Wednesday, August 03, 2011 |
News Highlights
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Stephen Swoyer
Industry watchers have been talking up
"advanced analytics" for a couple of years now -- but enterprises
haven't seemed interested. Demand for traditional end-user query,
reporting, and analysis technologies continues to outpace demand for
advanced analytic technologies.
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Ted Cuzzillo
Software vendors have distorted the
definition of "agile analytics," and industry experts have loaded it
with verbiage. What do data analysts say it is?
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David Stodder
When you're 100 years old, as IBM is
this year, it would be easy to think that you've seen it all. What
could possibly be new to Big Blue about "big data"? In the view of
Robert LeBlanc, SVP of Middleware Software for the IBM Software
Group, quite a bit.
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Nancy Williams
A report issued earlier this year by
McKinsey Global Institute provides compelling arguments that "big
data" is the next frontier for innovation, competition, and
productivity. If your time's limited, be sure to read the 13-page
Executive Summary.
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TDWI Webinar Series:
Speaker:
David Stodder
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With information playing an ever-greater
role in operations, users are clamoring for tools so they can easily
access, analyze, and share data. Mainstream BI vendors are
satisfying some of this pent-up demand, but the cost and complexity
of extending enterprise BI systems has made progress slow. |
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Upcoming Webinars of Interest
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Early adopter users have already deployed
a variety of business intelligence (BI) tools and data warehouse
(DW) platforms on clouds, thereby proving the concept. These
pioneering deployments have demonstrated that both public and
private clouds give BI and DW the same advantages for fluid resource
allocation.
Speaker:
Philip Russom
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Register
Now
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In today's world of electronic commerce,
virtual storefronts, and online exchange, it is easy to forget that
participants in every business transaction are situated in some
physical location.
Speaker:
David Loshin
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Now
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