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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

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GridGain Goes In-Memory One Better

Stephen Swoyer

Start-up GridGain says its distributed, in-memory SQL database has the potential to "democratize" in-memory computing, but that's already happened. The technological, economic, and cultural prerequisites all seem to be falling into place.

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Are Millennials the Answer to Your Company's Data Analytics Problem?

Paul Ross

Ready to embrace the millennial mindset for your data analytics? We offer five tips for encouraging the budding data analysts in your own organization.

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Pervasive BI: Survey Finds Ease of Disuse

Stephen Swoyer

A great potential metric of BI success is frequency of use: how often do people actually use BI technologies? BI adoption can't seem to crack 25 percent of all employees. The ugly truth is that too few people have access to BI, and fewer rely on BI to enrich decision making.

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New Survey Highlights Big Data Successes at Midsize Companies

James E. Powell

A Dell Software-commissioned survey of big data initiatives at midsize companies (those with 2000 to 5000 employees) shows that big data initiatives are helping them achieve "the improved product quality and decision making once reserved for large enterprises."

TDWI Webinar Series:

Crossing Healthcare Chasms with Information Integration Best Practices

Speaker: David Stodder

May
29
9:00AM PT
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Information integration is critical for becoming smarter with data. Across all industries, organizations want to use data analytics to discover how they can reduce costs without sacrificing quality and effectiveness. Firms both large and small want to pull diverse data streams together. Users can then uncover insights and innovate at a faster pace than their competition.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Graph-Based Analysis: Using Alternative Data Analytics to Analyze Behavior

Although many different techniques and technologies for big data appliances can increase scalable performance, the ways that certain applications are mapped to a typical Hadoop-style stack might limit scalability due to memory access latency or network bandwidth. Yet the promise of big data must go beyond increased scalability for known problems.

Speaker: David Loshin

June
17
9:00AM PT

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The Three Pillars of Agile Data Integration: Self Service, Rapid Data Set Prototyping, and Data Stewardship

Agile development methods-as applied in data disciplines-have experienced strong adoption by users in recent years, and for good reason. Learn how delivery speed, development productivity, and business alignment are the leading priorities (and benefits) for agile data management.

Speaker: Philip Russom

June
18
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

June 1 - 3, 2014

Solution Summit: Beyond BI to Advanced Analytics for Business Advantage

San Diego, CA

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June 10, 2014

Solution Spotlight on Big Data Analytics

San Francisco, CA

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July 8 - 10, 2014

TDWI BI Symposium: BI Essentials, Data Modeling, Analytics, and Agile BI

Toronto, ON

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