Directions
to this month's meeting:
SBC
370 Third Street, EMBARC Room
San Francisco, CA
From the East Bay:
Take the Harrison St exit on the left toward Embarcadero, Turn
left onto Harrison St.,
Turn right onto 3rd St.
From the Peninsula:
Take I-80 E towards Bay Bridge/Oakland/Seventh St/US-101N, Merge
onto I-80E, Take the Fourth St exit towards Embarcadero, Merge
onto Bryant St, Turn left onto 3rd St.
BART:
Exit the Montgomery BART station. SBC is
three blocks south of Market
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Shadow
IT and What To Do About It,
Neil Radon
Alternately
called spreadmarts, spreadsheet hell and shadow IT, the
reign of spreadsheets in organizations shows no sign of abatement.
But is that all bad? IT organizations have demonstrated
a poor understanding of their clients needs for analytics
and personal productivity
tools stepped into the breach. In this discussion, we'll
examine some possible solutions to the problem, including
the application of
emerging architectures that might allow for very effective
hybridized applications, preserving the truly valuable
and unique contributions of spreadsheets in an organized
way.
In the second half, the subject of business modeling will
be examined, including:
- Requirements for modeling tools
- A
Hierarchy of analytical models
- Metrics
With an emphasis on Business
Performance Management (BPM) and transparency, it is
more important
than ever that analytical
models be accessible, published, explained and collaborative.
In this discussion, we'll look at the requirements for
deploying and sustaining effective modeling environments.
Speaker Biography:
Neil Raden is the founder of Hired Brains, providers of consulting,
research and analysis in Business Intelligence, Performance
Management, real-time analytics and information/semantic
integration. Neil is an analyst, consultant, author, speaker
and industry thought leader. His white papers and seminars
for some of the largest (and smallest) vendors are widely
circulated and influential. His articles appear in Intelligent
Enterprise, DM Review, TDWI Flashpoint, Optimize, Darwin,
Forbes, Information Week and many others ( see www.hiredbrains.com/knowart.html
for a complete listing).He can be reached at 805-682-1062
or nraden@hiredbrains.com, and welcomes your comments.
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2004-
2005 BOARD ELECTIONS
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As you may know, we were unable to fill
the Program Director position this year. As a result, we had to
rely on more vendor presentations than we normally do.
We
will be having our annual elections at the March meeting. The
board member term is from April through March. This year we have
several board openings:
President:
- Act as
coordination point for activities of all board members
- Preside
over monthly chapter meetings
- Open
and close meeting
- Present
monthly business
- Schedule
and preside over chapter board meetings
- Determine
and delegate special projects such as:
- Surveys
- Consultant
Directory
- Membership
Profile
- DAMA
brochure
- Serve
as a clearinghouse for outside requests
- Represent
chapter to DAMA International
- Provide
input to monthly newsletter when appropriate
Program Director:
- Arranges
for speakers and discussion participants.
- Ensures
that the speakers have details of the meeting location and
of the
meeting agenda.
- (Normally,)
introduces the speaker and presents the speaker with a small
gift at the end of the program.
Also hosts a lunch after the program.
- Works
with DAMA International in coordinating speaker tours.
Membership
Director:
Distributes
invoices for annual membership renewals. Tracks payments
and sends out timely delinquent
notices.
- Provides
periodic membership statistics to the board.
- Maintains
the chapter membership database (skills with Microsoft Access
will be helpful here).
- Keeps
DAMA International’s membership database
updated with SF DAMA changes.
- Actively
seeks new corporate and individual memberships.
- Replies
to all requests for information about DAMA memberships
Communications
Director:
- Prepares
and publishes the monthly newsletter
- Communicates
special announcements to the membership, such as DAMA Day
brochures
- Maintains
the SFDAMA.org web site
- Manages
enhancements to the chapter web site (the director may make
the changes directly or may
coordinate knowledgeable volunteers who change
the site)
Treasurer:
- Set-up
and maintain DAMA accounts
- Prepare
annual budget and regular budget reports
- Prepare
regular Profit and Loss statements
- Reimburse
monthly meeting host for refreshments
- Reimburse
members for expenses
- Pay annual
DAMA International chapter fees
Please contact me if you are interested in any of these positions or if you
would like to discuss what the jobs entail. I encourage everyone to consider
becoming a board member: the work is interesting, rewarding, and you get
to work with some really great people.
OTHER RESOURCES
-
Business
Intelligence Tutorial by IBM - This tutorial provides
an end-to-end guide for typical business intelligence tasks.
It has two
main sections: data warehousing and multidimensional data analysis.
- DM
Review magazine - http://www.dmrview.com
- DAMA
International - http://www.dama.org
- Data
Administration Newsletter - http://www.tdan.com
- Data
Modeling - http://www.datamodel.org
- Data
Warehousing - http://www.datawarehousing.com
-
General data
administration discussion group that have over 500
members. There are hundreds of topics available for browsing or you can
start your own thread. - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dm-discusss
-
Modeling tool
specific discussion groups along with a generic data
modeling discussion area. - http://www.InfoAdvisors.com/userlists.htm
-
Real-World
Decision Support (TWDS) Newsletter --
http://www.ewsolutions.com/Newsletter.asp
- Ron
Ross' Business Rules Journal - http://www.brcommunity.com -
SACRAMENTO
VALLEY DAMA CHAPTER - http://www.damasac.org
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