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Wednesday, May 09, 2012

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Developing and Branding Your Analytics Communities

Mark Peco

How can the principles of branding be applied to BI to help multiple groups in large organizations work collaboratively across departmental boundaries?

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SAP Takes the Predictive Analytics Plunge

Stephen Swoyer

With SAP Predictive Analysis, the company says it wants to bring predictive analytic capabilities to as many users as possible. With its huge installed base, it says it's just the software vendor to do it, too.

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Q&A: Melding Predictive Analytics and Big Data Makes Sense

Linda Briggs

Chatter in the marketplace and plenty of interest from both customers and vendors point to a busy intersection of predictive analytics and big data, says analyst and researcher Fern Halper.

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Tech Talk: DW Databases Scale Out and Up

Stephen Swoyer

All MPP databases must scale out over multiple nodes and scale up on today's beefy hardware. According to Calpont CTO Jim Tommaney, they don't do that very well, and most analytic databases focus on MPP to the detriment of SMP. Although not everyone agrees with Calpont, experts concede that increasingly beefy compute resources pose new challenges -- and opportunities -- for BI and DW.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Real-Time Data Integration: An Infrastructure That Enables Fast- Paced Business

Speaker: Philip Russom

May
16
9:00AM PT
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According to TDWI's Next Generation Data Integration survey, the types of data integration functionality that are seeing the hottest adoption and growth today are those forms that involve real-time operation.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Data Analytics and Interactive Gaming -- Opportunities to Influence Consumer Behavior

Tween interactive social worlds such as Club Penguin, Webkinz, and Poptropica provide environments for children to play games, interact with each other, earn virtual money, and spend that virtual money on a variety of items.

Speaker: David Loshin

May
22
9:00AM PT

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Faster, Must Go Faster: The Need for Operational BI

Business intelligence applications are playing an ever-increasing and important role in driving and optimizing daily business operations. This trend is leading to major changes in both the functionality and the usability of BI-related technologies and products.

Speaker: Claudia Imhoff

May
23
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

June 25-28, 2012

TDWI BI Symposium: Agile BI and Analytics

Toronto, ON

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July 29-August 3, 2012

TDWI World Conference: Big Data Tipping Point

San Diego, CA

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July 30-August 1, 2012

TDWI BI Executive Summit: Big Data Analytics for Better Customer Intelligence

San Diego, CA

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