We cordially invite you to attend our upcoming TDWI Washington D.C. Chapter meeting on Friday, Aug 21, 2009. Come meet other local BI/DW 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.

When: Thursday, October 22, 2009

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Location: Idea Integration
3922 Pender Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030

AGENDA

8:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m. Welcome: Ann Summers, Chapter President

9:30 a.m. Speaker: Larissa Moss, President, Methods Focus Inc.

Extreme Scoping: An Agile Approach for Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Projects

As you are managing your BI/DW project, you draw upon your past experience as a project manager. But to your dismay, you find that in spite of your experience, your BI/DW project is unusually difficult to manage. The requirements appear to be a “moving target.” Communication between staff members takes too long. Assigning tasks in a traditional way seems to result in too much rework. Using a traditional methodology does not work. To top it all off, the business users are pressuring you for quick deliverables (90 days or less) while they are still “fine-tuning” their requirements. As the project team scrambles to meet those expectations, data standardization is skipped, testing is cut short, documentation is not done, and quality is compromised. The end result is often an independent data mart – always accompanied by the promise to clean it up later and to consolidate it with the other silo data marts (and data warehouses), which regrettably rarely happens. Sound familiar? So, how can you “have your cake and eat it too?” In other words, how can you build an integrated DW with quality and still deliver BI solutions in 90 days? You have to set aside some of the traditional project management disciplines and try a new approach. In this presentation, you will learn about “extreme scoping,” a development method based on software releases. The presentation topics include:

- Why traditional project management does not work on DW/BI projects

- Software release concept

- Extreme Scoping™ project planning process

- DW/BI program management

A question and answer session will follow the presentation.

Larissa Moss is president of Method Focus Inc. She has 29 years of IT experience, with focus on data warehousing and information management for the past 20 years. She frequently speaks at conferences worldwide on the topics of data warehousing, business intelligence, master data management, enterprise architecture, data integration, information quality, project management and agile development methodologies. She co-authored the books Data Warehouse Project Management, Impossible Data Warehouse Situations, Business Intelligence Roadmap, and Data Strategy. She is currently working on her book Extreme Scoping™: An Agile Approach to DW and BI. Her articles are frequently published in DM Review, Teradata Magazine, Cutter IT Journal, TDWI Journal of Data Warehousing, TDWI Flash Point and EIMInsight Magazine. She can be reached at methodfocus@earthlink.net.

11:45 a.m. Closing Remarks

12:00 Noon  Adjournment

Presentations

Larissa Moss October 2009

We cordially invite you to attend our upcoming TDWI Washington D.C. Chapter meeting on Friday, Aug 21, 2009. Come meet other local BI/DW 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.

When: Friday, Aug 21^st , 2009

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Location: Sallie Mae, 12061 Bluemont Way, Reston, VA 20190

AGENDA

8:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m. Welcome: Ann Summers, Chapter President

9:30 a.m. Speaker:   Nancy Williams Vice President Of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
Decision Path Consulting Inc

“Aligning BI and Performance Management”

“Aligning BI” and “Performance Management” While they are both aimed at the same objective, supporting improved organizational performance, BI and Performance Management are often managed as separate, uncoordinated programs. This presentation will address the pitfalls of unaligned programs. It will also present practical guidelines for achieving BI and Performance Management program alignment.

Nancy Williams is the vice president of DecisionPath Consulting’s data warehousing and business intelligence practice and brings more than 20 years of business and technical experience to the firm. Nancy is also a long-standing instructor for the Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) and teachesa range of courses ranging from BI program management to data modeling. She also serves as a TDWI judge annual best practices awards. Nancy provides technical and strategic leadership for the organization as well as hands-on guidance for commercial and government clients. She has provided BI/DW consulting support for numerous commercial and government clients, including Marriott International, McCormick and Company, Legg Mason, Travelers Insurance, the US Treasury and the Social Security Administration Her areas of expertise include BI/DW assessments, strategy, program management, business justifications, portfolio development, information requirements, and logical data modeling. She is the co-author of the book “The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence” and has published numerous articles in leading industry publications.

