Twitter Roundup of Last Week’s TDWI Conference

Last week, The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) held its annual conference in beautiful San Diego. This year’s focus was on the evolution of Agile BI. Below is a summary of the tweets coming from the event’s hashtag #TDWI.

Top Tweeters:

Here’s our leader board of top Tweeters taken from a data visualization of the event’s tweet stream.

Of the 298 tweets:

Philip Russom,Research Director for Data Management at TDWI had 15.9%

Claudia Imhoff, a BI consultant and Founder of the Boulder BI Brain Trust, had 10.83%

Tony Carrini, publisher of SourceMedia’s Information Management, Health Data Management and MDM & Data Governance Summit, came in third with 6.37%.

Tibco Spotfire was next with 5.3%.

DBA-Alex, BI Engineer at iContact, came in a close fourth with 5.10%.

Scott Humphrey, a PR consultant, also had 5.10% of the tweets.

And Quest, an IT management company, rounded out the top users with 4.46% of the tweets.

Top Links:

Many links were tweeted and re-tweeted during the event. Some of the top links were a link to a mobile BI app for the iPad and links to two youtube video interviews during the event.

Claudia Imhoff introduces “self-service BI” at TDWI San Diego 2011

David Stodder, Dir TDWI Research discusses trends in data warehousing at TDWI San Diego 2011

My Tweet Awards:

Sad but probably true tweet: Chris Sorensen’s: Anybody out there feel like they have too many #BI tools and are just scratching the surface of each one of them? #TDWI

Funniest tweet: EvansBI: I have gone back to school and is my head hurting – thanks for the excellent course by Tony Rathburn at #tdwi on predictive analysis

Best memory inducing tweet (for me at least): AJ Johnson’s: San Diego Harbor out my window. Must be #TDWI #agile #businessintelligence conference. Gonna be a great couple of days.

Honorable Mentions:

Jim Ericson learned that “agile BI needs traction on cost as well as productivity and customer satisfaction.”

Tammi Kay George tweeted: Understanding the success factors: picking the right tools for business users directly impacts success of initiative.

Philip Russom tweeted Bruce Yen’s 3 requirements for successful Mobile BI Dashboards: High Usability, Business Value, and Actionable Content.

Tony Carrini re-quoted his favorite line of the week – everyone wants to be “Buzz Word Compliant”.

Next Steps:

Did you attend the conference? Leave a comment or send us a tweet about your experiences and takeaways.

Stay tuned for TDWI’s next conference “Emerging Technologies 2012: Using the Latest Technologies to Drive Business Impact.” This one will be held in Orlando, Florida from Oct. 30-Nov. 4, 2011.

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Linda Rosencrance
Spotfire Blogging Team