Amsterdam Day 3 & 4

Business Intelligence... it feels great to be inspired like this and I truly will do my best in Nordea to make this be highlighted from a different perspective.

Many good sessions during day 2 of the conference, and maybe mostly the BI Excellence Competition sessions in the morning where 3 finalists did presentations of their work and way to good BI implementation.

Surprisingly, but maybe not, Folksam was one of the finalist and Chief Controller Stefan did really a good presentation. I took the opportunity to congratulate him during the coffee break and of course I was some extra proud that we had a Swede on the scene.

The lovely Astra Zeneca presenter from UK really got me. She was excellent in her way of presenting and also how she was so clear in her recommendation regarding strong management. A small woman but with huge management skills and capacity. Impressing.

Energo Energy from Holland had some very very good powerpoint slides and a good story, but sorry, it does not help if you are not a good speaker. A man with his position in such a big company, yes I expect more. One the other hand, he did his best I think and all respect to that. And he was one of the finalist. Very good work.

Stopped by at the HP monter again to say hello to my nowadays most favourite HP representative. I was honoured with a book and I truly really was so very happy about it. To be honest again,,, i start reading it during one of the session ( seems to be a great book so far) held by an IBM guy and the presenter was really a catastrophy. Oh.. if I was IBM, I would very much secure the presenter/speaker skills before letting that guy on stage again. This session really was bad, so sad. For IBM.

Day 3 ended in a great way. A trip downtown to some very nice bars and grovy nightlife. Amsterdam is really a fantastic city in many ways. The pulse, the lights, the beauty and the love and passion to a liberal life. I really like this city.

Day 4 of my visit and the last day of the conference,,,

Not much to say. I am filled and very much satisfied with the information and sharing given. If I summarize what I appreciated mostly I have to mention the case studies given by E-bay, Philips, Cisco and others. Btw, Ciscos presenter was also from Sweden and he was really good.


Bye Netherlands and Amsterdam, back to lovely Stockholm and Sweden. Some love spread over my lovely friends and colleagues in Copenhagen on the way back....they deserve it.