Archived Webinars

Kalido hosts public web conferences on a wide variety of topics related to enterprise data warehousing and master data management. These webinars range from practical demonstrations of product functionality to business-focused discussions of approaches to adaptive data warehousing and enterprise-wide management of master data.

To access an enterprise data warehousing or master data management webinar, simply click on one of the links below. There will be a short pause as you are redirected to our conference partner's website, and the appropriate software is loaded. Please note that you will require a sound card to gain full benefit from the presentations.
Information Management Without the Worry: Consortium Health Plans Success Story (7.5 MB)
Review how Consortium Health Plans overcame the information management challenges many organizations face – systems that are difficult and expensive to maintain, and that cannot adequately scale or adapt to new business requirements.
Getting Started with Governance-Centric MDM: Practical and Tactical Recommendations (0 Bytes)
This web seminar will show you why featured guest Forrester Research “continues to witness growing enthusiasm for MDM initiatives across all industries”. Register now to join information management experts John Evans of Kalido and featured guest Rob Karel of Forrester Research and as they provide field-proven recommendations for effectively evangelizing enterprise data governance programs and scoping MDM implementations that deliver near-term ROI to your business.
Enterprise Data Governance: Bridging the Business-IT Gap (0 Bytes)
Interested in hearing how data governance initiatives can go from strategy to reality? Join Kalido to learn how improving collaboration and automation can empower your company’s business users. By giving the business users easy access to the information they need – when they need it – you enable them to make better business decisions, ultimately improving both top and bottom line performance.
Tap the Full Potential of Pharma Sales & Marketing Data (0 Bytes)
During this webcast, you'll hear AMR Research review how sales and marketing functions in life sciences companies have suffered from a lack of analytical capabilities – and how the prescription for healthy sales and marketing performance starts with complete, accurate and timely information. Download now to hear Hussain Mooraj, Vice President, Healthcare & Life Sciences at AMR Research; Winston Chen, Vice President, Strategy and Business Development at Kalido; and Jamie Wyatt, Vice President and General Manager for Health and Life Sciences at Netezza, providing indispensable help you realize the full value of your life sciences sales and marketing data.
Data Governance for Data Warehouses (62.83 MB)
Hear how implementing data governance for your data warehouse can promote it to the trusted "single repository of truth" — giving you accurate and consistent data to help your organization thrive.
The Business Value of Insurance Broker Data Governance (47.01 MB)
Join Kevin Cusack, Partner with Accenture Information Management Services, and Cliff Longman, CTO of Kalido, for an insightful live Web seminar to review how to "build business data you can believe in", hosted by Computerworld.
Data Governance: How to Triumph Over Bad Data (8.91 MB)
Join Gwen Thomas, Founder and President of The Data Governance Institute, and Cliff Longman, CTO of Kalido, for an insightful live Web seminar to review the growing issue of "bad data" within organizations, hosted by Paul Calento of Computerworld. Learn how the ultimate effects of bad data could cost your business millions of dollars every year, simply by letting data - from sales databases, customer service databases and finance databases - operate independently, often with nobody in charge of ensuring its consistency.
Adoption of Data Governance by Business: Is your data helping your bottom line - or hurting it? (7.36 MB)
This webinar talks about the mounting pressure on business to increase fiscal data compliance, accountability, and transparency. This, in turn, has compelled businesses to realize and accept that ERP systems and data warehouses alone are insufficient to really tackle the problem of inconsistent, inaccurate and unreliable data. In particular, there is a growing awareness that the processes that create and update corporate data need to be addressed if the data dragon is ever to be slain.
Reducing risk with better information in today's uncertain environments (4.37 MB)
This webcast discusses how to overcome these inherent risks in developing a BI infrastructure, and compare a business modeling approach to a physical data modeling approach. You will learn how business modeling supports collaboration with the business to help reduce the IT and operational risk so your BI really meets your organization's needs.
