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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

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Top 10 Priorities for High-Performance Data Warehousing

Philip Russom

Data management must achieve speed and scale to support new data types and business requirements.

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Wanted: IT Pros with Hadoop Management Skills

Stephen Swoyer

Hadoop is maturing quickly, with new innovations coming at a rapid clip. Nevertheless, it still has plenty of shortcomings, such as its emphasis on human expertise -- be it programming, data, scientific, or administrative.

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Three Take-Aways about Big Data Analytics from IBM's Recent Big Data Announcement

TDWI Research director Fern Halper attended IBM's "Big Data at the Speed of Business" event. She cuts through all the product announcements and presentations to reveal the bottom-line goal: improving big data analytics.

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NeutrinoBI: Natural Language Search Meets Information Discovery

Stephen Swoyer

UK-based Neutrino Concepts is taking search in a new direction -- delivering answers to questions, not a ranked list of results -- and helping users start data discovery in a whole new way.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Data Exploration and Discovery: A New Approach to Business Analytics

Speaker: Colin White

April
18
9:00AM PT
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Big data and advanced analytics extend the traditional BI environment with new analytic solutions that enhance business decision making and operational efficiency. Examples of solutions include support for new analytics-driven operational applications, analytics accelerators, data transformation hubs, and investigative computing platforms.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Big Data and Your Data Warehouse

Just a few years ago, big data was a problem in terms of scaling up IT systems and discovering the business value. Thanks to advances in vendor platforms and user practices, most enterprises today consider big data an opportunity -- not a problem -- because they can mine and analyze it for valuable business insight.

Speaker: Philip Russom

May
7
9:00AM PT

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The Doctor is In: The Role of the Data Scientist for Analyzing Big Data

No profession is getting more attention these days than that of the "data scientist." Data scientists have made the covers of business magazines and are practically rock stars at online companies such as Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Speaker: David Stodder

May
21
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

April 22-25, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: Dimensional Modeling

Washington, DC

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May 5-10, 2013

TDWI World Conference: Big Data Tipping Point

Chicago, IL

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June 17-19, 2013

TDWI BI Symposium: Building an Analytics-Driven Organization

Toronto, ON

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