By blending analytical and operational applications, today's organizations are more agile and better able to respond to changing market conditions. These innovative enterprises are deploying advanced applications that offer real-time, analytic information to operational users for rapid-fire decisions made with precision and accuracy.
This session will outline key strategies for merging operational and analytical tasks and provide examples that illustrate best practices.
Just for attending, you'll receive a FREE white paper, "Critical Success Factors for Pervasive BI," co-authored by CTOs Stephen Brobst of Teradata, James Marjkarian of Informatica and Jeff Beddel of MicroStrategy. This informative paper describes the technologies and designs needed to fulfill modern data warehouse applications.
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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. |
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Dan Graham joined Teradata Corporation in 1989 and served as the senior product manager for the DBC/1012 parallel database computer. He then joined IBM where he wrote product plans and launched the RS/6000 SP parallel cluster. He then became Strategy Executive for IBM's Global Business Intelligence Solutions and formed the Teraplex Integration Centers to stress-test large data warehouse workloads. Returning to his roots, Dan currently leads Teradata's Active Data Warehouse Marketing. |
