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Presented by Mark Madsen
Time: Registration/Refreshments - 8:30-9:00 a.m.
Presentation - 9:00-11:00 a.m.
Announcements - 11:00-11:30 a.m.
Presentation: Data Integration Tools and Technologies for Data Warehousing
This talk gives an overview of data integration tools and technologies for data warehousing and discusses how to evaluate them for use on a project. Mark describes the tradeoffs between buying products and building your own data extracts, a summary of products on the market, and the process and criteria for reviewing those products. The general outline of the lecture covers:
1. Discussion of the components of a data integration architecture for business intelligence and data warehouses
2. Deciding whether to buy or build
3. A process for evaluating tools and technologies
4. Evaluation criteria for ETL and DI products
5. An overview of the market
Mark Madsen is an award-winning IT architect and former CTO with many years of experience in IT. Over the past ten years Mark has received awards from the Data Warehouse Institute, the American Productivity & Quality Center, and the Smithsonian Institute for his data warehousing and business intelligence projects. Mark frequently draws on experiences from his varied background - which includes research biology and robotics - in his work on data warehouses and business intelligence applications. He is a principal author of Clickstream Data Warehousing (Wiley, 2002) and currently teaches classes on data integration at The Data Warehouse Institute. | 
