Wayne Eckerson
Wayne W. Eckerson (born 1958) is an American business consultant at Eckerson Group and author of business-technology books, known for his work on performance dashboards,[1] and data quality.[2]
Life and work
Eckerson obtained his BA in American Studies in 1980 at Williams College and his MA in Liberal Arts and Sciences from Wesleyan University.
In the late 1980s Eckerson was staff writer for Network World, a news and information magazine for network executives which had started in 1986. From 1993 to 1999 he was consultant at the Patricia Seybold Group, from 2000 to 2010 Director of Education and Research and later director at The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), and from 2010 to 2014 President at BI Leader Consulting, and Industry Analyst at TechTarget. In March 2014 he founded the Eckerson Group consultancy firm.[3]
Eckerson is known as author of business-technology books and articles. In 2002 he coined the concept of Spreadmart in in his TDWI article Taming Spreadsheet Jockeys.[4]
Selected publications
- Eckerson, Wayne W. Data quality and the bottom line. TDWI Report, The Data Warehouse Institute (2002).
- Eckerson, Wayne W. Performance dashboards: measuring, monitoring, and managing your business. John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
Articles, a selection
- Eckerson, Wayne W. "Three tier client/server architectures: achieving scalability, performance, and efficiency in client/server applications." Open Information Systems 3.20 (1995): 46-50.
- Eckerson, Wayne W. "Predictive analytics–Extending the value of your data warehousing investment." TDWI Best Practices Report 1 (2007): 1-36.
References
- ↑ Becker, Jörg, Ralf Knackstedt, and Dipl-Wirt Inform Jens Pöppelbuß. "Developing maturity models for IT management." Business & Information Systems Engineering 1.3 (2009): 213-222.
- ↑ Laudon, Kenneth C., and Jane Price Laudon. Essentials of management information systems. Upper Saddle River: Pearson, 2011.
- ↑ "Wayne Eckerson, Founder and Principal Consultant at Eckerson Group," at Linkedin. Accessed 01-03-2015.
- ↑ Eckerson, Wayne (July 2002). "Taming Spreadsheet Jockeys". TDWI Case Studies and Solutions. TDWI. Archived from the original on 2008-06-13. Retrieved 2008-06-13.
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