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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

News Highlights

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BI Teams Need to Take a Page from Apple's Book

Sachin Sinha

BI teams need to focus on what business users want most.

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Why IBM Wants to Put Mainframes at the Center of BI

Stephen Swoyer

What if the "I could have had a V8!" slogan were applied to mainframes? What if enterprises were to wake up to a healthier, better BI alternative? Now consider the similarities in Big Blue's push of BI onto its zEnterprise mainframe. If you already have a mainframe in-house, why not make it the centerpiece of your BI and data warehousing efforts?

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Q&A: Archiving Tools Apply BI to E-mail

James E.Powell

Most companies use only the most basic tools to archive their e-mail messages, despite the fact that e-mail contains a wealth of information about the business. E-mail archiving solutions can help generate business intelligence from stored e-mail.

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Redefining the Data Integration Problem Set

Stephen Swoyer

Just when you think you have data integration all figured out, a vendor comes along and reinvents the problem set. Consider Phasic Systems, which touts a combination of software, services, and even naysaying as an effective solution for effective enterprise-wide governance.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Seven Data Discovery Steps for Improving Information Delivery and Accuracy

Speaker: David Stodder

March
1
9:00AM PT
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Know your data. With today's information- driven business projects, no maxim could be truer. Yet many organizations lack fundamental knowledge about their data -- and the situation is getting tougher as "big data" sources grow in size and variety and manual documentation efforts can't keep pace.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Successful Strategic Planning in the World of Big Data

It is difficult to ignore the growing influence of broad, massive streams of data from unexpected sources, especially when these data sources can directly influence customer satisfaction, expose opportunities for revenue generation, lead to brand risk, or improve customer profiling.

Speaker: David Loshin

March
7
9:00AM PT

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BI Solutions and Strategies for Mid-Sized Companies

Mid-sized companies are increasingly interested in acquiring new business intelligence capabilities because they spend most of their time looking for data rather than using it. Many still use slow, manually intensive, spreadsheet-based approaches to obtaining and using information.

Speaker: Nancy Williams

March
13
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Events Calendar

March 19-22, 2012

TDWI Seminar Series: Data Modeling

Austin, TX

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April 23-26, 2012

TDWI Seminar Series: BI Essentials

Washington, DC

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May 6-11, 2012

TDWI World Conference: Validating Your BI/DW Direction

Chicago, IL

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