Boulder BI Brain Trust

Boulder BI Brain Trust Founder

Claudia Imhoff	Claudia Imhoff: President and Founder of the Boulder BI Brain Trust and Intelligent Solutions, Inc. A thought leader, visionary, and practitioner in the rapidly growing fields of business intelligence and customer focused-strategy. Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D. is a popular and dynamic speaker and internationally recognized expert on analytical CRM, business intelligence, and the infrastructure to support these initiatives - the Corporate Information Factory (CIF). Dr. Imhoff has co-authored five highly-regarded and popular books on these subjects and writes monthly columns (totaling more than 100) for technical and business magazines. She has an expert channel, a monthly newsletter, and a popular blog on the BeyeNETWORK.com. She has served on the Board of Advisors for DAMA International and was chosen by the DAMA organizations to receive the 1999 and 2005 Individual Achievement Awards. She is an advisor and a faculty member for The Data Warehousing Institute and was named a Fellow to the Institute in 2006. She serves as an advisor for several technology and commercial companies.
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Ron Powell	Ron Powell: Cofounder & Editorial Director of the BeyeNETWORK. Ron has an extensive technology background with more than 30 years of experience in the field as a CEO, COO, consultant, manager and editor. Prior to cofounding of the BeyeNETWORK, he was cofounder, publisher and editorial director of a business intelligence publication. Ron has a wealth of expertise in business intelligence, business management and marketing.
Boulder BI Brain Trust Members
Carla Agüero	Carla Agüero: Vice-President and Business Consultant of NEXTER . in Asunción, Paraguay. Carla has been involved in business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing since 2003, she worked in the Telecommunication and Financial industry in Paraguay before joining Nexter in 2006 where she has successfully implemented data warehouses and BI solutions for a variety of organizations. In addition, she provides training to companies interested in implementing the culture of making decisions based on information to improve profit and performance.
Augusto Aldeghi	Augusto Aldeghi: Senior Consultant of SDG fourdynamics Srl., an Italian consulting firm in the MS ecosystem that works also with all the major BI players. Having implemented BI and budgeting systems in companies of any size for the last 15 years, he's a strong advocate of putting "business" back in BI. His actual job is doing anything from DBA to Executive Consulting. He graduated in Aerospace Engineering at Polytechnic University of Milan.
Michael Brooks	Michael Brooks: Specialist Leader of Deloitte Consulting LLP's Information Management practice for healthcare providers and related organizations. He has worked with a wide variety of healthcare organizations including national health care networks, academic medical centers, community hospitals, and physician groups. Michael has over 25 years' experience in business intelligence/analytics strategy, healthcare information technology planning, affiliated physician technology strategy, healthcare information exchange, technology selection, and other areas.
Ken Collier	Ken Collier was one of the first to start combining agile methods with data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytics to create the Agile Analytics style. With an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science engineering, Ken is formally trained in software engineering, data management, and machine learning. He enjoys challenging problems in the areas of systems architecture and design, systems/software development lifecycles, project leadership, data warehousing, business intelligence, and advanced analytics. He directed the data warehousing and business intelligence solutions group for a major consulting firm, and written extensively about Agile Data Warehousing and BI, including his book entitled, Agile Analytics: A Value-driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing.
Ted Cuzzillo	Ted Cuzzillo is an industry analyst and journalist with more than 20 years' experience explaining, analyzing, and researching how people use technology. To paraphrase Lance Armstrong, who says "It's not about the bike," Ted says, "It's not about the computer." His current research focuses on business analysts, including the tools they use, the roles they play, and their careers. He can be reached at Tbbb@datadoodle.com.
Ronald Damhof	Ronald Damhoff Founder and Principle of Prudenza. Ronald graduated in 1995 in the study of Economics. Since 1995 he has worked as a practitioner in the data warehouse and business intelligence industry. In the years he progressed into the field of information management with a focus on decision support and data management, trying hard to enhance the rigor and relevance in these fields by combining scientific research with the everyday challenges of the practitioner. Ronald is mainly hired by customers in the role of business/IT architect, auditor, coach & trainer. He blogs on BeyeNETWORK.com and has written a series of articles regarding decision support architectures and is a researcher in the field of information management.
