Business Intelligence – What’s Going on Out There?

“Business Intelligence Topics of Interest”

by Tom Hammergren of Balanced Insight, Inc.

at Ethicon Endo-Surgery

4545 Creek Rd
Blue Ash, OH 45242

Directions to Ethicon Endo-Surgery    Entrance Security

     Agenda 18 October 2007

8:00 – 8:30 Registration/ Continental Breakfast (sponsored by The Normandy Group)

8:30 – 12:00 Tom Hammergren

Converting Business Requirements into a Dimensional Design

Focus on various aspects from Information Packaging requirements gathering that will lead into the next topic.

What is Microsoft up to in Business Intelligence and Performance Management?

We will generate a Unified Dimensional Model (UDM) that Microsoft leverages and demonstrate Microsoft SSAS and SQL concepts (OLAP, Dashboards, Reporting) as server side BI (versus client side BI). Then we will travel into the PerformancePoint platform and what is it? Ending this topic with Excel 2007 and all the great BI features and exposure of the server side topics that be leveraged with Excel.

How do I serve my growing mobile device population with Business Intelligence requirements?

We will demonstrate an emerging technology that enables the push or pull of BI reports to mobile devices, such as BlackBerry, Treo, and Smartphones. Picking up where we leave off with Excel 2007 we will demonstrate how a report can be made available in the mobile world.

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Balanced Insight, Inc.

Founder, President & CEO

Balanced Insight was founded in 2003 by Tom Hammergren, known worldwide as an innovator, writer, educator, speaker and consultant in the field of information management.

Tom’s software career spans 19 years and includes key roles in successful BI and information management solution companies such as Cognos, Cincom and Sybase. Tom laste served as senior vice president, general manager of divine’s Customer Interaction Management business unit – a profitable $100M software operation. Hammergren joined divine in October 2001 through the acquisition of Synchrony Communications, where he was chief operating officer.

While working for Sybase, Hammergren helped design and develop WarehouseStudio: A comprehensive set of tools for delivering enterprise data warehousing solutions. At Cincom, Tom helped in delivering the SupraServer product line to market, one of the first fully distributed data management solutions for highly survivable network implementations. During an earlier position at Cognos, he was one of the founding members of the PowerPlay and Impromptu product teams.

Tom has published numerous articles in industry journals and is the author of two widely read books, Data Warehousing: Building the Corporate Knowledge Base and Data Warehousing on the Internet: Accessing the Corporate Knowledge Base.

Hammergren earned a Bachelor of Science degree with a concentration in Computer Science from the University of Missouri. Hammergren attended the University of Missouri on an athletic scholarship as an All-American swimmer.