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May 2003
Dear Attendee, Thank you for joining us in San Francisco for our TDWI World Conference-
Spring 2003, and for participating in our conference evaluation. Even with
all the activities available in San Francisco, classes were filled all week
long as everyone made the most of the wide range of full-day, half-day, and
evening courses; Guru Sessions, Peer Networking, and our BI Strategies
program.
We hope you had a productive and enjoyable week in San Francisco. This trip
report is written by TDWI's Research department, and is divided into nine
sections. We hope it will provide a valuable way to summarize the week to
your boss! Table of Contents I. Conference Overview
II. Technology Survey
III. Keynotes
IV. Course Summaries
V. Business Intelligence Strategies Program
VI. Peer Networking Sessions
VII. Vendor Exhibit Hall
VIII. Hospitality Suites and Labs
IX. Upcoming Events, TDWI Online, and Publications I. Conference Overview
For our Spring Conference, our largest contingency of attendees came from
the United States, but we had visitors from Canada, Mexico, Africa, Asia,
Australia, Europe, and South America. This was truly a worldwide event! Our
most popular courses of the week were "TDWI Data Warehousing Architectures"
and our "TDWI Business Intelligence Strategies" program, followed by "TDWI
Fundamentals of Data Warehousing."
Data warehousing professionals devoured books for sale at our membership
desk. The most popular titles were: . The Data Warehouse Toolkit, 2nd ed., R. Kimball & M. Ross
. Data Modeler's Workbench, S. Hoberman
. Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository, D. Marco
. The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, R. Kimball, L. Reeves, M. Ross,
& W. Thornthwaite
. Common Warehouse Metamodel, J. Poole, D. Chang, D. Tolbert, & S.D.
Mellon II. TDWI-Giga Information Group Quarterly Technology Survey
By Wayne W. Eckerson, TDWI Director of Education and Research
This quarter's technology survey, designed by Giga Information Group, is
based on 120 respondents who filled out 4-page questionnaires at the TDWI
San Francisco conference on May 12.
Percent * Which DATA SOURCES do you extract from today? (Select all that
apply) (Not Answered) 0.46 %
Mainframes 16.89 %
EAI/QUeues 1.60 %
Relational 21.00 %
Web logs 2.51 %
Flat files 20.78 %
External 9.59 %
XML 2.97 %
Excel 11.42 %
Packaged Apps 11.87 %
Other 0.91 % Total Responses 100 % * Which NEW data sources will you extract from in 18 months? (Select
all that apply) (Not Answered) 1.43 %
Mainframes 13.67 %
EAI/QUeues 5.51 % Relational 17.35 %
Web logs 5.71 %
Flat files 17.14 %
External 10.00 %
XML 6.94 %
Excel 10.20 %
Packaged Apps 11.02 %
Other 1.02 % Total Responses 100 % * Approximately, how much RAW data does your data warehouse contain
TODAY? (Not Answered) 15.83 %