Back to newsletter listIn this month's TDWI Education & Research Update:
- TDWI World Conference in Chicago
- Webinar: Fast Track Your Data Warehouse
- TDWI Best Practices Awards 2008
- Webinar: Continuous Data Quality Improvement
- Las Vegas Conference Podcasts
- Upcoming Events
TDWI World Conference in Chicago
May 11-16, 2008
Chicago, IL
Register before April 11 and Save $200
The TDWI World Conference in Chicago 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. TDWI's program of more than 50 full- and half-day courses offers something for your entire team.
Conference Benefits
- Gain practical knowledge that you can apply immediately
- Interact with the most knowledgeable and experienced instructors in the industry
- Get product information with a minimum of hype and hassle
- Network and share best practices with your peers
Webinar—Fast Track Your Data Warehouse
Date: March 18, 2008
Time: 9:00 am PT/12:00 noon ET
Presenter: Claudia Imhoff, President, Intelligent Solutions, Inc.
Learn the five elements necessary to fast track your data warehouse initiatives by addressing information integration problems, streamlining requirements gathering and model design, and accelerating the development process for information integration.
Join Claudia Imhoff in a live Webinar to discuss how to avoid cost overruns and project delays by delivering the right trusted information to the business. This results in enhanced operational insight and a data warehouse that can be more responsive to future requirements.
Attend this Webinar, and learn to:
- How to scope your project properly and gather the "right" requirements to ensure success
- How to improve your information infrastructure for accessing and integrating information
- How to ensure reusability and consistency through the creation of data models unique to your industry
- How to understand the source and cause of delays in delivering trusted information
- How to establish the basic elements of a data governance program
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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 deserve 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. Submit your application before the deadline: April 21, 2008.
Webinar—Continuous Data Quality Improvement
Date: March 26, 2008
Time: 9:00 am PT/12:00 noon ET
Presenter: Jonathan Geiger, Executive Vice President, Intelligent Solutions, Inc.
The data warehouse team is expected to deliver quality data but is often faced with sources that have quality deficiencies. This Webinar applies total quality management principles for the creation of the data warehouse and describe how the continuous improvement process can be used to gradually improve data quality issues at the source. Special emphasis is placed on data profiling, data transformation and cleansing, audits and controls, and metadata, all of which work together to provide quality data to the data warehouse users.
Attend this Webinar, and you will learn:
- Ways to define data quality
- The continuous improvement process steps
- How to provide quality data in the data warehouse
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Podcasts from the TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas
Podcasts from the TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas are available now. These podcasts, produced by the Business Intelligence Network, focus on a variety of BI and DW topics such as data governance, open source BI, data quality, and more.
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 | Mar. 3–7 |
| Seminar | Minneapolis, MN | Apr. 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–Aug. 1 |
| World Conference | San Diego, CA | Aug. 17–22 |
| Seminar | Chicago, IL | Sept. 22–25 |
| World Conference | New Orleans, LA | Nov. 2–7 |
| Seminar | Seattle, WA | Nov. 17–20 |
Save time! Register for multiple Webinars here.
| UPCOMING WEBINARS | DATES | |
| Supplying Real-Time Data for BI | Mar. 5 | |
| Future Architectures for Business Intelligence | Mar. 12 | |
| Fast Track Your Data Warehouse | Mar. 18 | |
| The State of Master Data Management | Mar. 19 | |
| How Business Architecture Drives BI | Mar. 25 | |
| Continuous Data Quality Improvement | Mar. 26 | |
| Cool BI: The Latest Innovations | Apr. 2 | |
| 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 | |
| Architecting Your Data Warehouse Platform | May 7 | |
| Taking BI to the Next Level | May 21 | |
| The State of Data Quality | May 28 | |
| Text and Unstructured Data for Business Intelligence | June 25 |
Upcoming TDWI Chapter Meetings
| UPCOMING CHAPTER MEETINGS | DATES | |
| Benelux Chapter Meeting | Mar. 6 | |
| Minneapolis Chapter Meeting | Mar. 11 | |
| Montreal Chapter Meeting | Mar. 12 |
