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Wednesday, June 05, 2013

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Q&A: Deflating Big Data Myths

Linda Briggs

Well-known analyst and author Barry Devlin tackles questions about big data, including whether the term still has meaning, and the often-overlooked privacy concerns big data raises. "The combined total of all the data available on the Web and in private databases is so large, and so interrelated," Devlin says, "that privacy becomes well-nigh impossible."

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Governance in a Changing Data World

Fern Halper

Governance is often put on the back burner when organizations move into new technologies because it's becoming more complex. Learn the two biggest ways governance complexity may be affecting your enterprise.

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How to Future-Proof Your Dashboards

Dwight deVera

How today's trends are paving the way for the future of business intelligence dashboard design.

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The New Model of Retail Sales Analytics

Stephen Swoyer

The New Model in retail sales analytics supplements traditional sources -- such as loyalty cards -- with data from other sources, such as social media and census data. So many sources could make life miserable for data management practitioners. New techniques promise to address these issues, however.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Realizing the Potential of In-Memory Computing for BI and Analytics

Speaker: David Stodder

June
12
9:00AM PT
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For business intelligence and analytics, in-memory computing is a groundbreaking development. It can free users from many performance constraints on data access and analysis. Using expanded main memory opens up a much larger territory for running analytic functions against data locally and for reports and analytic models that demand real-time data.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

The New Architecture for a Modern BI Environment: Answering the Challenge of Growing Sources of BI Data

Data, data everywhere. Today's BI implementation experts are faced with increasing volumes and sources of data (on premises and off), new and innovative technologies, more complex data integration and quality issues, and difficulties maintaining and enhancing these diverse BI architectures.

Speaker: Claudia Imhoff

June
13
9:00AM PT

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Data Governance: A Business Opportunity the Business Can No Longer Ignore

Every business leader wants to have trusted, secure, consistent, and usable information, but data volumes and systems complexity have been increasing for years. Plus, most organizations rarely prioritize data governance, so why care now?

Speaker: Claudia Imhoff

June
18
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

June 17-19, 2013

TDWI BI Symposium: Building an Analytics-Driven Organization

Toronto, ON

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August 12-15, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: BI Essentials

New York, NY

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August 18-23, 2013

TDWI World Conference: Agile BI

San Diego, CA

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