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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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Decision Support: A Classic, Back-to-Basics Data Warehousing Business Driver

Mike Schiff

Big data and real-time analytics offer important and exciting benefits, but don't lose sight of your organization's classic decision-making needs.

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Has Analytics become a Meaningless Term?

Stephen Swoyer

As some business intelligence veterans see it, the term "analytics" has lost some of its meaning. Some allege that BI vendors have dumbed down what's meant by analytics, treating the term as little more than a marketing tool. Others claim that today's BI offerings are increasingly -- and creditably -- analytical.

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Agile BI: How to Turn Vague Ideas into Tangible Deliverables

Mehul Shah and Sachin Sinha

This four-point methodology can help IT deliver on BI's promise of innovation and improving the top line.

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Long Live the Spreadsheet

Stephen Swoyer

The spreadsheet, says Armanta CEO Peter Chirlian, "is a powerful analogy." Though technologists tend to dismiss it, a sizeable proportion of analytic work gets done with spreadsheets. Chirlian says Armanta's solution is like a visual, more manageable spreadsheet that can be dropped into existing business processes without disrupting them.

TDWI Webinar Series:

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

Speaker: David Stodder

February
26
9:00AM PT
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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?

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

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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5 Hot Trends Impacting Your Decision-Making Environment and What You Need to Worry About

Big data analytics, mobile devices, cloud-based solutions, social media data, and predictive analytics -- these are the major trends in today's decision-making environments. Exciting, yes, but incorporating these trends can also be quite disruptive to traditional architectures and the implementers, analysts, and decision makers themselves.

Speaker: Claudia Imhoff

February
28
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

March 18-21, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: Data Modeling

Austin, TX

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April 22-25, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: Dimensional Modeling

Washington, DC

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May 5-10, 2013

TDWI World Conference: Big Data Tipping Point

Chicago, IL

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