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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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A 4-Phase Approach to Socializing Business Analytics

David Loshin

How can you standardize the approach a business intelligence and analytics team can take to streamline the provision of "analytics services" to business users in a way that communicates the delivery of solutions to business problems instead of the acquisition and installation of tools and technology? This four-phase approach can help.

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Impactful BI Remains Elusive for Many

Cindi Howson

While the rest of economy is struggling, demand for BI experts and software shows robust growth - - yet BI adoption has been flat, and most companies never tap the full potential of BI. Cindi Howson looks at this and other results from her just-published "2011 Successful BI" survey.

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6 Surprises On My Way from Data to Analysis

Ted Cuzzillo

What do you do when you find yourself with data and no data skills? Find a guide, and then the surprises begin.

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Mobile BI: 2011 Trends and 2012 Directions

Tiemo Winterkamp

This year we've seen the emergence of HTML5 and the popularity of tablets. What will 2012 bring to the BI mobility market?

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Integrating Canonical Message Models and Enterprise Data Models (Part 3 of 3)

Dr. Tom Johnston

Although an enterprise data model (EDM) can be used to facilitate messaging (as described in Part 2 of this series), this way of using an EDM does not achieve the same results that would be achieved by using the EDM to instantiate databases.

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Q&A: Lack of Data Background, Quality Can Hold Back Business

Linda Briggs

A surprising number of executives lack any detailed knowledge of their own business data. In this interview, Drew Rockwell, CEO of MDS and an expert in business process management and business analytics, talks about how businesses can turn that around by using analytics tools to their advantage.

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Data Virtualization is Far from a Pipedream

Stephen Swoyer

Data virtualization (DV) is no pipedream. In fact, say users from major corporations, it's rather more of a lead-pipe cinch. Lots of shops are using DV to support very-real, very in-production applications or services. Vendors claim that DV can accelerate the data integration timetable, allowing projects to be completed in hours or days. Users say there just might be something to this.

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Developing a Data Quality Strategy

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Getting from Operational BI to the Real-Time

Today organizations across all industries are rushing to a new frontier opened up by the power of recent developments in information technology. Much of the excitement centers on speed: technologies are converging to dramatically reduce, if not eliminate, delays in how organizations serve customers, respond to events in their markets, supply chains and manufacturing processes and apply information insights to a range of decision-making. "Real time" is becoming a reality and a competitive advantage.

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Seizing Business Advantage: Emerging Trends in Business Intelligence and Analytics for 2012

Business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools are in high demand as organizations seek to use information assets to improve business outcomes, deliver better customer experiences, save costs through operational efficiency, and more.

Speaker: David Stodder

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