Business Intelligence Alliance formed
A group of business intelligence and data warehousing leaders has formed an alliance combining their expertise to provide education, consulting, mentoring, on-site resource expertise, and project management. The pooled resources also allow the individual consultants to compete more effectively with larger systems integrators and professional services firms.
Launched at the DCI Data Warehouse Summit in Atlanta, the BI Alliance (bialliance.com) has already begun providing services to Allegheny Power, Western Health Advantage, and RPS. "Their ability to assist clients in getting a project going quickly and to provide all of the resources and experience these projects demand are of significant value," said Jeff McBain of RPS.According to Doug Hackney President, Enterprise Group, (www.egltd.com) and one of the alliance's founding members, the group differs from vendor-sponsored alliances as it is intended to combine the individual strengths of its members, rather than establish industry standards. "The alliance does not endorse products," he said.
In fact, the BIA is only open to members who are principals of their own company, not employees of BI vendors. "We're not oriented toward driving market-share," he said.
BIA member services include: assessments of data warehouse requirements; mentoring of project managers; project planning; data mining; project planning; design review; and decision support."When a client signs on with any one of our members, he or she is immediately privy to a comprehensive network of business-intelligence professionals," said Hackney.
BI Alliance members include: Larry English, president of Information Impact (www.infoimpact.com). English has developed the Total Quality data Management (TQdM) program applying TQM principles to data quality improvement and he chairs Information Quality Conferences worldwide.David Foote, Managing Partner, Cromwell Foote Partners, (www.cromwellfoote.com) and a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal and various technology publications.
Neil Raden, President, Archer Decision Sciences, Inc. (www.archer-decision.com) and founder of Archer Decision Sciences, a data warehousing and decision support consulting company.
Welch, President of DataWing Consulting Services (www.datawing.com) and a regular conferences speaker discussing informational processing and data warehousing. Bill Inmon, the "Father of Data Warehousing," states that Mr. Welch was the first to design, develop and implement an architected data warehouse. Welch was the lead author of the book, Managing the Data Warehouse, from J. Wiley & Sons, Douglas Hackney, President, Enterprise Group, (www.egltd.com) a consulting and knowledge transfer company specializing in data warehousing. Hackney is a frequent speaker at international data warehouse industry conferences, including DCI's Data Warehousing Conferences and The Data Warehouse Institute.
Sid Adelman, Principal, Sid Adelman & Associates, (www.sidadelman.com) an organization specializing in planning and implementing data warehouses. He writes specifically on data warehouse topics and presents regularly at DCI and other data warehouse conferences. Adelman jointly developed a methodology, MapXpert for Data Warehouse and he contributed two chapters to the book Data Warehouse: Practical Advice from the Experts.
Herbert Edelstein, President, Two Crows Corporation (www.twocrows.com) and a founder of The Data Warehousing Institute. Edelstein is a recognized expert in data mining, data warehousing and client-server computing.