Welcome to the 48th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Live from Las Vegas. Hello again from Vegas – baby.  It was the end of a great week at the Teradata 2007 Partners event and Graham and I continue on to discuss more of our thoughts on the conference. Tuesday was a jam packed with some great stuff.  So we summarize at a high level by talking about today’s sessions that I attended: Future Trends in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence – Gartner Presentation by Donald Feinberg What’s Your Strategy for Master Data Management – A discussion on systems convergence Gaining CxO’s Support for your EDW and Business Intelligence – Ron Swift – Teradata Teradata Active System Management (TASM) A New Era of Data Integration with ELT approach – CTO one-on-one with Stephen Brobst of Teradata Active Ingest to Support Active Enterprise Intelligence Back Up And Recovery – early morning session What’s New with Stored Procedures The New Query Rewrite Subsystem in V2R12.0 Table Functions: A Tutorial So as you can see a lot of covered ground, so we only go into it in a couple of areas. Download 48_coffeecast_48_teradata_partners_2007_tuesday.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation.  So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download.  Have a great day and join the conversation.