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Information Governance   Even though standards for good governance are rising, much of today's focus around corporate governance leaves information out of the discussion. Carefully managing your growing volume of information carries both risk and opportunity for your enterprise. Furthermore, corporate leaders need to be active stewards of their companies' information and should know as much about their information assets as their CFO knows about their company's financial assets. By implementing a company wide information governance initiative, you can create and enforce policies that help ensure information quality, compliance, and protection while increasing business value. We interview Gregory Kosinski to gain EMC's perspective on Information Governance. Gregory is the Director of Marketing for EMC SourceOne Products. 21 Minutes Better Decision Management   One of the biggest challenges facing businesses is to make sure they can manage decisons with greater precision, agility, speed and consistency, all while driving down costs. To meet the challenge, Decision Management Platforms tightly integrate their capabilities with a company’s existing IT architecture. Moreover, DM builds on your modern IT architecture and allows you to manage decisons as a true corporate asset. Managing decisons as assets empowers business users, accelerates the time to value for business changes and helps build a new partnership between the business and IT. Furthermore, when it comes to making decisons in the face of uncertainty, it is critical to leverage analytics for more effective risk management. We interview Carole Ann Matignon to gain FICO's perspective on decision management. Carole Ann is VP Product Management at FICO. 43 Minutes Customer Intimacy   A wealth of data is in applications for order management, accounting and sales force automation. That data contains valuable customer insights, and more CIOs are looking to predictive analytics to uncover those insights. Furthermore, you cannot rely on selling and marketing to mass audiences the way you have in the past. Customers are asserting their individuality, and they want to engage in personal relationships that extend beyond the point of purchase, however and wherever those interactions occur. Today, a lot of digital noise is outside your organizations control. Few of those conversations are useful, but a few voices might determine the success or failure of your marketing campaigns, product development or operational efficiencies. We interview Erick Brethenoux to gain SPSS an IBM Company's perspective on customer intimacy. Erick is the VP of Corporate Development for SPSS an IBM Company. 47 Minutes  Enterprise Social Networking   Wikis have taken the Content Management System and Email revolutions to the next level by helping organizations optimize the sharing of collective knowledge, insights and creativity. Specifically, Wikis improve connectedness by tapping into community involvement. As you know, delegation is key to managerial success, but community delegation drives greater leverage and productivity. Furthermore, Wikis can improve business processes by capturing and disseminating the subtleness of informal knowledge. Finally, when selecting an enterprise-class wiki solution look to scalability, performance, reliability and a secure well-supported environment.  We interview Devang Mehta to gain eTouch SamePage's perspective on enterprise social networking. Devang is the head of marketing and business development for eTouch SamePage. 43 Minutes In – Database Analytics   Smart enterprises are driving risk management, fraud detection, business process management and investment strategies, as well as competitive product, marketing and customer relationship strategies with In –Database Business Analytics. In –Database Business Analytics removes application barriers to perform critical drill-downs that were previously impossible or impractical using outside the database approaches. In traditional approaches, end-users must transport data out of the database for processing. This activity often accounts for up to 75 percent of the cycle time and imposes severe constraints on throughput and timely delivery of results. We interview Joydeep Das to gain Sybase's perspective on In –Database Business Analytics. Joydeep is a Senior Product Manager with Sybase. 44 Minutes  Improve ROI with Uplift Modeling   Identifying waste in your marketing campaign budget and hidden incremental revenue are key to improving marketing campaign ROI. Achieve that mission, and you could realize a potential reduction of costs of up to 40 percent while simultaneously improving response by up to 35 percent. You can enjoy that kind of result by leveraging a statistical technique that can identify customers that will respond anyway, without the need for a campaign, as well as those who could be negatively affected by the marketing action. Moreover, Uplift Modeling can deliver higher response and incremental revenue simply by targeting fewer customers, effectively reducing campaign costs. We interview Dr. Mark Smith to gain Portrait Software's perspective on predictive analytics. Mark is the EVP of Sales and Marketing for Portrait Software. 36 Minutes Extend the Reach of Traditional BI   Saving labor on tedious tasks and freeing employees for more thought intensive work generates a dynamic competitive advantage for your business. This is being accomplished by creating intelligent tools that supercharge the knowledge management process by enabling a Web2.0 ecosystem for accessing, sharing and delivering business intelligence. Moreover, the solution is powered by machine-intelligent software Agents that act as an extension for business staff to collect, aggregate and mashup near real-time data from reliable Web and enterprise sources. Furthermore, the next generation of BI applications provide on the spot extract transform loading which is created by non-programmers from intranets, email and documents. We interview Bruce Molloy to gain Connotate Technologies' perspective on how to extend the reach of traditional business intelligence with software agents. Bruce is Connotate's CEO.  35 Minutes  Semantics Battles Fraud   The perpetrators of financial crime are constantly modifying their tactics, and centralizing case management is an effective way to deal with them. Furthermore, by automating the case management process, you can monitor cases in near-real time and in-flight. This ensures that fraud cases don’t fall through the cracks, and that you are more efficient. Gaining greater business knowledge from existing fraud databases and legacy systems should be a key component of your strategy. Particularly, semantics can facilitate better trend analysis, and make it available immediately to fraud analysts. By leveraging semantics, fraud risk  managers get the upper hand by obtain a contextual view of the fraud and risk exposure across your enterprise. We interview Jeff Dickerson to gain Metatomix's perspective on the role of semantics in financial services. Jeff is the CEO of Metatomix. 