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Mariner's Wayne Snyder launches the premier web site for Microsoft business intelligence

www.MSBICentral.com Builds a Community around Microsoft Business Intelligence Technologies

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 28, 2004 -- Mariner, a business intelligence consulting company, is enhancing its participation in this year's PASS Conference (Professional Association of SQL Server) that begins today by introducing a new destination Web site for Business Intelligence (BI) information. Mariner's resident Business Intelligence and SQL Server expert and noted Microsoft technologies practitioner, Wayne Snyder is spearheading www.MSBIcentral.com with the goal of filling a vacuum that he has identified in the Business Intelligence space.

Centralizing Business Intelligence information, CIO best practices, tools, and other resources is helpful to current and future users of BI. MSBICentral will provide business information to CIOs, as well as technical information for the IT staff. As a collaborative community, MSBICentral will provide significant value by providing a free, easy to access place where community participants can share and learn from one another.

"When we take the time to share what we have learned, everyone benefits. This is the first comprehensive resource dedicated exclusively to Business Intelligence in the Microsoft arena," said Wayne Snyder, Managing Consultant for Mariner.

More organizations are turning to Business Intelligence as the means to derive value from incredible volumes of data collected and warehoused in their enterprise systems. By utilizing BI to mine their sea of data, companies can derive insights that are critical to their competitiveness. By providing actionable analysis, Business Intelligence is an enabler to increased profits, quickly and accurately responding to changing market demands and improving accountability.

www.MSBIcentral.com, the go-to destination for information valuable to successful BI solutions, has garnered terrific response from vendors, users and other 'friends of BI,' as well as Microsoft," said Wayne Snyder. As we expand the information and the resources of the site, we plan to present strategic content that speaks to the challenges faced by Business People at all management levels, as well as technical content invaluable to development and support staff."

Wayne has developed the www.MSBIcentral.com site with the support of Mariner and industry colleagues Brian Knight and Bayer White.

Brian Knight is a co-founder of SQLServerCentral.com, the largest SQL Server related site on the Internet. He is also the Chief Database Architect at Fidelity Information Systems is an author of several SQL Server related books including Professional SQL Server 2005 DTS.

Bayer White is responsible for much of the code for SQLServerCentral. Bayer is a Systems Analyst at Fidelity Information Systems.

As a team, Wayne, Brian, Bayer and their supporters see the site as an environment that can enable peers within the BI community to communicate, collaborate and share information, including best practices that will allow them to be successful in their work.

"Supporting Wayne's development of www.MSBIcentral.com has been invaluable to our team in the learning experience gained from Wayne's expertise and vast technical knowledge. We've all learned a great deal about the Business Intelligence knowledge and information out there and the value of it as it is centralized. This has great potential to be a powerful knowledge center for BI," said Philip Morris, a Founding Partner of Mariner.

About Wayne Snyder

Wayne Snyder is well known in the Microsoft organization and therefore widely recognized throughout the software industry, as one of the most knowledgeable people in SQL Server development and application. He is the 13th of only 120 SQL Server MVPs worldwide: a designation that is highly regarded and rarely bestowed by Microsoft to those the industry leader considers to be the Most Valuable Professionals in particular practice areas. As one of less than 10 individuals teaching classes to Microsoft tech support personnel in their preparation to provide support for SQL server 2000, Wayne possesses a high level of expertise on this product. Wayne is recognized and sought out as a speaker, trainer, educator and advisor by organizations all over the world. Wayne is a Managing Consultant for Mariner and provides a valuable layer of Business Intelligence and SQL expertise for Mariner's impressive and growing list of clients.

About Mariner

Mariner is a business intelligence consulting company specializing in applying industry best practices and project management to solve complex problems. Mariner is a certified Microsoft Gold Partner with clients that include Lash Group, National Gypsum, Wachovia, Mass Mutual, US Bioservices, Novant Health Royal & SunAlliance, Rexam, Transamerica, Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC, Siemens, Bank of America, COMAG Marketing Group, Mecklenburg County, Russell Corporation, and HanesPrintables (a division of Sara Lee). Mariner is based in Charlotte, NC. Mariner -- Realizing Visions with Technology. www.mariner-usa.com.



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