10:15 a.m. Networking Break

10:45 a.m. Panel discussion: “Bringing Business and IT Together- Organizational Challenges”

Panelists will include 
- Greg Summer, EDW Project Manager at State Department from Creative Information Technologies, Inc
- Nancy Williams, Vice President Of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, Decision Path Consulting Inc
- And Others

Moderator : 
Cheryl Hannan: Chapter Secretary - TDWI D.C Chapter

Join our lively panel discussion about the common challenges organizations face in bringing Business and IT together. Learn from others about the approaches they have used in overcoming these challenges such as:

- Getting the appropriate involvement from the business customer
- Helping the business users understand what a Data warehouse is and how to efficiently use it
- Determining how to work with resistant source system partners
- Engaging executive level sponsors
- Handling the politics associated with individuals who do not want to share their data
- Determining the best techniques for identifying and escalating issues related to risk
- Communicating the benefits of the use of BI tools to end users
- Educating users regarding the purpose and mission of the data warehouse and BI and finding the best ways to guide them through the paradigm shift

11:45 a.m. Closing Remarks

12:00 Noon  Adjournment

Presentations

When: Friday June 5, 2009

Time: 9:00 - 12:00

Location:

George Washington University

School of Media & Public Affairs

805 21^st St. NW

Washington, DC

We cordially invite you to attend our upcoming TDWI Washington D.C. Chapter meeting on Friday, June 5, 2009. Come meet other local BI/DW 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.

AGENDA

8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 Welcome: Ann Summers, Chapter President

9:30 Speaker: Karen Degner, Business Intelligence Solution Director, Oracle USA

Performance Management:  Realizing the Full Potential of Your Business Intelligence (BI)

Are you realizing the tremendous potential of your BI?  Do you know how to leverage your BI to optimize your resources, and stretch, even grow, your budget? 

Organizations have spent the last decade striving for operational excellence, including the use of BI to gain visibility and demonstrate that they are “doing things right.”   But are they also “doing the right things?”   Performance management extends operational excellence to management excellence.  This session focuses on providing a foundational understanding of performance management, how it can drive results, and how to realize the full potential of your BI investments.

This session will not focus on any specific toolset or vendor product.  Topics to be covered include:

-     What is Performance Management and Why Should I Care?

-     What does Business Intelligence have to do with it?

-     What are the ten mistakes to avoid?

-     Q&A

Karen Degner has over fifteen years of experience in business intelligence, data warehousing and performance management.  She brings a unique perspective through her wealth of real life experience in both public and private sectors.  Karen is an Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence Solution Director at Oracle. In this role, she assists teams in realizing the full potential of their BI investments with a prioritized, phased approach to EPM/BI maturity.

10:15 Break and Networking

10:45 Speaker: Speaker: Janet Dudrick, Assistant Director for Management, NIH

Supporting Speakers: Ricardo Rodriguez and Debra Leiss

Implementing Corporate Performance Management at NIH

Performance management provides public sector organizations with the ability to achieve corporate alignment that improves performance and achieves strategic goals.  Federal mandates including Government Performance Results Act and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are driving the necessity for NIH to embrace a new culture of measurement.

To address these objectives, the NIH Office of Management has developed a program to connect goals with results by exposing key performance indicators that can quickly provide the information needed to make the right decision at the right time. The program includes a performance management infrastructure comprised of strategic and tactical analytics that are derived from operational data.  The analytics and reporting capabilities in the OM Dashboard cover a variety of administrative areas including human resources, financial management, facilities management, etc.

This presentation focuses on what the NIH CFO is doing to integrate performance and achieve a fact based decision making culture. We’ll discuss our framework, our progress, solution and pitfalls along the continuum of driving business value. Topics covered will include:

·        Overview of OM Dashboard

·        Approach and development methodology

·        Real life lessons learned from a government perspective

Janet Dudrick has over twenty years of experience in the government sector in a variety of capacities from Industrial Engineer to Military Construction manager to her current position of Assistant Director for Management, and has been working in the performance management arena since 2000 developing ways to address increased emphasis during the last presidential administration and the Government Performance Results Act (GPRA) before that.  In addition she has played a key role in the development of the first ever Strategic Administrative Management Plan and leads the current strategic goal of Data Driven Decision Making.  She brings a government perspective through real life experience in developing and implementing a Corporate Performance Management program in a very decentralized organization.  As the Program Manager for the Office of Management Dashboard, she sets directions and assists management teams to achieve the full potential of performance management.

