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TDWI Perspectives | Generative and Agentic AI

September 30, 2025

Download this new resource today to read the highlights of this discussion!


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TDWI Checklist Report | Preparing Your Enterprise for Data Agents: An Eight-Step Framework

September 25, 2025

The goal of this TDWI Checklist Report is to provide organizations with a practical framework for evaluating their readiness to deploy data agents.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Building Modern Data, Analytics, and AI Governance

September 22, 2025

This TDWI Best Practices Report discusses the diverse range of use cases under the heading of responsible data, analytics, and AI.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Building an Agentic MetaFabric for Next-Generation Enterprise Operations

August 29, 2025

This TDWI Checklist highlights the capabilities that a MetaFabric should have, offering practical guidance and outlining steps organizations can take to meet the data demands of modern business.


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The State of Self-Service and Automation

August 27, 2025

This State of Self-Service Report examines the current state of self-service and how mature organizations are in their efforts.


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TDWI Research Brief | The Impact of Generative AI on Business

August 20, 2025

Download this exclusive research brief today to learn how you can position yourself to lead in an AI-enabled future.


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TDWI Playbook | Next Generation Data Science: The AI-Driven Data Science Life Cycle

June 30, 2025

Download this TDWI Playbook today to learn how you can advance your data science with AI-infused tools while minimizing risk and maximizing business value.


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TDWI Data Points | The Data Foundation for AI

June 25, 2025

This TDWI Data Points report focuses on how enterprises are modernizing their data strategies and architectures to meet the demands of AI, navigate economic uncertainty, and address the evolving need for unified, scalable data environments.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Data Strategies and Foundations for Modern Data Management

June 2, 2025

This TDWI Best Practices Report identifies current challenges organizations are facing with data strategy and management, as well as shared modernization priorities for achieving data-driven business objectives.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Adopting a Platform Approach for Gaining Insights from Unstructured Data

May 30, 2025

This TDWI Insight Accelerator considers the challenges that organizations are facing with diverse, distributed data types and explores techniques and approaches that can help data engineers overcome these issues.


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TDWI Digital Dialogue | AI Governance in Practice: Operationalizing Governance for Enterprise AI

May 30, 2025

Download this Digital Dialogue today to read the highlights of this discussion!


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TDWI Checklist Report | Building Trusted Data and AI Governance in a Regulated World

May 28, 2025

This Checklist offers practical guidance: steps you can take to understand and respond to emerging global regulations, establish a foundation of trusted data across distributed environments, and expand governance to include AI and generative AI systems.


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TDWI Digital Dialogue | Practical Strategies for Data Governance Deployment

April 30, 2025

A recent TDWI webinar focused on the need for new data governance deployment strategies. Download this Digital Dialogue today to read the highlights of the discussion!


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TDWI Digital Dialogue | Unlocking the Power of AI And Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the Enterprise

April 30, 2025

A recent TDWI webinar focused on best practices and challenges for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic AI. Download this Digital Dialogue today to read the highlights of this discussion!


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TDWI Digital Dialogue | Real-Time Digital Intelligence for Generative AI

April 21, 2025

In a TDWI webinar, experts from TDWI, Databricks, and Striim discussed the issues surrounding use of real-time streaming data intelligence platforms for generative AI and other advanced applications. Download this Digital Dialogue today to read the highlights of this discussion!


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TDWI Digital Dialogue | Developing a Modern Data Strategy for AI: Evolving Roles and Practices

April 3, 2025

Download this Digital Dialogue today to read the highlights of this discussion!


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TDWI Checklist Report | Solving Data Engineering Challenges to Deliver Success with AI and Analytics

March 31, 2025

This TDWI Checklist Report discusses challenges and solution trends for future-proofing data engineering as organizations advance with AI and analytics and seek to support more users and workloads.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Creating an AI-Ready Organization

March 24, 2025

This TDWI Best Practices Report examines the current state of AI, including the challenges organizations are facing with AI, how they are organizing to execute, and considerations for success.


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Digital Dialogue | Driving Data Quality at Scale with High-Performance Observability in the Cloud

December 18, 2024

Download this Digital Dialogue today to read the highlights of this discussion!


