Gartner Announces Finalists for the 2007 Business Intelligence Excellence Awards.Winners to be selected by Gartner (Gartner, Inc., Stamford, CT, www.gartner.com) The largest information technology consulting firm that specializes in research and analysis. Founded in 1979 by Gideon Gartner, it has grown through acquisitions, including Dataquest in 1995 and Techrepublic in 2000. Business Intelligence Summit attendees in Chicago, March 12-14 STAMFORD, Conn. -- Gartner, Inc. announced three finalists for the Gartner Business Intelligence (BI) Excellence Award, which will be presented at the company's Business Intelligence Summit, March 12-14 in Chicago, Illinois Illinois, river, United States Illinois, river, 273 mi (439 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers, NE Ill., and flowing SW to the Mississippi at Grafton, Ill. It is an important commercial and recreational waterway. . The finalists are Cummins Inc., JCPenney and the Richmond Virginia Virginia, state, United States Virginia, state of the south-central United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), North Carolina and Tennessee (S), Kentucky and West Virginia (W), and Maryland and the District of Columbia (N and NE). Police Department. Companies submitted their applications for the Gartner BI Excellence Award based on a combination of business value, technical implementation and best practices employed as defined by the Gartner Business Intelligence and Performance Management Framework. Gartner's BI research analysts evaluated the applicants and selected the three finalists who will present their case studies at the BI Summit. Attendees will then vote to select the award winner. "Balancing the demands from the growing sets of users who need better access and analysis of more diverse information coupled with making complex technology work effectively and managing change in the face of needing to meet governance Governance makes decisions that define expectations, grant power, or verify performance. It consists either of a separate process or of a specific part of management or leadership processes. Sometimes people set up a government to administer these processes and systems. compliance can be a significant challenge for organizations investing in the applications of Business Intelligence. Driving better decisions and managing performance is becoming strategy-critical for many organizations," said Bill Hostmann, Gartner research vice president and BI Summit conference chair. "The Gartner BI Excellence Award finalists will showcase how they leveraged information assets coupled with business intelligence to drive business performance to new levels." The Gartner Business Intelligence Summit will be held at the Hyatt Regency Chicago The Hyatt Regency Chicago is a 246 foot tall Hyatt hotel on East Wacker Drive in Chicago, Illinois. The hotel operates around 2,000 guest rooms in two different towers. The towers are connected by both an above-ground skyway and an underground concourse. . The Gartner BI Summit is the only event designed to provide businesses with the knowledge required to create a visionary 1. visionary - One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to "see" things using TV cameras. (There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer. business intelligence strategy. Through a content-focused curriculum, attendees will learn the methodologies, strategies, technologies and architectures that will move them from the tactics of cost cutting and compliance to increasing their companies' agility and responsiveness, and improving overall business performance. Additional information is available at www.gartner.com/us/bi. Members of the media can register by sending an e-mail to Christy chris·ty n. Variant of christie. Pettey at christy.pettey@gartner.com. About Gartner Gartner, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : IT) delivers the technology-related insight necessary for its clients to make the right decisions, every day. Gartner serves 10,000 organizations, including chief information officers and other senior IT executives in corporations and government agencies, as well as technology companies and the investment community. The Company consists of Gartner Research, Gartner Executive Programs, Gartner Consulting and Gartner Events. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 119,261, making it the fourth largest city in the state. , U.S.A., and has 3,700 associates, including 1,200 research analysts and consultants in 75 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.gartner.com. |
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