Ricardo Rodriguez is a Government employee with over 30 years of service.  He worked in Design and Construction, Facility Operation and Maintenance before transitioning to Information Technology. He has served as a Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer and currently is the IT Architect for the Office of Research Services at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In this role, he is responsible for Enterprise Architecture and has developed an action-oriented EA program that delivers value to the various line-of-business arenas.  He is currently working with the CFO to foster corporate performance management, using Business Intelligence throughout the NIH administrative services.

Debra Leiss has over 20 years experience in the IT area with in depth skills in Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and project management.  Debra is currently the lead for the Business Intelligence Community of Practice at SRA and is a Business Intelligence Project Manager.  In this role, she has worked with a number of government agencies in leading the culture change for implementing performance management, managing by metrics, data transparency and the use of business intelligence.

11:45 Feedback and Closing Remarks: Ann Summers

12:00 Adjournment

Presentations

 performance-management

implementing-performance-management-at-NIH

Where:
Allegis Group
7312 Parkway Drive
Hanover, MD 21076
410-579-3000

We cordially invite you to attend our upcoming TDWI Washington D.C. Chapter meeting on Friday, March 27th, 2009. Come meet other local BI/DW 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.

AGENDA
8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 Welcome: Ann Summers, Chapter President

9:30 Speaker: Charles Caldwell, Practice Lead, Analytics, Management Concepts

Mapping Analytic Techniques to Business Problems

Does the fantastic number of analytic techniques perplex and bewilder you? Do you wonder whether these techniques are worth the investment in time and money? Will they deliver the value promised? This session focuses on providing a foundation for clarifying what analytics is, what types of problems it can solve, and some realistic expectations about the value it can provide. This session will provide a business-level overview of the most commonly used mathematical, statistical, and machine learning techniques, so you can enter into a discussion with your bosses or modelers with greater confidence.

- What is Analytics?
- What can Analytics Do? (The Goals of Analytics)
- Overview of Commonly Used Advanced Analtyics Techniques
- A Look Beyond the Hype
- Q&A

Charles Caldwell has spent 10 years in business intelligence, performing the full breadth of roles on data warehouse implementations. Charles is currently the analytics practice lead at Management Concepts, where he is responsible for the development and delivery of training solutions to prepare business users to leverage analytics. Charles earned his MBA from The George Washington University, where he was awarded the E. William Hahn Memorial Award for outstanding performance in the field of decision sciences.

10:15 Break and Networking

10:45 Speaker: Kevin Hopkins, CBIP, BI Lead, International Mission Board

Non-Profit BI: Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses Abstract

In the Business Intelligence (BI) space the analytical concepts are fundamentally the same between a profit and non-profit company. They only differ in what is measured and how measurements are analyzed. Quantitative analysis relates to the measurement of mass or distance, while qualitative analysis relates to the characteristics of that which was measured. In the profit world, BI is used to measure revenue, market impact and market share. For instance a company may want to know that net income was five hundred thousand dollars higher this month than last month and the increase in customers was two percent. Business Intelligence in the non-profit space concerns measuring numbers in various areas of specialty. For example, for an organization or foundation in cancer research the analysis is about success and survival rates. In a blood services organization, the number of units collected over time is compared to the previous month or year. Even though profit and non-profit organizations measure increasing numbers and percentages, the Key Result Areas (KRA’s) and Key Progress Indicators (KRI’s) reflect the focus of each entity.
This session will show examples of quantitative and qualitative analyses as used by the KRA’s and KPI’s in the non-profit BI space. Several comparisons will be explored showing common BI questions related to general KRA’s moving to KPI’s. We will also look at how quantitative and qualitative analyses work together in BI.

