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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

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Are Enterprises Getting Serious About Governance?

Stephen Swoyer

Data governance has been a can't-miss issue in BI and data warehousing for at least a decade. Sooner or later, we've been told, enterprises are going to get serious about data governance. Has the time finally come?

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BI/DW Agility: Go Faster, But Not Too Fast

David Stodder

Organizations implementing agile methods have to ensure that project schedules allow for enough iteration to enable agile teams to uncover and incorporate new requirements into their applications. Only then will the faster pace of development create a faster path to information advantage.

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Big Data is Big Draw at Strata + Hadoop World

Stephen Swoyer

At the recent Strata + Hadoop World conference, vendors scrambled to stake their claims in a big data market -- centered around Hadoop -- that most analysts believe is still riding a rising tide of hype. This ensured a frantic -- and sometimes frenetic -- atmosphere.

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SiSense Touts 3G Discovery and Analysis

Stephen Swoyer

SiSense is taking its pitch directly to business users -- much like insurgent BI specialists QlikTech and Tableau did half a decade (or more) ago.

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Big Data Challenging the Status Quo

Stephen Swoyer

The exhibit hall at this year's Strata + Hadoop World conference looked like a surrealistic tableau, with its juxtaposition of seemingly incongruous vendors.

TDWI Webinar Series:

The Role and Benefits of In-Memory Computing to BI Analytics

Speaker: Colin White

November
29
9:00AM PT
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There is considerable buzz in the IT industry about in-memory technologies. At the same time, there is considerable confusion about the role and benefits of these technologies in BI processing and performance. This technology can be used at a client or a server level and may be used by an analytic server or a database management system.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Managing Data Warehouse Growth in the New Era of Big Data

Data in the data warehouse continues to grow, and with the advent of big data this growth will inevitably accelerate. This Webinar discusses the affect of big data on data life-cycle management in a data warehousing environment. It focuses on how companies can provide good data warehouse performance in the new world of big data while cost-effectively managing data as it grows and then ages.

Speaker: Colin White

December
5
9:00AM PT

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Balancing Governance and Business Agility through Streamlined Information Integration

Conventional wisdom suggests that a centralized function for managing access to data provides economies of scale while providing trustworthy oversight of the quality and usability of that data. Business must be agile; increased business control of information enables greater freedom in analysis. The increasing need of business users for speed and agility also requires a higher degree of speed and agility in IT that can be achieved by automating trivial tasks.

Speaker: David Loshin

December
6
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

December 2-4, 2012

TDWI Solution Summit: Cloud BI

Scottsdale, AZ

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February 17-22, 2013

TDWI World Conference: Data Strategy for the Enterprise

Las Vegas, NV

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February 18-20, 2013

TDWI BI Executive Summit: Enterprise Data Strategies for Analytics and BI

Las Vegas, NV

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