Overview
Back by popular demand are the Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse Chat with the Lab series. This program is designed to give you, our customers more interaction with the Development and Best Practices team. These live, deeply technical calls provide practical and useful information on our products and services. Please join us for the chats to hear about topics that are important to you. Your opinion matters to us and we want you to gain value from these sessions. What topics would you like to hear from the lab? How can we help you be more successful with your data warehouse? Help us tailor these calls to meet your needs in the field. So please Tell us what's on your mind or if you want to join the distribution list!
July 17, 2009 - "The Journey to Trusted Information - Workload Management in DB2 9.7"
Featuring: Karen McCulloch - IBM Canada Lab, Manager, DB2 WLM Development
Abstract: This session will first provide a brief overview of the Workload Management functionality that was provided in V9.5. Then we will describe in detail, the enhancements that have been made to Workload Management in V9.7. Finally, we will go through some of the Workload Management best practices.
June 26, 2009 - "The Journey to Trusted Information - Enhanced Monitoring in DB2 9.7"
Featuring: David Kalmuk - DB2 LUW PModel Architecture Lead
Abstract: This session will provide a detailed overview of the enhanced monitoring capabilities available in DB2 9.7. It will cover the new functionality available for efficient system performance monitoring, query performance monitoring, lock monitoring, and support for capturing history, as well as provide some under-the-hood details on the new in-memory metrics and enhanced event monitor architectures.
May 29, 2009: "The Journey to Trusted Information - What's new with Balanced Warehouse"
Featuring: Eddie Daghelian, Program Director, Integrated Data Warehousing Technology
Abstract: In these tough economic times, companies are struggling to achieve growth and market share. Hence, many are turning business intelligence solutions to gain competitive advantages. With the level of fiscal controls in place companies want greater return on their investment, lower risk, and faster time to value. Hence, the rapid growth in data warehouse appliances versus role your own implementations. This session will discuss advantages of IBM's InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse offerings over roll your own implementations, and how IBM's offering provide companies the best set of choices for their success leveraging the larger IBM Information Management suite of business intelligence and data warehousing offerings.
April 22, 2009: "The Journey to Trusted Information - Business Driven BI Development"
Featuring: Brian Byrne, Enterprise Architect; Deepak Rangarao, Technical Sales Specialist; Ivan Milman, Software Architect
Abstract: This session will provide a demonstration of the use of InfoSphere Tools, Data Warehouse and Cognos C8 in the construction of a BI solution. This session will show how the use of an integrated tools set yields structured metadata that can then be used to address key questions about a solution such as impact analysis and data lineage.
March 19, 2009: "The Journey to Trusted Information - IBM's Industry Models and their role in the IBM Information Management Portfolio"
Featuring: Pat O'Sullivan, STSM - Industry Models Architecture; Deepak Rangarao, Technical Sales Specialist; Bill O'Connell, DE - Chief Architect IM Solutions - Warehousing CTO
Abstract: This session will provide an overview of the IBM Industry Models covering their typical usages, the main components of the Data Models and the business content contained in the Models. In addition this session will outline the positioning and integration of IBM's Industry Models with the overall IBM information Management suite of products
February 27, 2009: IBM Leveraging System z for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
Featuring: Gary Crupi, Senior Certified Executive Software IT Specialist
Abstract: Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence customers are requiring low latency data stores and qualities of service to support mission critical applications. The System z based data warehouse solution is uniquely positioned to meet those needs. This session will help you understand the solution and the products that support it, the value to your business, and how you can learn more about it.
January 30, 2009: ROLAP - Cognos 8.4 and InfoSphere Warehouse Cubing Services 9.5
Featuring: Rachel Bland, IBM Senior Product Manager -- Cognos Metadata and Relational Query and Deepak Rangarao, IBM Technical Sales Specialist
Abstract: One of the key differentiators between OLAP and ROLAP is the relationship between performance and data volume. Cognos 8.4 extends the ability to offer a dimensional performance management experience on multi-terabyte data volumes through enhanced support for InfoSphere Warehouse Cubing Services. Hear how this Cognos/InfoSphere integration ties-in with Cognos' OLAP Strategy and learn about how to design and deploy Cubing Services for use in performance management applications.
January 9, 2009- End-to-End Performance Management Platform
Featuring Cognos and InfoSphere
Featuring: Ben Foulkes, Manager-BI & Performance Management
Abstract: With Cognos 8v4, users can take advantage of the complete picture of their data utilizing shared metadata from InfoSphere. Beyond simple glossary lookups, Cognos metadata can be loaded into Metadata Workbench to augment data warehousing efforts from DataStage/QualityStage and Design Studio.
