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Microsoft Technology Center
1290 Avenue of the Americas
6th Floor
New York, New York 10104

This event will describe how you can implement a scalable enterprise DW/BI Solution by:

• Describing the four common challenges that organizations face
• Outline proven strategies for overcoming these challenges and implementing a third-generation DW/BI solution in your current environment
• Explain how the Microsoft BI platform can be used to provide ETL, DW, reporting, analysis and business performance management.
• Give specific examples and demonstrations of how:
  
       -A BI solution can optimize performance in the areas of ETL, Cube
        processing and query processing
  
       -HP's Windows Integrity Itanium 2 servers can be used to scale in to
        optimize DW/BI system performance
  
       -An end-to-end BI solution providessdeep analytics, performance
        management, and universal access

Experts will be available for one-on-one discussion.

Agenda

8:00am    Breakfast/ Registration

8:30am    Introduction Melillo Consulting

9:00am    The Kimball Group
               The Kimball Group will present on the four key challenges  
               to implementing an enterprise BI/DW system and specific,
               proven techniques to successfully overcome these challenges.

10:30am  Break

10:45am  Microsoft's BI Strategy
               Microsoft will present on how the Microsoft BI platform can be used
               to  implement the techniques defined by Kimball to provide ETL, DW,
               reporting, analysis and business performance management.

11:30am  HP's BI Expertise & Capabilities
               HP will provide details how they can provide the infrastructure and services
               to support customers in implementing scalable, highly available DW/BI
               systems and conduct the following demonstrations:
                      -Configuring Soft NUMA Nodes for BI Applictions 
                      -Implementing Table Partitioning for BI Applications
                      -End-to-End BI with MS PerformancePoint Server

12:30am  Q&A - Raffle