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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

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Relieving the Pain of the BI Back Room with Data Warehouse Automation

Dave Wells

Data warehouse automation is more than simply automation of ETL development. It automates the entire data warehousing life cycle from planning, analysis, and design through development and extending into operations, maintenance, and change management. Dave Wells explains the benefits of the technology.

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A New Requirements- Gathering Technique for Building Applications Users will Embrace

Mico Yuk

Like most organizations, you are probably struggling to gather the true requirements of a project. Learn how using the BI Dashboard Formula can foster a higher user adoption rate of your completed application.

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"Data Driven" Requires Good Data Management

David Stodder

From a business perspective, big data it is about competing on analytics and making the entire organization more data driven. We explore two key points organizations seeking to become more data-driven should address.

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Q&A: New Tools Mean Big Data Dives Can Yield Fast Results

Linda Briggs

Analytics that can tap into raw, unstructured data is becoming increasingly important, enabling organizations to explore unstructured data on the fly without fixed schemas or specialized skill sets. Brett Sheppard of Splunk explains the direction new tools are taking and discusses their benefits.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Eight Considerations for Utilizing Big Data Analytics with Hadoop

Speaker: Fern Halper

April
17
9:00AM PT
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As companies seek gain competitive advantage through analytics, a change is occurring in the data and infrastructure that support it. Several technology factors are coming together to form the fabric of an evolving analytics ecosystem. Advanced analytics, in particular, are becoming more important as companies embrace big data. This includes techniques such as advanced visualization and machine learning that can be particularly beneficial in big data discovery and analysis.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

In-Memory Computing: Expanding the Platform Horizon Beyond the Database

In-memory database management systems have matured to the point where they predictably promise accelerated application performance. By adopting alternative storage layouts amenable to in-memory processing, these databases take advantage of efficient use of available memory to reduce or even eliminate the data latencies typically associated with significantly slower disk- based storage media.

Speaker: David Loshin

May
1
9:00AM PT

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Six Best Practices for Gaining Value from Enterprise Reports Using Next- Generation Analytics

Valuable organizational data about a company's business and its customers is often found in reports. This might include financial statements, billing invoices, healthcare patient records, or statements of benefits. Such data is often stored in a company's enterprise content management (ECM) systems.

Speaker: Fern Halper

May
7
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

May 11 - 16, 2014

TDWI World Conference in Chicago: Business-Driven BI

Chicago, IL

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May 12 - 16, 2014

Analytics World in Chicago: Business Analytics

Chicago, IL

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May 28, 2014

Solution Spotlight on Big Data Analytics

Cleveland, OH

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