TDWI Chapters: Dallas

The purpose of the Dallas Chapter of the Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) is to enable local BI/DW professionals to:

  • Meet regularly with each other on a regional basis
  • Share best practices in a small group setting
  • Establish a strong network of peers
  • Gain technical advice and career direction

Everyone is welcome. We encourage you to become a member but you do not need to be a TDWI Member to attend.

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September 24th 2010: The most ready-to-use content for the information management professional featuring Mike Lampa on the effective use of those ever-popular portals and CTO Jim Tommaney to help you navigate the Open Source market.


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ATTENTION ALL BI/DW AND MARKETING PROFESSIONALS IN THE DALLAS AREA

Dear Dallas Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse and Information Management Professionals,

We cordially invite you to attend our upcoming Dallas Chapter meeting on September 24, 2010. Come meet other local professionals, swap business cards, share ideas, and exchange BI, DW, MDM and career advice while listening to high-quality presentations in a vendor-neutral setting, which is the hallmark of TDWI education. See our meeting agenda below.

When:

Friday, September 24, 8:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Where:

Bravo Technical Resources, Inc.

Heritage Square I Building

4835 Lyndon B Johnson Freeway Freeway, Suite 1000

Dallas, TX 75244

972.419.1655

BEHIND THE SHERATON at 4801 Lyndon B Johnson Freeway

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Agenda:

8:30 – 9:00 a.m.

Breakfast and Networking

9:00– 9:15 a.m.

Opening remarks by TDWI Dallas Chapter Board

9:15 - 10:15 a.m.

Presentation: " Using Portals to simplify the End User BI Experience"
by Mike Lampa, Dell Services

Abstract

A web portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way. Apart from the standard search engine feature, web portals offer other services such as search, e-mail, news, stock prices, information, databases and entertainment through a consistent look and feel with access control and security. A personal portal provides personalized capabilities to its visitors. Business portals are designed to promote collaboration in workplaces with content across multiple platforms.

During this session we’ll look how these portal capabilities, when properly applied, will improve the end-users Business Intelligence experience and increase the value proposition of the data warehouse and business intelligence investments.

10:15 - 10:45 a.m.

Networking Break

10:45 - 11:45 a.m.

The Open Source Data Warehousing Toolkit
By Jim Tommaney, Calpont Corporation

Abstract

A survey of available open source offerings for data warehousing to help understand what is available and what is practical with open source. If open source software can be characterized as 85% of the functionality at 10% of the price (vs. traditional commercial software), then this guide will help characterize what is in the 85%. General categories include ETL, Database, Reporting, and Cubing technologies.

In addition, Open Source has been an agent for technological advancement in a number of areas including scalability and ease of use. These distinguishing features will be described as well.

11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Closing Comments & Wrap-Up

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Space is limited so sign up early! Membership is not required. However, to become a member at a 10% discount, please click here and use priority code dalcpt1. For more information about TDWI Membership, contact chapters@tdwi.org.

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Bios of Presenters

Mike Lampa

Dell Services Group

Mike Lampa is a Global Practice Lead for Dell Services | Business Intelligence practice. Prior to joining Dell in 2008, Mike owned and operated a Data Warehouse consulting practice for 14 years, providing end-end Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing strategic program planning, architecture consultation and solution delivery to Fortune 1000 companies in various industries including High-Tech Manufacturing, Telecommunications and Banking Financial Services. Mike has over 30 years practitioner’s experience. He is a sought after business leader, speaker and educator. He is actively involved with TDWI at the national and regional level, chairs BI Tool User Groups and has been published in DM Review.

Jim Tommaney

Calpont Corporation

Jim Tommaney is the Chief Technical Officer at Calpont Corporation, bringing 20 years of enterprise data architecture and performance tuning experience to the team. Data warehouse architectures include clustered, large SMP, and distributed/partitioned systems for verticals including retail, web, and telecom.

At Calpont he is responsible for delivering architecture and design for the InfiniDB product; a high performance, horizontally scalable, and cost effective solution purpose built for data warehousing and analytics. He holds a Masters in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Dallas.

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