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• June 2, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint - Data Quality Imperatives: Aligning BI and Compliance
• Ten Mistakes to Avoid for Data Warehouse Project Managers
• April 7, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: How Do We Make BI Relevant?
• February 10, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: Bigger than the Data Warehouse: Launching Your Information Center of Excellence
• December 2, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Coordinating Domains of Responsibility to Address Data Quality
• On the Up and Up: A Strategy for Performance Management
• The BI Evangelist
• The Four Components of BI Governance
• July 28, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Aligning BI with Corporate Strategy
• 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
• March 24, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Real-Time BI -and- Max Business Value
• March 10, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Should You Wait or Move Forward?
• Keys to Successful Performance Management: Getting Past the Excitement of Technology to Achieve Results
• BI Case Study: Ford's Business Assistance Center Hits the Fast Lane with IlumifiAPF
• BI Case Study: International Truck and Engine Corp.
• The Untapped Value of Geographic Information
• BI Experts' Perspective
• Whither BI Scalability? Part II: 15 Signs of a Scalable BI System
• January 29, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Using Decision-Maker Language -and- Turn Users into Customers
• Whither BI Scalability?
• 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?
• September 24, 2003 - TDWI FlashPoint: Predictable Pitfalls, Paths to Partnership
• June 5, 2003 - FlashPoint: The Self-Centric Corporation
• Field Experience with Large Scale Data Warehousing on Oracle
• Cognos Inc.
• IBM Corporation
• The Practical Uses of Meta Data
• Why Has Data Warehousing Become Mission Critical?
• Cutting Elapsed Times: The Secret to Data Warehouse Success
• Hewitt Builds a Web Data Warehouse from the Code Up in One Month
• Federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics Cuts Web Response Times to Seconds
• March 26, 2003 - FlashPoint: Who Do Performance Problems Really Belong To?
• Continental Airlines Maximizes Database Availability
• October 9, 2002 - FlashPoint: How Adaptable Is Your Data Architecture?
• May 8, 2002 - FlashPoint: Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Data Warehouse
• April 24, 2002 - FlashPoint: Methodology versus Architecture - The Myth of the

• April 7, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: How Do We Make BI Relevant?
• Group 1 Adds Data Profiling Capabilities
• Assessing BI Readiness: A Key to BI ROI
• August 12, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Program Review and Assessment for BI and DW
• April 22, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Business Value of BI -and- Justifying Your DW
• March 24, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Real-Time BI -and- Max Business Value
• February 25, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Beyond Information Delivery---Finding Real Value
• The Business Value of Business Intelligence
• January 29, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Using Decision-Maker Language -and- Turn Users into Customers
• November 7, 2003 - TDWI FlashPoint: BI Maturity and ROI: How Does Your Organization Measure Up?
• Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Identifying Data Warehouse Requirements
• October 13, 2003 - TDWI FlashPoint: Understanding SAP BW Terminology
• BI Industry Consolidates
• BI StatShots
• Directory of Solution Providers
• April 10, 2003 - FlashPoint: Ten Best Practices in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
• February 12, 2003 - FlashPoint: Total Cost of Ownership for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
• Q&A from the Experts
• Managed Business Intelligence Service Provider digiMine Analyzes Terabytes of Customer Data
• Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Solution Helps Keep the Nation Working

• TDWI Best Practices Reports
• Current Monograph
• BI Case Study: There's an (Analytic) Method to Their (March) Madness
• BI Case Study: What’s in a Word? For Hewlett-Packard, It’s Customer Insight
• The Best BI Tool Is Education
• Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting and Deploying BI Tools
• Keys to Successful Performance Management: Getting Past the Excitement of Technology to Achieve Results
• BI Case Study: Ford's Business Assistance Center Hits the Fast Lane with IlumifiAPF
• BI Case Study: International Truck and Engine Corp.
• The Business Value of Business Intelligence
• Whither BI Scalability?
• 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?
• October 13, 2003 - TDWI FlashPoint: Understanding SAP BW Terminology
• September 24, 2003 - TDWI FlashPoint: Predictable Pitfalls, Paths to Partnership
• August 13, 2003 - FlashPoint: Embarcadero Targets Price-Sensitive ETL Market
• June 18, 2003 - FlashPoint: Ten Mistakes to Avoid in Bottom-Up Development
• June 5, 2003 - FlashPoint: The Self-Centric Corporation
• Cognos Inc.
