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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

News Highlights

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Artificial Intelligence May Transition Decision Support to Actual Decision-Making

Michael Schiff

Regardless of how you define artificial intelligence, its value is clear for big data applications.

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Have MDM, Will Deliver Data-Driven Apps

Stephen Swoyer

There are two major challenges to delivering and supporting data-driven apps. First, you must build and deploy an infrastructure that's able to reliably control for and manage both data heterogeneity and data periodicity. Second, you must deliver an application user experience that promotes exploratory discovery and analysis -- and which does so in the context of a familiar or intuitive paradigm. Start-up player Reltio says it has both problems licked.

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Q&A: Prescriptive Analytics to Play Big Role in Transforming Healthcare (Part 2 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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Achieving Analytics Maturity: 3 Tips from the Experts

Fern Halper

What does it take to achieve analytics maturity? Webinar guests give TDWI analyst Fern Halper some ideas.

TDWI Webinar Series:

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

Speaker: David Loshin

March
12
9:00AM PT
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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, and predictive and prescriptive analysis of ERP data and explore alternatives for emerging BI environments.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest


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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Is Hadoop-as-a- Service the Right Choice for Your Business?

This Webinar will discuss the pros and cons of Hadoop-as-a-Service, important use cases for adopting a cloud approach, and how organizations can match their business requirements to the most appropriate offering. Colin White will also offer a case study illustrating how one company decided to go to the cloud and the benefits they found there.

Speaker: Colin White

March
24
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

March 30 - April 2, 2015

TDWI Seminar Vancouver// Data Modeling

Vancouver, BC

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April 20 - 22, 2015

TDWI Seminar London // Agile BI

London, UK

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April 20 - 22, 2015

TDWI Seminar Washington, DC // Making Big Data Work

Washington, DC

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