Wednesday, September 21, 2011 |
News Highlights
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Claudia Imhoff and Colin White
Setting up an environment in which
information workers can create and access specific sets of BI
reports, queries, and analytics themselves -- with minimal IT
intervention -- in a self-service BI (SS BI) environment helps
relieve BI bottlenecks. This article is an excerpt from the
author's TDWI Research Report of the same name and briefly describes
four self-service BI objectives and the types of information workers
who benefit most from this environment.
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Cindi Howson
Cloud BI is exciting for its promise of
faster deployment, lower entry costs, and elastic scalability.
MicroStrategy Cloud promises to be as easy to get up and running as
current SaaS offerings but with all the BI robustness of its
traditional on-premise solution.
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Stephen Swoyer
If a single, combined platform for
transaction processing and analytics is a bad idea, isn't it
likewise a bad idea to champion a single DW platform for the extreme
diversity -- the wild profusion -- of analytic workloads?
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Linda Briggs
"Yesterday's data breaches were all
about stolen laptops and customer data leaving the enterprise," but
today's serious security incidents are very different, says security
expert Wasim Ahmad of Voltage Security. Sophisticated breaches
today, he says, involve planting malware inside the network that
passes high-value data out to organized crime. In this interview,
the second in a two-part series on data security, Ahmad and data
management expert David Loshin explain how data security issues can
be addressed, and offer advice to data managers.
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Stephen Swoyer
Although it got its start in the UK,
Kognitio is betting big on succeeding in the American market. The
company plans to make a strong run at financial services. Officials
claim Kognitio has at least two things going for it: a next-gen spin
on OLAP (in the form of its Pablo virtual cube facility) and WX2,
its Big Data, in-memory DBMS.
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TDWI Webinar Series:
Speaker:
Cindi Howson
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This Webinar provides an update on BI
adoption, business impact, and best practices from both
organizational and technical perspectives. Key technical issues
include near-real-time data warehouse updates, master data
management, and BI standardization. |
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Upcoming Webinars of Interest
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With the current state of world economies
and business, many organizations are leaning towards the model of
"offshoring" data warehouse development and support. Though it
promises cost savings, the offshore model brings unique risks when
applied to the complexities of business intelligence.
Speaker:
Krish Krishnan
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Are your MDM projects taking too long to
go live? Challenges in engaging follow on users of the master hub?
There are a number of reasons that an MDM project stalls, and
considering these before deployment can help decrease time to value
and increase acceptance.
Speaker:
David Loshin
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Now
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Events Calendar
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