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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

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Benefits of Agile Data Warehousing: A Real-World Story

Mark Giesbrecht

How agile data warehousing has transformed CN's BI delivery environment.

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Agony and Ecstasy at Hadoop Summit

Stephen Swoyer

If this year's Strata conference produced a deluge of Hadoop-related news items, last month's Hadoop Summit upped the ante with lots of Hadoop goodies; dozens of vendors made announcements to coincide with the two-day event.

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Q&A: Getting Business Process Management Right

James Powell

Mac McConnell at Bonitasoft explains what a BPM tool can do and how to avoid the biggest mistakes enterprises make in their BPM projects.

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Agile BI: Welcome to the Business Model Generation

Lawrence Corr

How a Business Model Canvas and BI Model Canvas can help accelerate your modeling work.

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Data Scientists Dictate What We Eat

The biggest factor influencing what the average American eats is the margin the grocery store makes on the products it sells -- and behind it all is data science.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Using Analytics to be Predictive and Proactive

Speaker: David Stodder

August
14
9:00AM PT
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Organizations today need to get ahead of events so they can adjust decisions about resources, personnel, up- sell and cross-sell offers, fraud and abuse detection, and more in dynamic fashion. Analytics can play a key role in bringing predictive insights to executives and managers. With these insights coupled with continuous, real-time data views from business and operational intelligence systems, organizations can be "proactive" -- that is, they can do more than just react after the fact to events and market changes, and instead shape their own destiny.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Improving Ad hoc Query Speed for Hadoop Data

As user organizations dive deeper into big data analytics, many are depending more heavily than ever on SQL-based, ad hoc queries as their primary method for data exploration and discovery analytics (sometimes called investigative analytics). At the same time, the same organizations are adopting or considering Hadoop as their primary storage platform for big data. SQL-based analytics and Hadoop are good choices in isolation, but bringing them together has a catch: Hadoop's support for queries is minimal at the moment.

Speaker: Philip Russom

August
27
9:00AM PT

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Big Data and Your Data Warehouse

Just a few years ago, big data was a problem in terms of scaling up IT systems and discovering the business value. Thanks to advances in vendor platforms and user practices, most enterprises today consider big data an opportunity -- not a problem -- because they can mine and analyze it for valuable business insight.

Speaker: Philip Russom

September
5
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

August 12-15, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: BI Essentials and Foundations in Analytics

New York, NY

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August 18-23, 2013

TDWI World Conference: Agile BI

San Diego, CA

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August 19-21, 2013

TDWI Executive Summit 2013

San Diego, CA

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