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DAMA-MN Education Day is Sept. 16, 2009

DAMA-MN Education Day

On Wednesday, September 16, 2009 8:30 AM

Embassy Suites - Minneapolis Airport (Bloomington)

Upcoming Monthly Program

Modeling the Enterprise - A Practical Approach: by Matt Creason, Sybase Corp.

On Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:30 AM

State of Minnesota - Centennial Office Building

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Data Management News

BI This Week

ParAccel's Coup
Columnar DW specialist ParAccel delivers new analytic database software and trumpets a venture capital cash infusion.
Q&A: BI Trends Point Up Despite Down Economy
With the economy showing few signs of rebounding any time soon, what should business intelligence buyers do?
Aster Data Unveils New DW Appliances
Aster this week introduced two new DW appliance systems running on top of commodity hardware from Dell
Prominent BI Start-ups Struggle to Stay Afloat
Experts see LucidEra's demise as a reflection of a brutal economic climate. The economy is also taking a toll on DW appliance specialist Dataupia, which is enduring a venture capital famine of its own.
PerformancePoint Server Planning Gets a New Lease on Life
Microsoft last week announced a reprieve, of sorts, for beleaguered users of its PerformancePoint Planning Server

Information Management Online Current Issue

Hyland Software Buys Valco Data

Document imaging and management software vendor acquires complementary software
Senate: Flawed Payment Data Widespread

Use of discredited Ingenix databases to determine physician reimbursement was endemic, according to congressional investigators
Aster Data Appliance Lowers Entry Cost

Vendor claims that at ,000, the MapReduce Data Warehouse Appliance is the industry’s most cost-effective appliance
Vendors Align for HIE Business

Informatics Corporation of America will combine its data integration and aggregation software with the secure data center hosting services of Companion Data Services LLC
The Other Systemic Threat to Banking

Bank exec Louis Rosenthal says inadequately managed outsourcing agreements can post a major security and financial threat to institutions

SearchDataManagement: Tips, expert advice and sample chapters

What comes first — the data mart or the data warehouse?
Data mart or data warehouse -- which does your company need? Learn the difference between a data warehouse and a data mart and find out what problems data marts and warehouses address in this tip.
How to select an MPP database: DB2 vs. Teradata
Should you run a massively parallel processing (MPP) database with DB2 or Teradata? Find out how to compare DB2 vs. Teradata and how to choose a database system and with advice from a data warehouse expert.
How to get data/database independence with a three-tier architecture
Discover how to attain database and data independence in this tip. Find out what database independence is and learn the benefits of a three-tier data warehouse vs. a two-tier data warehouse.
Data warehouse architecture: Beyond hub-and-spoke
Hear a hub-and-spoke definition and learn about challenges surrounding hub-and-spoke architecture. Know all the issues and details before implementing a hub-and-spoke design and hear how data governance plays a role in the hub-and-spoke model.
Similarities and differences between ROLAP, MOLAP and HOLAP
Find out the differences between ROLP, MOLAP and HOLAP and their advantages and disadvantages. Learn about data warehouse data quality and the evolution of data warehouse applications.

SearchDataManagement: News on data management trends and technology

Peachtree Data uses SAP BOBJ Data Services to clean up mailing lists
For the last 14 months, Peachtree Data has been using SAP BOBJ Data Services, a data quality and data integration suite, to clean up its clients' customer mailing lists.
MDM vendors improve data quality, stewardship, according to Gartner
With a focus on better data quality and data stewardship capabilities, IBM, Oracle and Initiate Systems top Gartner's Magic Quadrant Report for master data management (MDM) for customer data.
Greenplum brings data warehousing in the cloud indoors
Greenplum's new Enterprise Data Cloud lets customers easily deploy and manage data marts on an internal cloud of commodity hardware, an approach the company hopes will catch on.
SaaS BI vendor LucidEra to shut down
SaaS BI vendor LucidEra will cease operations by the end of June due to a lack of funding, but that doesn't mean the end of SaaS BI, some say.
Data models serve as blueprint for business intelligence, master data management projects
No business intelligence or master data management initiative should start without a well-designed data model to guide the project.

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Reciprocity

DAMA-MN has reciprocity with other chapters and we invite them to visit. As a DAMA Minnesota member you can attend other chapters' meetings. Check out what they have planned:

Wisconsin - Madison
http://www.widama.us

Iowa - Des Moines
http://www.dama.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3285

Illinois - Chicago
http://www.damachicago.org/