How Relational Modeling Hampers Long-Term BI Value (25.87 MB)
This webinar explains why a business modeling approach can generate significantly more value from a BI system than a relational data model. Better semantic information, easy adaptability, enhanced ability to share with the business, and far less specialised hand coding are just some of the advantages business models hold over relational models. Please join the webcast to hear Bruce Ottmann, one of the world's leading data modelers and a co-patent holder of the Kalido business model based technology, discuss the merits of both approaches and describe how a business model can help you derive more value more often from your BI.
Building Better BI: Business Modeling for IT (10.59 MB)
An exclusive technical webcast designed for IT professionals seeking a better, more efficient way to deliver BI. In this one hour session, listeners will learn how business model elements support BI, how to develop and deploy business models to warehouses with Kalido, how to automatically generate data marts from the model and more.
What's Behind Your BI Part II with Analytics 8 & Systec with Kalido Demo (10.22 MB)
Join Kalido and BI implementation experts from Analytics 8 and Systech Solutions as they explain the key impediments to delivering BI in a complex and changing environment. You will learn new ideas and approaches to handling change and keeping your BI up to date. Attendees will also see a demonstration of the Kalido® Information Engine™ solution that automatically generates, manages and maintains the BI back-end, from the source systems up to the BI reports.
What's Behind Your BI with Dr. David Waddington & Axis Group (9.9 MB)
In this webcast, you’ll learn about the problems companies face today to keep their BI systems up-to-date, the challenges in BI implementations, and a new way to manage the infrastructure behind your BI so that it continues to add value to your organization. Dr. David Waddington, founder of Tyson Consulting and former Chief Architect at Unilever, discussing the real problems companies face around BI today Ranjan Sinha, Principal, Axis Group, discussing common BI implementation problems companies face and how to avoid them
Not Your Father's BI: Making Mission-Critical BI Work (7.22 MB)
BI has gone from "nice-to-have" to mission-critical. Yesterday's BI focused on productivity and efficiency gains. Today's BI is all about competitive differentiation, regulatory compliance and pure survival. Unfortunately, the increase in importance has increased the stakes - BI has to react fast to keep up with the pace of business. Listen to Boris Evelson, BI analyst at Forrester Research, and John Evans of Kalido as they discuss the evolving nature of business intelligence and its role in the organization.
Well Master Data Management-How Well Do You Know Your Wells? Webex Player Format (4.98 MB)
Exploration & Production companies are challenged with providing consolidated well information from the operational data sources needed to make informed decisions about their upstream business. With increasing regulations and demands from business stakeholders, managing your wells has never been more important. Join Kalido and guest speaker Rusty Foreman Solution Architect, Program Manager from BP America, to learn why they have tackled the issue of well master data management and how it will benefit BP.
Well Master Data Management-How Well Do You Know Your Wells? Windows Media Format (45.84 MB)
Exploration & Production companies are challenged with providing consolidated well information from the operational data sources needed to make informed decisions about their upstream business. With increasing regulations and demands from business stakeholders, managing your wells has never been more important. Join Kalido and guest speaker Rusty Foreman Solution Architect, Program Manager from BP America, to learn why they have tackled the issue of well master data management and how it will benefit BP.
Back To Business with Neil Raden and Cliff Longman (18.87 MB)
Traditional data warehouse development techniques employ data modeling as the primary method for building the information backbone for Business Intelligence. These data-centric designs focus on handling data management issues in warehousing but don't sufficiently help with capturing business requirements. A new alternative to the data-centric approach is a model-driven approach using a business model-driven architecture. Join our web seminar and hear Neil Raden and Cliff Longman explain how this new way of thinking has proven highly effective in delivering useful results to the business in a short period of time. They will describe how a model-driven approach to the entire process of data integration management and information delivery changes everything, especially how the principal stakeholders in the business and IT interact, communicate, and ultimately develop an integrated solution.
