Leading and Organizing Data Warehousing Teams: Improving Individual and Team Performance
Data warehousing projects struggle with a variety of issues that chronically inhibit success. Some of these issues are technical—many are not.

Real-Time Data Warehousing
Active data warehousing is rapidly changing the landscape for deployment of decision-support capability. Challenges of supporting extreme service levels in the areas of performance, availability, and data freshness demand new methods for DW construction.

HandsOn-Business Analytics™
This course starts by defining the promise of business intelligence and the gap that exists between what is promised and what is often implemented.

Beyond the Data Warehouse: Architectural Options for Data Integration
Data warehousing used to be IT's weapon of choice for corralling the "islands of data" and bringing order to the decentralized information chaos. Shifting business priorities, outsourcing’s popularity, and new technologies have changed that...

Agile Project Management for Data Warehouse Projects
This course examines self-organizing project teams, spiral methodologies, and "extreme scoping" (a development method based on software releases).

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Dashboard Yea or Dashboard Nay?
by Stephen Swoyer
The dashboards of today differ fundamentally from the relatively static dashboards of yore. According to some proponents, in fact, today’s dashboard is the killer app that could finally take BI mainstream.

How Business Sponsors Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dashboard
by Stephen Swoyer
More than many other business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) projects, dashboards are frequently championed by executive or line-of-business sponsors.

The ROI of Data Quality
by Len Dubois
Enterprise-class data quality solutions incorporate a scalable, repeatable process for data quality management.

How Mature is Your Data Management Environment?
by Tony Fisher
At the initial stage of the Enterprise Data Management Maturity Model, confusion reigns. Complicating the problem is that most organizations are in denial about the quality and usefulness of corporate data.

A Business Approach to Data Quality: Achieving and Maintaining First-Class Organizational Data
The key to understanding any company’s operations is understanding the data. Consequently, the better quality the data is, the better the understanding.

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Business Intelligence: The Strategic Imperative for CIOs
The role of the CIO has changed dramatically in recent years by becoming more strategic as organizations look to use information to create a competitive advantage.

Process-Driven BI: Building Smarter Business Processes
By injecting business intelligence technology directly into critical business operations, you can ensure that the right people get involved at the right time to make decisions that impact your bottom line.

Worst Practices in Business Intelligence: Why BI Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail
by Kevin R. Quinn
Insight into the top four worst practices for business intelligence with guidance on how to avoid or overcome worst practices in order to tap into the true power of BI.

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Larry DeBoever, Managing Director of EAdirections
Larry talks about radical innovation and shares why the rapid changes in the underlying economics of technology have made this a profoundly different world, requiring companies to radically transform their businesses and do it quickly.
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John Miller, Senior Director of Marketing for Business Intelligence for HP
John talks about HP’s commitment to business intelligence and BI trends – especially integrating the intelligence into operations associated with running the business. He also explains how Neoview was designed for this move to operational BI.
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Michael Franklin, Ph.D., Cofounder and CTO of Truviso
Michael talks about Truviso and its origins, explains the difference between traditional query systems and their continuous query engine, and describes their platform for real-time analytics, monitoring and event detection over live data streams.
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