White papers and articles by Neil Raden:

Topic	Sponsor	Title	Magazines & Journals
Analytics		- The Case for Business Modeling
Analytics		- coming in March 2007 (Analytics On Demand)
Analytics		- An Analytics Manifesto
Analytics		- The Foundations of Analytics: Visualization, Interactivity and Utility
Analytics		- coming in March 2007 (Analytics as a Service)	BIReview
Analytics		NextGen Software or Software for the NextGen?
Appliances		- Strongbox Appliance Solution
Appliances		- Solving the Load/Query Conundrum in Dimensional Design
Appliances		- Unleashing Enterprise Business Intelligence in an Era of Affordable Computing Resources	APPEARANCES
Appliances		- Quasar Database Acceleration for Data Warehouse Applications	This Year
BI		- Reporting Steps Up	Prior Years
BI		- coming in March 2007 (Guided Search and Analysis in BI)
BI		- Business Objects Solutions for SAP
BI		- Coming in March 2007
BI		- Ambient Business Intelligence
BI		- BI 2.0: Pervasive, Intelligent and Timely
Data Warehouse		- coming in February 2007
Data Warehouse		- Questions to Ask a Data Warehouse Appliance Vendor
Data Warehouse		- Exploring the Business Imperatives of Real-Time Analytics
Data Warehouse		- coming in March 2007 (Teradata and SAP)
Data Warehouse		- Enterprise Business Intelligence ROI|
Info Architecture		- A New Approach to Data Integration and Management for Business Intelligence
Semantic Tech		- Application Semantics: The Starting Point for Adopting SOA|
Semantic Tech		- The Emerging Role of Semantic Technology in the Enterprise
Semantic Tech		- Semantic Integration: Tapping the Full Potential of Enterprise Data
Shadow Systems		- The Managed Spreadsheet Environment
Shadow Systems		- Shedding Light on Shadow IT Is Excel Running Your Business?

RECENT MAGAZINE COLUMNS AND ARTICLES BY NEIL RADEN

Business Intelligence Review
Ease of Use or Usefulness?	The next wave of BI users will be unforgiving of tools that can't deliver
The Limits of Measurement :	Introducing measurement systems and metrics can backfire if it isn't treated as an organizational change effort
Shadow IT: A Lesson for BI	Shadow IT is a massive problem, but looking for solutions to replace spreadsheets is not likely to succeed
BPM Magazine
Super Models: The Best of BPM Analytics	With Dave Menninger of Applix – Requirements for fully functioning business modeling software in BPM
Business Intelligence 2.0: Simpler, More Accessible and Inevitable	Say goodbye to complicated interfaces, disconnected analytics and shelfware. An emerging era for BI will bring simplicity, broad access and better ties between analysis and action.
BI Megatrends 2006	The major drivers of BI going forward such as search, semantics and master data management
Web 2.0's Effect on Business Intelligence	AJAX, versionless software, P2P, blogging and open source
Looking for Meaning in the Semantic Web	Can the Semantic Web technology be applied to semantic webs inside the firewall?
Start Making Sense	Semantic integration and ontology will drive changes in data warehousing and BI
Set Disruptors ON FULL	New information integration technologies are becoming today's disruptive technologies.
Dashboarding Ourselves	Some sobering results of our recent market research about user attitudes
The New Deal	Using active metadata, abstraction and the application of Moore's Law to ramp up BI
Stepping Up BI Expectations	An explanation of the requirements for truly enterprise Business Intelligence
Get Real Part I ; Part II	Technical requirements for real-time data warehousing. Guest columnist for Ralph Kimball
Toppling the BI Pyramid	The BI pyramid is a poor model for understanding usage patterns and requirements.
The Red Adair Act	Data warehouse rescue
A Beautiful Data Warehouse	What a resounding success looks like
The Other End of the Telescope	Are data warehouse methodologies backwards?
Flashpoint
Assorted columns	For members of TDWI only; contact nraden@hiredbrains.com for copies
Analytics for the Masses	Critique of Tom Davenport’s “Competing on Analytics”
Teradata Magazine
Executive View: What's the REAL Real-Time Opportunity?
A Fresh New Look at Enterprise Data Warehousing
The New Deal

"Who's Minding the Cache?"
Storage options for high performance data warehouses
"Warehouses and the Web"
Why use the web to access a data warehouse
"Boost Warehouse Performance"
Special demands placed on relational database technology by data warehousing; parallelism and core algorithms
"Maximizing Your Warehouse"
Special demands placed on relational database technology by data warehousing; query optimization and indexing
"Modeling a Data Warehouse"
How to do dimensional modeling with the Star Schema
"Data, Data Everywhere"
A method for selecting the correct OLAP technology 

Other:
"Teraforming the Data Warehouse"
Teradata's unique approach to data warehousing calls for front-end tools to be evaluated in a different way 
"Understanding Profit"
Why a combination of business redesign and information technology is needed to untangle and understand profit in financial services organizations
"Dialogue on Plato"
An analysis of the impact on users and vendors when Microsoft's OLAP offering appears on the scene
"Push-back on Push"
The impact of "Push" technology on data warehousing
"Worlds in Collision"
Merging business and IT architecture perspectives to evaluate query and analysis tools successfully

Apperances 2007 (planned)

