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Wednesday, September 03, 2014

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Q&A: The Four Pillars of Agility

James Powell

Agile is simple but not easy, says chief systems architect Ralph Hughes. He examines the techniques and technologies that can eliminate miscommunications and wasted efforts that often undermine DW/BI development projects.

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Agile Business Intelligence: Leaving the Comfort Zone

David Stodder

To reap the rewards of agile, you'll need to take some risks.

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Q&A: Advanced Data Visualization: From Atomic Data to Big Data

James Powell

How is information overload converging on real-time decision making? Andrew Cardno, a data visualization expert at AmericanKiwi LLC, shares his perspective.

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Big Data and the Midmarket: Identifying and Overcoming the Top Challenges

Joanna Schloss

We examine three key obstacles that stand between midmarket companies and successful big data initiatives.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Forward-Looking BI: The Next Step in the Analytics Journey

Speaker: Fern Halper

September
9
9:00AM PT
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Reports and dashboards that utilize historical data to gain insight are just the beginning of a company's analytics journey. Advances in technology including predictive capabilities can help organizations gain competitive advantage by helping them discover trends, patterns, and relationships in data and guide their next course of action. In the past, predictive analytics has been the realm of statisticians and other quantitative individuals and was often separated from BI activities.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Data Management Best Practices in the Age of Big Data and Real-Time Operations

The incremental movement toward real-time operation is the most influential trend today in data-driven IT disciplines such as business intelligence, data warehousing, and data integration. From a technology viewpoint, collecting, processing, and delivering data is hard enough; doing it in real time requires effort that is downright Herculean. Thanks to the big data phenomenon, the volume of data continues to swell, exacerbating the situation.

Speaker: Philip Russom

September
10
9:00AM PT

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Architecture Matters: Real-Time In-Memory Technologies Do Not Make Data Warehousing Obsolete

For years, experienced data warehousing (DW) consultants and analysts have advocated the need for a well- thought-out architecture for designing and implementing large-scale DW environments. The benefits of these architectures are well documented, but enterprises are faced with new and disruptive demands from their business users. The question becomes: How do we maintain a stable analytical environment yet bring in the technological innovations so desperately needed?

Speaker: Claudia Imhoff

September
11
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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