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Wednesday, April 02, 2014

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Putting Business Back in Business Intelligence

Dave Wells

Managing big-picture BI is a challenge that demands clear relationships between business impact and information services. We must actively manage BI in three dimensions that drive business alignment: management, motivation, and measurement.

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Q&A: Are You Ready for Business-Driven BI?

James Powell

What is business-driven BI, what technologies are driving it, and which has the most impact on business leaders? Noted industry analyst and author Shawn Rogers looks at the issues.

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Business-Driven Data Warehouse Architectures

Philip Russom

The evolution TDWI is seeing in data warehouse architectures is due in part to evolving business practices and goals.

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Q&A: Business Analytics Poised for Disruption

Linda Briggs

Too often, business analytics involves long and expensive software implementation cycles involving rigid data models and a "data first" perspective. Tidemark co-founder and CPO Tony Rizzo discusses a new approach that engages users directly, wherever they are within the business.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Seven Data Discovery Steps for Improving Information Delivery and Accuracy

Speaker: Dave Stodder

April
8
9:00AM PT
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It's important to know your data, yet many organizations lack fundamental knowledge about their data. The situation is getting tougher as "big data" sources grow and documentation efforts can't keep pace. Good data knowledge is critical to defining business objects; poor understanding leads to higher costs, embarrassing mistakes, regulatory errors, and data quality problems that damage daily decision making.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Analytics at the Speed of Business: Delivering Real-Time Insight from Data Streams

Find out how your organization can achieve new advantages through the visualization and analysis of real-time data and event streams.

Speaker: Dave Stodder

April
9
9:00AM PT

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Evolving Data Warehouse Architectures in the Age of Big Data Analytics

The complexity of data warehouse environments has increased dramatically in recent years with the arrival of data warehouse appliances, columnar database management systems, NoSQL databases, Hadoop, and tools for multiple forms of advanced analytics or real-time operation. The new vendor and open source platforms come in response to users' growing demands for platforms optimized for various forms of big data, analytics, real- time operation, and the workloads that go with them.

Speaker: Philip Russom

April
15
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

April 7 - 10, 2014

TDWI Seminar Series in Washington DC: Data Modeling

Washington, DC

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April 15, 2014

Solution Spotlight on Big Data Analytics

New York, NY

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May 11 - 16, 2014

TDWI World Conference in Chicago: Business-Driven BI

Chicago, IL

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