Teradata Partners User Group Conference 2009

The Teradata Partners User Group Conference 2009 happened last week (October 18-22, 2009 in Washington D.C), with some interesting announcements: an Enterprise Analytics Cloud initiative and the plan to launch a release of an Extreme Performance Appliance based on solid-state drives (SSDs). A lot of people wrote about the event, here are some links with news, posts and articles about the conference:

- This Week at the Teradata Partners User Conference - Curt Monash
- Teradata Taps the Cloud, Announces Solid-State Appliance - Doug Henschen
- More on Teradata's SSD Speedster and (Cautious) Public-Cloud Offering - Doug Henschen
- Teradata the Wise - Wayne Eckerson
- Teradata Partners: A Retrospective - Jill Dyché
- Teradata Partners - Richard Hackathorn did a very nice coverage, with several posts
- Stein tells of doom and hope for the future - Evelyn Hoover - Editor-in-Chief Teradata Magazine

IBM Information On Demand 2008

The IBM Information On Demand 2008 happened this week (October 26 - 31, 2008 - Mandalay Bay - Las Vegas, Nevada).

According IBM's brochure:
IBM Information On Demand 2008 incorporates seven previous information management conferences, including IBM DB2®, IMS™ Technical Conference, Content Management Technical Conference, Business Intelligence Customer Solution Summit, Master Data Management Conference, Information Integration Live and Americas UserNet Conference. Learn how to unlock the business value of your information. You’ll discover everything you need to know about data management, enterprise content management, information integration, master data management, business intelligence and performance management.

Here are some links with news, posts, and articles about the conference:

- Cognos solutions

- B-Eye-Network
. Blog: Richard Hackathorn - He did a very nice coverage, with several posts about the Conference.
. Blog: Shawn Rogers

- Intelligent Enterprise - Doug Henschen
. IBM's On Demand Push: Greater than Sum of Parts
. IBM, Oracle and the Appliance Campaign Trail

- eWeek - Brian Prince
. IBM Pushes Forward with Its Information On Demand Vision
. IBM Expands Information On Demand Software Portfolio

- ItWorldCanada - Eleven things heard and seen at IBM’s Information on Demand conference - Kathleen Lau

B-Eye Perspective about Decision Intelligence

The B-Eye-Network, in its program called Beye Perspective, publishes monthly a radio program where business intelligence and data warehousing experts discuss news, mergers and acquisitions, technology announcements and other relevant industry topics.


This month, in the October Show, the experts talk about the recent Claudia Imhoff/Colin White article in which they coin the term Decision intelligence (I wrote a post about that), discussing whether BI is too closely associated with DW and it should be replaced by a new term. The experts also discussed if technology has (rightly or wrongly) outpaced human oversight and if business intelligence could have prevented the financial crisis.

The experts on this panel are: Richard Hackathorn, Claudia Imhoff, John Myers, Krish Krishnan, and David Loshin.

You can listen directly in the website or download as podcast (Mp3 file). B-Eye-Network keeps in the same page the previous radio programs.

This is an excellent initiative to publicize news, trends and technologies, and also a good opportunity to listen opinions from experts of BI Industry.

Teradata Partners User Group Conference

The Teradata Partners User Group Conference & Expo, happened last week (October 12-16, 2008, at the Mandalay Bay Resort, The Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV).

The Teradata Partners User Group Conference & Expo is a world-class, customer-driven conference that provides the very best opportunities to learn, grow, and increase data warehousing expertise.

The Partners Conference offers more than 200 sessions tailored to business, technical, management, and executive attendees. Many of these sessions are presented by Teradata customers, who will share insights gained from implementing and managing their own data warehouses.

Here are some links with news, posts, articles and podcasts about the conference:

- B-Eye-Network
. Blog: Richard Hackathorn - He did a very nice coverage, with several posts about the Conference
. Blog: William McKnight - He also did a very nice coverage, with several posts about the Conference
. Several Podcasts

- Intelligent Enterprise - Mark Madsen
. Teradata's Tectonic Shift
. Teradata Adds to a Growing Portfolio
. My Takeaway on Teradata's Keynotes

- Destination CRM - Lance Armstrong Rides Again - Lauren McKay

Listening the B-Eye Perspective

The B-Eye-Network, in its program called Beye Perspective, publishes monthly a radio program where business intelligence and data warehousing experts discuss news, mergers and acquisitions, technology announcements and other relevant industry topics.


This month, the experts dig into the latest at Microsoft:
- the acquisition of DATAllegro and Zoomix
- the departure of Bill Baker – a well-respected and long-time member of the Microsoft team
- predictions for Microsoft in the data warehouse appliance and data quality markets


The panel also discusses software as a service as a way to get the midmarket involved in BI. The experts on this panel are: Claudia Imhoff, John Myers, Seth Grimes, Richard Hackathorn and Colin White.

You can listen directly in the website or download as podcast (Mp3 file). B-Eye-Network keeps in the same page the previous radio programs.

This is an excellent initiative to publicize news, trends and technologies, and also a good opportunity to listen opinions from experts of BI Industry.

Independent Analyst Platform (IAP)

A couple of weeks ago, happened the first Independent Analyst Platform (IAP) in Phoenix, Arizona, organized by Rick van der Lans.

According him, the definition of the event: "This event is set up specifically for independent analysts to stay up to date with the latest trends in the worlds of SOA, Data Governance, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Mashups, Enterprise Architecture, Database and Integration Technology."

He invited around 25 of the industry's independent analysts and leading consultants to attend several vendor's presentations.

There is a complete coverage about the event in the Richard Hackathorn's blog on B-Eye-Network.