poor data quality
- Identify business needs for data quality management
- Define business rules for data quality assurance
- Evaluate tools that are available to support data quality management
Register Now
Monograph Series
Complex Data: A New Challenge for Data Integration
Data integration solutions have grown significantly in number and depth this decade. Today, data integration solutions are commonplace in corporate and governmental organizations, where they continually acquire, merge, and transport. As data integration practices and technologies expand to embrace complex data, data integration solutions must grapple with two tasks that are new to most data integration specialists: integrating data from complex and nontraditional sources and assuring the quality of data drawn from those sources. This Monograph explores the combination of these two tasks.
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.
2008 Event Schedule
| UPCOMING EVENTS | LOCATIONS | DATES |
|---|---|---|
| Seminar | Austin, TX | February 4–7 |
| World Conference | Las Vegas, NV | Feb. 17–22 |
| Seminar | New York, NY | March 3–7 |
| Seminar | Minneapolis, MN | April 7–11 |
| World Conference | Chicago, IL | May 11–16 |
| Seminar | Boston, MA | June 9–12 |
| Seminar | Vancouver, BC | June 23–26 |
| Seminar | Toronto, ON | July 14–18 |
| Seminar | Washington, DC | July 28–August 1 |
| World Conference | San Diego, CA | Aug. 17–22 |
| Seminar | Chicago, IL | September 22–25 |
| World Conference | New Orleans, LA | Nov. 2–8 |
| Seminar | Seattle, WA | November 17–20 |
Save time! Register for multiple Webinars here.
| UPCOMING WEBINARS | DATES | |
| Data Quality Management | Jan. 09 | |
| Dealing with Spreadmarts | Jan. 16 | |
| BI for Finance | Jan. 23 | |
| Approaches to Operational BI | Feb. 13 | |
| Why your Data Warehouse Needs Unstructured Data | Feb. 27 | |
| Supplying Real Time Data for BI | Mar. 5 | |
| Future Architectures for Business Intelligence | Mar. 12 | |
| The State of Master Data Management | Mar. 19 | |
| Data Governance Strategies | Apr. 9 | |
| The Secrets of Building an Agile, Adaptable BI Environment | Apr. 16 | |
| Developing a Data Integration Strategy | Apr. 23 | |
| Data Warehouse Appliances: An Update on the State of the Art | Apr. 30 | |
| Taking BI to the Next Level | May 21 | |
| The State of Data Quality | May 28 |
Upcoming TDWI Chapter Meetings
| UPCOMING CHAPTER MEETINGS | DATES | |
| Chicago Chapter Meeting | Jan. 10 | |
| Dallas Chapter Meeting | Jan. 14 | |
| South Florida | Jan. 18 | |
| New York | Jan. 23 |