Kevin F. Hopkins has more than 20 years in programming and database administration with a primary focus on the infrastructure and tools surrounding data analysis. Currently, Kevin is leading the BI initiative at the International Mission Board in support of global analytics. In this position, he has been instrumental in the design, development and management of tools used for analyzing and reporting statistics in support of the daily operations and the organization’s vision. Kevin has a Masters of Science degree from Florida State University in Computer Science.

11:45 Feedback and Closing Remarks: Ann Summers

12:00 Adjourn

Additional information and the RSVP link: http://www.tdwi.org/education/Chapters/display.aspx?id=8055

Sincerely,
DC Area Chapter TDWI

Presentations:

Where:
Idea Integration
3922 Pender Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
703-821-8800

Time:

8:30AM-12:00PM

We cordially invite you to attend our upcoming TDWI Washington D.C. Chapter meeting on Friday, January 16th, 2009. Come meet other local BI/DW 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.

AGENDA
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.     Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:10 a.m.     Meeting: Introduction and Agenda Review
9:10 - 9:30 a.m.     Sponsor Introductions
9:30 - 10:20 a.m.     Presentation: “Unraveling the Enterprise Metadata Puzzle”
by Mike Fleckenstein, Practice Manager Master Data Management & Data Governance, Project Performance Corporation

Abstract

We live in a data-driven world. We are taught that the more data we measure the better. Our hope is that we will expose an area of opportunity that we can exploit as a business, a weakness that we must patch as a company or a service that we can improve for our community. We quantify dollars and amounts by customer, product, location, dates and many other terms. As is human nature we also want to know more about the terms by which we measure. For example, we want to know when a customer was added to a database and by whom. This type of data about data is called Metadata. However, the term ‘Metadata’ has become widely used and loosely applied. Why is that? It is because data about data is a never-ending loop. Once we know that a customer was added to the database by Jane Doe we may want to know more about Jane Doe, and so on. Consequently there are tools and approaches that help us apply rigor to capturing and managing Metadata. This session will explore different aspects of Metadata – how it is applied, disciplines where it is captured and tools used to manage it. We will also examine how Metadata has spread into the business realm and the value and challenges this presents. Whether you are business, a public institution or a foundation you will be better equipped to understand and tackle the Metadata challenge within your organization.

10:20 - 10:50 a.m.     Networking Break

10:50-11:45 a.m.     Presentation: “How to Implement a Successful Data Governance Program”

by Michele Koch, Director, Data Governance Office, Sallie Mae

Abstract

Sallie Mae has a strong Data Governance Program in place to support enterprise initiatives such as building a customer information system. Over the last two years, we implemented a series of foundational steps and then deployed a Data Governance Program. In this case study, attendees will

learn: The “non-traditional” Data Governance approach Sallie Mae used and the benefits of that approach How project members narrowed the list of many thousands of candidate data fields to a manageable list of enterprise fields to be governed The approach that inspired business users to volunteer their expertise How this project paved the way for implementing formal Enterprise Data Stewards as part of Sallie Mae’s new Data Governance Program Sample communication tools Key lessons learned How data profiling is enriching the Data Governance Program

11:45 - 12:00 noon     Closing Remarks

Sincerely,

DC Area Chapter TDWI

Where:
Marriott® Hotel Washington
1221 22nd Street NW
Washington, DC 20037
202-872-1500
 
AGENDA

8:30 - 9:00
Registration, Breakfast and Networking 

9:00 - 9:10
Meeting: Introduction and Agenda Review 

9:10 - 9:30
Sponsor Introductions 

9:30 – 10:30
“Deploying BI to Government Agencies” 

Presenter
David Stefkovich, President
Prism Technologies, LLC 

Abstract
How does government achieve an integrated view of its services and the demand for those services? David outlines best practices that move government agencies to an integrated view of the client, the service, the expenses and the revenue.  This involves a dual approach that is both strategic and tactical.  From a strategic approach, David discusses the application of performance management principles so that government resources are directed to where they are needed.  From a tactical approach, David applies master data management principles plugged into the data bus so that information flows more easily where it is needed. Throughout the process, data quality assessments drive improvements and justify the continued investment in integration competencies. 

