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Dan Power

Welcome to the Decision Support Channel for the Business Intelligence Network. This channel focuses on concepts, ideas and emerging issues related to the broad area of computerized decision support for managers, groups and organizations. Each month, the goal is to discuss a topic relevant to using computers and software to improve decision making. The topics will reflect my interests and the comments of readers. Some of my articles will summarize my responses to frequently asked questions.

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Blogs

November 30, 2008
DSI Panel -- Future Decision Support

November 10, 2008
Future of Decision Support

October 30, 2008
3-D Hologram on Election Night

October 27, 2008
Decision Support Queries

October 19, 2008
Teradata Partners Retrospective

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Articles

Data Warehouses, Schemas and Decision Support Basics
by Dan Power
Dan Power explains why a data warehouse is not a complete decision support system, but rather a dominant component for a data-driven decision support system.

Common Decision Support System Architectural Patterns
by Dan Power
It is likely that historical decision support system architectural patterns will persist with service-oriented and message-based implementations of decision support systems.

Identifying Opportunities to Create Innovative Decision Support Systems
by Dan Power
Decision support planning should involve broad consultation and both problem-oriented and opportunistic search.

Formative and Summative Decision Support System Evaluation
by Dan Power
What comprises a comprehensive evaluation of a decision support system?

Keep an Eye on the Decision Support Prize
by Dan Power
Early in a project, it is necessary to evaluate the possible benefits of computerized decision support, set goals to achieve them, then periodically revisit the intended benefits and measure how well the project is delivering them.

News

Informatica Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Identity Systems
Acquisition brings identity resolution capabilities to Informatica.

IBM to Acquire Cognos
IBM to acquire Cognos, in an all-cash transaction at a price of approximately $5 billion USD.

Teradata and SAS Announce Strategic Partnership
Customers will be able exploit the best of both companies' core strengths.

Passkey Deploys Jinfonet Software’s JReport to Deliver Critical Data Reporting
Passkey leverages JReport to deliver the tools event planners need to operate with optimal efficiency.

Initiate Master Data Service Platform Introduced
Initiate Systems announced the introduction of their comprehensive master data management solution better enables customers to master any and all data domains on one platform

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White Papers

The Essential Roadmap to ETL Tool Migration Membership required to view this content
Migrating from one ETL tool to another presents significant challenges to an IT organization. Here is a checklist of ETL migration issues, challenges and questions that an organization should consider and answer before an ETL migration project begins.

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Links

Planning Skills
This website focuses on a wide variety of topics related to organization and individual planning situations. The primary focus is business planning.

Decision Automation Resources
Decision Automation Resources is a knowledge repository that focuses on using quantitative models, heuristics, IF-THEN rules, statistical approaches and other Artificial Intelligence technologies to make decisions in highly structured and routine decision situations.

DAMA International
DAMA, the Data Management Association International, is an international not-for-profit association of data resource management professionals with chapters and members-at-large around the world.