Andrew White

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Into the Twilight Zone…

by Andrew White  |  April 27, 2009  |  Comments Off

Well that was a strange day (actually it was a day last week) that had it all.  Most of the work day was on the telephone with back-to-back calls with clients.  There were one or two briefings (where vendors present some for analytsts to listen and learn) but most of the day wasspent talking with end [...]

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Category: Business Intelligence Decision Making     Tags: ,

Trip Report – Day 3 at Gartner’s BI Summit

by Andrew White  |  March 16, 2009  |  Comments Off

Well I had a busy day – even though this was day 3.  I had a number of client inquiries and 1-1’s on site, and I also presented on MDM just after lunch.  Then I had another client call and had to dash to the airport.    Overall the event was really good.  There were [...]

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Category: Analytical MDM Business Intelligence     Tags: ,

Trip Report – Day 2 at Gartner’s BI Summit

by Andrew White  |  March 10, 2009  |  1 Comment

Other than being a lovely day outside (whoever sees ‘outside’ when at a conference anyway?) this was another packed day.  It started out for me with an early ‘roundtable’ with a number of attendees.  The focus was MDM.  It turned out that only 1 of the roundtable participants had started an MDM program, and that had [...]

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Category: Business Intelligence Governance     Tags: ,

Trip Report – Day 1 at Gartner’s BI Summit

by Andrew White  |  March 9, 2009  |  Comments Off

Kurt Schlegal and John van Decker kicked off the Gartner BI Summit with the Key note – entitled, “Overcoming the BIg Discrepancy – How BI Can do Better (with less)”.  The key take-away for me was that despite the importance IT puts on BI (it has been the top priority for IT, according to CIO [...]

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