Dr. Barry Devlin	Dr. Barry Devlin: Founder and Principal of 9sight Consulting. Barry is among the foremost authorities on business insight and one of the founders of data warehousing. He is a widely respected consultant, lecturer and author of the seminal book, Data Warehouse–from Architecture to Implementation. Barry's current interest extends to a fully integrated business, covering informational, operational and collaborative environments to offer a holistic experience of the business through IT. He specializes in the human, organizational and IT implications and design of deep business insight solutions.
Steve Dine	Steve Dine: President and Founder of Datasource Consulting, LLC. Steve has more than 10 years of hands-on experience delivering and managing successful, highly scalable and maintainable data integration and business intelligence solutions. He also assists companies with BI tool assessments and teaches a course on the topic of Lean BI for The Data Warehouse Institute. He is the former director of global data warehousing for a major durable medical equipment manufacturer and former BI practice director for an established Denver based consulting company. Steve earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Vermont and a MBA from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Joseph A. di Paolantonio	Joseph A. di Paolantonio: CEO of InterActive Systems & Consulting, Inc. Mr. di Paolantonio is CEO of InterActive Systems & Consulting, Inc. He is passionate about creating and applying analytical techniques and management methodologies to solving business, engineering and scientific problems. Mr. di Paolantonio has headed both Fortune 100 professional services organizations and boutique consultancies. With over 30 years of experience, he has provided unique Bayesian statistical methods, Agile processes for distributed workgroups, architectural & MDM strategies for Cloud environments, and DW/BI/DM/PA implementations using both proprietary and open source solutions.
Howard Dresner	Howard Dresner: President of Dresner Advisory Services, LLC, an independent advisory firm and a well known authority and author in the areas of business intelligence and performance management. Howard has nearly 30 years of IT industry experience with 21 years in the business intelligence market. He spent 13 years at Gartner, where he was a Research Fellow and Lead Analyst for BI. He also served as Chief Strategy Officer at Hyperion Solutions prior to forming Dresner Advisory Services. Howard is a frequent speaker around the globe and has published two books on the subject - including: Profiles in Performance - Business Intelligence Journeys and the Roadmap for Change (John Wiley & Sons, November 2009) and The Performance Management Revolution: Business Results through Insight and Action (John Wiley & Sons, November 2007).
Martijn Evers	Martijn Evers: Founder and Principle of DataMasters(Unseen). Martijn has been designing and developing information systems for over 15 years. The last 10 years mainly in roles like consultant, analyst or architect. His passions lie with modeling and metadata driven system design. His current focus is on temporalisation and system generation. Besides his consulting role he also does research and is connected to the Radboud University of Nijmegen as a Datawarehouse architect. Martijn is currently president of the Dutch Data Vault usergroup, and is responsible for promoting Data Vault in Higher education.
Mike Ferguson	Mike Ferguson: Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited As an independent analyst and consultant he specializes in business intelligence, data management and enterprise business integration. Based in UK, he has over 28 years of IT experience. Mike has consulted for dozens of companies on BI strategy, technology selection, enterprise architecture, MDM and data governance. He has spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. Mike is a resident expert on the BeyeNETWORK in various European countries, providing articles, blogs and his insights on the industry.
Jonathan Geiger	Jonathan Geiger: Executive Vice President Services, Intelligent Solutions, Inc. With over 35 years of management and hands-on experience in information management, including business intelligence, customer relationship management, quality assurance, data management, data quality, application development and support, productivity management, and training. Jonathan has written over sixty articles on business intelligence, customer relationship management and related topics, is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, and is a co-author of Data Stores, Data Warehousing and the Zachman Framework: Managing Enterprise Knowledge (McGraw-Hill, 1997), Building the Customer-Centric Enterprise: Data Warehousing Techniques for Supporting Customer Relationship Management (John Wiley & Sons, 2001) and Mastering Data Warehouse Design: Relational and Dimensional Techniques (John Wiley & Sons, 2003).
