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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

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Q&A: Emerging Analytics: Integrating Big Data, Content Analytics, Search, and Collaboration into Your Analytical Environment

James Powell

What's driving big data analytics, and how can integrating search help BI professionals better work with the data?

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Cirro Touts Big Data-Ready Analytic Platform

Stephen Swoyer

What does it take to be big data-ready? Business intelligence start-up Cirro mixes data federation with an end-user analysis plug-in for Excel, and says it has just what most shops starting to explore big data are looking for.

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Q&A: The Biggest Big Data Trends BI Professionals Need to Understand

James Powell

Big data is changing the competitive dynamics of the BI industry. We explore how everything from sensor data to social media to mobile BI is changing the very nature of big data.

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Analysis: Behind QlikTech's Acquisition of Expressor Software

QlikTech says its Expressor acquisition has everything to do with metadata and almost nothing to do with data integration. Industry watchers disagree.

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Canaccord Increases Collaboration for Data Warehousing Using Data Models

How a centralized, consistent view of information was key to the success of a global financial services firm.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Leveraging Business Metadata for Trusted Information in Data Warehousing and Business Analytics

Speaker: David Loshin

June
21
9:00AM PT
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The need for making quality decisions rapidly is powering the broader integration of business intelligence and algorithmic analytics into operational business processes across the enterprise, up and down the management chain.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Turning BI Mavericks into BI Mavens: Bridging the Gap Between Business Analysts and IT

Most organizations have BI mavericks in their business ranks. These are the folks who use analytics a lot but are very frustrated with the BI environments provided by their IT counterparts. They never seem to have the data they want, or the way they want it, so they go rogue and acquire or build out their own solutions, ignoring the value that enterprise BI can provide.

Speaker: Claudia Imhoff

June
26
9:00AM PT

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Establishing a Data Quality Strategy

All companies need quality information to support their operational activities and business intelligence environments. The desired level of quality doesn't just happen. It requires recognition of data as an asset and a commitment by both business and IT areas to governing and managing its content and the processes handling it.

Speaker: Jonathan Geiger

June
29
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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