April 20th, 2009
Amitech Solutions to host Wayne Eckerson on May 21st to speak at the Data Warehousing
Group conference in St. Louis
Amitech Solutions is proud to host Mr. Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research for
The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) (http://www.tdwi.org),
on May 21st 2009 to speak at The Data Warehousing Group Conference in St. Louis
at the Racquet Club Ladue, 1600 Log Cabin Lane, St. Louis.
About the Speaker:
WAYNE W. ECKERSON is the Director of TDWI Research for The Data
Warehousing Institute (TDWI), a worldwide association of business intelligence and
data warehousing professionals that provides education, training, research, and
certification. Eckerson has 18 years of industry experience and has covered data
warehousing and business intelligence since 1995.
Eckerson is the author of many in-depths reports, a columnist for several business
and technology magazines, and a noted speaker and consultant. He authored the book
Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business published
by John Wiley & Sons in October, 2005 and is the creator of TDWI’s BI Maturity
Model and Benchmarking Assessment service.
- Cost: The event is free of charge and breakfast is provided.
- Door Prize: There will be door prizes announced during the event.
Previous prizes have included tickets and electronics.
- Location: Racquet Club Ladue, 1600 Log Cabin Lane, St. Louis
- Location URL:
www.rcladue.com/map.pdf
- Please RSVP
here. Space is limited so sign up early!
Agenda
Session 1: Real-Time Data Delivery
Almost everyone understands the concept behind operational BI: let’s speed delivery
of data to users so they can spot problems or opportunities as they arise within
core operational processes rather than find out after it’s too late to make an impact.
The idea is simple but implementing it is complex. Do you rearchitect your data-warehousing
environment to support just-in-time data? Or do you create a parallel decisioning
environment designed from the ground-up to enhance operational decision-making?
What are the tradeoffs for working inside or outside the corporate sanctioned data
warehousing architecture, and what organizational and architectural factors might
dictate which option you choose?
If you decide to enhance your data-warehousing environment to support just-in-time
data and analysis, how do you ensure referential integrity and data quality and
where do you perform the necessary transformations? How do you recover from errors
when data continuously streams into the environment? How do you interface with enterprise
service buses, replication engines, or event messaging backbones? How you deliver
requisite scalability, availability, and reliability? How do you train users to
make accurate decision on atomic data that is always changing and aggregate that
may not be in sync with the detailed data on the screen?
If you decide to build a dedicated operational decision-making environment, do you
use existing BI tools, an operational data store, or a new-fangled event-driven
analytical processing platform to deliver the data? What is the impact on data consistency?
How do you keep data in synch across disparate decision-making environments? This
Webinar will address these issues and provide some practical advice on how to architect
a just-in-time decision making environment that works.
You Will Learn:
- Whether to build a just-in-time BI environment by rearchitecting
- Whether to use trickle feed a just-in-time data warehouse or apply micro batches
- What technical and organizational problems to watch out for when building a just-in-time
BI environment
Presented by Wayne Eckerson, Director of TDWI Research
Session 2: How to Make BI Pervasive
Usage rates for BI tools have nudged up from 18 percent three years ago to 24 percent
today, according to TDWI Research. This abysmally low percentage accounts for most
of an organization’s power users and a handful of very determined casual users.
What can you do to make BI more pervasive? Most BI managers latch upon the notion
of self-service BI as the panacea to increase adoption. But this strategy usually
backfires unless it’s balanced with a careful understanding of the information requirements
of various types of users. Organizations need to balance self-service with tailored
delivery of information, and they need to understand what self-service means to
different groups of users. This Webinar will address the major pitfalls organizations
face when deploying BI tools and recommend steps to make BI accessible to the remaining
80 percent of employees who have yet to become active users.
You Will Learn:
- Why BI teams are guilty of fostering low BI adoption rates
- Why you need to balance self-service and tailored delivery to achieve success
- How to give users "ad hoc" capabilities without undermining information consistency
Presented by Wayne Eckerson, Director of TDWI Research
Driving Directions
From the East/Downtown: West on I-64 (Highway 40). Exit at Clayton
Road. Go left (West) on Clayton Road. Turn Left on South Forty Drive, directly under
the HWY 40 overpass. Continue ½ mile to the Racquet Club.
From WEST: East on I-64 (Highway 40) to Lindbergh South. Go South
On Lindbergh to the first stop light (Clayton Rd.) Left on Clayton Road. Continue
on Clayton (East) to the second stop light. Turn right on South Forty Drive, directly
under the HWY 40 overpass. Continue ½ mile to the Racquet Club.
From the North: Highway 270 South. Exit onto I-64 (Highway 40)
East. Exit South on Lindbergh to the first stop light (Clayton Rd.) Left on Clayton
Road. Continue on Clayton (East) to the second stop light. Turn right on South Forty
Drive, directly under the HWY 40 overpass. Continue ½ mile to the Racquet Club.
From the South: Highway 270 North. Exit onto I-64 (Highway 40)
East. Exit South on Lindbergh to the first stop light (Clayton Rd.) Left on Clayton
Road. Continue on Clayton (East) to the second stop light. Go Right on South Forty
Drive, directly under the HWY 40 overpass. Continue ½ mile to the Racquet Club.
Feel free to forward this invitation on to other BI/DW professionals on your team
who may be interested in attending.
For more information about Amitech Solutions, please visit
www.amitechsolutions.com.