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FlashPoint
- May 8, 2008: FlashPoint - BI Change Management
- April 24, 2008: FlashPoint - The Four Stages of the Data Governance Maturity Model
- April 10, 2008: FlashPoint - How Many Ways Can You Prototype?
- March 27, 2008: FlashPoint - Negotiating Business Intelligence Initiatives
- March 13, 2008: FlashPoint - How to Use Marketing Concepts to Sell Your BI Project
- February 28, 2008: FlashPoint - Breaking through the Communication Barrier
- February 14, 2008: FlashPoint - To Centralize or Distribute - That is the Question
- January 31, 2008: TDWI FlashPoint - The Changing Face of Performance Management
- January 17, 2008: TDWI FlashPoint - In Store for ’08: Some New Year Prognostications
- January 3, 2008: TDWI FlashPoint - Merging the Data of Merged Companies
- December 13, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Managing Conflict in Business Intelligence Initiatives
- November 29, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Measuring Your Business Intelligence Assets
- November 15, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Getting the Most out of Your Reports
- November 1, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Maximizing Your Data Assets, Part 2
- October 18, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Maximizing Your Data Assets
- October 4, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Striking a Balance in Agile BI Development
- September 20, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Ensuring Data Quality in Data Consolidations
- September 6, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Ten Steps to Revitalize a Data Warehouse
- August 23, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Reinventing Your BI Program
- August 9, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - From CDI to PIM: Integrating Your Product Master Data
- July 26, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Ensuring Data Quality in Data Conversion
- July 12, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Delivering Decisioning Services
- June 28, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Data Cleansing versus Auditability
- June 14, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Enterprise or Personal Data Warehousing?
- May 31, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Promoting the Data Warehouse
- May 17, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Aligning Your BI Program with Business Goals
- May 3, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Managing BI Maturity
- April 19, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Single Version of the Truth
- April 5, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Monitoring Data Quality in Batch Feeds
- March 22, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - From Manualytics to Analytics
- March 8, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Choosing the Right Metadata Architecture
- February 22, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Managing ETL Errors
- February 8, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Better BI Communication
- January 25, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Compliance as a Trojan Horse
- January 11, 2007: TDWI FlashPoint - Optimizing Your Data Architecture
- December 28, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - Increasing the Value of BI/DW Prototypes
- December 14, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - The Challenges of Assessing ETL Product Performance
- November 30, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - BI End User Support: The Right Recipe for Results
- November 16, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - The State of Business Performance Management
- November 2, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - Building Your BI Career
- October 19, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - Synergy with SOA
- October 5, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - MDM and User Participation
- September 21, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - The Need for Speed
- September 7, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - Master Data Management
- August 24, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - Efficient ETL Software Development
- August 10, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - The Impact of Open Source
- July 27, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - Data Integration: A Requirements Perspective
- July 13, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - Culture: The BI Boogeyman
- June 29, 2006: Data Warehousing Service-Level Agreements
- June 15, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - Using Legacy Reports in BI Requirements Gathering
- June 1, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - Extreme Scoping: What Iterative Development Really Means
- May 18, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - The Role of QA and QC Testing in Business Intelligence
- May 4, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - Framing Business Intelligence Governance
- April 20, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - Data Objects, Data Standards, and Master Data Management
- April 6, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - ETL Architecture: What Is It and Why Do You Need It?
- March 23, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - Modeling Business Metrics, Part II
- March 9, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - Modeling Business Metrics, Part I
- February 23, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - Users Don't Care What's Under the Hood
- February 9, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - BI Pricing: A Buyer's Nightmare
- January 26, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - What's the Data Model Scorecard?
- January 12, 2006: TDWI FlashPoint - Business Activity Monitoring in the Real-Time Enterprise
- December 29, 2005: TDWI FlashPoint - Building Collaborative IT and Business Partnerships
- December 15, 2005: TDWI FlashPoint - Communicating BI’s Value to Management
- December 1, 2005: TDWI FlashPoint - Putting Data Quality into Production
- November 17, 2005: TDWI FlashPoint – Data Management Mistakes to Avoid
- November 3, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint - Make Your Dashboard Actionable
- October 20, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: Loading Historical Data
- October 6, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: Baking BI into Operational Systems
- September 22, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: Q&A on MDM: What People Are Asking About Master Data Management
- September 8, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: Power to the People: Analytics for the Masses
- August 25, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: Achieving Data Quality Through Master Data Management
- August 11, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint - Issues in Reference Data Synchronization
- July 28, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint - The Truth Will Keep You Free: Analytics, BI, and Compliance
- July 14, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: Selecting BI Tools: I Like the Purple Pair!
