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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Dear Members,
Summer is here and with it, so many of our members are taking vacations. While this does allow for more personal meeting settings, we hope that you had a chance to take a look at the updated meeting calendar and the topics are meeting your interests. If not, as always, we are an email away.
In August, we are going back to our roots in continuing designing the DAMA membership database through collaborative modeling. This will be a good opportunity to brush up on pros and cons of different abstraction techniques when our next step is a physical implementation of the database. So bring your ideas and join us at this meeting.
Then in September, we are starting a series of speakers that should captivate your attention and build it up until we get to our Annual DAMA Day. We have a strong line up of topics, including Lowell Fryman, one of the best known resources in the DAMA world on metadata. DAMA Day planning is also full steam ahead. We are working towards a dual track event, and with more speakers more opportunities for networking. In the next newsletter, I hope to share with you much more exciting news.
Until then, have a great summer. Also, please do not forget that the meetings are now the second Wednesday of each month.
Sincerely,
Mehmet Orun
Chapter President
San Francisco DAMA
Collaborative Data Modeling! August 8, 2007
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 9:15 |
Welcoming Remarks |
| 9:15 - 10:15 |
SF DAMA’s Chapter Data Model
Review |
| 10:15 - 10:30
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Break |
| 10:30 - 11:45
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Continued Review and Working
Session |
| 11:45 - 12:00
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Questions and Wrap-Up |
| 12:00 - Lunch
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Restaurant (to be announced at
the meeting) |
Collaborative Data Modeling!
Announcing SF DAMA’s Chapter Data Model Review!
Originally designed collaboratively by SF DAMA’s board and
membership, this one-year-old data model needs review. Come to
the August meeting to help us finalize the Chapter Data Model.
Interaction and participation encouraged – bring your good
ideas, and don’t be afraid to ask questions.
Click to Review the SF DAMA Data Model
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Christina Rouse – SilverTrain’s National Director of
Business Intelligence
September 12, 2007
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 9:15 |
Welcoming Remarks |
| 9:15 - 10:15 |
Using Business Intelligence to
form KPI’s |
| 10:15 - 10:30
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Break |
| 10:30 - 11:45
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Continued Presentation |
| 11:45 - 12:00
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Questions and Wrap-Up |
| 12:00 - Lunch
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Restaurant (to be announced at
the meeting) |
Using Business Intelligence to
form KPI’s
Overview: Businesses measure success through financial outcomes
and process efficiencies. This session would focus on the
process of creating high value KPIs and how to derive those KPIs
from a BI solution. We will discuss KPIs in terms of peer and
periodicity measurement; absolute and relative measurement and
through dimensional comparison. Also, we will highlight example
KPIs in an OLAP drillable environment from a business user
perspective. Additional time is spent reviewing the business
data model that supports KPIs.
Participants will learn:
How to distinguish a KPI from other numbers
How to align KPIs with your business goals and processes
How to visually document your KPIs for monitoring
How to proceed from a KPI data element inventory to a calculated
KPI with thresholds
About the presenter: Christina Rouse specializes in enterprise
business intelligence and data warehouse solutions. She is an
improvement catalyst who applies business intelligence
technology and digital information assets for profit growth.
Chris has nearly 20 years of data experience on a broad range of
technical platforms.
Clients rave about her blend of business designer, technical
architect and trainer skills. Clients ask Chris to conceptualize
the BI solution, then architect, construct and implement that
solution. Chris is a seasoned business intelligence solution
architect, a statistician by graduate education and a former
college professor. She currently directs SilverTrain’s National
Business Intelligence practice.
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Data Management Association, Inc., San Francisco
Bay Area Chapter
268 Bush Street, Suite 2523, San Francisco, CA 94104
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