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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

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Overcoming Challenges in Advanced Analytics

Fern Halper

How organizations are improving skills, expanding their technical knowledge, and gaining executive support for next-generation analytics.

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Metanautix: One Analytics Engine to Rule Them All

Stephen Swoyer

A new crop of analytics query tools proposes to accelerate the hardest part of "doing" analytics -- the work of selecting, preparing, and moving data sets to and from diverse systems -- by consolidating data prep and analytics query in a single engine. Start-up Metanautix claims it can automate data prep, consolidate query processing, and function as a single analytics engine for all query needs.

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Q&A: Mesh Old and New Decision- Making Processes to Drive Your Business Forward

Linda Briggs

Today's business, with its demand for fast and flexible decision-making, is too often held back by traditional BI's predefined reports and queries. In this interview, well-known BI author and consultant Dr. Barry Devlin explains his "Adaptive Decision Cycle" process and how it can be used to join disparate decision-making segments of the business to accelerate data and decisions.

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Snowflake Computing: A New Take on a Data Warehouse in the Cloud

Stephen Swoyer

Snowflake Computing understands that for most businesses, analytics is intensely personal -- and that building out an analytic practice requires customization. This doesn't mean that the components of such a practice -- starting with the data warehouse itself -- can't be implemented in a cloud context, however. This is what Snowflake purports to do with its data warehouse platform-as-a-service offering.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Embedded Analytics: From Dashboards to Wearables and Beyond

Speaker: Fern Halper

February
19
9:00AM PT
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What does it mean to embed analytics and why is this important for your organization?

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Making Data Work for You: Data Warehousing in the Cloud

Colin will discuss new approaches to data warehousing and offers practical advice that can help organizations build a flexible, fluid data layer. In addition, he'll examine the changing nature of the data warehouse, how to ensure access, scale, and security; the critical factors for project success; and on- premises, cloud, or hybrid: what makes sense when

Speaker: Colin White

February
24
9:00AM PT

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Analytics at Scale: What You Need to Know

TDWI's Fern Halper will discuss new approaches to analyzing data at scale and will offer practical advice about getting started. You'll learn why analytics at scale is important and how it's different from traditional analytics, hear use cases for analytics at scale, and understand how to get started with analytics at scale

Speaker: Fern Halper

March
11
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

March 16 - 19, 2015

TDWI Dallas Seminar // Business Analytics

Dallas, TX

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March 30 - April 2, 2015

TDWI Seminar Vancouver// Data Modeling

Vancouver, BC

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May 3 - 8, 2015

TDWI Chicago 2015

Chicago, IL

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