LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
September 2011
September marks a month of changes for Radiant Advisors. Our new website launched on September 1st, we hosted our first exclusive customer hands-on event September 8th-9th in Denver, and behind the scenes John and I have been quickly ramping up our partnerships, research agreements, course development schedules and event planning for 2012. We have so many new things happening over the course of Q4 2011 and Q1 2012, and we can’t wait to share them! This month, Radiant Advisors released two new Emerging Technologies and BI courses: Hadoop and the BI Environment and 2012 Emerging Technologies from a BI Perspective. Our Hadoop course introduces BI practitioners to Hadoop and its history, and examines the role of Hadoop in BI strategy and its integration into BI architecture. The 2012 Emerging Technologies class, following suit from 2010 and 2011 versions of the course, examines several of the top 2012 emerging information technologies and explores how they could impact production of BI/DW architectures, operations, strategies and Lindy Ryan perceptions. John O’Brien will be introducing both courses (along with our Editor-in-Chief current Delivering BI to Mobile Users course) at the upcoming TDWI World lindy.ryan@radiantadvisors.com Conference in Orlando, FL. I will also be covering the event to provide Radiant Trip Reports and network with industry peers. Our travel calendar has been full this month. We spent two days on-site at eCollege in Denver, CO hosting our first exclusive Radiant Event that provided our customers currently using or evaluating Talend Integration Suite direct hands-on user training with Talend. John visited Frankfurt to contribute to the BearingPoint Academy BI Event as part of TDWI and SIGS-DATACOM. We’ve also been visiting our customers and partners across the country and abroad, spending time on-site to address each of their unique needs, opportunities, and challenges as we plan out Q4 2011 and beyond.
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In addition to new websites, new courses, and a little jet setting, we’ve entered into a joint research agreement with ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES, and look forward to continuing to work with their team. Next month, John and I will be traveling to Germany where John will be teaching at TDWI In-Depth in Munich. We will also be releasing a few more new courses, and will be delivering more complimentary presentation events for our customers. Until next month, be sure to subscribe to our blog feeds on www.RadiantAdvisors.com and follow me on Twitter to stay updated (I even promise to twist John’s arm until you see blogs from him too)!
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