Wednesday, August 22, 2012 |
News Highlights
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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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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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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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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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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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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)
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TDWI Webinar Series:
Speaker:
David Loshin
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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"
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Upcoming Webinars of Interest
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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
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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
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Now
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Events Calendar
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