30 Minutes Semantically Connected Intelligence   When you’re making an important business decision or reacting to a developing emergency, you want to concentrate on crucial information. Leverage typical search tools, data warehouses or publish-subscribe systems, and you might end up with a vague analysis, a slow response, and an unsound decision. Optimizing your decision process requires information from multiple sources which come in different formats, and which is organized in conflicting ways. Needless to say, the potential for confusion is huge. To makes sense this real-time information jigsaw puzzle, you need technology that understands the context of data. We interview Daniel Reininger to gain Semandex Networks' perspective on Semantically connected intelligence. Daniel is the CEO of Semandex Networks. 37 Minutes Semantics Drives User Empowerment   Information workers have too many things to track across the Web and Enterprise. Furthermore, ignoring Information Fragmentation can cost you your competitive advantage. To meet this challenge, many companies are supercharging their knowledge management process by enabling a Web2.0 ecosystem within the enterprise. For example, Intelligent Software Agents can monitor, mashup and extract information from a variety of internal and external sources to deliver actionable insight. Collecting, aggregating and delivering normalized data from a broad range of structured and unstructured fast-changing sources is key to creating user empowerment. We interview Bruce Molloy to gain Connotate Technologies' perspective on information access technology. Bruce is the CEO of Connotate Technologies. 35 Minutes Semantic Tech Drives Actionable Insight Semantic technology intelligently links customer data from existing disparate systems to create a common understanding of your customer across the enterprise. Using this contextual understanding, semantic solutions enable real-time analysis and insights, orchestrating coordinated responses amongst existing systems to optimize customer response and relationships. Furthermore, the semantic approach intelligently integrates existing systems in real-time to optimize and implement decisions based on the best data available. We interview Colin Britton to gain Metatomix's perspective on how turn data into actionable insight. Colin is the CTO of Metatomix.  32 Minutes The Journey to Web 3.0   Web 3.0 is a collection of concepts, and inventions that have yet to be adopted by the masses. Furthermore, the missing links of vocabulary and event processing are preventing current solutions around SOA and Business Intelligence from completely delivering on their promise of agility, customer retention and growth. SOA is the enablement platform for Web 3.0 and Semantics will play a key role in its functionality. We interview Sam Ceccola to gain BEA Systems' perspective on how Semantics is the glue binding Social Computing, Business Intelligence and SOA to create Web 3.0. Sam Ceccola is the Deputy CTO of BEA Systems.  60 Minutes Asset and Workforce Management   Having the ability for a device or machine to talk to one other is vital. Indeed, the emerging market of machine-to-machine solutions is key to gaining the competitive advantage that drives your profitability. Furthermore, M2M (machine-to-machine) solutions and tools support the exchange of real-time information between hardware assets, mobile workers, back-office management and key stakeholders in mission-critical departments. The result is an efficient and intuitive system that better manages employees and devices, regardless of their location. We interview Mike Stramaglio and Ramiro Trevino to gain MWA Intelligence's perspective on asset and workforce management. Mike is the CEO, and Ramiro is the VP of Engineering both with MWA Intelligence.  37 Minutes Semantics Drives Critical Intelligence   Jessica Lunsford was murdered by a known sex offender who did not inform the police that he had moved into her neighborhood, and who had been released earlier by a state court that did not have access to parts of his criminal record. This tragedy has caused new information-integration technologies to be adopted by the Florida court system. Those semantic technologies link data from existing disparate systems to create a more common understanding. We interview Howard Greenblatt to gain Metatomix's perspective on how semantics drives mission critical actionable intelligence. Howard is the CTO of Metatomix. 35 Minutes Higher Business Performance   Enterprise BI solutions need to be efficient, reliable, and agile. To meet that requirement, leaders must leverage an architecture that is open and standards-based, platform neutral, location transparent, and that features peer-to-peer services that are loosely coupled, interface based, and coarsely grained. SOA, on the other hand, is ideal. Furthermore, with the right information-enabling technology and leadership, decision-makers can become performance managers. Reporting is key to catalyzing your performance management effort. We interview Meg Dussault, and Leah MacMillan to gain Cognos' perspective on turning information into higher business performance. Meg is the Director of corporate positioning, and Leah is the VP of product marketing both are with Cognos.  39 Minutes Mass Market SOA And Web 2.0 Apps   Rich Enterprise Applications arise from the convergence of two major trends in the development of Web applications. Those applications have become more complex, and any project that is targeting the goal of “retiring” an old outdated system often ends up, not only replacing the old functionality, but actually adding many new functions to the system. Furthermore, enterprise developers must serve two demanding groups of masters at the same time: consumers desiring all of the user interface aspects of Web 2.0 and businesses wanting more and more functionality. We interview Fima Katz to gain insight into meeting the Web 2.0 challenge with a components-based approach. Fima is the CEO of Exadel.  43 Minutes Improving User Interaction With RIAs While the web deployment model has reduce the cost of software deployment, it has also created a community of underserved business users that long for a return to the usability and responsiveness of desktop and client/server applications. Fortunately, forward-looking IT professionals are now turning their attention to design patterns and technologies that can improve the client side of the equation. As a result, we are now seeing widespread deployment of rich Internet applications (RIAs), which combines the responsiveness and interactivity of desktop applications with the broad reach and ease of distribution of the web. We interview Duane Nickull to gain insight into web development with actionable blueprints. Duane is a Technical Evangelist with Adobe Systems 58 Minutes Better Decisions With BI Reporting   A sales meeting is in full swing, but it immediately stalls because none of the sales figures in the PowerPoint presentation match the data compiled by the sales managers. Then reports generated within HR show an alarming increase in the rate of turnover. But further investigation uncovers information indicating that retention is at an all-time high. Which set of data is right? These scenarios are real and occur every day in businesses around the world. So what can be done to get consistent, trusted data to the people who need it? We interview Tim Lang to gain insight into how to make better decisions with embedded reporting. Tim is is a vice president of developer programs for Business Objects.  49 Minutes

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