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ATTENTION ALL BI/DW AND MARKETING PROFESSIONALS IN THE Vancouver AREA
Dear Vancouver BI/DW and Marketing Business Professionals,
We cordially invite you to attend our upcoming TDWI Vancouver Chapter meeting on Friday, June 25, 2010. Come meet other local professionals, swap business cards, share ideas, and exchange career advice while listening to quality presentations in a vendor-neutral setting, which is the hallmark of TDWI education. See our meeting agenda below.
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When: |
Friday, June 25, 8:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. |
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Where: |
Deloitte Offices
26 Floor Learning Centre,
Bentall Four
1055 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver |
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Agenda:
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8:30 AM |
Arrivals and Networking |
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8:50 – 9:15 AM |
Opening remarks by TDWI Vancouver & Sponsors |
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9:15 – 10:15 AM |
Presentation: An Agile Approach to Building and Managing Data Warehouses
by Mary Meredith, Senior Technical Analyst, Wherescape USA Inc |
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Abstract
After nearly two decades, databases, development tools, and design approaches have matured greatly to support Business Intelligence. Yet, Data Warehouse projects still struggle to meet the needs of business users and often require resources beyond the reach of many companies. Agile development techniques address the underlying root causes of the roadblocks to success. Unfortunately, most BI development tools were not designed to support this approach. Presenters will use RED, the preeminent Integrated Development Environment for agile Data Warehouse projects, to illustrate how successful agile DW development is practical for most businesses, regardless of size. |
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10:15 - 10:45 a.m. |
Break |
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10:45 - 11:45 a.m. |
Presentation: Predictive Analytics: How to architect MDM and Analytics into your Enterprise Information Management Framework
By Marc Smith, Solutions Architect, SAS Canada
Abstract
Packaged solutions have not delivered fully on the promise to optimize supply chain, improve resource planning, or get up close and personal with customers. To fully leverage the growing mountains of data for competitive advantage it is necessary to integrate operational and analytical worlds. From its inception SAS has enabled organizations to compete on analytics using the most advanced techniques for forecasting, optimization, and data mining. Analytics is a natural step for MDM where analytics can be plugged into business processes pervasively across the enterprise.
Hear the steps that are necessary to architect MDM and Analytics into your enterprise information management framework and ensure that the people, process, and technology are in place from organization culture, data management, analytics, governance and technology.
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11:45 AM |
Closing Comments & Wrap-Up |
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Space is limited so sign up early! To become a member at a 10% discount, please click here and use priority code vbccpt1. For more information about TDWI Membership, contact chapters@tdwi.org.
To contact a Chapter officer, click on name of the officer located on the top right hand column of this page.
Bios of Presenters
Mary Meredith, Senior Technical Analyst, Wherescape USA Inc
Mary Edie Meredith is currently Sr. Technical Analysis at WhereScape USA, Inc. She previously served as Oracle Architect for the HP NAS Storage Division, Sr. Data Modeler for Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Lead Database Performance Engineer at the Open Source Development Labs, and BI Solutions Engineer at Sequent Computer Systems.
Marc Smith, Solutions Architect, SAS Canada
Marc Smith is a SAS solutions architect based in Calgary, Alberta and he manages a team of SAS specialists to support the development of SAS markets in Western Canada. Marc has been architecting and implementing Data Integration, Business Intelligence and Analytic solutions for nearly 20 years for many of Canada’s top FP 500 companies in the financial services, government, communication, retail, healthcare, pharmaceutical, energy, oil and gas, and mining and metallurgy industries.
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