• Informatica Corporation
• Unicode Data: Not Just a Character Issue
• Taking BI Off the Shelf
• Achieving Breakthrough Corporate Performance
• Business Objects
• Pinnacle West—Using Design/Build Teams to Improve the BI Development Lifecycle
• TCF Bank Powers Up Cross-Selling
• Federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics Cuts Web Response Times to Seconds
• 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
• February 26, 2003 - FlashPoint: CRM and the Active Data Warehouse
• Excerpt from TDWI's Research Report - The Rise of Analytic Applications: Build or Buy?
• Seeing It the User’s Way: Interfaces for Real-World Decision Making
• December 18, 2002 - TDWI FlashPoint: Techniques for Customizing Packaged Data Warehousing Solutions
• Mistake 1: Failure to Factor in Strategy
• Mistake 2: Letting Vendors, Not Requirements, Drive the Need
• Mistake 3: Bypassing Success Metrics
• Mistake 5: Underestimating System Integration Issues
• Mistake 6: Ignoring Business Processes
• Mistake 7: Underestimating or Overestimating Organizational Change
• Mistake 8: Deferring Discussions of Privacy
• Mistake 9: Assume all CRM Users are LAN Connected
• Mistake 10: Not Closing the Loop Back to Development
• Portable Analytic Applications
• Center of Excellence Aligns Business and IT for Successful Enterprise Data
• A New Old Market
• Q&A from the Experts 
• Q&A from the Experts 
• Q&A from the Experts
• ASI Financial Services Develops Targeted Data Marts to Benefit Major Banks and Their Customers
• The Maxtor Data Warehouse—Serving a Dynamic Supply Chain in Real Time
• This Success Story Is Brought to You by the Letters C-O-G-N-O-S
• Managed Business Intelligence Service Provider digiMine Analyzes Terabytes of Customer Data
• ACME Truck Line Delivers Speedy and Inexpensive Service Using CleverPath Portal
• Ace Hardware Finds Tool of Choice for BI Expansion
• Determining the Next Best Action with Your Customers
• BNSF Stays on Track with BI Success: Revenue Single Source
• The Application Revolution
• Spetember 25, 2002 - FlashPoint: Excerpt from the upcoming TDWI research report---The Rise of Analytic Applications: Build or Buy?
• Making CRM Work through Customer Data Integration
• Pave the Road To E-Business Success With Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Choosing the Right CRM Tool
• Use of a DW and BI to Support CRM Initiatives

• TDWI Best Practices Reports
• TDWI Monograph Series: Business Objects
• August 12, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Program Review and Assessment for BI and DW
• April 22, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Business Value of BI -and- Justifying Your DW
• The Untapped Value of Geographic Information
• The Impact of the OLAP/OLTP Cultural Conflict on Data Warehousing
• January 16, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Evolving BI Maturity -and- Certification
• Ad Hoc BI Is Killing Us!
• September 10, 2003 - FlashPoint: Where to Start - Data Profiling -and- Pros and Cons of Analytic Applications
• July 30, 2003 - FlashPoint: Data Mining in the World of Active Data Warehousing
• BI Industry Consolidates
• Exective Summary: Smart Companies in the 21st Century: The Secrets to Creating Successful Business Intelligence Solutions
• May 23, 2003 - FlashPoint: Re-Cabling the Data Warehouse -- Getting Ready to Play in a Real-Time World
• A Data Mining Primer for the Data Warehouse Professional
• Cognos Inc.
• Informatica Corporation
• Sagent
• Enterprise Information Integration—Providing an Alternative Path to Corporate Information
• Taking BI Off the Shelf
• Why Has Data Warehousing Become Mission Critical?