Rick Gilbert	Rick Gilbert: Executive Director and Data Management Consultant of Winter Corporation With more than 35 years of technology and executive management experience, Rick provides independent consulting to clients to plan for successful implementation of their large-scale data management programs. Having extensive first-hand experience and knowledge in large-scale data warehouse development as well as business management perspective, Rick brings an additional business-value dimension to the planning of data warehouse applications. Previously, Rick was Managing Director of Enterprise Decision Support Solutions for FedEx Services and also held executive positions in IT, Marketing, Customer Service, and Operations Management at US West and its predecessor Mountain Bell Telephone Company.
Dr. Richard Hackathorn	Dr. Richard Hackathorn: President and Founder of Bolder Technology, Inc. He has written three textbooks entitled Enterprise Database Connectivity, Using the Data Warehouse (with W.H. Inmon) and Web Farming for the Data Warehouse. He earned his B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Irvine.
Kenneth Hansen	Kenneth Hansen: Founder and Managing Consultant for Indicium Domain, an independent consultancy focused on enabling clients to gain competitive advantage by use of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence applications. Kenneth developed a wealth of skills and experience in business management working for the Barclays Group in the UK and in Italy before starting a team for data analytics in the marketing function. That led him to focus his career, straddling business and technical areas, on Data Architecture, Modelling and Analytics where his experience spans Banking, Insurance, Retail and Shipping. Based in Europe; a member of DAMA and speaker at Enterprise Data World 2012; he is preparing a book on enablers for competing on analytics.
Cindi Howson	Cindi Howson: Founder of BI Scorecard a resource for in-depth BI product reviews, based on exclusive hands-on testing. She has been advising clients on BI tool strategies and selections for 15 years. She is the author of Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer App and Business Objects XI: The Complete Reference. Prior to founding BI Scorecard, Howson was a manager at Deloitte & Touche and a BI standards leader for a Fortune 500 company. She is a TDWI (The Data Warehousing Institute) faculty member, writes for Intelligent Enterprise and the BeyeNETWORK. She has an MBA from Rice University.
Ralph Hughes	Ralph Hughes: MA, PMP, CSM serves as Chief Systems Architect for Ceregenics, provider of project leadership consulting for DW/BI programs among the Global 2000 since 1988. Inventor of the Agile Data Warehousing method and the Zuzena automated DW/BI testing engine, he published the first book on agile data warehousing in 2008. He is a faculty member of The Data Warehouse Institute, frequently a keynote speaker at their quarterly world conferences, and one of five judges on their annual Emerging Technologies and Methods practices award panel. He started in DW/BI and data analytics while earning his masters degree from Stanford University in econometric forecasting, and has led data warehousing programs in the aerospace, telecommunications, e-commerce, and pharmaceuticals industries.
Hans Hultgren	Hans Hultgren: President and CEO of Genesee Academy, LLC. Hans is an educator, speaker, and consultant in the data warehousing and business intelligence space. He has been teaching and working in the broader industry for 25 years and currently specializes in enterprise data warehousing, data vault modeling, and emerging trends in BI. His recent consulting roles include DWBI Advisor, EDW Architect, DW data vault model manager, DW designer, and several model and architecture reviewer roles. Current training focus is on using hybrid delivery techniques for both standard and certification classes. Hans is also speaking at international conferences on data vault, EDW, agile DW, and the integration of industry reference models.
Julie Hunt	Julie Hunt: Independent Consultant, Julie Hunt Consulting, a software solutions strategy and market intelligence practice. Julie is an accomplished software industry analyst, providing strategic market and competitive insights for vendors and buyers. Julie has the unique perspective of a software industry "hybrid" -- extensive experience in the technology, business, and customer/people-oriented aspects of creating, marketing and selling software. She has worked in the B2B software industry on the vendor side for more than 20 years in roles from the very technical (developer, SE, solutions consultant) to customer-focused work in strategies for products/solutions, competitive intelligence, and go-to-market initiatives. Her core software technology domains are data integration, data quality, analytics, OSS, SaaS, cloud, WCM/WEM, enterprise portal, social media/marketing, collaboration, and ECM.