Bio
David is the Owner and President of Prism Technologies, a Washington, D.C.-based firm of federated experts that deliver strategic and tactical business solutions for data and performance management to federal, state and local governments.  Prism Technologies collaborates with forward-thinking government agencies that seek to improve and validate the quality of their information assets – information assets that are used to deliver critical performance indicators and metrics for compliance, governance, and operational (funding) purposes.  David has applied his expertise over the past decade recommending and delivering data and performance management strategies tailored for the financial services, government, and healthcare industries. 

10:30 - 11:00
Networking Break 

11:00-11:45
Panel Discussion - BI Project Management 

Presenters 
Marijana Barr, Manager, Information Services
AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

Geran Combs, Senior Operations Director, Enterprise Information Strategy & Management
Freddie Mac

Adam Getz, Business Intelligence Architect
Guident

David Stefkovich, President
Prism Technologies 

Greg Summer, PMP, Project Manager
Creative Information Technology, Inc.

Abstract
Panel participants will speak to their experiences of managing BI projects through the main phases of initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing.  What were some challenges? What criteria were required for success?  How did you define and measure success? What team configurations were most successful? 

Panel Bios 

Moderator: Cheryl Hannan, PMP, Manager, Data Management Services
Allegis Group
Cheryl has over 15 years of project management experience, mostly in the commercial sector.  For the last four years she has been responsible for Allegis Group’s data warehouse and BI environment.  Through her career she has managed multiple product implementations as well as custom-developed solutions.  Cheryl has been a board member of the TDWI DC Area Chapter since its inception in 2005.

Marijana Barr, Manager, Information Services
AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
Marijana has over 7 years of project management experience.  She recently completed a complex DW implementation at AvalonBay which included a data governance process. Marijana managed the numerous project trade-offs of scope, schedule and quality resulting in a successful deployment and completion under budget.  Marijana looks forward to sharing her experiences from this project and others about how she achieves successful project results.

Geran Combs, Senior Operations Director, Enterprise Information Strategy & Management
Freddie Mac
Geran has over 8 years of data focused project management experience in the financial services industry.  Since 2005 he has lead various parts of Freddie Mac’s data warehouse environment including Data Quality and Data Operations.  Since March 2008, he has the responsibility of starting an enterprise wide Data Governance program for Freddie Mac.  

Adam Getz, Business Intelligence Architect
Guident
Adam has successfully managed and architected numerous small, medium, and large-scale, full-life cycle BI/DW projects in both the commercial and public sectors. He is currently managing a BI/DW implementation project for a Federal Administrative Office. Adam is very familiar with the technical, cultural, and business challenges of managing BI/DW deployments and looks forward to sharing his experiences.

David Stefkovich, Owner and President
Prism Technologies
(please see prior session for bio)

Greg Summer, PMP, Project Manager
Creative Information Technology, Inc.
Greg has over 6 years of project management experience.  He is currently working on an enterprise data warehouse project with a Department of the Federal Government.  Previously, Greg has managed full-life cycle projects, leveraging structured methodologies.  These projects included a large, complex data integration project and a biometric project whose scope included data consolidation and reporting.  Greg looks forward to sharing his experiences navigating business challenges, effective project planning, and general project management best practices. 

11:45 - 12:00
Closing Remarks

Click for Directions to Allegis

AGENDA

8:30 - 9:00
Registration, Breakfast and Networking

9:00 - 9:10
Meeting: Introduction and Agenda Review

9:10 - 9:30
Sponsor Introductions

9:30 - 9:45
BI Trends Overview

Presenter
Nancy Williams, Vice President of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing DecisionPath Consulting

9:45 - 10:30
Session 1 - Trends in Data Management

Presenter
Dan Chaddock, Director of Enterprise Data Management
Internal Revenue Service

Abstract
Dan will be presenting trends in data management as seen through a government lens. However, these principles could be easily applied in the private sector as well. He will also describe how to give an easy elevator pitch to describe data management to stakeholders.

Bio
Mr. Chaddock is the Director of Enterprise Data Management for the Internal Revenue Service. Nearly everything the IRS does evolves around collecting and processing data. Mr. Chaddock is responsible for defining an enterprise-wide data environment to more easily and efficiently organize, identify, and correlate data that enables the Business to consume information and maximize value to the agency. He has 15 years of experience in data management in both the private and public sectors, and his career has evolved around data and business intelligence.

