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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
BI plus Search: The ultimate Crystal Ball!
Guest: Joe Held
Joe Held
Senior Vice President, and Chief Information Officer, Standard & Poor's
Joe Held
Joe Held, senior vice president and chief information officer for Standard & Poor’s a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, brings more than 20 years of experience in information technology - focusing on business reengineering; business acquisitions/new ventures; application development and information architecture; and technology strategy and implementation. He currently has responsibility for global business systems S&P-wide. Before joining S&P, Joe was the executive responsible for Investment Technology Services at Hartford Life Insurance, where he established an industry-leading technology service for the Annuity and Mutual Funds lines of businesses. Joe worked at CIGNA HealthCare from 1995 to 1997 as the assistant vice president of Application and Information Architecture and worked in a variety of IT roles for several Aetna Life and Casualty businesses from 1983 to 1995.
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Title: Senior Vice President, and Chief Information Officer, Standard & Poor's
Guest: Don Campbell
Don Campbell
Chief Technology Officer, Analytics and Performance Management, IBM
Don Campbell
As CTO of Analytics and Performance Management at IBM, Don Campbell oversees Cognos Software's technology adoption strategy and its application within the IBM Cognos BI platform today and tomorrow. He leads the charge on leading-edge technologies such as grid computing, search, and wireless information delivery in a performance management context. Don Campbell has 25 years of high tech experience, 21 of which were with Cognos prior to the company's acquisition by IBM in 2007. He has held various roles from research to software development to management, and has led the creation of several award-winning products. He sits on various industry technology boards and advisory committees. His message of technology, performance management, and entrepreneurism has taken him around the globe, speaking to over 40,000 people in 16 countries. In 2005, he was awarded with the International Business Award for Best Product Development or Engineering Executive. In addition, he has authored several published articles and a weekly technology column. Mr. Campbell holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. In June of 2009, Don was named an IBM Distinguished Engineer and appointed to the IBM Academy of Technology cementing his position among the most accomplished technical minds in the industry.
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Title: Chief Technology Officer, Analytics and Performance Management, IBM
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What if external data, in whatever structured or unstructured form it exists, could be pulled into organizational databases, combined with the internal data already sitting there, and the "Unified Information" analyzed and reported on as one big picture created out of two complimentary pieces of BI? Wouldn't that give business people better predictive capabilities? Research says BI and search technologies are converging into one tool, but what are the challenges to creating such a tool? ...And, what special advantages would make the creation of such a tool well worth the effort?

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Should IT still remain bureaucratic with command and control style management to be successful?
While IT wants to be in the forefront of innovation to help deliver business value, in order to produce predictable results, should it still continue to have bureaucratic decision making with command and control structure?
 
 
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