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TDWI Checklist Report | Five Considerations for a Data Platform to Support AI Application Development

December 16, 2024

This TDWI Checklist discusses some key considerations to help enterprises select the right data platform for natively building and deploying their data-intensive and AI applications.


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TDWI Digital Dialogue | Scaling Data Integration and Analytics Pipelines

November 18, 2024

Download this Digital Dialogue today to read the highlights of this discussion!


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Distributed Data Management: Solving Challenges and Maximizing Opportunities

November 6, 2024

This TDWI Best Practices Report examines distributed data management: what it is, the challenges organizations are facing with it, how organizations are trying to address it, and best practices for success.


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2024 The State of Data Governance Report

October 9, 2024

Read the new State of Data Governance report today to learn about the current state of data governance maturity and best practices for moving forward with data governance.


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TDWI Digital Dialogue | The Role of Trusted Data in Generative AI

September 24, 2024

As organizations continue their journey to generative AI, new challenges around data trust and quality will emerge.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Open Cloud Data Storage: Four Best Practices for Maximizing Flexibility and Interoperability in the Enterprise Open Data Lakehouse

September 4, 2024

This TDWI Checklist discusses four best practices that will help ensure that enterprises maximize the usefulness, flexibility, and interoperability of the cloud storage layer in their open data lakehouses.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Data Monitoring, Management, and Observability

September 4, 2024

This TDWI Best Practices Report examines the processes and best practices organizations are putting in place to track data flows, detect and respond to issues in real time, and maintain overall data health.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Using AI to Accelerate Retail to the Speed of the Consumer

September 3, 2024

This TDWI Insight Accelerator focuses on how artificial intelligence (AI) can help retailers and CPG companies to stay competitive, delight customers, and accelerate their delivery of innovative new products and services.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Generative AI in Practice: Exploring Use Cases to Harness Enterprise Data

August 26, 2024

This TDWI Checklist Report explores several popular generative AI use cases as well as how to get started with generative AI and put it into production with company data.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Democratizing Data and Analytics for Customer Insights: Five Best Practices

July 26, 2024

This TDWI Checklist Report provides current best practices for democratizing analytics.


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The State of AI Readiness 2024

July 11, 2024

Read the new State of AI Readiness report today to learn about the current state of AI, how ready organizations are to implement it, and best practices for moving forward with AI.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Leveraging a Data Fabric for Generative AI

June 28, 2024

This TDWI Checklist Report explores how to implement generative AI applications using a logical architectural approach such as a data fabric together with techniques such as retrieval-augmented generation.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | The Cloud Journey Continues: Unlocking AI and Digital Transformation Through Migration and Modernization

June 28, 2024

This TDWI Insight Accelerator discusses key challenges and recommendations for moving to the cloud as part of a modernization effort—enabling agility, availability, and scalability.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Transforming Your Business Through Artificial Intelligence

June 5, 2024

This TDWI Best Practices Report explores trends, considerations, and opportunities associated with successful implementation of AI in enterprise digital business transformation initiatives.


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TDWI Digital Dialogue | Driving Customer-360 Insights with Modern MDM, Generative AI, and Cloud Data Platforms

May 30, 2024

Download this discussion recap about using cloud data platforms, master data management (MDM), and generative AI to overcome customer data challenges.


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2024 State of Data Quality Report

May 15, 2024

Read the new State of Data Quality report today to learn about the current state of data quality management, the top challenges organizations face, and best practices for improving your data quality practices.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Reducing Time to Insight and Maximizing the Benefits of Real-Time Data

April 8, 2024

This TDWI Best Practices Report emphasizes reducing insight times by addressing data quality and integration as well as by leveraging modern technologies for real-time data utilization.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Five Pillars for the Comprehensive Governance of Data and Other Modern Assets

April 2, 2024

This TDWI Checklist Report examines five important pillars and best practices for the comprehensive governance of modern data- and AI-related assets.


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TDWI Playbook | Strategies and Practices for Responsible AI

March 27, 2024

Download this TDWI Playbook today to prepare your enterprise for responsible AI.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | AI and Data Strategies for Maximizing Business Benefits in Media, Entertainment, and Advertising

March 18, 2024

Decision-makers require timely and accurate business insights so they can innovate with personalized content and adapt to generative AI’s potential and risks. This TDWI Insight Accelerator offers data and AI strategies for addressing challenges and maximizing the benefits.