- June 30, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: Unique Challenges Facing BI in Government
- June 16, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint - WOW: Money Matters
- June 2, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint - Data Quality Imperatives: Aligning BI and Compliance
- May 19, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: EII and Your Data Warehouse: Peaceful Coexistence
- May 5, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: Are We There Yet? Quantifying Data Management for BI
- April 21, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: Best Practices in BPM: Key Steps to Success
- April 7, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: How Do We Make BI Relevant?
- March 24, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: What the iPod has to Teach Us about BI Design
- March 10, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: Data Integrity in a New Light
- February 25, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: Data Profiling and Quality Monitoring
- February 10, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: Bigger than the Data Warehouse: Launching Your Information Center of Excellence
- January 27, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: Data Standards, Business Rules, and Customer Data Integration
- January 12, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: Disaster Recovery Planning for Your Data Warehouse
- December 15, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Testing Techniques for BI Systems
- December 2, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Coordinating Domains of Responsibility to Address Data Quality
- November 18, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Everyone Looks at Change as Fun—Right!
- November 3, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: The Many Uses of BI Prototyping
- October 20, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Data Warehouse Architecture for the Rest of Us
- October 6, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Complex Relationship Models for Dimensional Thinking
- September 22, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Architectural Alternatives for Data Integration
- September 9, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Training for BI Success
- August 25, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Quality Assurance and Testing In Data Warehousing
- August 12, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Program Review and Assessment for BI and DW
- FlashPoint Figures 8/12/04
- July 28, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Aligning BI with Corporate Strategy
- July 16, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: What about Data Quality?
- July 2, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Architectural Alternatives for Data Integration
- June 16, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Another Paradigm Shift---The BI Program
- June 2, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Information Focused and Processed Balanced
- May 20, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Operational Data Store—a Near-Real-Time Environment!
- May 5, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: BI Project Portfolio Management -and- Offshore BI
- April 22, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Business Value of BI -and- Justifying Your DW
- April 7, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Are You Ready for Real Time?
- March 24, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Real-Time BI -and- Max Business Value
- March 10, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Should You Wait or Move Forward?
- February 25, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Beyond Information Delivery---Finding Real Value
- February 11, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Turning the Data Warehouse Inside-Out: Model-Driven Architecture
- January 29, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Using Decision-Maker Language -and- Turn Users into Customers
- January 16, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Evolving BI Maturity -and- Certification
- December 17, 2003 - TDWI FlashPoint: Organizing Data Warehousing Teams
- December 3, 2003 - TDWI FlashPoint: How to Avoid Failures When Using ETL Tools
- November 20, 2003 - TDWI FlashPoint: Use Cases - Should I Perform Use Case Analysis?
- November 7, 2003 - TDWI FlashPoint: BI Maturity and ROI: How Does Your Organization Measure Up?
- October 13, 2003 - TDWI FlashPoint: Understanding SAP BW Terminology
- September 24, 2003 - TDWI FlashPoint: Predictable Pitfalls, Paths to Partnership
- September 10, 2003 - FlashPoint: Where to Start - Data Profiling -and- Pros and Cons of Analytic Applications
- August 27, 2003 - FlashPoint: Data Warehousing Architectures and Methodologies: Point – Counterpoint
- August 13, 2003 - FlashPoint: Embarcadero Targets Price-Sensitive ETL Market
- July 30, 2003 - FlashPoint: Data Mining in the World of Active Data Warehousing
- July 17, 2003 - FlashPoint: Is External Data Worth the Effort?
- July 3, 2003 - FlashPoint: Order from Chaos: Stepping Up to the Meta Data Mess
- June 18, 2003 - FlashPoint: Ten Mistakes to Avoid in Bottom-Up Development
- June 5, 2003 - FlashPoint: The Self-Centric Corporation
- May 23, 2003 - FlashPoint: Re-Cabling the Data Warehouse -- Getting Ready to Play in a Real-Time World
- May 7, 2003 - FlashPoint: The Staging Area
- April 23, 2003 - FlashPoint: Should You Use EAI Tools, ETL Tools, or Both?
- April 10, 2003 - FlashPoint: Ten Best Practices in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
- March 26, 2003 - FlashPoint: Who Do Performance Problems Really Belong To?
- March 12, 2003 - FlashPoint: All Parallelism is NOT Created Equal! & SAP BW: A Corporate Information Factory?
- February 26, 2003 - FlashPoint: CRM and the Active Data Warehouse
- February 12, 2003 - FlashPoint: Total Cost of Ownership for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
- January 30, 2003 - FlashPoint: Guidelines for Sequencing Data Elements in Your Logical Design Business Models
- January 16, 2002 - TDWI FlashPoint: Improve the Value of Data Warehouse Increments by Understanding Business Models
- January 3, 2003 - TDWI FlashPoint: Choosing the Right Data Warehousing Approach
- December 18, 2002 - TDWI FlashPoint: Techniques for Customizing Packaged Data Warehousing Solutions
- December 4, 2002 - TDWI FlashPoint: Want to Increase Usage of Your Data Warehouse? Market it!
