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According to TDWI Research, roughly half of user organizations have deployed or are currently deploying a program for data governance (DG). Almost all of these are relatively new, having originated in the last three years. But they are maturing fast, due to the success of DG. Best practices for starting a DG program are now well known, but how to sustain DG and expand it to enterprise scope is a different matter. To help user organizations, this Webinar explains the four imperatives of data governance, and how a focus on them assures sustainability as your DG program grows over time.
Philip Russom
Sponsored By DataFlux
The amount of operational and transactional data needing to be integrated and synchronized across enterprise applications continues to grow, resulting in stronger requirements for data synchronization tools and techniques. Data synchronization – or simply ‘data sync’ – is the process of making multiple data sources agree in terms of content (data values) and often structure (data models or schema). This TDWI Webinar follows a new TDWI Checklist report on Data Synchronization authored by Philip Russom, showcasing many of its valuable capabilities and popular use cases across the enterprise.
Philip Russom
Sponsored By GoldenGate Software
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) continues to gain adoption in the BI marketplace, thanks in large part to the speed with which it delivers ROI. Whether upgrading from a complex collection of spreadsheets or augmenting an existing BI deployment, those considering SaaS BI will do well to understand its pros and cons. This Webinar will dispel some of the misconceptions about SaaS and present a framework to help explain how and where its strengths and weaknesses come into play.
Wayne Eckerson
Sponsored By PivotLink
The current economic downturn has a lot of IT people and their business sponsors taking another look at open source software tools. On the one hand, the extreme low cost of open source software gets everyone’s attention, especially in organizations whose IT budgets are frozen or cut. On the other hand, open source has a number of compelling benefits, like low risk, the option to try before buying, creative financing, minimal footprint in deployment, a community of peer developers to collaborate with, and technical support from vendors.LINUX has led the way, proving that open source software can ably handle enterprise requirements for scalability, reliability, and rich feature functionality. More recently, other categories of open source software have risen to the enterprise challenge, namely open source database management systems (DBMSs), data integration (DI) tools, and business intelligence (BI) tools. This Webinar spells out the economic and technical reasons why your organization should take another look at open source DBMS and DI products, as well as use cases in which these tools are increasingly applied with success.
Philip Russom
Sponsored By Infobright, Pentaho
Many users are interested in data warehouse appliances (DWAs), because of their low cost, ease of deployment, and perky query performance. But users are not sure what the best uses of DWAs are or whether they are mature enough to adopt. After all, the DWA – as a new type of data warehouse platform – is still evolving, and therefore is difficult to track. This Webinar is an update on the state of the art in DWAs, to help users understand the best uses, evolutionary direction, leading products, and maturity of DWAs.
Philip Russom
Sponsored By Teradata Aster
What are Business Intelligence strategies and solutions that may help companies not just survive, but thrive during the economic downturn? The current climate has caused a crisis of confidence for all areas of the business – but smart companies and teams are taking their opportunities to gain a new competitive advantage in customer retention and service, maximize revenue opportunities, and reduce risk exposure.
Wayne Eckerson
Sponsored By GoldenGate Software
Learn the Tricks of the Trade necessary to Fast Track your Data Warehouse initiatives. These include addressing project scope, information integration problems, streamlining requirements gathering and model design, and accelerating the development process for information integration. Join Claudia Imhoff in a live webcast to discuss how to avoid cost overruns, and project delays by delivering the trusted information to the business resulting in enhanced operational insight, and a data warehouse that can be more responsive to future requirements.
Claudia Imhoff
Sponsored By Informatica Corporation
Usage rates for BI tools have nudged up from 18 percent three years ago to 24 percent today, according to TDWI Research. This abysmally low percentage accounts for most of an organization’s power users and a handful of very determined non-technical users. What can you do to make BI easier and therefore more pervasive and relevant in your organization? Given the pervasiveness of enterprise search and its ease-of-use, many wonder if search offers a revolutionary new approach to end-user data access. Some believe that search, with its familiar and simple keyword interface, is the next generation ad hoc query tool. Others see a role for search in helping guide users to relevant information within reports and data repositories and integrating diverse data sets on the fly without need for traditional data integration. This Webinar will examine the core technologies at play and show how search-driven information access can make BI accessible and acutely relevant to the remaining 80 percent of employees who have yet to become active users.
Wayne Eckerson
Sponsored By Semantra