Compass Technology Offers Education Seminar on "BI Systems"

Compass Technology Management and Microsoft are sponsoring an educational seminar on "Business Intelligence Systems and Enabling Software" -- July 31 at "The Place at Innsbrook" near Richmond, VA; August 1 at Patrick Henry Hotel in Roanoke, VA, and August 2 at the Microsoft Southeast office in Raleigh/Durham, NC.

These half-day seminars are offered without cost to qualified representatives of organizations wishing to better understand, plan, create, or improve their decision-support system. Experienced instructors offer advice on the elements and tools to achieve a responsive "data warehouse" for decision-making in today's fast Internet-enabled economy.

Seminar Leader, Published Author and Microsoft-Certified Database Software Engineer, Charles Hawkins says, "Many businesses today cannot easily assemble decision-support information. They have volumes of transaction data in diverse legacy systems - but they are not well linked to compare and present data. Information is essential to compete in today's business. New technology and software can now extract, clean, format, and link data from diverse systems." Mr. Hawkins urges business representatives to attend this cost-free seminar to learn steps toward creating or improving a business intelligence system.

The seminar will cover technology, prepackaged software that works right out of the box, systems for small and medium businesses, risks associated with an inadequate system, system and software acquisition costs, and human resources. The seminar includes an extensive presentation of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 software, its cost and development advantages, fault-tolerance, data linking, and transformation tools.

The seminar is offered without cost to qualified representatives of businesses, government, and educational institutions. Lunch is included. The material is suited to managerial and IT management personnel. Those interested in attending this seminar should contact the organizers at 1-757-233-7300 or visit www.compass.net/events/seminars.

About Compass Technology Management

Compass Technology Management, LLC. has offices in Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, and Richmond, Virginia, and is a Microsoft Certified Partner and systems integrator. More than 140 IT professionals help organizations plan, design, implement, deploy, and maintain solutions and systems. More information is at www.compass.net or 1-888-239-8515.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft is a worldwide leader in software, services, and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software -- any time, any place, and on any device.

Contact Compass Technology Management, John Dreibelbis, 757-233-7300, John.Dreibelbis@Compass.net.