In an increasingly competitive landscape, today's corporate finance department must function as more than back-office record keepers. More than most departments, finance has the unique opportunity to drive strategy using data collected from across the enterprise.

Join us to discover the increased role business intelligence (BI) plays in leading finance departments, correlating financial outcomes with business activities and helping guide the organization in its quest to achieve strategic objectives.

Attend and learn how finance can use BI to:

• focus more on analysis and less on collecting data
• streamline financial reporting and planning tasks
• deliver a more transparent, actionable view of the business
• better align strategy and execution — ensuring a more rapid response to changing market conditions

You'll also hear examples of Teradata customers who have successfully transformed their finance departments using enterprise data warehousing in support of business intelligence initiatives.

Featured speakers

Wayne W. Eckerson is director of research and services for TDWI. He has 17 years of experience in the IT industry and has covered DW and BI issues since 1995. Eckerson is the author of many in-depth reports, a columnist for several business and technology magazines and a noted speaker and consultant in the BI industry. His book, titled Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business, was published by John Wiley & Sons in October, 2005. He can be reached at weckerson@tdwi.org.

Jeff Lovett is the director of finance and performance management at Teradata. He has extensive integration experience with numerous vendors and is an expert in data warehousing, analytics and business intelligence.