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Wednesday, November 05, 2014

News Highlights

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Why Your Enterprise Needs a Chief Data Officer

Larissa Moss

Learn the value a new c-level executive can bring to your organization.

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Overcoming Data Obstacles for Integrated BI

Donald Farmer

How you can avoid three barriers to taking an integrated BI approach to providing a multifaceted view of enterprise data.

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Q&A: Using Big Data Analytics for Better Customer Intelligence

Linda Briggs

In this discussion of big data and analytics, Hannah Smalltree with Treasure Data discusses strategies for working with big data and suggests some ways to begin working with big data and analytics.

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Analysis: Watson Analytics Advances New Paradigm of User Assistance

Stephen Swoyer

Does IBM's new Watson Analytics offering herald the advent of a new class of quasi-intelligent machines capable of beating the best of human analysts at their own game? Not exactly, but Watson Analytics is an assisting technology, helping human thinkers by guiding and enriching human analysis. Above all, it's designed to not get in the way.

TDWI Webinar Series:

The Data-Driven CFO: Increasing Finance's Contribution to the Bottom Line`

Speaker: Fern Halper

November
6
9:00AM PT
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Our panel of industry experts will discuss proven design principles and considerations for a data- driven approach to finance analytics, key organizational and process imperatives to unite all of Finance around a single, integrated data platform, and how to establish a sustainable finance architecture that adjusts to change.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Data Exploration and Discovery: A New Approach to Business Analytics

Learn about the business value of big data and advanced analytics (we'll go beyond the hype) and the role of the investigative computing platform. We'll explain how to use investigative computing for data exploration and discovery as well as its business benefits and use cases.

Speaker: Colin White

November
12
9:00AM PT

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Telling a Story with Data: Skills for Both Business and Technical Analysts

This Webinar will help both business and technical analysts develop their storytelling skills with business and technical best practices. Learn how to tell a story and keep your audience's attention. Avoid common problems that plague those new to analytics and learn to adapt a few traditional storytelling techniques to your own story.

Speaker: Fern Halper

November
13
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

November 10 - 13, 2014

TDWI Seminar Series in San Francisco // Advanced Analytics

San Francisco, CA

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December 7 - 12, 2014

TDWI Orlando 2014

Orlando, FL

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