Doing Data Virtualization Right to Enable BI Agility

Interest in data virtualization as an agile data integration approach for delivering BI agility is growing by the day. Data virtualization is meant to complement and enhance existing data architectures.

However, there is great deal of confusion about how and where data virtualization can be used. What is the right way to use data virtualization and what are the relevant use cases? 

Join Informatica’s David Lyle with guest experts Wayne Eckerson, Principal Consultant at BI Leader Consulting, and Rob Myers, BI Architecture & DW Solution Architect from HealthNow NY for an interactive roundtable session to discuss and share your thoughts on:

• The role of data virtualization for enabling BI agility
• Key capabilities of data virtualization
• How the ideal agile data architecture looks

Be sure to join the continuing conversation and be sure to bring your BI colleagues. Register today.

About the Speakers

 

Wayne Eckerson
Principal Consultant - BI Leader Consutling

Wayne Eckerson has been a thought leader in the data warehousing, BI, and performance management fields since 1995. He has conducted numerous in-depth research studies and is the best-selling author of Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business. He is a noted keynote speaker and blogger, and he conducts workshops on topics such as business analytics, performance dashboards, and BI. For many years, Wayne served as director of education and research at TDWI, where he oversaw the company’s content and training programs and chaired its BI Executive Summit. Wayne is currently director of research at TechTarget and founder of BI Leadership Forum, a network of BI directors who meet regularly to share BI best practices and to educate the larger BI community.

 

Rob Myers
Manager, BI Architecture & DW Solution Architect - HealthNow NY

Robert Myers is the Manager of BI Architecture and the EDW Solution Architect for HealthNow New York. He is also responsible for Enterprise Data Architecture and sits on the Enterprise Architecture Board. Prior to working at HealthNow he was a Senior Managing Consultant at IBM in the Enterprise Application Development Practice. Robert has 18 years experience in solution design, development and consulting, application design, data warehousing, business intelligence and operational application development across a variety of platforms.