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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

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A BI Architectures Approach to Modeling and Evolving with Analytic Databases

John O'Brien

Major shifts converging in today's BI environment bring the opportunity to discover new answers to old questions about what BI architectures are about and how they are designed.

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Q&A: Agile Estimating of BI Projects

James E. Powell

Estimating can be a chore -- and produce inaccurate results. Ralph Hughes introduces us to a new approach to the practice: agile estimating.

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Bring Your Data Back to Earth: The Cloud's Impact on Data Quality

Konstantin Polukhin

As growth of cloud-based applications outpaces growth of on-premise apps, enterprises must address how best to integrate data between the cloud and on-premise storage.

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Q&A: Make Your Data Tell a Story

Linda Briggs

With a few exceptions, vendors simply aren't pushing the state of the art in data visualization, says researcher and author Jonathan Koomey. Here, he discusses how to improve visual presentations with a few simple rules that reflect current knowledge about graphical displays.

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The BI Implications of Highly Customizable Data

Sanjay Bhatia

Although storage prices are dropping, you must still consider how your customized data set will work for self-service or ad hoc reporting, especially in a real-time environment.

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Implementing Self-Service Clinical Analytics at UC Irvine Medical Center

Why self-service clinical analytics was a priority at the University of California Irvine Medical Center. (From TDWI's What Works in Healthcare; registration required)

TDWI Webinar Series:

Understanding the Continued Reliance on Data Replication

Speaker: David Loshin

August
28
9:00AM PT
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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.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

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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Data Warehouses vs. Analytical Appliances: Friends or Foes?

Despite rumors to the contrary, the report of the death of the data warehouse is, to quote Mark Twain, exaggerated. An evolutionary approach to querying, reporting, and analytics may still rely on the traditional dimensional models of the data warehouse and the data mart.

Speaker: David Loshin

August
30
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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