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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

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Data Management and App Dev Must Come Together

Stephen Swoyer

For too long, data management (DM) and application development have been tracking on two radically different vectors, each with its own distinctive momentum and direction. Both camps could and should learn from (and influence) one another.

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Marketing IT In-House: Should BI Be Fun?

Max T. Russell

Trying to make BI fun is risky business. You may be able to do it, but you should aim to enhance user experience by making the BI app as useful as possible.

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The Logic of (Qlik) Sense

Stephen Swoyer

At TDWI's recent World Conference in San Diego, Qlik had a pleasant surprise for attendees: a brand new self-service visual discovery offering -- Qlik Sense --. The new product is a departure for Qlik. It's designed to cater to analysts, power users, and other information consumers who want an interactive visual discovery experience.

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3 Interesting Results from TDWI's Big Data Maturity Assessment

Fern Halper

It's been a year since TDWI released its assessment tool. What do the first 600 respondents tell us about the state of enterprise big data maturity?

TDWI Webinar Series:

New Directions in Enterprise IT Architecture: Achieving Business Value via New Data, Hadoop, and NoSQL

Speaker: Philip Russom

December
2
9:00AM PT
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Learn how enterprise and data architectures are changing, the practical applications of Hadoop and NoSQL data stores in enterprise architecture and IT infrastructure, and how to enable business analysts, product managers, and other colleagues to analyze big data. We'll also explore why rapid time to value and lower risk of project failure are major criteria in evaluating a platform to search, explore, and visualize big data and new data.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

How Secure is Hadoop?

Hadoop is rapidly moving from prototyping and standalone solutions to an important component of the enterprise IT ecosystem. At the same time, the volume of data being managed by Hadoop systems in support of enterprise data hubs and refineries, as well as analytic applications, is growing rapidly. Learn about Hadoop's role in the enterprise, its enterprise readiness, and how secure Hadoop truly is.

Speaker: Colin White

December
3
9:00AM PT

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Modernizing the Operational Data Store with Hadoop

In this Webinar you'll learn why operational data stores need to be modernized and how some users are doing it. Russom will explain how ODSs still support data warehouse architectures as well as new approaches to advanced analytics, data archiving, data lakes, and enterprise data hubs. We'll explain how Hadoop makes a highly scalable and cost-effective platform for ODSs, especially when compared to traditional relational databases, and you'll learn how to industrialize the data integration process for a data hub.

Speaker: Philip Russom

December
4
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

December 7 - 12, 2014

TDWI Orlando 2014

Orlando, FL

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