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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

News Highlights

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What Big Data is Really About

Mark Madsen

Ignore the hype surrounding big data. What's really important is to learn about the new models for data processing that big data is bringing so you can plan rather than react.

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Enterprise Data Strategy: It's Not Magic

Dave Stodder

A data strategy that does not anticipate business and technology change will likely be doomed to irrelevance.

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Q&A: Eckerson Book Delivers Insights from Analytics Leaders

Linda Briggs

Wayne Eckerson describes his new book, "Secrets of Analytical Leaders," as "a panel discussion in print, with me moderating the seven smartest people I know in BI." In this interview, he discusses the insights he gathered from top experts in the industry on delivering BI and analytical solutions.

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Agile Inevitability

Stephen Swoyer

A new report from TDWI Research looks at what's driving the need for BI agility. It also assesses how "agility" is commonly conceived -- and best achieved -- in a BI context.

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KYDEX Gains Faster, Easier Access to Key Information and Analysis

KYDEX had relied on a text-based ERP system for its sales operations reports. When it changed ERP systems, it was an opportune time to implement a BI solution as well. (From TDWI's What Works in Emerging Technologies)

TDWI Webinar Series:

Real Time Business Insight from Big Data

Speaker: Philip Russom

January
23
9:00AM PT
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For those of us in IT and especially BI, there's nothing more exciting than seeing practices and technologies come together in a new combination, to support enterprise business in a new way. At the moment, we are seeing such a confluence of practices and technologies for real time, analytics, big data, and in-memory processing. The combination enables more organizations to credibly address time-sensitive business processes that involve big data and benefit from analytics.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Operationalizin g Big Data Analytics: Turn Isolated Analytic Insights into Repeatable BI Solutions that Benefit the Whole Enterprise

Many user organizations are moving deeper into advanced analytics with big data because conventional wisdom now tells us that there are leverage-able business insights to be discovered in big data. However, many organizations are deploying teams and tools for big data analytics in silos that are disconnected partially or wholly from the rest of an enterprise.

Speaker: Philip Russom

February
12
9:00AM PT

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Five Steps for Getting Your BI Dashboard and Self-Service to the Next Level

Dashboard and self-service excellence is essential to gaining full value from investment in BI tools. Dashboards can be critical in increasing your information awareness and in improving overall transparency, strategic alignment, accountability, collaboration, and data governance, but after initial implementation, then what?

Speaker: David Stodder

February
26
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

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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March 18-21, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: Data Modeling

Austin, TX

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