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Wednesday, August 03, 2011

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BI Basics Still Lead Advanced Analytics Solutions

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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The Elusive Definition of Agile Analytics

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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Big Data: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

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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Big Data: The Next Frontier?

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.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Data Discovery Tools and Methods: Expanding BI Options for Users

Speaker: David Stodder

August
16
9:00AM PT
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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.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Trends in Clouds for Business Intelligence

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

August
24
9:00AM PT

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Using Geographic and Spatial Data to Improve Business Analytics

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

August
25
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

August 7-12, 2011

TDWI World Conference

San Diego, CA

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August 8-10, 2011

TDWI BI Executive Summit

San Diego, CA

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August 29-September 1, 2011

TDWI Seminar: Dimensional Modeling

Toronto, ON

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