12/8/2005 - Master Data Management

Master Data Management Comes of Age Part II: Expert Forum on Data Governance

08 Dec 2005 - Online 11.30 am EST
11:30 AM Eastern
Duration: 1 hour
Kalido, Knightsbridge Solutions, and Ventana Research invite you to a 2-part webinar series featuring master data management (MDM) experts covering topics such as data governance, the role MDM plays in an enterprise information architecture, how MDM relates to customer data integration (CDI) and product information management (PIM) and more.

11/10/2005 - Best Practices in Budgeting, Forecasting, and Reporting

Craig Schiff, CEO of BPM Partners and Robert Hull, CEO of Adaptive Planning discuss real-world best practices in budgeting, forecasting, and reporting

Date: November 10, 2005
10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET

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11/8/2005 - Next Generation Business Intelligence: Bring Data to Life with Visual Analysis

Date: 11/08/2005
2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

The renowned Claudia Imhoff will host this webinar about Tableau Software's data visualization tool. I've had a chance to beta this program and it's quite clever in how it renders the data for visual analysis. Hyperion is licensing a version of this software and calling it Visual Explorer.

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11/3/2005 - ERP Consolidation

Thursday, Nov 3, 2005
11am -12pm PT 2pm-3pm ET

Get Value from Your ERP Consolidation Projects through Data Integration. Sponsored by AMR Research and Informatica.

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11/3/2005 - Leading Geeks

Leading Geeks: What Every IT Organization Should Know About Aligning People, Process, and Technology to Create Strategic Business Value

Date: Thursday, November 3, 2005
Time: 11:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM CT / 2:00 PM ET

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11/3/2005 - Why Data Mining is a Necessity for the 21st Century

Event Date: 11/03/2005 02:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro from KD Nuggets will talk about data mining technology and its impact on the success of businesses.

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10/27/2005 - The Rule of the Tool (SPSS)

Oct 27,
Begins at: 1:00 pm CT
Duration: 1 hour

An expert from SPSS (Dr. Linda Mallory) will explain what statistics can and cannot do, as well as show the tool capabilities of SPSS and Excel.

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10/27/2005 - Introduction to Xcelsius

8:00am PDT (30 minute presentation and 15 minutes of Q & A)

Infommersion, recently acquired by Business Objects, has an interesting visual analytics application called Xcelsius. They've taken classical graphing techniques and combined it with Flash. Cool stuff.

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10/25/2005 - Real-time Business Intelligence / Evolution in Information Access

Date: October 25, 2005
Time: 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT

This web seminar will feature the BI guru Ralph Kimball as a keynote presenter. It will cover current business pressures to have a real-time data warehouse. Sponsored by Sybase and Informatica.

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9/14/2004 - Knowing Your High Value Customers

8 am - 9 am (Pacific)
Sponsored by Teradata
Discover how to:
- Identify your most profitable customers
- Effectively segment your customer base
- Attract new customers with the highest profit potential
- Better manage customer relationships

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