Business Intelligence Strategies for the CIOEditors from SearchBusinessAnalytics.com once again took part in the Pacific Northwest BI Summit this year. This unique business intelligence and data warehousing event brings together industry experts and strategists to discuss the
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The Pacific Northwest BI Summit 2011 was held July 21-25 in Grants Pass, Ore., headlined by five leading BI and data warehousing experts (see bios below). As part of the summit’s 10th anniversary celebration, Gartner Inc. analyst Merv Adrian led a roundtable discussion on the potential opportunities and challenges presented by large-scale data warehousing and BI. Another session also focused on “big data” management and analytics, and other discussion topics included collaborative and self-service BI, social media analytics and cloud BI.
SearchBusinessAnalytics.com will be publishing articles about the summit as well as video interviews with many of the participants. The listings on this page will be updated as new content becomes available – check back for links to added items.
Articles:
Dealing
with ‘big data’ challenges: Real-world strategies and advice
IT professionals and industry analysts, including participants at the Pacific Northwest BI Summit,
offer guidance on how to cope with the complexities of managing big-data installations in data
warehouses and alternative data stores.
Videos:
'Big
data' analytics: Tapping into transactional data -- and more
In this video Q&A series, BI experts and IT vendor executives explain “big data”
technologies and use cases and give tips on how to get started with big-data analytics.
Cloud
BI and analytics: Should the cloud be in your BI forecast?
In video Q&As, BI analysts and IT vendors discuss the potential benefits and challenges of
cloud BI and offer advice on using cloud computing technology as part of a BI strategy.
Self-service,
collaborative & mobile BI: Opportunities vs. challenges
In a series of video Q&As, business intelligence analysts and IT vendors discuss the
current state of self-service, collaborative and mobile BI tools and offer advice on deploying and
using them.
Expert participants:
- Jill Dyche, partner and co-founder of Baseline Consulting
- Dr. Claudia Imhoff, president and founder of Intelligent Solutions
- William McKnight, president of McKnight Consulting Group
- Shawn Rogers, research vice president at Enterprise Management Associates
- Colin White, president and founder of BI Research
BI and data warehousing expert bios:
Jill Dyche,
partner and co-founder of Baseline Consulting
Jill is an internationally recognized author, speaker and business consultant. She is a partner and
co-founder of Baseline
Consulting, a professional services firm that focuses on BI, data warehousing, data governance,
master data management and data integration. Jill is responsible for key client strategies and
industry analysis at Baseline, which is now a division of DataFlux.
BI
strategy tips | MDM
tips | Ask Jill a personalized
question
Dr.
Claudia Imhoff, president and founder of Intelligent Solutions
Claudia is the president and founder of Intelligent Solutions Inc., a consultancy covering data
warehousing and BI technologies and strategies. Claudia is a popular speaker and internationally
recognized expert, and she serves as an advisor to many corporations, universities and leading
technology companies on these topics.
William
McKnight, president of McKnight Consulting Group
William McKnight is the president of McKnight Consulting Group LLC. MCG’s services span
strategy through implementation and beyond for turning information into the asset that it needs to
be within organizations. William strategizes, designs and deploys systems in the disciplines of
master data management, data warehousing and BI.
Data
warehousing strategy tips | Ask William a
personalized question
Colin White,
president and founder of BI Research
Colin is the founder and president of BI
Research. He is well known for his in-depth knowledge of BI, data management and data
integration technologies and how they can be used to support smart and agile decision making. With
40 years of IT experience, Colin has consulted for dozens of companies throughout the world and is
a frequent speaker at leading IT events.
Shawn
Rogers, research vice president, Enterprise Management Associates
Shawn is vice president of business intelligence research at Enterprise Management Associates Inc., where he
provides comprehensive analyst coverage of the BI and data warehouse technology stack. He has more
than 20 years of hands-on IT industry experience. Shawn co-founded the BeyeNetwork in 2004 and
served as its executive vice president and editorial director until late 2009.
This was first published in July 2011
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