Douglas K. Hackney

President,
Enterprise Group, Ltd.

Douglas Hackney is president of Enterprise Group Ltd., a consulting company specializing in business intelligence (BI). EGL helps organizations understand, plan, design, implement and sustain BI systems to better manage and use business information.

Mr. Hackney has over 20 years of experience in business management and in designing and implementing business intelligence solutions for Global 2000 organizations. He offers clients practical knowledge of the challenges and critical success factors involved in building and managing BI systems across a variety of industries and business applications. His approach is distinguished by his ability to discover and understand the business needs of the organization, then answer those needs with information technology solutions.

Mr. Hackney's vast background in business operations, coupled with his years of working "in the trenches" with business intelligence implementers, enables him to speak the language of both business management and the technical community. He communicates effectively throughout the organization, from the executive level (CEO, COO, CFO) to business managers (VPs of sales and marketing) to the information technology organization (CIOs, IS managers, DBAs and data warehouse managers). This unique ability to gain a multi-faceted organizational perspective, and to effectively merge its various needs and interests, is one of the keys to Mr. Hackney's high rate of success in BI projects.

Mr. Hackney uses a mentoring approach in his client relationships, guiding the organization from the initial development phase of a project through to full implementation. By transferring the knowledge and skills necessary for a successful BI project, he empowers clients, through mentoring, to continue evolving the BI system with the same success as if he were involved each step of the way.

Mr. Hackney is a recognized BI industry leader, with a recent market research study showing him ranking #3 in name recognition in the BI space. Mr. Hackney regularly serves as a voice of the industry and as a chair of industry conferences, and is particularly noted for his pragmatic and vendor independent perspective.

Mr. Hackney is a frequent and highly rated speaker at international industry conferences, including participation at DCI's Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence Conferences, DCI Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Conferences and The Data Warehouse Institute. He also speaks at private and public events, industry user conferences and at industry, educational and product seminars and conferences around the globe. Mr. Hackney is a founding board member of the International Data Warehouse Association, and often serves as a judge for industry awards, such as the Excellence in Business Information Award, the RealWare Data Warehousing Award and the Industry Solution for Data Warehousing Award. Mr. Hackney is a frequent lecturer at leading MBA programs across the United States.

Mr. Hackney is the author of Understanding and Implementing Successful Data Marts. He also is a contributing editor and writes a monthly column for DM Review, and contributes to and is quoted often in other industry publications such as eWeek, Computerworld, Enterprise Systems Journal, Forbes, etc.

Mr. Hackney is the founder of the BI Alliance, a marketing and resource-sharing consortium of the BI market’s thought and implementation leaders. The BI Alliance brings together leading experts on meta data, data mining, advanced analytics, logical modeling, life-cycle services, human resources, information quality, etc. in a framework that all members can leverage for their clients and the industry.

Mr. Hackney has provided technology analysis, market positioning, marketing and management consulting services to a wide variety of industry leaders and startups including Microsoft, SAP, Broadbase, Informatica, Prism Solutions (now Ascential), Arbor (now Hyperion), Information Advantage (now CA), EMC, Brio, Epiphany, Maximal, Andyne (now Hummingbird), Carleton (now Oracle), AppsCo, CorVu, D2K, IBI, ID Centric, Intellidex (now Sybase), Red Brick (now IBM), Sagent, Sqribe (now Brio), Synera, Teleran, and VIT (now seeCommerce).

Prior to founding Enterprise Group Ltd., Mr. Hackney was the owner and president of Digital Video, Inc. (DVI), where he developed and marketed technology and services for real-time, full color, high-resolution computer graphics production and display. DVI's services included electronic speaker support, video graphics production, video animation and special effects for clients such as Coca-Cola, Eli Lilly, IBM, McDonald's, Sears, and numerous others in a variety of fields. His interaction with marketing and sales executives from top U.S. corporations provided him with a keen understanding of their interests and concerns.

Previously, Mr. Hackney held the roles of president, general manager and production manager for several media production and digital imaging companies. In these capacities, he was involved in many successful product launches and was responsible for communicating and implementing sales and marketing programs. Through this experience, he gained valuable knowledge and insight into the business operations, sales, marketing and production areas of an organization and the factors involved in their success.