Keynote Presentations

Sarbanes-Oxley - A Legislative Mandate for Business Intelligence!

Claudia Imhoff
Intelligent Solutions, Inc

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is the most far-reaching piece of legislation affecting Corporate America in years. Ultimately, its purpose was to restore investor confidence in publicly traded corporations in the US. While CEOs and CFOs are the main target for the Act, CIOs will be affected as well. It is technology that will give corporations the assurance that they are in compliance - specifically Business Intelligence (BI) technology. In this timely and in-depth examination of Sarbanes-Oxley and BI, Dr. Imhoff walks the attendee through the significant sections of the Act demonstrating where and how BI plays a role. Specifically she discusses:

Here are the parts of her timely session that concern everyone:

• Material changes
• Internal controls
• International concerns
• Private companies
• What's needed in your BI environment

Dr. Imhoff concludes with her own mandate to use the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to justify the driving need to standardize your corporation's IT architecture, nomenclature, technology and applications. The time could not be better for these critical initiatives. She ends her seminar with a warning about unexpected and unwelcome consequences that may result from compliance with the Act.

Claudia Imhoff is a popular speaker and internationally recognized expert on Customer Relationship Management and the infrastructure to support this initiative - the Corporate Information Factory. Dr. Imhoff has co-authored five books on these subjects. She also has a weekly newsletter and has an expert channel on the B-EYE-Network's website (www.B-EYE-Network.com) and contributes articles to many other journals and publications. She has served on the Board of Advisors for DAMA International and is an advisor and a faculty member for The Data Warehousing Institute. She won the 1999 and 2005 Individual Achievement Awards from DAMA International and is an advisor for several technology and commercial companies. She has given keynote addresses at conferences sponsored by many software companies and their user groups, The Data Warehousing Institute, The Economist as well as many international organizations. She has appeared on World Business Report with Casper Weinberger and Alexander Haig, Microsoft's Getting Results programs, and web casts given by DM Review, B-EYE-Network, Better Management, and many technology vendors.

Dr. Imhoff founded and is the President of Intelligent Solutions, Inc. (www.IntelSols.com), a well respected Business Intelligence and CRM consulting and training firm in 1992. Her company has successfully implemented over 150 Corporate Information Factory architectures in all industry areas. She may be reached at CImhoff@IntelSols.com or 303-444-6650.

Dr. Imhoff obtained her Doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge, her Master's degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder and her Bachelor's degree from Duke University, Durham, NC.