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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

News Highlights

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Teradata's SQL-on-Hadoop Strategy Begins with Presto

Stephen Swoyer

The wait is over: Teradata has itself a SQL-on-Hadoop strategy. Last month, the high-end data warehousing specialist announced its support for "Presto," an open source SQL-on-Hadoop query engine first developed by Facebook. For Teradata customers, a transparent SQL-on-Hadoop query mechanism could open up data stored in Hadoop to a universe of BI tools.

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The Big Data Honeymoon is Over

Aaron Fuller

What's driving our sudden, intense interest in data management and analytics?

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Interana Accelerates Event and Time-Series Analysis

Stephen Swoyer

Start-up Interana proposes to marry the best aspects of the self-service model with best-in-class event and time-series processing at scale. The result, its founders claim, is a single-stack solution that helps analysts ask and answer questions about events at any single point in time.

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Best of TDWI's Data Digest

Quint Turner

Online articles of interest in the last week include a focus on big data project best practices, best design methods for effective BI, how to mitigate data breaches, and the value of multi-model databases.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Making Advanced Analytics Simpler: Challenges, Opportunities, and Value

Speaker: Fern Halper

July
23
9:00AM PT
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In this Webinar we'll examine trends in advanced analytics and the technologies that help make it easier to use. The Webinar also focuses on best practices for getting started and making use of easy-to-use advanced analytics and the common pitfalls organizations face in opening up advanced analytics to a larger community. You'll also understand how you can use collective intelligence to drive competitive advantage.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Enterprise Data Warehouse Modernization and Big Data Analytics

David Loshin will discuss what's driving incremental enterprise data warehouse modernization, examine the emerging technologies promoted for modernization (including Hadoop and NoSQL) along with the benefits and drawbacks of each choice, and provide guidance for creating a blueprint for EDW modernization.

Speaker: David Loshin

July
28
9:00AM PT

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Visual Analytics for Making Smarter Decisions Faster

Join this TDWI Webinar to learn research insights and best practices about visual analytics. The Webinar is based on TDWI's recently released Best Practices Report, "Visual Analytics for Making Smarter Decisions Faster." The report features results from an extensive research survey of business and IT professionals as well as interviews with users and industry experts. The Webinar will help you develop a practical strategy for pushing forward with visual analytics, especially as your organization pursues trends toward self-service analytics, data preparation, and operational intelligence, including decision management.

Speaker: David Stodder

August
4
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

August 10 - 13, 2015

Seminar in Minneapolis // BI Essentials

Minneapolis, MN

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August 24 - 27, 2015

Seminar in Seattle // Data Mining and Visualization - A Hands-On Experience

Seattle, WA

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September 20 - 25, 2015

TDWI Conference in San Diego

San Diego, CA

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