Business Intelligence Data Warehouse Special Interest Group

Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse Special Interest Group

Case Studies and Lessons Learned on the Netezza High Performance DW Appliance

Too many Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence projects experience difficulties around the same issues:

Performance can't match expectations
Costs prohibit doing some of the right things
The business does not perceive the real benefits early enough in the process
The business is not getting the business transformation they want

One unique approach to these challenges is the "data warehouse appliance". These specialized solutions can fit into any environment and require few, if any, changes to existing tools.

True North Consulting in conjunction with our partner, Netezza, would like to share with you some key Technical Case Studies by a Netezza Systems Engineer which illustrate some of the ways that these new approaches and solutions have helped:

address some of the classic performance problems and achieve some breakthrough performance
reign in the costs of implementing data warehouses and data marts - initial cost, and ongoing "total cost" for running the solution
implement business oriented solutions in faster than it used to take
provide the ability to do things the business has never been able to do before

Intelligent Enterprise selected Netezza as "a Company to Watch in 2005" in recognition of the innovation that it has brought to Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence.

Speaker

Ed Bernier graduated Magna Cum Laude from University of Hartford with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Math. He has 25 years experience working in Information Technology. He worked at Digital Equipment Corporation for 8 years selling and delivering UNIX solutions and has spent the last 9 at Informix, IBM and now Netezza specializing in data warehousing.

Time and Location of Meeting

Meeting Details: Monday, April 25, 2005

Location: Beeton Room West, Toronto Reference Library, Yonge Street at Asquith Ave. (one block north of Bloor), Toronto

5:45 pm: Registration for prompt 6:00 pm start
7:30 pm. Expected Finish

No need to pre-register - just show up!

No charge for IRMAC members. Non-members: $20.

Questions please contact

Bill Chadwick at
Diane Vint Johnson at