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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

News Highlights

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Three Ways to Gain Value from Analytics

Fern Halper

Are you getting the most from analytics? Here are three things you can do to maximize its benefits.

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Q&A: Rich in Data, Healthcare Presents Steep Integration Challenges

Linda Briggs

When it comes to healthcare, "other industries are envious of the rich set of standardized data" available, says HP's Donte London. As he further explains in this interview, the first of two parts, healthcare data also introduces plenty of challenges in managing and integration.

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Marketing IT In-House: Truth Is Better Than Fiction

Max T. Russell

Honesty is the best policy with your in-house customers because you have to live with them. At the same time, getting to know your own product so you can tell the truth about it is a journey in itself.

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Sales Forecasting Top BI Goal for SMBs Says Survey

James E. Powell

According to a new report by TechnologyAdvice, 61 percent of IT professionals are researching big data systems.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Stream Processing: Streaming Data in Real Time In-Memory

Speaker: Fern Halper

August
21
9:00AM PT
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As big data continues to grow bigger and become more diverse and more real-time, forward-looking organizations are looking to manage and analyze this data using advanced analytics in an environment that might include multiple approaches and technologies. For real-time streaming data, this could include utilizing technologies that support in-memory processing, where data and mathematical computations are performed in RAM rather than on disk, enabling processing thousands of times faster than data access from disk.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Cloud BI: Demystifying the Issues

Cloud BI has been positioned as the next evolution in BI because of its advantages in flexibility and elasticity. However, there is still confusion about moving to a cloud model, and cloud BI adoption has been slow, although interest is increasing. In a recent TDWI survey, a majority of respondents were either already using the cloud or were considering it for BI and analytics.

Speaker: Fern Halper

August
26
9:00AM PT

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Achieving Faster and More Agile BI and Analytics with Virtual Data Processing

Speed, agility, and intelligence are competitive advantages that nearly all organizations seek. To seize these advantages, organizations require timely, diverse, complete, and accurate data. Learn how can organizations take advantage of new big data sources to deliver complete and diverse views of data -- and get beyond the limits of traditional data warehouses.

Speaker: David Stodder

August
27
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

September 8 - 10, 2014

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

London, UK

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September 14 - 16, 2014

Solution Summit in Austin // Hadoop, Cloud, and Hybrid Architectures: Components for Analytics Innovation

Austin, TX

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September 21 - 26, 2014

TDWI World Conference in San Diego // Managing Agile BI for the Enterprise

San Diego, CA

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