Raj Joseph	Raj Joseph: Independent Consultant, intellectyx. Founder of Intellectyx. Raj has more than 13 years of leadership experience across both startup and multinational companies, with a focus on Product Strategy, Development & Launch, Integration Strategy & Planning, and Change Enablement across the organization. During his business and technology consulting experience, he has delivered various highly scalable Business, Visual Intelligence solutions and Business Process Platforms across the world. Raj earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from India and his MBA from the University of Colorado at Denver. Currently, he is actively involved in many other local entrepreneurial communities in the state of Colorado.
Lu Kroeger	Lu Kroeger: Independent Consultant, Trailhead Technology. Throughout 20 years of data management experience, Luise Kroeger focused on helping clients improve business results by enabling access to information essential to efficiently manage their business. She designed and implemented data warehouse, business intelligence, and customer relationship management applications for mid- and large-sized clients in retail, financial services, hospitality, travel, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing and government throughout North America and Europe. Ms. Kroeger was a pioneer in delivering very large parallel database solutions to the enterprise and in designing internationalized OLAP solutions to deliver end user reporting requirements.
John Ladley	John Ladley: President of IMCue Solutions, is a recognized authority in Business Intelligence and Enterprise Information Management (EIM). His information management experience is balanced between strategic technology planning, project management and practical application of technology to business problems. He is author of "Making EIM Work for Business – A Guide to Managing Information as an Asset", and he frequently writes and speaks on a variety of BI and EIM topics. John occasionally edits the Enterprise Data Journal, a web-based publication on all topics related to data and EIM.
Mark Madsen	Mark Madsen: President of Third Nature, is a former CTO and CIO with experience working in both IT and vendors, including a stint at a company used as a Harvard Business School case study. Over the past decade, Mark has received awards for his work in data warehousing, business intelligence and data integration from the American Productivity & Quality Center, the Smithsonian Institute and TDWI.
David McGoveran	David McGoveran: Founder and Principal of Alternative Technologies, an independent industry analyst and consulting firm in data management, business intelligence, and business process management founded in 1976 with clients worldwide. David has over 35 years experience with leading edge information technologies, from design, development, and education to market creation, forecast, positioning, and evangelizing. He is well-known as an author and speaker, and for his contributions to database, transaction processing, integration and BPM technologies.
William McKnight	William McKnight: President, McKnight Consulting Group, William is a strategist, lead enterprise information architect and program manager for complex, high-volume full life-cycle implementations worldwide utilizing the disciplines of data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence, data quality and operational business intelligence. Many of his clients have gone public with their success story. William is a Southwest Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, a frequent best practices judge, has authored more than 150 articles and white papers and given over 150 international keynotes and public seminars. His team’s implementations from both IT and consultant positions have won Best Practices awards. William is a former IT VP of a Fortune company, a former engineer of DB2 at IBM and holds an MBA.
Jerry Modes	Jerry Modes: Partner of Business Ingenuity, is a data systems entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience designing and managing enterprise data warehouse solutions. Jerry has a strong development management background and is the founder of two successful new-concept companies – Teradata and HyperParallel. As a visionary leader who motivates and builds highly effective teams, Jerry has an impressive record of achievements in creating and growing startup companies in the technology industry. In 1994, he founded and led HyperParallel, which developed and sold high-performance business intelligence software; HyperParallel was acquired by Yahoo in 1999. Teradata, which Jerry co-founded, pioneered relational database computer systems. Teradata (NYSE: TDC) was acquired by AT&T in 1992, and subsequently spun-out in 2007, and currently has sales of $1.7 billion. Previously, Jerry worked at Citicorp, where he was involved with the introduction of the first ATM machines.
Joyce Montanari	Joyce Montanari: President of DBTech Solutions, Inc. Joyce advises clients on all aspects of business intelligence, and data management. This includes metrics-driven technology selection for tools like ETL, profiling, database, quality, and metadata. Joyce speaks frequently at data warehouse conferences, and is a contributor to several trade publications. She co-authored with W. H. Inmon, and others on data warehousing and e-business, published by Wiley & Sons. Joyce has managed and implemented data warehouses and operational data stores for pharmaceutical, restaurants, telecommunications, government healthcare, financial, oil and gas, insurance, research and development and retail companies.