10:30 - 11:00
Networking Break

11:00-11:45
Session 2 - BI and the “Unstructured Data” Challenge

Presenter
Seth Grimes, Principal
Alta Plana Corp.

Abstract
The presentation will introduce Text Analytics essentials to BI/DW practitioners and managers: how to exploit the 80% of business-critical information previously locked in “unstructured” sources as varied as online media, call-center notes, e-mail, and corporate documentation. It will cover BI/DW and analytics integration and survey applications in key business domains.

Bio
Seth Grimes is a business intelligence and decision systems expert. He is founding chair of the Text Analytics Summit, contributing editor at Intelligent Enterprise magazine, text-analytics channel expert for the Business Intelligence Network, a TDWI instructor, and principal consultant at Washington DC-based Alta Plana Corporation. Seth consults, writes, and speaks on BI and analytics: strategy, industry trends, and emerging technologies.

11:45 - 12:00
Closing Remarks, Door Prizes

DIRECTIONS

From I-295 North or South:
Take the Route 100 WEST (towards Ellicott City) Exit.
Go about .5 mile and take Exit #8 - Coca-Cola Drive
At the light at the top of the exit ramp make a LEFT.
At the second light make a LEFT on to Dorsey Rd.
Dorsey Rd becomes Parkway Dr.
Allegis Group is up the hill on the RIGHT immediately following the Red
Roof Inn.

From I-95 North or South:
Take the Route 100 EAST (towards Glen Burnie) Exit.
Go about 2.5 miles and take Exit #8 - Coca-Cola Drive
At the top of the exit ramp, bear RIGHT.
At the next light make a LEFT onto Dorsey Rd.
Dorsey Rd. becomes Parkway Dr.
Allegis Group is up the hill on the RIGHT immediately following the Red
Roof Inn.

Files:

• Dan Chaddock: Data Management
• Seth Grimes: Unstructured Data

Agenda

8:30 – 9:00
Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 9:15
Opening Remarks

9:15 – 9:30
What is an Appliance?
Presented by: Joshua Eldridge, AOL

9:30-10:00
Appliance Case Study
Presented by: April Peesel, AOL

10:00-10:30
Appliance Case Study
Presented by: Paulo Resende, Merrill Lynch

10:30 – 11:00
Networking Break

11:00 – 11:45
Panel Discussion
Facilitator: MC Sankar, Wachovia Securities
Participants:

• John O’Brien, CTO Dataupia
• Phil Francisco, VP Product Management and Marketing, Netezza
• Rita Sallam, BI, DW and Data Integration Group, Oracle
• Victoria Eastwood, VP of Engineering, Infobright
• Kevin Kelly, Data Warehouse Sales Manager - Eastern Region, IBM

11:45 – 12:00
Closing Remarks

Directions to Idea Integration:

Take Interstate 66 to Route 50 exiting East towards Fairfax.
At the first light take a Left onto Waples Mill Rd.
At the first light on Waples Mill Rd turn RIGHT onto Pender Dr and proceed down Pender approximately ¼ mile to 3922. There should be plenty of parking either between the building and I-66 (you can see it from the Interstate) or between 3922 and 3926. Parking is outdoors only. The building has a wheelchair accessible entrance on the I-66 side of the building at the 2nd set of double doors.

Files:

• Joshua Eldridge: What is a Data Warehouse Appliance?
• Paulo Resende: Emerging Technologies
• April Peesel: Appliance Case Study

Seth Grimes’ Thoughts on the Session

• Data Warehouse Appliances? Me too!

The next DC Chapter meeting, previously scheduled for January 25th, has been cancelled to better accomodate post-holiday schedules. Currently we are planning to hold the meeting at the end of February (tentatively Feb. 29th.), and are confirming the date with our host facility and presenters.