• The Five Myths of Data Mining
• Achieving Breakthrough Corporate Performance
• Business Objects
• BASF Succeeds with SAP BW
• University of Cincinnati Gives High Marks to Web-Based Query Tool
• Business Intelligence Solution Provides Healthy Return for Aspect Medical Systems
• Cutter & Buck Improves Sales Management and Processes, Cuts IT Workload
• TCF Bank Powers Up Cross-Selling
• Federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics Cuts Web Response Times to Seconds
• April 10, 2003 - FlashPoint: Ten Best Practices in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
• March 26, 2003 - FlashPoint: Who Do Performance Problems Really Belong To?
• Transforming Information into Intelligence
• Accessing and Mining Federated Data Sources
• A New Old Market
• Q&A from the Experts 
• Q&A from the Experts 
• Q&A from the Experts 
• Q&A from the Experts
• Lansing Community College Does Business Intelligently
• The Rewards and ROI of Real-Time Data Warehousing
• Application Infrastructure—The New Operating System for the Real-Time Enterprise
• 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
• Spatially Enabling Your Data Warehouse
• January 4, 2002 - FlashPoint: Business Objects Improves Web-Based OLAP Access
• February 27, 2001 - FlashPoint: Microsoft Analysis Services 2000: An OLAP Heavyweight
• A Study of Perceived Post-Implementation Benefits of Data Warehousing

• Ten Mistakes to Avoid for Data Warehouse Project Managers
• 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 2, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Coordinating Domains of Responsibility to Address Data Quality
• In Search of a Single Version of Truth
• July 2, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Architectural Alternatives for Data Integration
• July 16, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: What about Data Quality?
• Reeling in Spreadmarts
• Integrating Data Quality into Your Data Warehouse Architecture
• Be Prepared: Profile Your Data
• July 17, 2003 - FlashPoint: Is External Data Worth the Effort?
• July 3, 2003 - FlashPoint: Order from Chaos: Stepping Up to the Meta Data Mess
• The Evolution of ETL
• Syncsort Incorporated
• Trillium Software, a division of Harte-Hanks
• GoldenGate
• Hummingbird Ltd
• Informatica Corporation
• Sagent
• SAP America, Inc.
• Information Integration—A Step Beyond the Data Warehouse
• Enterprise Information Integration—Providing an Alternative Path to Corporate Information
• Global Data Synchronization Powers the Real-Time Enterprise
• Unicode Data: Not Just a Character Issue
• Data Warehousing Considerations for SAP Systems
• The Practical Uses of Meta Data
• Cutting Elapsed Times: The Secret to Data Warehouse Success
• BASF Succeeds with SAP BW
• Business Intelligence Solution Provides Healthy Return for Aspect Medical Systems
• Hewitt Builds a Web Data Warehouse from the Code Up in One Month
• TCF Bank Powers Up Cross-Selling
• Creating a Zero Latency Environment for Instantaneous Customer Information
• Executive Summary: Evaluating ETL & Data Integration Platforms
• March 12, 2003 - FlashPoint: All Parallelism is NOT Created Equal! & SAP BW: A Corporate Information Factory?
• Excerpt from TDWI’s Research Report - Data Quality and the Bottom Line
• Intelligent Customer Data Integration: Providing a Sound Foundation for CRM
• Transforming Information into Intelligence
• Weathering Today’s Economic Storm with Meta Data Management
• Data Drives Your Business—Are You the One Steering?
• Moving Data from a Data Warehouse to a Data Mart
• Center of Excellence Aligns Business and IT for Successful Enterprise Data
• Managing Business Change in the Data Warehouse
• Without Scalability, Enterprise Data Integration Becomes an Oxymoron
• The Lessons of Distributed Application Integration
• Q&A from the Experts 
• Q&A from the Experts
• Q&A from the Experts 
• Q&A from the Experts 
• Q&A from the Experts 
• Q&A from the Experts
• Q&A from the Experts
• Q&A from the Experts
• WesTrac Equipment Achieves ‘Earthmoving’ Integration and Query Performance
• NAV CANADA Improves Timeliness and Accuracy of Information for Decision Making
• High-Performance ETL Solution Improves Data Quality and Positions Premier for Rapid Growth
• Data Quality in the Integrated Enterprise
• The Rewards and ROI of Real-Time Data Warehousing
• September 11, 2002 - TDWI FlashPoint: Enterprise Application Integration and Active Data
• Making CRM Work through Customer Data Integration
• 6. Not using the right tools
• August 14, 2002 - TDWI FlashPoint: Audit Trail History---The Next Frontier
• TDWI's Data Quality Report

• Ten Mistakes to Avoid for Data Warehouse Project Managers
• Group 1 Adds Data Profiling Capabilities
• Directory of Solution Providers
• Gauge Your Data Warehousing Maturity
• Data Warehousing Battle of the Giants: Comparing the Basics of the Kimball and Inmon Models
• Whither BI Scalability? Part II: 15 Signs of a Scalable BI System
• February 11, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Turning the Data Warehouse Inside-Out: Model-Driven Architecture
• Whither BI Scalability?