How to Build a Business Model - A Webinar Tutorial (20.34 MB)
The Kalido Business Information Modeler is a transformational approach to designing, deploying and maintaining your BI infrastructure. Instead of modeling data and their structures, the Business Information Modeler allows you to model the actual parts of your business – customers, products, assets, transactions, even people – and define how you view the information in business terms, not technical ones. In this webinar, Cliff Longman, Chief Technology Officer, Kalido, will lead a tutorial on the Modeler and demonstrate how you can use the Modeler to reduce implementation times for, and improve the success of, your BI programs.
Valentine's Day Webcast: Have You Fallen Out of Love with Your Financial BI Reports (13.51 MB)
Most business executives are challenged with getting the right information they need to make sound business decisions “in the moment”. But in today’s fluid financial services environment, you need to count on a reliable "truth" you’re your enterprise financial systems. While your business continues to demand information at an ever increasing rate, it’s challenging for your IT department to keep up with the pace using traditional methods. The result? The information you get lags behind the decision you need to make. The truth is, you’ve fallen out of love with your business intelligence. Listen to this informative webinar to find out how you can: Better understand how you can get information based on your business requirements, not your data structures; How a business model-driven, best practices based “information engine” can give you ultimate flexibility; How Kalido can enable you to get the information you need when you are ready to make a decision.
Announcing The Kalido Information Engine: What's Behind Your BI? (10.87 MB)
In this webcast, you'll hear about the Kalido Information Engine and how it allows you to quickly model critical business scenarios such as organizational change or margin analysis. With Kalido behind your business intelligence, your users will never have to wait months again to answer fundamental questions about business performance - which products are selling, which customers are profitable, and which markets are most promising.
Why Financial Information Is Not As Good As You Think.. Featuring Mark Smith, CEO Ventana Research (7.63 MB)
In this webinar you'll learn about financial information management best practices and how you can use these research results to improve your organization. You'll gain insight into what strategies, technologies and tactics you need to establish financial information management processes and systems that deliver results.
BI Has Gone Mission Critical: Are You Ready? (3.4 MB)
Our featured speaker, BI expert Claudia Imhoff, gives an introduction to BI, including examples and recommendations for your organization to get started delivering business analytics and integrating them into critical business processes. Claudia is the President and Founder of Intelligent Solutions, a leading consultancy on CRM and BI technologies and strategies. She is a popular speaker and internationally recognized expert, and serves as an advisor to many corporations, universities and leading technology companies. Claudia has coauthored five books and more than 50 articles on these topics.
Expenditure Disclosure Requirements featuring Alliance Consulting, Cognos and Kalido (10.81 MB)
Hear from industry experts on how to disentangle the complexities surrounding expenditure disclosure requirements. Learn what cutting edge software solutions and best practices are available to help you achieve better, faster regulatory compliance reporting under new state laws
BM4BM-Business Modeling for Business Managers (22.94 MB)
Targeted at senior business managers, this webinar will focus on addressing real business needs. We underline how a business modeling approach greatly simplifies communication between business leaders and IT and ensures the former have a clear awareness of the origin, reliability and traceability of their business data.
Understanding Why Companies Fail - And Four Steps To Avoid It (9.15 MB)
This web seminar features Greg Hackett, business school professor and strategy consultant, as he presents his research on Why Companies Fail. Greg discusses the four key reasons companies fail (one is the inability to identify and react quickly to profound external changes) and how to prevent your company from following the same path. Greg discusses a new management model that he thinks is needed to counteract this trend toward sliding profits and extinction. Discover the new role of the CFO and CIO in shaping the future success of your organization.
Fundamentals of Master Data Management (MDM) (23.03 MB)
During this webinar, we review the tasks involved in browsing, importing, managing, authorizing and publishing from Kalido Master Data Manager, with a focus on best practices. The session familiarizes attendees with a wide range of Kalido MDM functionalities and highlights features to enable students to realize Kalido MDM's potential.