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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

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Big Blue and Data Warehouses in the Cloud

Stephen Swoyer

IBM's Nancy Kopp-Hensley talks about cloud, data warehousing, and what's ahead for its new BLU Acceleration for Cloud. She also explains why being a good sales person -- especially if you're an over-taxed IT administrator -- never hurts.

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Q&A: Save Time and Money with Automated Data Warehouse Development

Linda Briggs

You're wasting money and slowing down the business if you're not taking advantage of automated data warehouse development, contends Mark Budzinski of WhereScape. A core goal of data warehouse automation is to eliminate hand-coding, he explains in this interview -- something that software can do faster and better than humans, and at considerable cost savings.

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Data in the Cloud: The Truth Every IT Professional Needs to Know

Rob May

IT professionals must remember that just because data is stored in the cloud does not mean it is backed up. Here's how you can keep your data safe.

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Model-Driven Architectures + BI: The Perfect Pairing

Bob Potter

Successful enterprises recognize that data is their most valuable resource. Those that figure out how to move, refine, and process this resource for enhanced BI will be at a huge advantage.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Graph-Based Analysis: Using Alternative Data Analytics to Analyze Behavior

Speaker: David Loshin

June
17
9:00AM PT
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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.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

The Three Pillars of Agile Data Integration: Self Service, Rapid Data Set Prototyping, and Data Stewardship

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

June
18
9:00AM PT

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Are Advanced Analytics Possible without a Data Scientist?

Data scientists are in high demand and companies are frantically looking for ways of overcoming the costs and shortage of experienced data science talent. To help solve this problem, both established and new start-up vendors are introducing products that claim to enable business users to do advanced and predictive analytics without the assistance of a data scientist.

Speaker: Colin White

June
19
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

July 8 - 10, 2014

TDWI BI Symposium: BI Essentials, Data Modeling, Analytics, and Agile BI

Toronto, ON

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July 20 - 25, 2014

TDWI World Conference in Boston: Evolving Your Analytics Infrastructure: From DW to Big Data

Boston, MA

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July 21 - 23, 2014

TDWI Executive Summit in Boston: Realizing the Potential of BI, Analytics, and Big Data

Boston, MA

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