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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

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How the iPad Experience Will Change the Face of BI

Stephen Swoyer

The iPad-like user experience promises to wholly transform the way information is presented and consumed in the enterprise. To their collective credit, many BI players get this, thanks to the foresight (or stubbornness) of their executive leaders who have embraced the iPad and can compel inflexible IT departments to accommodate their needs.

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Q&A: How to Achieve Master Data Management Success

James Powell

MDM and governance go hand in hand, but how do you know if your MDM approach is working, especially in light of Big Data and social media?

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BI Unplugged -- Enabling Unprecedented Information Access

Stephen Swoyer

Open source BI specialist JasperSoft announced a mobile infusion in conjunction with the version 4.2 release of its namesake platform. It's the latest indication that mobility is hot, especially for the BI market, where JasperSoft and other vendors see mobility as a way to enable unprecedented access to information -- in a highly-interactive, visually compelling context.

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Q&A: As Enterprises Mature, Data Governance Remains Challenging

Linda Briggs

Daniel Teachey of DataFlux, a subsidiary of SAS that provides data management technology and services, talks about what has changed in data governance, and how companies can get real value from governance projects in the first part of our two-part interview.

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SyncSort Doubles-Down on High-Performance ETL

Stephen Swoyer

As far as ETL specialist SyncSort is concerned, the failure of data integration as we know it has almost everything to do with performance. DI vendors have overlooked the importance of having a blazingly fast ETL engine at the center of things, SyncSort claims. That's why performance is a major component of SyncSort's ETL 2.0 push.

TDWI Webinar Series:

MapReduce for the Business Analyst: Simplifying Big Data Analytics for the Business

Speaker: Philip Russom

October
27
9:00AM PT
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MapReduce has been praised for its unique ability to map analytic processing to multi-structured big data that's distributed across large numbers of nodes, then reduce the multiple returns into a single analytic result set.

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Dashboards & Visual Discovery Tools: An Evaluation Framework

Dashboards and visual discovery are now must-have components of the BI tool portfolio.

Speaker: Cindi Howson

November
9
9:00AM PT

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Effective Presentation of Analytical Results

Today the world is flooded with information. How do you make sense of it all, and how can you then best share your findings with others?

Speaker: Jonathan Koomey

November
10
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

October 30-
November 4, 2011

TDWI World Conference: Emerging Technologies 2012

Orlando, FL

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October 31-
November 1, 2011

A TDWI Forum: Big Data Analytics for Business Insight

Orlando, FL

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November 29, 2011

Solution Spotlight on Analytics

Columbus, OH

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