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Wednesday, November 02, 2011

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QlikView Update Gets an Enterprise-Oriented Makeover

Stephen Swoyer

The revamped QlikView 11 boasts new social and collaborative amenities and a mostly platform-agnostic mobility story. Its enterprise feature-set might merit the most attention, however. Although QlikView never pitched itself as an enterprise BI platform it's doing just that with the latest version.

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Oracle Announces Exalytics for In-Memory, Visual BI

Cindi Howson

At Oracle Open World, the company announced a new combination hardware/software solution, laying down the gauntlet to SAP and specialty visualization vendors.

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GIS Enriches Data, Enhances Decision Making

Stephen Swoyer

GIS information can enrich internal data, improve business processes, or enhance decision making. If you're a large organization, you probably already have a GIS practice somewhere in your enterprise, whether you know it or not. So why aren't you using it?

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Integrating Canonical Message Models and Enterprise Data Models (Part 1 of 3)

Dr. Tom Johnston

The enterprise data model (EDM) has failed. We explore a new way of using EDMs -- one in which an EDM can more directly affect the management of data than as merely a paper reference model.

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Q&A: Governance Challenges of Unstructured Data

Linda Briggs

Unstructured and semi-structured data presents special data governance challenges, and its mushrooming growth over the past several years makes its management a special problem. In the second part of our two-part interview, Daniel Teachey addresses this and other issues surrounding data governance.

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Putting the "BI" in Big Data

Andrew J. Brust

Microsoft's recent announcements aren't about just Big Data; they're about Big BI, now open for Big Business.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Dashboards & Visual Discovery Tools: An Evaluation Framework

Speaker: Cindi Howson

November
9
9:00AM PT
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Dashboards and visual discovery are now must-have components of the BI tool portfolio.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Effective Presentation of Analytical Results

Today the world is flooded with information. How do you make sense of it all, and how can you then best share your findings with others?

Speaker: Jonathan Koomey

November
10
9:00AM PT

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ETL 2.0: The Imminent Evolution of ETL

Most ETL environments were designed for the business requirements of at least ten years ago -- before the number of data sources, applications and use-cases exploded, and before the demands of Big Data, social media and mobile technology were added to the mix.

Speaker: Robin Bloor

November
16
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

November 29, 2011

Solution Spotlight on Analytics

Columbus, OH

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December 1, 2011

Solution Spotlight on Analytics

Minneapolis, MN

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February 12-17, 2011

TDWI World Conference: A Data Strategy for the Enterprise

Las Vegas, NV

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