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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

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Q&A: Agile Data Warehouse Design

James Powell

Why agile BI needs modelstorming: agile techniques for data warehouse analysis, modeling, and design.

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Making the Case for Agile BI

Stephen Swoyer

At this month's Pacific Northwest BI Summit, industry veterans William McKnight and Michael Whitehead teamed up to make the case for agile business intelligence. Their pitch met with some skepticism. The truth, both men conceded, is that there's misguided resistance to the use of agile concepts and methods in BI.

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BI Experts: Best-of-Breed May Not Be the Best Solution

Mike Schiff

Best-of-breed solutions certainly can be appealing, but are integrated products a better approach for your organization?

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Big Data -- Why the 3Vs Just Don't Make Sense

Stephen Swoyer

The "big" in big data is an expression of the volume, variety, and velocity of the information that constitutes it. If big data is understood solely on the basis of these characteristics, it isn't clear that it's at all worthy of the hype. What's missing? Let's start with another V: value.

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Making Change Easy: A Canonical Approach to Risk Management in Data Integration

How can companies design a system that is change tolerant and minimizes risk?

TDWI Webinar Series:

Managing the Mayhem of Mobile BI

Speaker: Mark Madsen

July
26
9:00AM PT
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Cloud computing is creating a new era for IT by providing a set of services that appear to have infinite capacity, immediate deployment, and high availability at trivial cost. The cloud appeals to organizations struggling with expanding data volumes, low utilization of IT assets, and lack of self-service business analytics.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Information Architecture: Building A Solid Foundation

You can't escape the need for architecture - whether your data is big or small! All organizations have information architectures. The question is: How effectively do they use them? This presentation provides a clear and concise understanding of why you must manage your organizational data/information architecture.

Speaker: Peter Aiken

August
1
9:00AM PT

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DIY BI and Analytics: Reaping Rewards and Avoiding Chaos with Self-Service BI

Certainly, every business leader wants to have trusted, secure, consistent and usable information. But data volumes and systems complexity has been increasing for years and most organizations rarely prioritize data governance, so why care now?

Speaker: Claudia Imhoff

August
7
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

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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August 13-16, 2012

TDWI Seminar Series: Data Modeling

Minneapolis, MN

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