Extreme Analytics Workshop Delivered by Sybase, ISUG, IBM and MicroStrategy

See for yourself during a half-day workshop, how you can crank up the performance of your operational/data warehouse systems running on (ASE, Oracle or SQL Server) to analyze your business; driving better, faster decisions. Now more than ever, there is higher demand to analyze large amounts of data. Services contracts shortfall and backlog of enhancements occur because time is spent tuning databases. These workshops will explore how analytic and reporting performance can be improved 10 to 100 times, freeing up time to interact with dashboards in real-time, deliver business reports with self-service capabilities, and provide the ability to perform the “what if” analysis. We have planned a full morning agenda, including a session with technical experts to review specific customer configurations and provide a short assessment of how to improve performance and provide more accessibility to analyze the data. March 10 – Denver, CO REGISTER HERE March 12 – Chicago, IL REGISTER HERE March 17 – Falls Church, VA REGISTER HERE Agenda 9:00 – 9:30 Breakfast and Registration 9:30 – 10:30 Using the Analytic Appliance to drive better, faster decisions 10:30 – 11:30 Interact with MicroStrategy dashboards 11:30 – 12:30 Custom assessments with our experts There is no cost to attend thanks to our sponsors: MicroStrategy, Sybase and the International Sybase User Group (ISUG). Sincerely, Sybase Analytic Appliance Team

2008 Thank You’s

Well as 2008 draws to a close, I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you to all the folks that have assisted ISUG throughout the year. Without your help, we wouldn’t be able to do half the things we do to meet the needs of our members. I wont mention names, because you all know who you are!

2009 looks like it will be another fantastic year for ISUG and Sybase. Glad to have you along for the ride!

Happy Holidays

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

April Techcast

Hi there,

Well we just finished the ISUG Techcast for April.  Thanks to Sudipto Chowdhuri for a fine presentation on the internals of the ASE 15 Query Processing Engine.

The ISUG Techcasts are a monthly series of events of technical presentations. Next month we’ll be looking at Sybase WorkSpace.  If you’d like more information on this, or on the Techcasts in general, goto www.isug.com/techcasts

TeamSybase Meeting

Well, I just got back home from the annual TeamSybase meeting which I was honoured to have been invited to. This is a fantastic group of individuals that give their time, primarily in the Sybase newsgroups, to help users of the communities, answer questions, etc.

One of the things the team does during it’s meeting is officially recognise new members of the team, and Jerry Siegel is the newest member of TeamSybase for 2007.

It was therefore quite a surprise when I found myself, along with Herman Li and David Tong of Sybase, also being recognised as an honorary member of TeamSybase! I must admit that this was wholly unexpected and I thank Harold Mason and the rest of the team for this!!

For more on TeamSybase, visit www.teamsybase.com

Welcome to the ISUG blog

Hello and welcome to my blog. Here I will give periodic updates on ISUG itself, upcoming events, etc. Feel free to leave comments and suggestions on the kind of information you want to see on these pages!

For those who have never heard of ISUG, we are the International Sybase User Group. Our website is at www.isug.com and is the main interface into the user group.

ISUG’s mission is to support the Sybase user community through information sharing. We publish the ISUG Technical Journal six times a year, which is made available to members who have purchased either the Journal or Complete benefits pacakge. Members with the Complete package also have access to over $7000 worth of free Sybase software! More information on all our benefits can be found on our benefits page.