The Boulder BI Brain Trust Home Members 2010 Schedule Past Participants Podcasts Blog Request Form FAQ Site Map Contact Us         Brain Trust: Past Participants "The Boulder BI Braintrust provided Balanced Insight with very valuable guidance and insight. I believe that with the experience as practitioners and vision of the market the BI Braintrust offers a truly unique experience for the vendor community. The active conversation and feedback will definitely help Balanced Insight shape our future destiny in the Agile BI Development market. We look forward to an ongoing dialog with this forward thinking organization." - Tom Hammergren, President & CEO, Balanced Insight, Inc. "Working with the Boulder BI Brain Trust was a truly unique experience that provided significant value to Composite Software. In our session we were able to do deep dives into significant topics, gaining positive encouragement on our strategy and useful feedback on our tactics. Frankly, it was a ball! I cannot wait to do it again" - Robert Eve, Vice President of Marketing, Composite Software Inc. "Thanks again for hosting the Boulder BI Brain Trust. I like the BBBT members and I appreciated the way you grilled us! We wanted real info and that is what we got." – Don Bergal, Chief Operating Officer, Confio Software "Our Chief Scientist and Cofounder John Russell and I truly appreciated the opportunity to meet with the Boulder BI Brain Trust. At the meeting, we had the opportunity to discuss our GTM and product strategies and provide the BBBT with an in-depth overview of our innovative smart semantics-based DI technology and product. And even more importantly, we received invaluable feedback from them based upon their extensive BI, data warehousing and data integration market experience and expertise." – Dr. Michael Waclawiczek, Vice President of Marketing, expressor software "I have two words to describe my experience at the Boulder BI Brain Trust: uncommon synergy. There are not many places where you can find a group of people who are interested in a dialogue and relationship for the common good of all involved. Thank you for your questions, insight, time and friendship." - John Santaferraro, Director of Marketing for the HP Business Intelligence Portfolio "What an unusual opportunity to meet with such a concentration of great BI talent and exchange ideas on topics of current interest." - Rod Walker, VP Information Management, C&I Americas, Hewlett-Packard "Many thanks for inviting us to present to the BBBT. We really enjoyed the discussion and thought the two-way exchange of ideas provided valuable insight. We look forward to many future interactions." - William O'Connell, Ph.D. - Distinguished Engineer, Data Warehousing CTO - IBM Software Group - Information Management Division "I would whole-heartedly encourage any up-and-coming supplier in this space to engage with the BBBT, and do so with an absolutely open mind. The BBBT team represents a broad range of very smart, very engaged analysts who will challenge you on many levels. As a technology provider, that allowed us to calibrate our message and challenge our own thinking about our positioning, direction, and even a few tactical steps along the way. I found the group to be engaged and helpful, and plan to periodically re-engage as we move forward. Claudia has done a great job in building the BBBT." - Don DeLoach, President and CEO, Infobright Inc. "The Boulder BI Brain Trust provided Infobright with access to leading thinkers in the data warehousing industry. The conversations were lively and thoughtful, providing Infobright with valuable insight and great feedback on our value proposition and market opportunities. It's hard to imagine any other organization bringing so much data warehousing expertise to bear at any cost." - Miriam G. Tuerk, President & CEO, Infobright Inc. “The Boulder BI Brain Trust is a truly unique independent analyst forum with its combination of expert advice, market influence, and real-time feedback – all extremely helpful to vendors, customers and the larger BI community.” - Bruce Armstrong, Chairman and CEO of Kickfire "Kognitio's meeting with the Boulder BI Brain Trust was incredibly valuable to our product and go to market plans. Members of our marketing and technical leadership team presented Kognitio's plans and vision and the BBBT team provided constructive, clear and concise feedback on where we could augment, sharpen and focus our efforts to increase the clarity of our message and the penetration rate of WX2 and DaaS into the vertical and geographic markets we have chosen to attack. This was the best half day I have spent with a group of advisers in the 20+ years that I have been working in the field of data warehousing and business intelligence. We look forward to collaborating with the BBBT team again in the near future." - John K. Thompson, President, Kognitio "What a gift it was to present to the Boulder BI Brain Trust. The BBBT attendees were engaged and insightful, and the feedback we received was invaluable to us. Thank you for the warm hospitality, and we look forward to keeping the BBBT informed of our progress." - Scott Davis, Founder and CEO Lyzasoft, Inc. "BBBT is simply the most exhilarating analyst briefing experience available. Everyone is engaged and provides instant feedback, whether they are in the room or calling in from across the globe. The level of interaction is high and learning is the top agenda item. It’s a great combination of both market followers and hands-on practitioners. Nowhere else will you get such a broad range of experience coming at you to be explored. Game on!" - Kim Stanick of ParAccel "I found the Boulder BI Brain Trust to be a unique and refreshing experience - a high-energy half-day with a group of smart, engaged independent thinkers who bring a variety of experiences and perspectives to the table. The time spent was well-structured, fast-paced and highly interactive, with the in-person and on-line participants alike. My colleagues and I came away with fresh thinking and insights on both our existing and planned strategies and products." - Mike Hoskins, Pervasive Software CTO and General Manager, Integration Products "The Boulder BI Brain Trust was a very valuable experience and the feedback received from the attendees was extremely useful. The opportunity to spend half a day with leading analysts and industry experts in the data warehousing industry was very unique and certainly one of the most, if not the most intense and insightful meeting that I have had an opportunity in which to participate. The environment was to-the-point and dynamic, providing us with a great opportunity for exchange on our respective perceptions of the market and our product positioning; there are not many circumstances where this would have otherwise been feasible. Our sincere thanks to the BBBT group… and we look forward to the next opportunity to provide an updated presentation to this group in the near future." - Vincent Pineau, Vice President and General Manager for the Americas, Talend "Your feedback will have a monumental impact on our product direction – Thank you!" - Bradley D. Brown, Chief Technology Officer, TUSC "Our session with the Boulder BI Brain Trust was extremely valuable for us as we look for new business opportunities and prepare Vertica for its next stage of growth. The level of data warehousing industry knowledge and expertise the BBBT possesses meant the questions were incisive and their feedback highly credible. We look forward to continuing our relationship with the BBBT as we evangelize the benefits of grid-enabled, column-oriented analytic database technology." - Andy Palmer, Cofounder, Vertica       ©Copyright 2004 – 2009   Intelligent Solutions and The BeyeNETWORK. All rights reserved.