- November 21, 2002 - TDWI FlashPoint: Building a Winning Data Warehouse Team
- November 6, 2002 - TDWI FlashPoint: The Knowledge Worker
- October 23, 2002 - TDWI FlashPoint: What Are We Doing to Help the Data Steward?
- October 9, 2002 - FlashPoint: How Adaptable Is Your Data Architecture?
- Spetember 25, 2002 - FlashPoint: Excerpt from the upcoming TDWI research report---The Rise of Analytic Applications: Build or Buy?
- September 11, 2002 - TDWI FlashPoint: Enterprise Application Integration and Active Data
- August 28, 2002 - TDWI FlashPoint: Project Plan for Bottom-Up Development
- August 14, 2002 - TDWI FlashPoint: Audit Trail History---The Next Frontier
- July 31, 2002 - FlashPoint: Strengthening Our Definitions
- July 17, 2002 - FlashPoint: MOLAP and DOLAP: Apples and Oranges
- July 3, 2002 - FlashPoint: Part 2 - TCO of VLDW -and- Data Mining with SAP BW
- June 20, 2002 - FlashPoint: How to Avoid Data Mart Chaos Using Hybrid Methodology
- June 5, 2002 - FlashPoint: TCO of VERY LARGE DATA WAREHOUSING (VLDW)---A Business Perspective
- May 22, 2002 - Flashpoint: The Evolution to Extreme Performance in Active Data Warehousing
- May 8, 2002 - FlashPoint: Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Data Warehouse
- April 24, 2002 - FlashPoint: Methodology versus Architecture - The Myth of the
- April 10, 2002 - FlashPoint: Follow Through and Data Warehousing Support
- March 27, 2002 - FlashPoint: The Guessing Game
- March 13, 2002 - FlashPoint:
- February 27, 2002 - FlashPoint: Try Conducting Short User Interviews
- February 13, 2002 - FlashPoint: Understanding SAP's BI Strategy (Part II)
- January 30, 2002 - FlashPoint: Understanding SAP's BI Strategy
- January 17, 2002 - FlashPoint: Marketing the Data Warehouse and Sustaining the Data Warehouse
- January 4, 2002 - FlashPoint: Business Objects Improves Web-Based OLAP Access
- December 19, 2001 - FlashPoint: Maintaining High Availability for Active DW Systems / TCO for Data Warehousing
- December 5, 2001 - FlashPoint: Is Your Data Warehouse Business Driven?
- November 21, 2001 - FlashPoint: Integrating Clickstream Data into a Data Warehouse
- November 7, 2001 - FlashPoint: Modeling the Persistent Staging Area
- October 24, 2001 - FlashPoint: What You Don't Know About Your Data WILL Hurt You
- September 26, 2001 - FlashPoint: Subject-Orientation in a Data Warehouse
- August 31, 2001 - FlashPoint: The Evolution to Extreme Data Freshness in Active Data Warehousing
- August 29, 2001 - FlashPoint: Hyperion's Enterprise Initiative
- August 15, 2001 - FlashPoint: Building an E-Business Warehouse Using the Clickstream Data Warehouse Meta-Schema
- August 1, 2001 - FlashPoint: What to do with Dirty Data
- July 18, 2001 - FlashPoint: Rebuilding a Stalled Data Warehouse
- July 9, 2001 - FlashPoint: Expert Decision Systems: Apprenticing Novice Analysts
- June 21, 2001 - FlashPoint: To BW or not to BW
- May 18, 2001 - FlashPoint: Leveraging an Enterprise Data Warehouse for Tactical Decision Support and Role of the Organization Change Manager
- May 10, 2001 - FlashPoint: ROI Revival
- June 6, 2001 - FlashPoint: The Evolution of Meta Data
- April 24, 2001 - FlashPoint: IBM Acquires Informix Software
- April 11, 2001 - FlashPoint: Data Warehousing on a Limited Budget - A Hypothetical Case Study
- March 27, 2001 - FlashPoint: Annual Tools Review
- March 13, 2001 - FlashPoint: Data Warehousing Tools in Review
- February 27, 2001 - FlashPoint: Microsoft Analysis Services 2000: An OLAP Heavyweight
- January 18, 2001 - FlashPoint: ROInow! For Data Warehousing Eases Cost Justification Studies
- January 4, 2001 - FlashPoint: The Business Of Data Warehousing: Taking Stock
- December 15, 2000 - FlashPoint: Informix Business Solutions Launches Axielle into the Portal Market
- November 20, 2000 - FlashPoint: Oracle Drops Express and Beefs Up 9i with OLAP Services
- October 2, 2000 - FlashPoint: The Imperatives of Real-Time Data Warehousing
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