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Hi,
can anyone recomend any good BI / Datawarehousing Web sites for keep upto date with industry news ? me thinks I need to know more 
Im sure there was a posting some time ago about this but I cant find it 
Rich 
(BOB member since 2002-10-04)
www.dw-institute.com
www.tdan.com
www.coreintegration.com
www.dwinfocenter.com
www.datawarehouse.com
Anjan Roy (BOB member since 2002-07-10)
Thanks 
Rich (BOB member since 2002-10-04)
Although some of the information is for subscribers only, there is still lot of market commentary and analysis of the major OLAP vendors, feature functionality etc. THis is a good site for those who are trying to decide between different BI vendors…it gives you a big picture view and facts that you can use.
Prakash
prakash (BOB member since 2003-03-19)
Some more links … maybe Bob would place a reviewed links list for all 
http://www.datawarehouse.com/iknowledge/whitepapers/topic_sub.cfm?Code=616
& my fav …
http://www.ittoolbox.com/
MikeD 
(BOB member since 2002-06-18)
Seems as if most of the recommended sites are covered. I used to read most while in South Africa, and have been able to add them to our website in New Zealand.
There are a couple extra here, with links to 3 must rea books for BI pros…
http://www.eagle.co.nz/businessobjects/links.htm
Cheers
Glenn
BINZ 
(BOB member since 2003-12-09)
This is a great website:
Worth a look for his links to other oracle resources alone!
Nick Daniels (BOB member since 2002-08-15)
http://www.billinmon.com/library/index.html
Rich set of articles and white papers…
Anjan Roy (BOB member since 2002-07-10)
Hi Friends,
This is a cool site for most of IT reference. Unfortunately they don’t have any DW stuff. It might be useful for ppl looking for other than DW stuff.
http://www.hk8.org/old_web/index.htm
suntra (BOB member since 2003-02-06)
One of BO’s own, a nice customer support overview.
Nick Daniels (BOB member since 2002-08-15)
You need to double check that b-eye.com link … looks like an advertising company to me.
You probably meant http://www.b-eye-network.com
Dwayne Hoffpauir 
(BOB member since 2002-09-19)
Yes, I did mean the B-Eye network
I posted this site because of an interesting article I read in regards to software purchases - credit the b-eye network site:
CIO Software Survey on Business Intelligence
I got an interesting email today from Ed Maquire, a research analyst at Merrill Lynch. Attached to his email were the results of the Merrill Lynch February 2005 CIO Software Survey of 100 North American IT executives. The results are very encouraging for software vendors, especially BI ones! Read on for more information.
The majority of the respondents are from financial, manufacturing, services, communications, retail and government industries. The bottom line is that businesses appear to spooling up for strategic investments like ERP (go figure!), CRM, security and – YES – Business Intelligence (an increase over lat year of 8.2%) – which was number 3 in the top spending priorities!
The survey also indicated declines specifically in spending on corporate portals, application integration and network management. That seems strange to me but what do I know…
Another interesting snippet is that a whopping 72% have seen NO impact from Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts. According to the report, this indicates that the anticipated spending “tailwind” has not yet materialized for those vendors with SOX applications.
Analytic applications retained the number 11 spot among software spending priorities and the number 2 spot as an application spending priority. In addition, ETL and data warehousing spending is expected to increast by almost 6%. By the way, Microsoft and Business Objects remain the top 2 vendors in the purchase intent area. Oracle moved up to number 3 and Cognos fell to number 4.
In terms of database vendors and an increase in spending, Oracle remained number 1 at 58% of the respondents saying they would spend more on Oracle but, surprisingly, Microsoft was right behind at 43%. The number 3 spot was a distant IBM at 9% of the respondents. Remarkable!
Finally, in light of the news about IBM acquiring Ascential, 50% of the respondents favored consolidation in the software industry because they thought there were too many vendors and that consolidation would provide better integration.
For more about this report, please contact Ed Maquire at ed_maquire@ml.com or 212-449-9140.
ngosz (BOB member since 2003-09-25)
Wow, lots of updates to this thread are needed.
So the current list from postings in this thread:
Professional organizations & Practitioners
http://www.tdwi.org
http://www.tdan.com
http://www.inmoncif.com
Print/Electronic magazines
http://www.bireview.com/
http://www.businessintelligence.com
http://www.dmreview.com
Aggregations & Blogs
http://www.biblogs.com
http://www.datawarehouse.com
http://www.eagle.co.nz/businessobjects/links.htm
Vendors, Products, Technologies
http://www.oracle.com
http://www.ibm.com
http://www.squidoo.com/osbi/
dnewton (BOB member since 2004-01-30)
And another…
Ad.
AdamB (BOB member since 2003-07-17)
Hey, thanks to Adam and to dnewton for the updated list.
Judy
JMulders (BOB member since 2002-06-20)
Here are some good articles:
http://www.technologyexecutivesclub.com/Articles/businessintelligence/
elijar (BOB member since 2002-08-26)