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Wednesday, November 07, 2012

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Going Geo: Augmenting BI with Geospatial Intelligence

Stephen Swoyer

Why incorporate geospatial analytics into your business intelligence practice? Industry veteran David Loshin says geospatial analytics can boost operational efficiencies, open up new revenue opportunities, improve marketing campaigns, and help with fraud and abuse detection, among other benefits.

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Not Your Father's BI: Situational Intelligence in a Real-Time World

Rob Schilling

Together, six categories of intelligence will give your enterprise the "360-degree insight" it needs to succeed.

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Q&A: Business Analytics Supports Sales Consultants

Linda Briggs

With a small technical team, the rapidly growing small business Rodan + Fields needed a BI solution that could be implemented simply and put to use right away.

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From Users to IT -- How Tableau Broadens Its Appeal

Stephen Swoyer

Tableau was a hit with users, but without IT support or approval, users downloaded and used the program without permission. Now that such tools address issues of scalability, performance, consistency, and portability, this is a less common scenario. In fact, IT is advocating such software where it once had to be dragged -- kicking and screaming.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Selection Criteria for Master Data Management

Speaker: Philip Russom

November
8
9:00AM PT
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According to TDWI's recent next- generation master data management (MDM) survey, half of users surveyed are planning to replace their primary MDM platform within the next three years.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Selecting the Right BI Technologies for Your Business Needs

The use of business intelligence (BI) is growing rapidly as companies seek to use its power to help improve business efficiency and look for new business opportunities. BI products are also evolving rapidly to take advantage of advances in software and hardware technologies.

Speaker: Colin White

November
13
9:00AM PT

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The Role of Data Quality in a Big Data Environment

"Big data" relies on consumption of massive volumes and varieties of data marked by inconsistencies across different sources, questionable lineage, and uncertain data currency. Integrating unstructured and structured data sets implies that small variances in semantics, concept tagging, and terminology will have adverse impacts on consumers of business analytics.

Speaker: David Loshin

November
28
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

November 11-16, 2012

TDWI World Conference: Emerging Technologies 2013

Orlando, FL

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November 12-13, 2012

A TDWI Forum: Emerging Technology Strategies for Big Data Analytics

Orlando, FL

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December 2-4, 2012

TDWI Solution Summit: Cloud BI

Scottsdale, AZ

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