Acceleration Academy - 2010 Series - Session 09

Recorded on Monday, Dec 13th, 2010 at 11AM CDT

Current and Future State of Data Warehousing and Analytics with the Boulder BI Brain Trust

Panelists from the BBBT: Claudia Imhoff, Lyndsay Wise, Shawn Rogers, Brad Cowdry, Merv Adrian, Mark Madsen, and John Myers

Hosted by XtremeData, Inc, the featured presenter is Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D., President and Founder of Intelligent Solutions, Inc. a DW & BI Consultancy. Claudia has co-authored five books on these topics.

XtremeData started the session with a brief overview of the dbX technology, and then handed the baton over to Claudia and the BBBT Members who discussed the following topics:

Discussions on the current state of the Data Warehousing market and where companies stand on the maturity curve for DW/BI:

• Approximate size of Data Warehouses

• Number of users

• The criticality of Data Warehouses and the required SLAs

Expected data growth rates and sources of new data:

• Demographic data, phone & cell data, map & location data

• Sub-transactional data; billions of sensors creating trillions of  records

Overview of new business applications and new technology solutions:

• Top 3-5 new trends in warehousing and analytical applications

• Recommendations to IT users on how to support their business

• Suggestions for businesses and analysts to take advantage of new technologies

Conducting a proper POC

• Items to look for by category

• How to check for scalability

• Vendor tricks to be aware of

• Q&A session 

Slides Webinar

Building the Unstructured Data Warehouse with Bill Inmon and Krish Krishnan

Recorded Friday - Feb 4, 2011 - 12  NOON CDT

Guest Speakers: Bill Inmon and Krish Krishnan

Hosted by XtremeData, Inc, the featured presenters are Bill Inmon and Krish Krishnan. Bill Inmon, the father of data warehousing, has written 52 books translated into 9 languages. Bill has written over 1000 articles and conducted seminars and spoken at conferences on every continent except Antarctica. Bill holds three software patents and his latest company is Forest Rim Technology, a company dedicated to the access and integration of unstructured data into the structured world.

Krish Krishnan is a recognized thought leader in Data Warehouse Performance and Architecture. Krish writes and teaches Social Intelligence across the world and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. He provides consulting advice to CxO's on DW Strategy and is an Independent Analyst covering the Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Industry.

XtremeData starts the session with a brief overview of the dbX technology, and will hand the baton over to Bill and Krish to discuss the following topics:

• Overview of Building the Unstructured Warehouse
• Leverage indexes for efficient text analysis
• Taxonomies for useful external categorization
• and more...

We will wrap up with a Q&A session where questions from the attendees were fielded.

Slides Webinar

SQL for data analysis

Hosted by XtremeData, Inc, the featured presenter will be Gordon Linoff, of Data-Miners, who is a renowned author on SQL.

XtremeData is excited to have Gordon Linoff present on how and why SQL is used for Data Analysis. His presentation will cover why SQL is useful and what to look for when considering SQL for Data Analysis.

XtremeData will kickoff the session with a brief overview of the dbX technology, and there will be a wrap up Q & A session where questions from attendees will be fielded.

Don’t miss this exciting launch to the 2010 Acceleration Academy Series

Title: 2010 Acceleration Academy - Session 1 - Data Analysis Using SQL

Recorded: Friday, January 29, 2010

Webinar  Slides

Textual ETL

Hosted by XtremeData, Inc, the featured presenter was Bill Inmon, The Father of Data Warehousing, respected author, and President of Forest Rim Technology Inc.

XtremeData is excited to have had Bill discuss the value of unstructured data and how to leverage Textual ETL technologies to build an unstructured data warehouse.

Don’t miss this exciting session!

Recorded: Friday, Feb 25th, 2010

Webinar  Slides

Game-Changing Data Mining - KXEN's Automation Revolutionizes Modeling Productivity

XtremeData was excited to have Doug discuss and demonstrate best practices for automating and integrating Data Mining into your IT infrastructure. Doug also explained their ability to produce models in 1/10th to 1/100th of the time of traditional data mining tools, while not sacrificing model accuracy or robustness.

Includes live demo of KXEN creating a model and scoring real customer banking data. KXEN demo leverages the power of DBX to create and join many different datasets.

Recorded: Friday, March 26th, 2010

Webinar Slides

Data Mining and Predictive Modeling in SQL

Recorded on Friday, June 25, 2010 at 12PM CDT

Presenter: Michael Berry, successful author & expert in SQL Server and an MCITP DBA (2005, 2008) MCDBA. Michael is also an occasional contributor to SQL Server Magazine and SQL-Server-performance.com.

XtremeData was excited to have Michael as our presenter for this session of Acceleration Academy.

Michael discussed:

* SQL as a Data Mining Tools

* Descriptions and Predictions

* Preparing Data for Mining

* Predictive Models in SQL

Webinar   Slides

Top 5 Ways to Increase Analytics and Ad Hoc Query Capabilities

Recorded on Thursday, May 27, 2010 @ 12PM CST

Presenter: Geno Valente, XtremeData’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing

Ali Sajanlal, XtremeData’s Director of Analytics Applications

Agenda: XtremeData will discussed the Top 5 Ways to Increase Analytics and Ad Hoc Capabilities:

1. Analytics Sandbox - Allows analytics users to bring data from disparate places into one environment, and perform SQL based analytics.

2. Adjunct to EDW - allows DW managers to offload ad hoc queries, data analysis and exploration applications from high TCO EDW environments to very low TCO, high performance data warehouse appliances.

3. Live-Archive / Disaster Recovery - Allows for a very cost effective DW Disaster Recovery solution, as well as a continuous/live archive where enterprise data can be maintained permanently in an always accessible manner.

4. Hub-Spoke Analytics Architecture - 100’s of TB in Data Center with 1’s of TB in Desk-side.

5. Analytics in One - Third Party Analytical Tools can be co-hosted with dbX.

Webinar Slides

MPP Databases vs Hadoop / Map Reduce for Data Intensive Analytics with Case Study

Recorded on Friday, July 39, 2010 at 12PM CDT

Presenter: Todd Scofield, Managing Director of the Data Intensive Discovery Initiative (Di2) 

XtremeData was excited to have Todd as our presenter for this session of Acceleration Academy.

Todd discussed:

• Case Study on Mico-Array Analysis
• What is Micro-Array and how it is used in genomic research
• Hadoop Results on U2 Cluster
• DBX Results
• What technology is available at University of Buffalo for rent?

Webinar Slides

Data Warehousing and Enterprise Demand Signal Repository (DSR)

Presenter: Janet Dornekott – Co-Founder of Relational Solutions, Inc., Founder and manager of The Demand Signal Repository Institute.

XtremeData was excited to have Janet as a presenter for the 8th session of Acceleration Academy

Topics that were discussed:

Demand Signal Repositories are quickly becoming a necessity in the consumer goods and retail business. Once considered a luxury, it has fast become a necessity for companies in order to maintain their competitive edge.

Learn the value of a Demand Signal Repository (DSR) to the consumer goods industry. Understand how your company or clients can leverage point of sale data and syndicated data to improve internal efficiencies, understand their customers better, minimize costs associated with out-of-stocks and streamline the supply chain process.

We will explain different solutions, clear up confusion on the proper way to architect a DSR and explain the difference between an Enterprise DSR and Team DSR.

A properly designed DSR can provide significant value to many departments within a consumer goods company including category managers, sales people, marketing, logistics, supply chain, forecasting and inventory teams. The return on investment typically is very rapid if the DSR is designed correctly.

Slides and Webinar are only available on a per request basis. Please contact RSI directly for material or to schedule a demo.