Microstrategy World, Miami, January 22-25
Spotfire Webinar, February 10
fastForward, San Diego, February 8-9
TDWI, Las Vegas, February 19-23
Celequest Webinar, March 1
DAMA Symposium and Wilshire Meta-Data Conference, Boston, March 3-8
CDI-MDM Summit, San Francisco, March 25
Business Process Management Summit, Miami, March 26-27
Hyperion Solutions, San Francisco, April 23-25
CDI-MDM Summit, London, April 31-May 2
Society of Actuaries (Life), Phoenix, May 9-11
Fair Isaac InterAct, San Francisco, May 15-18
Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, May 20-24
Society of Actuaries (Health), Seattle, June 13-15

Appearances 2006

Microstrategy World, Miami, January 22-25
Spotfire Webinar, January 31
TDWI, Las Vegas, February 20-24
CDI-MDM Summit, San Francisco, March 2-3
Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, March 6-9
DAMA Symposium and Wilshire Meta-Data Conference, Denver, April 23-27
SAP SAPPHIRE, Orlando, May 16-18
Informatica World, San Francisco, May 22-24
BI Forum, San Francisco, June 4-6
TDWI, San Diego, August 20-25
Teradata Partners, Orlando, September 17-21
ComputerWorld BI, Las Vegas, September 25-27
Society of Actuaries, Annual Meeting, Chicago, October 15-16
CDI-MDM Summit, New York, October 17
E-metrics Summit: Optimizing Online Marketing Value, Washington DC, October 18
MetaData Symposium, October 27


Appearances 2005

Microstrategy World, Las Vegas, February 1-2
ProClarity Worldwide Conference, Sun Valley, February 7-8
The Data Warehousing Institute, Las Vegas, February 27 - March 4
DAMA, San Francisco, March 2
Semantic Technology Conference, San Francisco, March 7-10
BI Forum, Phoenix, April 17-19
CBI Pharmaceutical Sales and Marketing, Philadelphia, April 25-26
DAMA Intl/Wilshire Metadata Conference, Orlando, May 23-26
DAMA, New York/Washington, D.C., June 16
Actuate Las Vegas, August 1-3 
TDWI San Diego, San Diego, August
Teradata Partners, Orlando, September
Siebel BI Summit, Boston, October
Arcplanet, Las Vegas, October 

Appearances 2004

DAMA International/Wilshire Metadata, May 2-6, Los Angeles: 
Society of Actuaries, May 19-21, Anaheim, CA
CBI Data Mining and Warehousing for Pharmaceutical Sales and Marketing, July 29-30, Alexandria, VA
Intelligent Performance 2004, November 15-18, La Jolla, CA

Appearances 2003

DCI's Real-Time Enterprise Conference
Chicago, June 10-12
Neil Raden - "The Role of Analytics and Operational Excellence in the Real-Time Enterprise"

DCI's Customer Relationship Management / Data Warehouse Enterprise Analytics
Boston, June 18-20
Neil Raden- "Maintaining and Sustaining the Data Warehouse"

Center for Business Intelligence
3rd Annual Data Mining and Data Warehousing for Pharmaceutical Sales & Marketing
Washington, D.C., July 28-29
Neil Raden - "Data Warehouse Rescue: Making the Most of a Pre-Existing Data Warehouse"

DCI's Customer Relationship Management / Data Warehouse Enterprise Analytics
New York, August 26-28
Neil Raden- "Building the Real-Time Data Warehouse"

Intelligent BPM Conference & Expo
San Francisco, September 30
Neil Raden - "Understanding and Optimizing Data Warehousing and Data Integration Investments for Performance Management"

The Society of Actuaries Annual Conference
Disney World, October 27-29
Neil Raden - "Database Mysteries Unraveled"

Teleconferences:
Hewlett-Packard, “Implementing Web-based Decision Support Systems”
GIGA Teleconference, “How the WWW Will Change Everything in Data Warehousing”

Speaking/Lectures

SKY RADIO (Click to Listen)
Interview: achieving ROI from tech investments aired on all American Airlines flights in May, 2002

DAMA
Beyond Metadata: The Low-Down on Ontologies in Words You Can Understand (2005)
Data Warehousing 2.0 - A New Set of Rules (2001)
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM): An Introduction (2001)

Data Warehouse 2000,2001 (London)
Keynote: Data Warehouse 2.0: A New Set of Rules
Zero Latency Business Intelligence

The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI):
Understanding Packages
Where Do We Fit EAI?
Choosing OLAP tools
Designing the DW
“Ask the Experts” panel
Case Studies, Closed Loop DSS Seminar
“Guru” sessions
Data Modeling the DW
Advanced Dimensional Modeling
ERP and Data Warehousing
Database Performance Seminar
Designing VLDBs

TDWI EUROPE:
Dimensional Modeling
Selecting Databases for DW

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (Rome)
Analytic Application Architecture for e-Business

DCI
Real-Time Analytics Seminar
Data Warehouse ROI
Data Warehousing 2.0
ERP Data Warehousing
MOM and ETL
Closed Loop Decision Support Systems
Selecting OLAP Tools
The Question Gap
Microsoft in Data Warehousing
Cost/Benefit Justification for the DW
Modeling the Data Warehouse
Database Performance for DW
Maintaining and Sustaining the DW

Eye for Energy (Amsterdam)
Metadata Repository for eBusiness in the Energy Industry

Informatica/Business Objects Series on E-Business
Finding Golden Opportunities in Your e-Business Enterprise

Society of Actuaries
Warehouse Applications for Actuaries
Using BI for Stochastic Methods in Property & Casualty Pricing Analysis
Understanding Profit for Prescriptive Analysis
Seminar on Building Valuation systems
Pricing Analysis
The Truth About Data Integration In Life Insurance