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Wednesday, April 09, 2014

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Effecting Change with an Analytics Proof of Value

Tony Lopykinski

Having all the data can't help your company improve its overall operations. To drive and maintain BI adoption, an organization must understand that change must be managed through three stages in five simple steps.

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Teradata Gets Unorthodox

Stephen Swoyer

At TDWI's recent Executive Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada, Teradata veteran Dan Graham got downright heretical, at least from the perspective of data management orthodoxy. The problem, Graham argued, is that DBAs tend to be a little bit too conservative, too orthodox. That must and will change, he says.

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Marketing IT In-House: The Role of Failure in BI Success

Max T. Russell

Welcome failure as a source of feedback that leads to success.

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Data Integration and Analytic Heterogeneity

Stephen Swoyer

If you want to understand data integration in an age of analytic heterogeneity, you must follow the process: process movement, not data or workload movement, is where it's at.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Evolving Data Warehouse Architectures in the Age of Big Data Analytics

Speaker: Philip Russom

April
15
9:00AM PT
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The complexity of data warehouse environments has increased dramatically in recent years with the arrival of data warehouse appliances, columnar database management systems, NoSQL databases, Hadoop, and tools for multiple forms of advanced analytics or real-time operation. The new vendor and open source platforms come in response to users' growing demands for platforms optimized for various forms of big data, analytics, real-time operation, and the workloads that go with them.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Eight Considerations for Utilizing Big Data Analytics with Hadoop

As companies seek to gain competitive advantage through analytics, a change is occurring in the data and infrastructure that support it. Several technology factors are coming together to form the fabric of an evolving analytics ecosystem. Advanced analytics, in particular, are becoming more important as companies embrace big data. This includes techniques such as advanced visualization and machine learning that can be particularly beneficial in big data discovery and analysis.

Speaker: Fern Halper

April
17
9:00AM PT

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In-Memory Computing: Expanding the Platform Horizon Beyond the Database

In-memory database management systems have matured to the point where they predictably promise accelerated application performance. By adopting alternative storage layouts amenable to in-memory processing, these databases take advantage of efficient use of available memory to reduce or even eliminate the data latencies typically associated with significantly slower disk-based storage media.

Speaker: David Loshin

May
1
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

April 15, 2014

Solution Spotlight on Big Data Analytics

New York, NY

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May 11 - 16, 2014

TDWI World Conference in Chicago: Business-Driven BI

Chicago, IL

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May 12 - 16, 2014

Analytics World in Chicago: Business Analytics

Chicago, IL

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