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Wednesday, April 08, 2015

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4 Changes with Big Data Analytics

Fern Halper

Analyzing big data is different from other analytics. Here are four things worth knowing about analytics at scale.

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Why Data Agility is a Key Driver of Big Data Technology Development

Jim Scott

Hadoop and Apache Drill can help you guide your organization's agility towards real-time business impact.

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Q&A: New Book Takes Fresh Look at Classic Business/IT Ownership Struggles (Part 1 of 2)

Linda Briggs

In her latest book, "The New IT: How Technology Leaders are Enabling Business Strategy in the Digital Age," well-known BI and analytics expert Jill Dyché interviews business leaders, including those at some large and highly visible companies, and delivers an insightful and entertaining map of the challenges facing organizations as IT evolves.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Leveraging ERP Data for Near-Real-Time Analytics

Speaker: David Loshin

April
9
9:00AM PT
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This Webinar will discuss the challenges, opportunities, and core concepts for near-real-time analytics. The presentation includes an overview of operational analytics, including what's being spent on the technology, customer profitability and lifetime value assessments, manufacturing productivity, logistics optimization, supply chain optimization, asset maintenance, and distribution and channel optimization.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Hadoop for the Enterprise

TDWI's Research Director Philip Russom will explore issues in making Hadoop suited to traditional IT departments in mainstream industries (not just Internet firms and specialty organizations) and the new types of data-driven applications enabled by Hadoop 2.0 (plus the business and technology drivers behind them). He'll discuss trends and coming adoption of tools and technologies across the broader Hadoop ecosystem of open source projects, vendor products, and user best practices, and present the top ten priorities for enterprise-scope Hadoop implementations.

Speaker: Philip Russom

April
14
9:00AM PT

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The Evolution of Data Warehouse Automation

Barry Devlin and WhereScape President Mark Budzinski will provide data warehouse automation case studies from Tesco, Union Bank, and West Virginia Network.

Speaker: Barry Devlin

April
16
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

April 20 - 22, 2015

Seminar in London // Agile BI

London, UK

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April 20 - 22, 2015

Seminar in Washington, DC // Making Big Data Work

Washington, DC

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May 3 - 8, 2015

TDWI Chicago 2015

Chicago, IL

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