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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

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BI Experts: Relieving Agile BI Choke Points

Dave Stodder

Organizations must discover why and where their systems are inflexible and how they can apply new methods and technologies to increase agility. These three tips can help you get off on the right foot.

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Q&A: How Big Data Can Drive Optimal Pricing Decisions

James Powell

Setting the optimal prices for your company's products or services is vital to your firm's financial health. We explore big data's role in setting pricing.

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Vectorwise: Parallelization by Any Other Name

Stephen Swoyer

Vectorwise was conceived almost a decade ago to do what few other DBMSes could do. Nine years later, competitors are chipping away at what Actian describes as Vectorwise's "wow" factor: its support for vector processing and microprocessor-level parallelization.

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An Introduction to PMML

Ray DiGiacomo Jr.

Just what is Predictive Model Markup Language, and how can it help BI professionals?

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Is Collaboration the Killer App for Mobile BI?

Stephen Swoyer

At July's Pacific Northwest BI Summit, QlikView's Donald Farmer teamed up with industry luminary Claudia Imhoff to speak about the convergence of BI, collaboration, and mobility. The duo posed a provocative question: what's the killer app for mobile BI? Opinions flowed freely.

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Agile Healthcare: Provider Ensures Rapid Access to Business-Critical Data

HealthNow New York needed a unified data integration environment to support its huge range of data integration use cases and service-oriented architecture strategy, all while accelerating development, lowering operational costs, and fostering business involvement. (From TDWI's What Works in Healthcare; registration required)

TDWI Webinar Series:

Top Ten Priorities for Next-Generation Master Data Management

Speaker: Philip Russom

August
22
9:00AM PT
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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.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Understanding the Continued Reliance on Data Replication

A widening community of business analysts and managers has expressed a growing desire to take advantage of analytics, especially as opportunities for integrating "big data" sets from a variety of sources.

Speaker: David Loshin

August
28
9:00AM PT

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Big Data: How to Convert Big Hype into Big Value with Analytics

Most everyone has heard about big data and advanced analytics as it seems as though every vendor has managed to work these terms into their marketing messages. However, to date, most of these discussions have centered on the definition of what is big data and the intricacies of the technologies involved, rather than on how to apply analytics to these new sources of value to reap business benefit.

Speaker: Colin White

August
29
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

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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October 1-4, 2012

TDWI Seminar Series: Dimensional Modeling

Vancouver, BC

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