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Wednesday, August 08, 2012

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3 Steps to Exploiting Analytics

Moving beyond the basics will help you harness the potential of analytics to build a better future.

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Making Big Data Smarter

Transforming unstructured knowledge analytics practices into smart big data will increase your organization's innovation speed and relevancy. Here's how to jazz up your unstructured data analysis.

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Can Cloud-Aware Analytics Make the Difference Between Thrashing and Thriving?

Some organizations might be surviving the current economic hard times in part because they know how to use data better than their failing competitors. Can they extend their lead in good times with new cloud-aware analytics?

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Moneyball and the Limits of Predictive Analysis

Stephen Swoyer

If you've seen the movie Moneyball, you know that predictive analytics (PA) has transformed the management of baseball. Could PA be used as extensively in business as it is in baseball?

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BI Features Improved in Excel, SharePoint 2013

Product previews let users test new BI capabilities.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Agile Methods for Accelerating Value from BI and Data Warehousing: Trends and Best Practices

Speaker: Ralph Hughes, Paul Kautza, and David Stodder

August
13
9:00AM PT
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Agile methods have helped organizations accelerate BI/DW development and reduce cost and risk while increasing the quality of deliverables. Agile differs from traditional approaches by emphasizing continuous, incremental, and evolutionary growth and improvement.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Operational Intelligence: Real-Time Business Analytics for Big Data

Most business intelligence (BI) implementations query data that is a few hours or minutes old, representing business processes that have already completed. Even so-called "real-time" BI reports are generated using historical data.

Speaker: Philip Russom

August
14
9:00AM PT

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Top Ten Priorities for Next-Generation Master Data Management

Master data management (MDM) is a widely adopted data management discipline. Many organizations have already deployed their first or second generation of MDM solutions. There are many possible directions the next generation could go, so organizations must play carefully and take the optimal path.

Speaker: Philip Russom

August
22
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

August 13-16, 2012

TDWI Seminar Series: Data Modeling

Minneapolis, MN

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September 10-12, 2012

TDWI BI Symposium

London, UK

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September 16-21, 2012

TDWI World Conference: Agile BI

Boston, MA

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