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Recent News:
CSI Announces Data Warehouse Redesign Engagement With Major Financial Services Client (June 24, 2008)
CSI Reports Year-End 2007 Financial Results (May 1, 2008)
CSI Completes Transactions to Strengthen its Balance Sheet (April 23, 2008)
CSI Sponsors iSixSigma Financial Services Industry Channel (April 21, 2008)
Upcoming Events:
4th Annual Lean Six Sigma Improvement Week, September 16-19, Chicago. CSI will be among the exhibitors at this yearly event. On Friday, September 19th, join members of the CSI team for a workshop on satisfying the Customer and delivering value from Day 1. Join CSI's Bryan Carey to learn how to create the foundations for Process Excellence with the right customer experience, using a ‘customer-in’ perspective. Find out how to align the goals of your customer with the goals of your organization from day 1 of your improvement programs.
Webcasts:
CSI'S WEB SERIES:
SAP Data Warehousing for the Enterprise: July 15, 2008, 2:00 p.m. Eastern, 11:00 a.m. Pacific. Join CSI's Jared Hillam, vice president of Business Intelligence, and business intelligence expert Mark Stockwell to learn how clients can take incremental steps towards a full blown data warehouse, simultaneously generating ROI and addressing urgent business needs with each step. Click here for more details.
ON DEMAND WEBCASTS:
New On-Demand Web Cast Available at searchDataManagement.com: Data Integration Optimization Tips for Business Intelligence. CSI's senior vice president of Information Management, William McKnight, discusses how a business intelligence (BI) system is clearly only as good as its data. Obviously, most BI users expect accurate and up-to-date data to support their decision-making — and unfortunately, problems with data accuracy or latency can negatively impact an organization's trust and adoption of BI. Whether you're planning a new BI implementation, or hoping to improve the data integration processes that support your current BI system, there are some basic steps you can take to optimize your information management infrastructure. In this expert webcast, learn how to make BI data as accurate, current and complete as possible — so your BI system can truly support your business. Click here to view this webcast. Registration required.
Effecting Business Transformation Based on the Voice of Your Customer —Sponsored by CSI and Business Objects. Bryan Carey, CSI’s senior vice president of strategic consulting and managing director of DeLeeuw Associates, along with Jared Hillam, vice president of business intelligence, present an innovative view of business transformation. You’ll experience a new way of viewing process improvement — based on customer expectations — as well as a practical demonstration of the power of BusinessObjects’ Crystal Xcelsius application to provide actionable metrics and dashboards to manage to your KPIs.
On-Demand Web Cast: SAP Data Warehousing for the Enterprise—Sponsored by CSI and Business Objects. Jared
Hillam, CSI's Vice President of Business Intelligence, and Mark Stockwell, Business Intelligence Architect, will address the
most common questions regarding Business Objects' Rapid Marts for SAP.
Podcasts:
Radio Podcast BeyePERSPECTIVE - May Show. The panel talks about what companies need to do to keep up with the 4 BI giants; whether software as a service is fact, fiction or fantasy; and how Informatica's recent acquisition of Identity Systems impacts the data quality space. Featuring William McKnight.
How to Develop a Sustainable Data Integration Plan for Business Intelligence Projects.
In this podcast from BitPipe.com, William McKnight gives expert advice for developing a sustainable BI-data integration strategy.
sponsored by SAS Institute Inc. Registration required.
Wall Street Technology Association's CyberLibrary presents How to Develop a Sustainable Data Integration Plan for Business Intelligence Projects - Expert Podcast. CSI's William McKnight gives expert advice from William McKnight on developing a sustainable BI-data integration strategy, including topics like unique data integration considerations for BI systems, emerging real-time data integration methods, most common mistakes organizations make when designing BI-data integration strategies and how to avoid those pitfalls.
Radio Podcast BeyePERSPECTIVE - April Show. The panel talks about why it appears that a possible recession doesn’t seem to be affecting the business intelligence market, the implications of on-demand BI to the IT department and the recently published top 10 trends from HP’s professional group. Featuring William McKnight.
Radio Podcast BeyePERSPECTIVE - March Show. Experts discuss Gartner's Top Ten Strategic Technologies for 2008, the TDWI analytics track and how the GIS presentations on television are changing the expectations of how viewers receive information on TV and in business. Featuring William McKnight.
Radio Podcast BeyePERSPECTIVE - February Show. Experts discuss discuss the results of the Gartner Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, the ways that CDI is getting mainstream attention (and more ways CDI could make a positive impact in our day to day lives) and Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo. Featuring William McKnight.
Radio Podcast BeyePERSPECTIVE - January Show. Experts discuss four M&As announced in January, including the BEA acquisition by Oracle, the purchase of MySQL by Sun Microsystems signals a transition into a Web 2.0 software company, the implication of SAP closing the Business Objects deal, and what FAST’s fresh approach to data warehousing means to Microsoft.
Featuring William McKnight.
Radio Podcast BeyePERSPECTIVE - November Show. This month, the experts talk about the increase of offerings by individual vendors (does that mean the customer gets a one stop shop, or is just a lack of focus?), the acquisition of Cognos by IBM, and the resonance of the business performance management message.
Featuring William McKnight.
Radio Podcast BeyePERSPECTIVE - October Show. The October show of BeyePERSPECTIVE discusses the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP, the Teradata and SAS partnership and the increase of European companies in the United States. Featuring William McKnight.
William McKnight, Senior Vice President of Information Management, shares the latest news in the field of RFID, explains the uses of RFID for supply chain applications, and describes how RFID data will impact systems and processes at the Pacific Northwest BI Summit 2007.
William McKnight, Senior Vice President of Information Management, discusses the biggest challenges of information utilization and his master data management course at TDWI.
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