• December 3, 2003 - TDWI FlashPoint: How to Avoid Failures When Using ETL Tools
• Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Identifying Data Warehouse Requirements
• August 27, 2003 - FlashPoint: Data Warehousing Architectures and Methodologies: Point – Counterpoint
• June 18, 2003 - FlashPoint: Ten Mistakes to Avoid in Bottom-Up Development
• Four Ways to Build a Data Warehouse
• Information Integration—A Step Beyond the Data Warehouse
• The Practical Uses of Meta Data
• Pinnacle West—Using Design/Build Teams to Improve the BI Development Lifecycle
• Business Intelligence Solution Provides Healthy Return for Aspect Medical Systems
• Siemens AG: Speed and Transparency in Consolidation
• May 7, 2003 - FlashPoint: The Staging Area
• Cabela’s Data Warehouse Satisfies Hunt for Business Insight
• March 12, 2003 - FlashPoint: All Parallelism is NOT Created Equal! & SAP BW: A Corporate Information Factory?
• Demand-Driven Information Requirements Analysis in Data Warehousing
• January 30, 2003 - FlashPoint: Guidelines for Sequencing Data Elements in Your Logical Design 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
• How Can Dimensional Modeling Deliver a Consistent View of Your Business?
• New Generation in Data Warehousing Marked by Definite Trends
• Portable Analytic Applications
• Q&A from the Experts 
• Q&A from the Experts
• ASI Financial Services Develops Targeted Data Marts to Benefit Major Banks and Their Customers
• The Maxtor Data Warehouse—Serving a Dynamic Supply Chain in Real Time
• Dynamic Web-Based Solution Delivers Auditable Statistics at Shell
• August 28, 2002 - TDWI FlashPoint: Project Plan for Bottom-Up Development
• August 14, 2002 - TDWI FlashPoint: Audit Trail History---The Next Frontier
• 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
• April 24, 2002 - FlashPoint: Methodology versus Architecture - The Myth of the
• March 13, 2002 - FlashPoint:
• February 13, 2002 - FlashPoint: Understanding SAP's BI Strategy (Part II)
• 8. Developing a data model from a list of required data elements
• January 30, 2002 - FlashPoint: Understanding SAP's BI Strategy

• May 20, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Operational Data Store—a Near-Real-Time Environment!
• March 24, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Real-Time BI -and- Max Business Value
• February 25, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: Beyond Information Delivery---Finding Real Value
• May 23, 2003 - FlashPoint: Re-Cabling the Data Warehouse -- Getting Ready to Play in a Real-Time World
• Sybase, Inc.
• Trillium Software, a division of Harte-Hanks
• GoldenGate
• Sagent
• BASF Succeeds with SAP BW
• University of Cincinnati Gives High Marks to Web-Based Query Tool
• Siemens AG: Speed and Transparency in Consolidation
• The Lessons of Distributed Application Integration
• Q&A from the Experts 

• January 12, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: Disaster Recovery Planning for Your Data Warehouse
• Directory of Solution Providers
• Gauge Your Data Warehousing Maturity
• Whither BI Scalability? Part II: 15 Signs of a Scalable BI System
• September 10, 2003 - FlashPoint: Where to Start - Data Profiling -and- Pros and Cons of Analytic Applications
• Sybase, Inc.
• Field Experience with Large Scale Data Warehousing on Oracle
• Four Ways to Build a Data Warehouse
• Hummingbird Ltd
• Oracle Corporation
• Information Integration—A Step Beyond the Data Warehouse
• Data Warehousing Considerations for SAP Systems
• Why Has Data Warehousing Become Mission Critical?
