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Wednesday, August 06, 2014

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The Impact of Personalized BI

Sreenivas “Dinu” Davuluri

To benefit from BI, align your data analysis practices with key business objectives.

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Data Vault 101

Stephen Swoyer

Pair data vault development with agile methods and practices, some BI pros say, and you have a means to quickly deliver BI apps and to address the requirements of data mining and real-time loading, as well as -- most important of all -- the inevitability of change.

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What Can NFS-Enabled Hadoop Do For You?

Sachin Sinha

NFS -- a distributed file system protocol -- allows access to files on a remote computer in a manner similar to how a local file system is accessed.

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Utilities Uncertain about Big Data Analytics, IDC Reports

Stephen Swoyer

Big data analytics should be a slam dunk for utility companies, which manage networks of devices that continuously generate streams of data. A new report from IDC reveals that utilities are uncertain about what they're doing or why they're doing it.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Making Predictive Analytics Consumable

Speaker: Fern Halper

August
12
9:00AM PT
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Predictive analytics is a powerful technology that is rapidly becoming mainstream. It is being used across industries to understand and predict customer behavior, detect fraud, determine outcomes, and much more. An important trend in the market is the move to make the output from predictive analytics more consumable by end users.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Visual Dashboards for Self-Service BI

A picture can paint a thousand numbers and broaden the appeal of BI tools. A fiercely competitive business environment demands more agility and shorter time to insight. These forces have given rise to visual data discovery tools as a new module in the BI portfolio. Specialty BI vendors are growing rapidly and BI platform vendors have rushed to add visual discovery capabilities to their portfolios.

Speaker: Cindi Howson

August
13
9:00AM PT

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Moving Beyond the Spreadsheet for Analytics

TDWI Research shows that spreadsheets are arguably one of the most popular tools used for analysis among business analysts. Although spreadsheets fit the needs of many organizations, they are limited in numerous ways. For instance, it is hard to deal with multiple sources of data, or dirty data, in spreadsheets.

Speaker: Fern Halper

August
14
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

August 11 - 14, 2014

TDWI Seminar Series in Minneapolis: Data Asset Management

Minneapolis, MN

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August 12, 2014

Solution Spotlight on Big Data Analytics

Chicago, IL

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September 8 - 10, 2014

BI Symposium - In-Depth BI/DW Courses: Essential Education, Immediate Impact

London, UK

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