Teradata

Wayne W. Eckerson, Director of Research and Services, TDWI

Wayne has 17 years of experience in the IT industry and has covered DW and BI issues since 1995. He has authored many in-depth reports, a column for several business and technology magazines, and is a noted speaker and consultant in the BI industry. His book, Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business, was published by John Wiley & Sons in October 2005. 

Mark Shainman, Global Program Manager of MDM, Teradata Corporation

Mark manages the global aspects of the sales, deployment, and technology strategy of master data within Teradata Corporation. He also heads the Oracle to Teradata migration program as well as competitive positioning, strategies, market analysis. Prior to joining Teradata, he was a senior research analyst for META Group specializing in database management systems for both online transaction processing and decision-support architectures. Mark has advised clients on a wide spectrum of database issues, including total-cost-of-ownership analysis, data mart consolidation, disaster recovery, replication, and security, while assisting with core database product comparison and selection.