November 14, 2008 - Improving Performance of Analytical Models with DB2 Materialized Query Tables (MQTs).
Featuring: Jo Ramos, IOD Solutions Architect; Julio Olivetti, IT Specialist Best Practices Team; Calisto Zuzarte, IBM Toronto Lab; Miro Flasza, IBM Toronto Lab
Abstract: A practical approach to leverage DB2 Materialized Query Table (MQTs) to improve performance of analytical applications.
October 10, 2008 - Advanced Analytical Data Mining Solutions for Retail
Featuring: Jo Ramos, Executive Solutions Architect; Robert Frankus, BI Solutions Architect
Abstract: Retailers are collecting more and more data about their purchase behaviors and customers. See how analytics can unlock the value of your data using IBM InfoSphere™ Warehouse and Cognos. We will demonstrate how a market basket and sequence analysis can be made available to large amounts of users using Cognos 8. See how data mining can be applied to retail and see a live demonstration of InfoSphere Data Mining integrated with Cognos 8.
September 26, 2008 - Advanced Analytical Solutions for HealthCare: Featuring Data Mining and Text Analytics
Featuring: Hakan Altun, Analytics Specialist; Jo Ramos, Executive Solutions Architect
Abstract:The healthcare industry is concerned with the problem of providing high quality services while potentially minimizing costs. This session will provide insights into how InfoSphere Warehouse predictive analytics can be leveraged to address problems such as claim overpayments, member and provider analysis, disease management and treatment outcomes.
September 12, 2008 - Operational BI: Leveraging IBM Cognos Now! and InfoSphere Warehouse
Featuring: Janardhan Chodagam, Analytics Solution Architect; Jo Ramos, Consulting IT Specialist Analytics; Steve Smythe, Director of Product Management IBM Cognos Now!
Abstract:IBM Cognos Now! and InfoSphere deliver a complete Operational BI solution that continuously monitors time-sensitive key performance indicators (KPIs) and line-of-business operational metrics. Designed for rapid deployment and low total cost of ownership (TCO), the solution Abstract:IBM Cognos Now! and InfoSphere deliver a complete Operational BI solution that continuously monitors time-sensitive key performance indicators (KPIs) and line-of-business operational metrics. Designed for rapid deployment and low total cost of ownership (TCO), the solution creates a competitive advantage by driving operational optimization.
August 29, 2008 - IBM Cognos 8: Embrace, Enhance and Extend Your Investment in the SAP Business Warehouse
Featuring: Bob Corson, Product Marketing
Abstract: SAP customers are driving superior performance through more informed decisions. As part of the IBM Information on Demand strategy, IBM Cognos 8, the industry's only complete and unified Performance Management platform, helps organizations to realize the inherent value of their investments in SAP data and applications. This session will provide insight into how SAP customers are benefiting from true business self service and tight integration and interoperability with SAP NetWeaver BI. IBM Cognos 8 is proven and available today to help you embrace, enhance and extend your investments in the SAP Business Warehouse, Abstract: SAP customers are driving superior performance through more informed decisions. As part of the IBM Information on Demand strategy, IBM Cognos 8, the industry's only complete and unified Performance Management platform, helps organizations to realize the inherent value of their investments in SAP data and applications. This session will provide insight into how SAP customers are benefiting from true business self service and tight integration and interoperability with SAP NetWeaver BI. IBM Cognos 8 is proven and available today to help you embrace, enhance and extend your investments in the SAP Business Warehouse, Business Suite and R/3 and SAP NetWeaver applications.
August 8, 2008 - Managing the Performance and Usage of the Data Warehouse
Featuring: Randy Holmes, Best Practices Performance Team
Abstract: During this session you will learn about InfoSphere Warehouse Performance Suite (iWPS), IBM’s suite of products for managing performance and warehouse resources as part of a Data Warehouse Life Cycle Management process. This will cover the architecture and use of iWPS to manage and improve performance in today’s consolidated data warehouse environment.
July 25, 2008 - Deploying Data Mining via Cognos
Featuring: Jo Ramos and Robert Frankus; Analytics Best Practices Team
Abstract: InfoSphere Data Mining and Cognos 8 Integration
InfoSphere Warehouse provides powerful embedded data mining capabilities and work directly with your data in the data warehouse. Cognos provides powerful end-to-end performance management capabilities through a rich and seamless web interface. In this session we show how InfoSphere Data Mining capabilities easily integrate with Cognos 8 to delivery business insights.
July 11, 2008 - Cubing Services
Featuring: Jeff Douglas, Sr. Manager Warehouse Analytics and Solutions, Santa Theresa Labs
Abstract: This session provides an overview of Cubing Services, the messaging and positioning. As well as a roadmap and enablement.
