IIBA and TDWI bring down the house at Citrix Corporation

Wayne Eckerson, Director ofTDWI Research, speaks at IIBA/SFTDWI Users Group Meeting

It was a dual pleasure of exciting industry news and education hosted at  Citrix Corporation in Fort Lauderdale for the combined International Institute of Business Analysts(IIBA) and South Florida The Data Warehouse Institute (SFTDWI) quarterly users meeting. The full house of local professionals began arriving as early as 8:00 AM to take advantage of the breakfast spread provided by the sponsors and prepared by Omnific Event Design. The room was brimming with chatter as networking participants could hardly contain themselves between speakers.

Michael Delgado, Enterprise Data
Architect, Citrix Systems
Business Analysis as a Foundation for
Enterprise Data Architecture
   
Areas of Excellence: "The Secrets of Building an Agile, Adaptable BI Environment" presented by Wayne W. Eckerson, Director of TDWI Research, TDWI
   
Michael Jay Freer, Treasurer, SFTDWI
Validation Strategy - Tracing customer
requirements to quality deliverables

 
Michael Delgado, Citrix Corporation

Michael Delgado, Citrix Corporation, humored, as well as, educated the crowd with his comparison on market strategy.  He paralled his father's market strategy for his bakery, with grassroots origins in Cuba, to the conglomerates here in the United States who are applying the same principles.  Highlighting the event were the sponsors IBM, MicroStrategy, Microsoft, Blueprint Software Systems, ESI International stationed at tables in the rear of the room, reminiscent of a mini-conference with all the bells and whistles. Real nice gifts were raffled off at the end of the meeting amid lots more laughter and networking. I wondered, as I waded through the crowd to make my exit, if Citrix might have to ask this enthusiastic crowd to depart.

Michael Jay Freer, SFTDWI,  impresses the audience with thought provoking views on requirements gathering