Business School Perspectives: Countdown to Solutions 2006 Continues

Solutions 2006 | Las Vegas

Business School Perspectives

This blog features Professor John Webster of Dakota State University. Professor Webster will blog about what's going on at the Hyperion Solutions conference (April 23-26, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada) and and how (and why) BPM will become more important to academia in the coming years. For other views of Solutions, see these related blogs:

Technology and Innovation, featuring George Spofford, Distinguished Software Engineer, Hyperion
BPM Visionaries, featuring Howard Dresner, Hyperion Chief Strategy Officer; Frank Buytendijk, Hyperion Vice President, Corporate Strategy; and Cindi Howson, Industry Analyst and President of ASK.

For more information about Hyperion products and services, visit the Hyperion web site and the Hyperion Developer Network.

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Countdown to Solutions 2006 Continues

The hours to Solution 2006 continue to zero as I make my way to the show. Of all the bad luck I could not find a KOA on the back roads to the Grand Canyon. So... no midday update.

Now... for a bit of preconference business. Specifically, I have been thinking about where I am going to take this blog over the next few days. I want to keep it light... informative... and useful to those of you who did not make it to the meeting. It is a big task, but I am 265 pounds of technology conduit.

If you do not know, the purpose of my existence at this conference is to provide my colleagues, students, and others totally awesome insights into the study and applicability of BI to higher education.

How that translates to this blog is my secret. But, trust me... I have a plan and it is going to be great! Okay... I have an outline... a charged battery... and a nose for finding information.

I may not solve the challene of the Kobayashi Maru...

I may not make brussel sprouts eatable...

But... I promise to provide you with a plethora of useful information and will make your time spent with me and my blog well worth the investment.

Talk to you tomorrow... as we open this event.

For now... safe travels.

about the blogger

John Webster
Executive Director, CRESH
Professor of Computer Information Systems, Dakota State University
Professor Webster has more than seventeen years of IT teaching and leadership experience in higher education and IT, developing Information Technology programs, service offerings, and application hosting programs for some of the leading technology vendors in the world, including Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Hyperion.

Since 1999, he has directed the development and business operations of the Center for Remote Enterprise Systems Hosting (CRESH), an enterprise application consulting and hosting company, which spun out of Dakota State University in 2004.

CRESH specializes in servicing the higher education and public sectors, providing functional and technical access and support to its educational and production customers around the world. CRESH is working with Hyperion’s Academic Alliance Program to provide hosted access to Hyperion solutions, Web-Based Training, and Business Performance Management demos and resources for use by faculty and students in their business and MIS courses.
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