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DFT Experts Speaking At BI 2011 In Vegas


BI 2011 is the most important event of the year for professionals that use and support SAP® solutions for reporting, business intelligence, and data management. Expand your skills and knowledge by learning from the top experts at SAP, independent consultants, and your industry counterparts. BI 2011 offers more than 180 sessions across 9 tracks that will show you how to get the most out of your BI system. We will have two of our very own industry experts, Don Loden and Victor Montana, presenting on various topics! We will also have a booth (#503) so please stop by and say hello!

Don Loden will be presenting the following topics:

How To Combat ETL Problems With Data Services

Discussion Forum On ETL

DS Performance Tuning Strategies To Optimize Your Data Services Environment

Ask-the-Experts (Discussion Session in the Exhibition Hall on Day 1 regarding ETL, Data Quality, and Data Warehousing)


Victor Montana will be presenting:

Proven Strategies And Tools To Ensure The Ceanliness And Quality Of Your SAP Data

Putting The "Where" In Your Business Intelligence Strategy
Business Intelligence tools excel at extracting the who, what and when aspects of data, but are lost when it comes to the where. Ultimately, location ties all other datapoints in an organization's operations together. That is where the value of Location Intelligence comes in. Join us online for one of our webinars on Location Intelligence and see how you can geographically and demographically profile past and present customers and their interests, giving you the ability to refine market segments and even identify new ones.

Thu, Feb 24th @ 11:00 am Eastern Location Intelligence for Any Industry

Thu, Feb 24th @ 2:00 pm Eastern Location Intelligence for Government Agencies

Additional Webinars Coming Soon...

Optimize Business Performance with SAP BusinessObjects Portifolio
Connect with People, Information and Networks to Provide a Single Version of the Truth

Accelerate Your BusinessObjects Dashboards with Antivia
Cut Xcelsius dashboard development time by 50%

Transform Your Company's Data and Reports into Mobile Analytics with Roambi
Leave Your Traditional BI Dashboards on the Desktop

What's New in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0
Close The Books Faster With SAP BusinessObjects Planning & Consolidation
Join us to learn more about how the SAP BusinessObjects Planning & Consolidation application provides an integrated, unified planning, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation solution so you can close the books faster! Our partner Aster Group will be hosting a 3 Day Web Cast Series beginning Wed, March 23rd @ 1:00 pm EST.

March 23rd @ 1:00
BPC Overview Demo

March 24th @ 1:00 pm EST
Deep Dive Planning Demos

March 25th @ 1:00 EST
Deep Dive Consolidation Demo

Click Here For More Details & To Register
The SAP Run Better Tour Coming To A City Near You...
DFT will be exhibiting at the Atlanta Event on March 15th...Please join us...there is no cost to attend!

Each unique, one-day event will provide a collaborative environment for SAP customers and prospects. Focus areas will include priority innovations in areas such as Mobility, HANA, BusinessObjects portfolio, and Business By Design.

Whether your organization is too big to be small or too small to be big, learn how to survive, grow, and run better. With sessions and content specifically tailored to the needs of small and midsize businesses like yours, the Run Better Tour is the one event where you can:
  • Learn strategies to make better, faster business decisions; to maximize sales potential; and to do more with fewer IT resources and less funding.
  • Discover the world's most complete, adaptable, and affordable on-demand business solutions for small and midsize businesses.
  • See how world-class organizations are becoming more informed, mobile, customer-focused, socially connected, and innovative using SAP solutions in all areas of their operations.
  • Learn from other successful, fast-growth companies the best practices that are crucial to supporting your growth strategies.
  • Be among the first to test-drive the hottest business-analytics, mobile, on-demand, and in-memory technology at the SAP Innovation Bar.
There is no cost for attending the SAP Run Better Tour but space is limited and will fill up quickly. Register Today!
Four ways to help improve efficiency in 2011 and beyond
You've kept your business in safe harbor during the Great Recession. No doubt you gained significant insights about your operations, and did all you could to maximize efficiency during these lean times.

Now, the economy is improving. IDC projects worldwide SMB IT spending will return to 2008 levels this year.

So what does this mean for your IT initiatives today? Will clearer skies change your near- and long-term IT priorities? Should they? Experts recommend you stay the course with your efficiency initiatives.
THE SAP BUSINESS OBJECTS ITOUR: A HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE
Watch the series of quick, interactive video demonstrations, and learn how this powerful software can help propel your business to the leading edge.
What to do when there's no longer a simple answer to 'how's business?'
Fast growth. It's the Holy Grail for entrepreneurs. There's nothing like achieving that next level of success in the marketplace.

But fast growth has consequences. It puts extreme pressure on the people and systems that made earlier achievements possible. Instead of enjoying and capitalizing on the next level of success, entrepreneurs often realize they suddenly can't answer the question, "how's business?"

Experts recommend that CEOs and CTOs start the planning process for technologies and systems it will take to achieve a real-time view of the enterprise.
As an authorized SAP BusinessObjects Channel Partner, Decision First Technologies, Inc. is a member of the SAP ® PartnerEdge TM program. Our organization is part of a select group of providers authorized to sell, implement, service and/or develop solutions from SAP ® , the global leader in business management applications.