Spotlights 
Robert Eve, Vice President of Marketing for Composite Software
Robert Eve explains how the Composite Information Server enables users to virtualize, abstract, federate and deliver disparate data.
Christina McKeon, Director of Product Marketing, Performance Management for Infor
Christina McKeon explains how Infor's performance management software helps companies link corporate strategy to operational plans and generate actionable business insights to increase user
productivity, control costs and improve overall business performance.
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Industry Channels
Podcast News from SPSS Directions - Las Vegas
Predictive Analytics in the U. S. Elections
Ron Powell of the BeyeNETWORK discusses with Ken Strasma and Alexander Lundry how predictive analytics impacted the 2008 presidential election.
Robert Dutcher, Vice President of Product Marketing for SPSS
Bob reflects on all of the consolidation in the business intelligence industry and describes how that has created a great opportunity for SPSS, one of the only real open analytic and data mining
players. He explains why predictive analytics is becoming the glue that is holding organizations together.
Omar Rois, Customer Analysis Manager for Digital +, an SPSS Customer
Digital+ is the leading pay TV service in Spain, and Omar explains how they needed call center representatives to be able to access all the important information about customers such as their value
to the company, their likes and dislikes, and their family status. He describes how Clementine is the perfect product to unlock those customer insights and shares how its use has benefited Digital+.
Kristin Hackney, Vice President of Worldwide Strategy Accounts and Services for SPSS
The current economy is causing more and more companies to look for competitive advantage, and Kristin describes how predictive analytics can provide that advantage. Additionally, she describes how
North American businesses are realizing that they have to kick it up a notch with predictive analytics to match the global competitiveness that is already occurring in other parts of the world.
Kristin concludes by describing how SPSS is helping companies effectively implement and benefit from predictive analytics.
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Podcast News from TDWI - Amsterdam
Dagmar Klaassen, Cognos Solution Specialist
Dagmar discusses Cognos performance management which answers the questions: How am I doing (dashboards)? What am I doing (analysis)? What will I do going forward (planning)?
Cecile Maindron, Marketing Products Manager at Talend
Cecile stresses the advantages of open source technology and discusses the adoption rate of open source technologies within the enterprise.
Andy Bayliss, Technology Director, SAND Technology
Andy explains the term "data right sizing" that SAND is using to explain the concept of near-line data warehousing strategy.
Chris McCallister, GoldenGate Senior Director of Product Marketing
Chris introduces GoldenGate 10 which expands the databases they support and provides new information delivery mechanisms.
