Back to newsletter listIn this month's TDWI Education & Research Update:
- TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas
- TDWI Executive Summit
- Webinar—Supplying Real Time Data for BI
- TDWI Best Practices Awards 2008
- Master Data Management Insight
- Webinar—Future Architectures for Business Intelligence
- Upcoming Events
TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas
February 17-22, 2008
Caesars Palace
Check out the TDWI World Conference video!
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.
Conference Benefits
- Interact with the most knowledgeable and experienced instructors in the industry
- Take advantage of objective, vendor-neutral education
- Bridge the knowledge and communication gaps between business and IT
- Network and share best practices with your peers
TDWI Executive Summit
The BI Team Needs a Good Design.
The Business Needs a Dashboard.
YOU need the TDWI Executive Summit;
an interactive environment geared specifically for executives.
Co-located with TDWI's World Conference
Monday, February 18—Tuesday, February 19
Join a qualified group of your peers to discuss:
- How to align business and IT
- How to sell BI to the business How to build a high-performance BI team How to succeed on a limited budget
For more information and to register for the Executive Summit, visit www.tdwi.org/lasvegas2008/es.
TDWI Webinar—Supplying Real Time Data for BI: Data Integration Techniques and Technologies
Date: March 5, 2008
Time: 9:00 am PT/12:00 noon ET
Presenter: Mark Madsen, Principal, Third Nature
Surveys show a growing demand for more up-to-date data in our BI environments. To meet these needs requires adjusting our approach to data integration, moving away from a strict reliance on nightly batch-style ETL. The opposite end of the spectrum - application integration and EAI technologies - doesn't fit well in the BI environment. We need to know what methods and technologies are available for capturing, processing and delivering near real-time data, and how it will affect the target environment.
Attend this Webinar, and learn:
- The difference between data integration and application integration
- Methods and tools for processing up-to-date data
- Factors that can affect your implementation
Register Now
TDWI Best Practices Awards 2008
Have you completed a data warehouse or business intelligence implementation that other organizations could learn from?
Would you like some recognition for your accomplishment?
Are you a vendor with successful customers who deserves recognition?
If the answer is "yes" to any of these questions, then you should consider submitting an application for a TDWI Best Practices Award. Once a year, TDWI collects award applications, judges them, and gives awards in a dozen or so categories in data warehousing, business intelligence, and data management. It's that time of year again, so get your award application together and submit it before the deadline of April 21, 2008.
Master Data Management Insight
***Only a few spaces left! Register now to qualify for MDM 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—Future Architectures for Business Intelligence
Date: March 12, 2008
Time: 9:00 am PT/12:00 noon ET
Presenter: Mark Madsen, Principal, Third Nature
The things we are building now are yesterday's future. There is a revolution coming in the information delivery market and we are at the beginning of that change. The overall picture is fuzzy, but we can see the general outlines of the new architecture. We need to pay attention to the drivers and tease out how they are affecting what we need to do. Like any large shift, it's being driven by multiple factors: technology evolution, culture change, and evolving business practices. The confluence of these is driving up to the minute data, faster and more distributed BI.
Attend this Webinar, and learn to:
- What is driving change in warehouse and BI implementations
- What new requirements to expect in the future
- Determining what parts of your architecture and tools need to change
Register Now
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Toronto, ON | June 23–27 |
| Seminar | Vancouver, BC | July 14–17 |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| How Business Architecture Drives BI | Mar. 25 | |
| 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 |
