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Wednesday, March 04, 2015

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Data Analytics Innovation within Everyone's Reach

Stephen Swoyer

Welcome to Analytics 3.0. At TDWI's Las Vegas Conference, keynote speaker Tom Davenport argued that you don't have to be a Silicon Valley start-up to practice data-analytics innovation.

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Confidence in Analytics Begins with the Data

David Stodder

Organizations need to adjust data quality processes to fit the requirements of analytics rather than stick with what they have established for standard BI reporting.

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How Enterprises are Overcoming the Data Scientist Scarcity

Mehul Shaw and Vibha Dhawan

What can your organization do to overcome the lack of data scientists?

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Q&A: Advanced Analytics Crucial to Healthcare Evolution (Part 1 of 2)

Linda Briggs

Healthcare is undergoing a transformation to make it more effective and efficient. Underlying many of the changes healthcare organizations are making is analytics, especially prescriptive analytics. In this interview, Meg Aranow, an expert in healthcare and analytics, outlines how the technology is being used, including several examples, and offers some best practices for getting started.

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HDS Buys Pentaho

Stephen Swoyer

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) acquired open source analytics specialist Pentaho. HDS itself has almost no presence in BI and data warehousing (DW) -- or the big data analytic space, for that matter -- with the obvious exception of its role as a provider of enterprise storage and compute resources. Which begs a pretty pressing question: just what is HDS thinking?

TDWI Webinar Series:

Analytics at Scale: What You Need to Know

Speaker: Fern Halper

March
11
9:00AM PT
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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

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Enabling Business Productivity by Uprooting Data Complexity in the BI/Analytics Environment

Learn how the evolving sophistication of BI consumers and the emerging needs of data analysts are driving enterprises to broaden access to raw data for interactive discovery. We'll explore how users can take advantage of simulations, what-if analysis, predictive, and prescriptive analysis of ERP data and explore alternatives for emerging BI environments.

Speaker: David Loshin

March
12
9:00AM PT

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TDWI's Top 10 Trends in BI and Analytics for 2015: Setting Your Technology Strategy

TDWI Research Directors Fern Halper and David Stodder will discuss some of the most important developments in technology and practices and how they will impact your strategy. We will look at how business and IT leadership need to respond to new opportunities to improve how their organizations derive insights from data and put them into action.

Speaker: Fern Halper and David Stodder

March
19
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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