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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

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The Secret to BI Success: Take a Business-Driven Approach

James Powell

For two decades, Barb Wixom has been investigating how companies deliver value from BI, and she has discovered an important characteristic that separates the real winners in BI: a business-driven approach.

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Understanding the Self-Service Market

Lyndsay Wise

How to ensure a successful deployment of BI self-service solutions.

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Tech Talk: Bringing Sexy (Hardware) Back

Stephen Swoyer

During a presentation at the Pacific Northwest BI Summit, BI Research founder Colin White offered attendees a provocative glimpse into his technology crystal ball.

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Reckless Analytics: Financial Suicide or Public Disaster?

A discussion of two types of widespread analytic handicaps: individuals affected by poor analytics and government or corporate analytic failure negatively impacting millions of people.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Delivering on the Promise of Real-Time Business Analytics

Speaker: Philip Russom

September
12
9:00AM PT
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Most business intelligence (BI) implementations query data that is historical, representing business processes that have already completed. Even so called real-time BI reports are generated using historical data. Although this view of data has some value, it does not represent the complete picture. Fully informed business decisions require real-time insight into high-volume streaming data sources, current events, and ongoing business processes.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Practical Predictive Analytics for the Line-of-Business Analyst

Can business analysts effectively use predictive analytics? Adoption of predictive analytics and other advanced analytics has increased for a number of reasons, including a better understanding of the value of the technology and the availability of computing power. Economic factors are also a driving force in utilizing predictive analytics for business as companies strive to remain competitive. Companies want to better understand customer behavior. They want to better predict failures in their infrastructure. The uses for predictive analytics are extensive and growing.

Speaker: Fern Halper

September
18
9:00AM PT

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The Next- Generation Data Integration Hub: A Business-Friendly Publish-and- Subscribe Paradigm for Enterprise Data

Hub-and-spoke patterns have long been the preferred architecture for data and application integration technologies because hubs provide an easily understood design, reduce the number of interfaces required, foster reuse, and control data centrally for the purposes of optimization, data standards, and governance. However, there's a new generation of data integration hub coming that even nontechnical users can employ to publish data, so that other users can easily subscribe to that data and bring it into their applications with minimal involvement from IT.

Speaker: Philip Russom

September
19
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

October 7-10, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: Dimensional Modeling

Minneapolis, MN

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October 20-25, 2013

TDWI World Conference: Business-Driven BI

Boston, MA

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October 15-18, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: Big Data

San Diego, CA

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