OTUG February 21 2006 Meeting
AbstractGaining Business Intelligence: For the first time in 2004 Business Intelligence (BI) was listed as a Top 10 concern for CIOs in the Fortune 500. In 2005, based on data from a recent Gartner survey, business intelligence jumped from the No. 10 slot to the second-highest priority on CIOs' agendas. Also in 2005, businesses using or planning to use BI software expect to spend approximately 5 percent to 10 percent of their software budgets on BI.The presentation will discuss Business Intelligence (BI) including the development of data warehouses, the use of analytical tools, the challenges of ETL (Extraction, Transformation, Load), data quality issues, ERP data warehousing, new trends in data mining and real time analytics as well as some of the differences between an ODS, data mart and data warehouse. About The SpeakersKarl Lacher has worked on data warehousing and business intelligence projects since 1996. He has played various roles in data warehouse initiatives: manager, project manager, business analyst, data modeler, ETL developer, DBA, and report developer. Industries covered include health care (MCC Behavioral Care), food (Pillsbury), retail (Dayton-Hudson, Best Buy), financial services (Reliastar Financial), transportation (Koch Logistics, Logistics Specialists), manufacturing (Plastics Inc.), and education (Wisconsin State Technical Colleges, Capella University). Mr. Lacher holds an MBA in Finance from the University of St. Thomas and a Master'sMichael Dalton has been involved in data warehousing efforts for over 10 years including projects with GMAC, Duke Medical Center and Capella University. He is a Microsoft Certified DBA (MCDBA) and has given presentations on data warehousing and database performance tuning for Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS). |
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