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Howard Dresner is Chief Research Officer of Dresner Advisory Services, LLC, an independent advisory firm and a well known authority and author in the areas of Business Intelligence and Performance Management. Through his Wisdom of Crowds ® Business Intelligence market research reports, Howard engages with a global community to redefine how industry research is created and shared. Howard is also an active “Tweeter” (@howarddresner) hosting the #BIWisdom TweetChat each Friday at 1:00 PM ET.

Howard has over 30 years of IT industry experience with 24 years in the Business Intelligence market. He spent 13 years at Gartner, where he served as lead analyst for Business Intelligence. During his tenure Howard drove the definition and direction of the Business Intelligence research agenda, taking BI from an esoteric "backwater" to a mainstream and highly valued research area. He was twice selected as "analyst of the year" and inducted as a Gartner "cultural icon". Howard was named Vice President in 1996, Distinguished Analyst in 2003 and Gartner Fellow in 2004. In addition to driving much of the research surrounding BI, he founded and chaired Gartner's European and North American Business Intelligence conferences. Both remain industry-defining events. He also served as Chief Strategy Officer at Hyperion Solutions prior to forming Dresner Advisory Services in 2007.

Howard is a frequent speaker around the globe and has published two books on the subject – including: Profiles in Performance – Business Intelligence Journeys and the Roadmap for Change (John Wiley & Sons, November 2009) and The Performance Management Revolution: Business Results through Insight and Action (John Wiley & Sons, November 2007).