The theme for the meeting will be focused on a set of sessions regarding Data Warehouse Appliances. The tentative agenda is as follows:

• Data Warehouse Appliances Overview (a basic primer of what is a DW appliance)
• Customer Case Study
• Panel Discussion (moderated by a TDWI Chapter Board Member)

Thanks for your understanding and patience. We will be sending out an email with the final date as soon as we have final confirmation.

Sincerely,

Your TDWI DC Chapter Board Members

Map:

Google Map Location

AGENDA

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
Registration, Breakfast and Networking

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.
Meeting: Introduction and Agenda Review

9:15 - 10:15 a.m.
Session 1 – Is It Time to Move On From Data Warehousing?

Abstract
Neil Raden, Founder Hired Brains, Inc.

Neil’s talk focuses on the context within which business intelligence is evolving and the future of data warehousing, including those instances where data warehouses are not involved. Data warehouses won’t disappear anytime soon, but it’s time to start thinking about where they can add value and where they should step out of the way.

10:15 – 10:45 a.m.
Networking Break

10:45 - 11:45 a.m.
Session 2 – Visual Analysis for Databases

Abstract
Jock Mackinlay

Although visual interfaces and databases are two of the success stories of the computer revolution, their synergy to date has been modest, probably because visual interfaces have focused on human capabilities while databases have focused on efficient query processing.  This talk describes the power of human visual perception and shows how it can be exploited to help people work more effectively with their databases.

11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Wrap Up

12:00 p.m.
Adjournment

Bios
Neil Raden

Hired Brains provides consulting, systems integration and implementation services in Business Intelligence, Decision Automation and Business Process Integration for clients worldwide. Hired Brains Research provides consulting, market research, product marketing and advisory services to the software industry. Based in Santa Barbara, CA, Raden is an active consultant and widely published author and speaker.

He has personally designed over 100 data warehouses, implemented dozens of large analytical applications in finance, marketing, distribution, logistics, actuarial, scientific, statistical, consumer products and more.  He welcomes your comments at nraden@hiredbrains.com.

Jock Mackinlay

Jock Mackinlay received his PhD in computer science from Stanford University, where he pioneered the automatic design of graphical presentations of relational information.  He joined Xerox PARC in 1986, where he collaborated with the User Interface Research Group to develop many novel applications of computer graphics for information access and to coin the term “Information Visualization”. Much of the fruits of this research can be found in his book, Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think (Morgan Kauffman, written and edited with Stuart K. Card and Ben Shneiderman).  He holds numerous patents in user interfaces.  He joined Tableau Software as Director of Visual Analysis in 2004.

Transportation and Parking:

By Metro:
Taking Metro is highly recommended.
GWU is conveniently located on the Orange/Blue Lines at the “Foggy Bottom” station.
1957 E Street (GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs) is just a few blocks south and east of the Foggy Bottom Metro station (see map link below)

http://www.gwu.edu/~map/imap/

By Car:
GWU is located in Northwest Washington, DC, in the historic Foggy Bottom neighborhood.
Note: Finding parking on a busy college campus in downtown Washington DC can be extremely challenging, and street parking is not recommended due to the propensity for ticketing and the variation in street parking regulations.

GWU has several parking options on campus:

http://www.gwu.edu/~parking/map/index.cfm

Parking Option 1:  (For those arriving very early. Closest option)
1957 E Street N.W. underground garage
Visitor rate = $17.00

Parking Option # 2:  Main GWU parking (Best option, most spaces)
University Garage
2221 I Street (Eye Street) N.W.
**Enter on 22nd Street ONLY!**
Visitor rate = $ 16.00
(You will need to walk several blocks to reach 1957 E Street)

Parking Option # 3:
Marvin Center (underground) Parking Lot
H & 21st Streets, N.W.
Visitor rate = $ 16.00
(You will need to walk several blocks to reach 1957 E Street)

>> Should these lots be full, there is a commercial parking lot in the nearby area: <<

Commercial Parking Lot near GWU:

PMI   (Note: opens at 8:00AM)  (6’1” height restriction!)
1729 G Street, N.W.
http://151.200.174.54/LocationDetail.aspx?GarageID=478
202-785-9191
Daily Rate: $14
(You will need to walk several blocks to reach 1957 E Street)