Steve Murchie	Steve Murchie: Chapter President Denver/Rockies of the Keiretu Forum. Steve has over twenty-five years experience in the software industry, starting as a programmer/analyst and progressing through a variety of roles in sales, marketing and general management. The companies he has worked with span the spectrum of the industry, including startups, turnarounds, a VC-backed roll-up and an eight-year stint at Microsoft, where he helped grow the SQL Server business from $300M to over $1B in under five years. In 2004, he left Microsoft to return to the start-up world as CEO of a fledgling company, and got his first taste of the angel investing process. While that initial exposure didn't earn any financing for his business, he did gain a lot of insight from the Keiretsu Forum members, which was inevitably even more valuable. When Steve decided to relocate back to Colorado, he explored the possibility of bringing a chapter of the group to Denver, and the result is a very successful new chapter launched in March 2007.
John Myers	John Myers: Senior Analyst, BI Practice at Enterprise Management Associates, John delivers comprehensive coverage of the business intelligence and data warehouse industry with a focus on database management, data integration, data visualization, and process management solutions. John has years of experience working in areas related to business analytics in professional services consulting and product development roles, as well as helping organizations solve their business analytics problems, whether they relate to operational platforms, such as customer care or billing, or applied analytical applications, such as revenue assurance or fraud management.
Philippe Nieuwbourg	Philippe Nieuwbourg: Founder & Editorial Director of Decideo.fr. Philippe has around 20 years of experience in analyzing and writing about BI and Data Warehousing tools and best practices. In 1990 he created the first newsgroup on the French speaking Internet about OLAP. Decideo.fr is today the leading web community in the French speaking world about BI with more than 9,000 subscribers. Decideo.fr is affiliate site of the BeyeNETWORK.
David Ortiz	David Ortiz: Senior Business Intelligence consultant at AAJ Technologies, a leading systems integrator and solution provider in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. David has spent the last 10 years working in various organizations with a focus on enterprise data solutions. He has successfully implemented large scale BI projects on various organizations ranging from Fortune 100's to start up organizations. David places a strong focus on implementing BI strategies and roadmaps providing technology agnostic vision to organizations.
Neil Raden	Neil Raden: Founder of Hired Brains. Neil is an active consultant, industry analyst, speaker and author. His articles appear in industry magazines, he is the author of dozens of sponsored white papers for vendors and other organizations. He has contributed to numerous books and is the co-author of Smart (Enough) Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions. You can read Neil's blog here.
Shawn Rogers	Shawn Rogers: Vice President Research Business Intelligence of Enterprise Management Associates, Shawn has more than 19 years of hands-on IT experience, with a focus on Internet-enabled technology. In 2004 he co-founded the BeyeNETWORK and held the position of Executive Vice President and Editorial Director. Shawn guided the company's international growth strategy and helped the BeyeNETWORK grow to 18 Web sites around the world, making it the largest and most read community covering the business intelligence, data warehousing, performance management and data integration space. Prior to co-founding the BeyeNETWORK, Shawn was Internet Business Development Director at Thomson Media (now SourceMedia), President of Achieve Communications and a partner at DMReview magazine (now Information Management) – where he was Vice President as well as Publisher and Editorial Director of DMReview.com, a leading business intelligence and data warehousing Web site.
Terri Rylander	Terry Rylander: Principal of Advanced Marketing Colleteral, Terri has over 15 years experience in business intelligence, specializing in the business side of BI where she is passionate about ensuring BI solutions drive actual business value. She has been on both the technical and business side, in roles from web application developer to Director of BI. She was one of the first to establish a formal Business Intelligence Competency Center in a Fortune 200 company. Today, she runs her own marketing business for business intelligence and high tech companies, leveraging her insights as a former customer.
Michael A. Schiff	Michael A. Schiff: Founder and Principal Analyst of MAS Strategies, an independent data warehousing industry analyst firm. Mike was formerly the Vice President of the Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence service at Current Analysis as well as the Executive Director - Data Warehousing and Advanced Decision Support for Oracle Corporation's Public Sector Group. He was also the Director of Software AG's Data Management program where he was one of the industry's earliest proponents of the data mart concept. While at Digital Equipment Corporation in 1984, he formulated the architecture for one of the first data warehouse implementations. Mike earned Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from MIT's Sloan School of Management specializing in operations research as an undergraduate, and information systems as a graduate. His prior experience as an IT Director and Systems and Programming Manager provide him with a thorough understanding of the technical, business, and political issues that must be addressed for any successful systems implementation or product launch.
