JIll Dyche hosts this popular workshop–often attended by IT and business-user teams from the same company–focuses on ways to ensure that data warehouse and BI projects remain top-of-mind in your organization. For managers considering new BI applications, it covers a series of real-life scenarios that illustrate requirements-driven development. For those already underway with their BI initiatives, it presents best-practice case studies to ensure that BI is approached not as a one-time-only activity, but as a portfolio of capabilities deployed over time. Examples of BI success stories are interwoven throughout the day to illustrate high-profile best practices. » Read more

In this presentation, Baseline Partner Evan Levy will present a taxonomy for MDM that illustrates the different functional components of MDM, showing a progression of MDM maturity. He'll discuss why companies need to understand which level they're targeting before engaging the vendors. He'll also relate the various levels of the MDM taxonomy to data governance maturity. » Read more

Master data management (MDM) has been a popular industry buzzword for the past several years. In the past 18 months, the philosophies and solutions that comprise MDM have taken hold. This presentation will introduce the concept of master data management as a business solution, emphasizing real-life use cases for MDM. Discussion will focus on business drivers for MDM, justifying and MDM program, and how MDM can best be positioned to complement and enhance a BI environment. » Read more

Many companies have invested in their business intelligence systems and have been able to show the value of integrated, cross-functional data through improved business performance and execution. Having access to this data has delivered significant return on investment, operational efficiencies, and even competitive differentiation. However, data warehousing is only the tip of the ice berg when it comes to addressing enterprise data integration. In this session, consultant and author Evan Levy describes how the existing methods and practices in place with the data warehouse can be expanded to support (and strengthen) MDM. » Read more

On the heels of their eponymous 2008 TDWI publication, Jill Dyché and Kim Nevala share the mistakes companies make when implementing data governance as an enterprise program. They discuss real-life lessons learned from clients and share practical tips for designing a sustainable data governance program for the long term. » Read more

Many companies have acknowledged that master data management is part of their future, and they’re in the process of inventing it for their organizations. But how do you dovetail MDM into an incumbent IT infrastructure? In this presentation, Evan Levy and Frank Dravis will discuss the three aspects of change management for MDM—technical, business, and cultural—and describe how best-practice companies are ensuring that their master data is deployed in a sustained and deliberate way. » Read more

The days of me-too data warehouses and behemoth data provisioning systems are over. Companies are taking a much more deliberate—and cost-aware—approach to managing their master data. In this session, consultant and former industry analyst James Masuoka will examine the trend of master data management. He will cover its technical components, explain various architectural approaches, and discuss how MDM solutions can integrate into an existing IT architecture—with or without a data warehouse. The session will end with a review of the prevailing and emerging vendors in the master data management space. » Read more