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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

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Data's Beauty: In the Eye of the Beholder

David Stodder

How can organizations use data visualization, visual analytics, and visual data discovery to improve decision-making, collaboration, and operational execution? We present three key insights from the latest TDWI research.

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Q&A: How to Use BI to Measure Social Media Activity

Linda Briggs

Consumers who fall in the 18- to 34- year-old age group are sometimes referred to as "digital natives." HP assigns a broader term to those who are comfortable with technology and social media, regardless of age, calling them "Generation C," for connected. Using business intelligence, HP's Dennison DeGregor explains, companies can measure and analyze Gen C activities across social media to deliver personalized, targeted content in real time.

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Real-Time BI: A Banking Perspective

Nivedita Ramanathan

Real-time business intelligence and analytics have been steadily gaining importance in the banking industry over the last few months. In this article, we evaluate the need for real-time BI from a banking perspective and its edge over traditional BI.

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4 Reasons Why IT Must Market In-House to BI Users (Part 1 of 2)

Max T. Russell

The IT staff has to communicate its current and potential contributions to the whole organization. A proper marketing process will align IT services with actual business needs.

TDWI Webinar Series:

The New Architecture for a Modern BI Environment: Answering the Challenge of Growing Sources of BI Data

Speaker: Claudia Imhoff

June
13
9:00AM PT
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Data, data everywhere. Today's BI implementation experts are faced with increasing volumes and sources of data (on premises and off), new and innovative technologies, more complex data integration and quality issues, and difficulties maintaining and enhancing these diverse BI architectures.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Data Governance: A Business Opportunity the Business Can No Longer Ignore

Every business leader wants to have trusted, secure, consistent, and usable information, but data volumes and systems complexity have been increasing for years. Plus, most organizations rarely prioritize data governance, so why care now?

Speaker: Claudia Imhoff

June
18
9:00AM PT

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Converting Big Data into Business Value with Analytics

Most everyone by now has heard about big data and big data analytics, as it seems that every vendor has managed to work these terms into their marketing messages. However, to date, most of these discussions have centered on the definition of big data and the intricacies of the technologies involved, rather than on how to apply new sources of data and new analytic technologies for business benefit.

Speaker: Colin White

June
26
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

June 17-19, 2013

TDWI BI Symposium: Building an Analytics-Driven Organization

Toronto, ON

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August 12-15, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: BI Essentials

New York, NY

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August 18-23, 2013

TDWI World Conference: Agile BI

San Diego, CA

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