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Wednesday, February 06, 2013

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How Information Excellence Can Be a Competitive Advantage

Stephen Swoyer

Industry veteran William McKnight says he looks forward to a day when companies talk about "information excellence" as a key competitive differentiator. Not "data management," not "information management," but information excellence. Believe it or not, we're getting there, argues McKnight, who will be a keynote speaker at this month's TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas.

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8 Principles That Can Make You an Analytics Rock Star

Bernard Wehbe

Follow these principles -- many of which are overlooked by traditional methodologies -- and you could become an analytics heavyweight in your organization.

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Defining Data Analytics Services in Support of Business Process Optimization

David S. Linthicum

As we get better at building, deploying, and managing analytics services, we'll need to create and maintain these services so end users can maximize BI in their everyday work.

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Actuate Embraces Analytic Discovery

Stephen Swoyer

Talk about a quick turnaround. Late last year, reporting stalwart Actuate acquired Quiterian, a Barcelona, Spain-based visual analytics specialist. Just last month, Actuate unveiled BIRT Analytics, a new offering based on the Quiterian technology. Officials concede that this first edition is mostly a repackaging of Quiterian's DDWeb software -- but promise there's more to come.

TDWI Webinar Series:

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

Speaker: Philip Russom

February
12
9:00AM PT
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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.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

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 your 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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Top Reasons Why You Should Be Considering Advanced Analytics for Your Organization

Advanced analytics is being embraced at an increasing rate by organizations that need to gain actionable insight from their vast amounts of both structured and unstructured information. Although much of the technology that comprises advanced analytics has been around for decades, over the past several years, adoption has increased for a number of reasons.

Speaker: Fern Halper

February
27
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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