Rick Sherman	Rick Sherman: Founder of Athena IT Solutions, a Boston-based consulting firm providing business intelligence, data integration and data warehousing consulting, training and vendor services. Rick has been involved in BI and DW since 1987. He has shared his expertise in over 100 industry articles and dozens of speaking engagements and webinars. An adjunct faculty member at Northeastern University, Graduate School of Engineering, he also teaches DW/BI classes to clients. Rick provides independent industry analysis through his blog The Data Doghouse.
Evangelos Simoudis	Evangelos Simoudis: Managing Director at Trident Capital. He focuses on investments in business analytics, software (SaaS) and Internet businesses (advertising technology and e-commerce). Evangelos earned a PhD in computer science from Brandeis University and a BS in electrical engineering from Caltech.
Rick Sturm	Rick Sturm: Founder & President of Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. For the past 25 years, Rick has been dedicated to the field of information technology. As a former Chief Architect for Network and Systems Management, he witnessed first-hand the challenges of enterprise management. At that time, management platforms were in their infancy. With the advent of the Internet, the landscape of managing enterprise computing and communications had forever changed. Prior to founding EMA, Rick worked in senior IT roles at US West and A.C. Nielsen.
James Taylor	James Taylor: CEO and Principal Consultant of Decision Management Solutions One of the leading experts in decision management and decisioning technologies, James is passionate about using technology like business rules and predictive analytics to improve decision making and develop smarter systems. James works with technology vendors and their customers, focusing on the effective use of decisioning technologies, and is an active speaker and blogger. He co-authored "Smart (Enough) Systems" (Prentice Hall, 2007) with Neil Raden, and blogs extensively at JTonEDM.com as well as on BeyeNetwork, Smart Data Collective and ebizQ.
Rick van der Lans	Rick F. van der Lans is Founder of R20/Consultancy. Rick is an independent analyst, lecturer, and author. He specializes in data warehousing, business intelligence, service oriented architectures, and database technology. He is an internationally acclaimed lecturer. He has lectured professionally for the last twenty years. In 2009 he introduced the Data Delivery Platform, a BI architecture based on data virtualization principles. He writes for BeyeNetwork.com and for several IT magazines. He has published many successful whitepapers. Rick is the chairman of the annual European Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Conference and the annual BI Event. He is the author of several books on computing, including the popular Introduction to SQL and SQL for MySQL Developers.
Jos van Dongen	Jos van Dongen: Founder and Principal of Tholis Consulting. Jos has been involved in software development, business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing since 1991. Before starting his own consulting practice in 1998, he worked for a top tier systems integrator and a leading management consulting firm. Over the past years, he has successfully implemented data warehouses and BI solutions for a variety of organizations, both profit and non-profit. Jos covers new BI developments for the Dutch Database Magazine and speaks regularly at national and international conferences. He authored a (Dutch) book on open source BI called Low Cost, High Value? and is co-author of the book Pentaho Solutions.
Colin White	Colin White: Founder of BI Research. He is well known for his in-depth knowledge of leading-edge business intelligence and business integration technologies, and how they can be used to build a smart and agile business. With more than 35 years of IT experience, he has consulted for dozens of companies throughout the world and is a frequent speaker at leading IT events. He is also conference chair for DCI's Portal, Collaboration and Content Management conference. Colin has written numerous articles on business intelligence and enterprise business integration. Colin has an expert channel and blog on the BeyeNETWORK.
Lyndsay Wise	Lyndsay Wise: President and Founder of WiseAnalytics, an independent analyst firm specializing in business intelligence, master data management, and unstructured data. For ten years, she has assisted clients in business systems analysis, software selection, and implementation of enterprise applications. Lyndsay conducts regular research studies, consults, writes articles and speaks about improving the value of business intelligence within organizations.