TDWI The Data Warehousing Institute

Game Changing Technology: Accelerating Query Performance via High Performance Analytical Platforms

The last two years have seen an explosion of new database and appliance technologies to accelerate query performance for decision support applications. These new technologies promise to open up new possibilities for the kinds of applications and ad hoc access that BI teams can offer to their most data-hungry users. This session will examine the playing field for new query acceleration technologies—including appliances, columnar databases, high-performance clusters, and in-memory analytics to name a few—and outline how they enable organizations to move beyond general reporting to true, interactive analytics.

Wayne Eckerson

Sponsored By HP, Intel, Oracle

Closing the Loop in a Consolidated BI World: Evaluating Packaged BI Applications

Now that major applications vendors have acquired the leading BI players, it's time to reassess the validity of packaged analytic applications. When a single vendor manages both operational and analytical processes, there are many opportunities to tighten integration between the two and accelerate the deployment of analytical capabilities. Applications vendors can embed BI into core operational applications and, conversely, use analytics to update operational systems. This Webinar will examine the past, present, and future of packaged analytic applications and help you evaluate when it makes sense to buy an analytic solution in today's consolidated world of enterprise software – and when it makes more sense to build one.

Wayne Eckerson

Sponsored By Oracle

Why Can’t BI Be As Easy As Google?

BI tools have changed dramatically in recent years as users demand easier ways to get to their data and share insights. While power users have been the initial adopters of BI tools, new capabilities that emphasize ease of use are appealing to new classes of users. Business users want the simplicity of the Google interface (think “Top 10 Customer Sales”) to build a new query or to find a report amid potentially thousands. The convergence of business intelligence with enterprise search is a new concept that makes this simplicity possible. This webinar covers the concepts and provides a demonstration of how one vendor is delivering the capabilities.

Cindi Howson

Sponsored By EasyAsk, a division of Progress Software Corporation

Integrating Unstructured Data in the Data Warehouse - Unlocking Business Value

For the last 3 decades we have seen an intensive growth of technologies that enable businesses to make meaningful decisions based on performance. Data warehousing and Business Intelligence have become an indispensable part of this process with most organizations. We have also seen a steady integration of data in the data warehouse from CRM, ERP, SCM and other systems to gain more insight into the business workflow. Along with all of these pieces of information, we now see the need to bring in Unstructured data into the data warehouse.

Krish Krishnan

Sponsored By Hummingbird

Regain Your Competitive Differentiation by Integrating Business Intelligence with Next Generation Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)

Regain Your Competitive Differentiation by Integrating Business Intelligence with Next Generation Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)

Ron Rogowski, Jeff Morris, Mark Gamble

Sponsored By Actuate Corporation

Data Governance for Business Leaders

Most of the burden for ensuring the success of governance falls on business users of information. They must learn to be stewards, owners, and change agents while still accomplishing their day-to-day responsibilities. Many information management and governance initiatives originate in business areas, but the mechanics and realities of “post governance design” need to be fully understood before real change occurs. A solid business case, on going measures, and a change management based sustaining strategy is called for. This presentation will cover the basic concepts and steps for business participants to understand how to make governance a successful business project.

John Ladley

Sponsored By Informatica Corporation

Preparing for Dynamic Data Warehousing

Webinar covering how to prepare for dynamic data warehousing, plus related practices, like operational BI and on demand data integration

Philip Russom

Sponsored By IBM

Next-Generation BI: Scaling up to Support Large-Scale Reporting and Analytics

This Webinar will provide tips for how to improve the analytics IQ of your organization and upgrade your BI infrastructure to support ad hoc, complex queries against large volumes of data without bogging down performance.

Wayne Eckerson

Sponsored By Aster Data Systems