• The Five Myths of Data Mining
• Cutting Elapsed Times: The Secret to Data Warehouse Success
• Business Objects
• BASF Succeeds with SAP BW
• Siemens AG: Speed and Transparency in Consolidation
• Cutter & Buck Improves Sales Management and Processes, Cuts IT Workload
• Hewitt Builds a Web Data Warehouse from the Code Up in One Month
• Cabela’s Data Warehouse Satisfies Hunt for Business Insight
• Federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics Cuts Web Response Times to Seconds
• March 12, 2003 - FlashPoint: All Parallelism is NOT Created Equal! & SAP BW: A Corporate Information Factory?
• One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Choosing the Right Storage Solution for Your Data Warehouse
• New Generation in Data Warehousing Marked by Definite Trends
• Q&A from the Experts
• Q&A from the Experts
• Q&A from the Experts
• Storage and Data Management: Key to Smart Data Warehousing
• July 3, 2002 - FlashPoint: Part 2 - TCO of VLDW -and- Data Mining with SAP BW
• 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

• Vendor Consolidations: Synergy is Fine, but the Opportunity to Cash-out Is Often the Bottom Line
• More Time to Comply with Compliance
• January 12, 2005 - TDWI FlashPoint: Disaster Recovery Planning for Your Data Warehouse
• Gauging Your BI Maturity for Sarbanes-Oxley
• Using Offshore Resources to Develop and Support Data Warehousing Applications
• May 5, 2004 - TDWI FlashPoint: BI Project Portfolio Management -and- Offshore BI
• Does the Real-Time Enterprise Have an Achilles' Heel
• BI Bookshelf
• BI Statshots
• 2003 Best Practices Awards Winners: Innovators in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
• BI Case Study: Grid Computing Accelerates BI Analytics
• Data Warehousing By Gender
• Ad Hoc BI Is Killing Us!
• November 7, 2003 - TDWI FlashPoint: BI Maturity and ROI: How Does Your Organization Measure Up?
• 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
• July 30, 2003 - FlashPoint: Data Mining in the World of Active Data Warehousing
• July 3, 2003 - FlashPoint: Order from Chaos: Stepping Up to the Meta Data Mess
• Experts’ Perspective
• BI Case Study - SSM Health Care
• End-User Support Strategy
• BI Bookshelf
• BI StatShots
• The Critical Business Need to Reduce Elapsed Time
• A Practical View of Real-Time Warehousing
• Data Warehousing and Real-Time Computing
• Message from the Editorial Director
• TDWI Crossword Puzzle
• Directory of Solution Providers
• Teradata, a division of NCR
• Q&A from the Experts
• Table of Contents
• Four Ways to Build a Data Warehouse
• Justifying Business Intelligence Projects Today
• January 16, 2002 - TDWI FlashPoint: Improve the Value of Data Warehouse Increments by Understanding Business Models
• 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
• Endowing Reasoning Capabilities to a Matching/Scrubbing Algorithm
• October 23, 2002 - TDWI FlashPoint: What Are We Doing to Help the Data Steward?
• New Generation in Data Warehousing Marked by Definite Trends
• 2. Missing development methodology
• 3. Misunderstanding data currency requirements resulting in a multidimensional design
• 4. Using the ODS as a staging area for the data warehouse
• 5. Setting unrealistic expectations for update cycles
• 7. Maintaining significant history in the ODS
• 8. Poorly Designed Referential Integrity
• 9. Poor performance for reporting
• 10. Not creating a service management function and a program management office
• 1. Missing scope document, including a mission statement
• July 31, 2002 - FlashPoint: Strengthening Our Definitions
• July 3, 2002 - FlashPoint: Part 2 - TCO of VLDW -and- Data Mining with SAP BW
• June 5, 2002 - FlashPoint: TCO of VERY LARGE DATA WAREHOUSING (VLDW)---A Business Perspective
• April 10, 2002 - FlashPoint: Follow Through and Data Warehousing Support
• March 27, 2002 - FlashPoint: The Guessing Game
• 1. Not gathering business requirements