Wednesday, May 28, 2014 |
News Highlights
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Stephen Swoyer
Start-up GridGain says its distributed,
in-memory SQL database has the potential to "democratize" in-memory
computing, but that's already happened. The technological, economic,
and cultural prerequisites all seem to be falling into place.
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Paul Ross
Ready to embrace the millennial mindset
for your data analytics? We offer five tips for encouraging the
budding data analysts in your own organization.
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Stephen Swoyer
A great potential metric of BI success
is frequency of use: how often do people actually use BI
technologies? BI adoption can't seem to crack 25 percent of all
employees. The ugly truth is that too few people have access to BI,
and fewer rely on BI to enrich decision making.
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James E. Powell
A Dell Software-commissioned survey of
big data initiatives at midsize companies (those with 2000 to 5000
employees) shows that big data initiatives are helping them achieve
"the improved product quality and decision making once reserved for
large enterprises."
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TDWI Webinar Series:
Speaker:
David Stodder
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Information integration is critical for
becoming smarter with data. Across all industries, organizations
want to use data analytics to discover how they can reduce costs
without sacrificing quality and effectiveness. Firms both large and
small want to pull diverse data streams together. Users can then
uncover insights and innovate at a faster pace than their
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Upcoming Webinars of Interest
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Although many different techniques and
technologies for big data appliances can increase scalable
performance, the ways that certain applications are mapped to a
typical Hadoop-style stack might limit scalability due to memory
access latency or network bandwidth. Yet the promise of big data
must go beyond increased scalability for known problems.
Speaker:
David Loshin
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Agile development methods-as applied in
data disciplines-have experienced strong adoption by users in recent
years, and for good reason. Learn how delivery speed, development
productivity, and business alignment are the leading priorities (and
benefits) for agile data management.
Speaker:
Philip Russom
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Now
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Events Calendar
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June 1 - 3, 2014
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Solution Summit: Beyond BI to Advanced Analytics
for Business Advantage
San Diego, CA
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Learn More / Register Now
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July 8 - 10, 2014
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TDWI BI Symposium: BI Essentials, Data Modeling,
Analytics, and Agile BI
Toronto, ON
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Learn More / Register Now
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