Wednesday, February 29, 2012 |
News Highlights
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Dave Stodder
Facebook's IPO has drawn attention to
the importance of social media data.
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Stephen Swoyer
There's been a lot of hoopla over
Hadoop, an open source platform for big data. Hadoop can, for
example, radically accelerate analytic workloads. A recent report
aims to help would-be Hadoop users understand its applicability to
BI and analytics.
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Linda Briggs
"If users are able to locate, query,
and visualize their data far more easily, they are suddenly in
control," says Sean Martin of Cambridge Semantics. He uses the term
"operational intelligence" to refer to new uses of data that can
drive day-to-day operational decisions.
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Stephen Swoyer
Just because Gartner lists IBM and
Informatica as the runaway leaders in the data integration market
doesn't mean Big Blue and Informatica have the DI market locked
up.
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Stephen Swoyer
Open source software (OSS) business
intelligence player Pentaho has had a lot to crow about, thanks to
releases of new versions of its flagship BI and business analytics
offerings. Pentaho has also focused on burnishing its enterprise
support reputation. Although support is a big concern for all
vendors, it's an especially big deal for OSS players such as
Pentaho.
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TDWI Webinar Series:
Speaker:
David Stodder
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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. |
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Upcoming Webinars of Interest
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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
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Now
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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
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Now
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