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Digital Dialogue | Using AI to Develop and Optimize Pipelines

March 14, 2024

In a recent webinar, TDWI VP and senior research director, Fern Halper, Ph.D., spoke to Matillion’s VP of products, Gwendal Vaz Nunes, about using AI to help develop pipelines.


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2024 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report
TDWI Member Exclusive

March 1, 2024

Overall job satisfaction was up for this year's report. See this and other trends in our 2024 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report.


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Digital Dialogue | Ensuring Excellence in AI: The Critical Role of Data Governance

January 31, 2024

This recent webinar covered a range of topics including pillars for AI governance, tools to help, and the importance of automation. Download the recap now.


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Checklist Report | Unifying Transactional and Analytical Data to Drive Modern Applications and Analytics

November 28, 2023

This TDWI Checklist focuses on how organizations can gain advantage from unifying data on modern cloud data platforms.


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Checklist Report | Delivering AI-Powered Embedded Analytics from the Data Lakehouse: Five Best Practices

November 17, 2023

This TDWI Checklist discusses five best practices for leveraging the lakehouse to build AI-powered analytics for embedding into enterprise applications.


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Digital Dialogue | Building a Collaborative Data Culture Using a Unified Data Catalog

November 17, 2023

Download this recap to learn how organizations are taking advantage of trends towards unified data catalogs and data lakehouses.


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Digital Dialogue | Leveraging Databases and Analytics for Transformational Data Insights

November 15, 2023

Download this recent conversation about how innovative database platforms are providing businesses with transformative insights.


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Insight Accelerator | Using Generative AI to Improve Operational Efficiency and Data-Driven Decision-Making

November 15, 2023

This TDWI Insight Accelerator focuses on current enterprise practices and key steps your organization can take to unlock the potential of generative AI.


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Digital Dialogue | Maximizing the Value of Your Data Lakehouse: How to Leverage a Data Catalog for Success

November 13, 2023

Download this recap to learn how the data lakehouse and the data catalog can help organizations succeed with analytics.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Unlocking the Power of Generative AI with Knowledge Graphs: Five Considerations for Getting Started

November 9, 2023

This TDWI Checklist Report examines five key considerations and best practices for generative AI using knowledge graphs.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Harnessing the Power of Diverse Data for Business Growth

November 8, 2023

This TDWI Best Practices Report asks how most companies are leveraging and managing diverse data types.


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2023 State of Analytics Report

October 18, 2023

This TDWI State of Analytics Report focuses on understanding current enterprise maturity levels and the challenges they face in moving forward.


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TDWI Data Points | Internal Data Marketplaces

September 29, 2023

This TDWI Data Points Report discusses the current state of internal data marketplaces. It examines the challenges organizations are facing, the opportunities for internal marketplaces, and the value they can provide.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Best Practices for Harnessing Real-Time and Streaming Data Pipelines

September 21, 2023

This TDWI Checklist Report examines six important considerations and best practices for managing streaming data for real-time use.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Achieving Scalable, Agile, and Comprehensive Data Management and Data Governance

September 6, 2023

This TDWI Best Practices Report focuses on understanding current challenges to data governance, integration, and quality.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Introducing Generative AI into Financial Services Enterprises

August 31, 2023

This TDWI Insight Accelerator examines use cases for generative AI specific to the financial services industry, overall concerns about adopting generative AI, challenges that must be overcome, and advice for planning and executing an enterprise AI strategy.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Generative AI: What Every Data and Analytics Professional Should Know

August 11, 2023

This TDWI Insight Accelerator explains how generative AI will impact data and analytics professionals.


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TDWI Playbook | Unifying Your Data Platform Architecture

July 31, 2023

Recently, there has been a shift in data management toward a unified architecture and platform that supports modern analytics. This TDWI Playbook provides four key plays to getting started with unified data platform architectures.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Saving Time and Costs: How Small and Midsize Businesses Can Maximize the Power of Data

July 28, 2023

This TDWI Insight Accelerator identifies key issues that SMBs need to address and offers recommendations for modernizing data integration and user experiences to maximize business benefits.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Steps for Simplifying Data Lakehouse Integration to Reduce Latency and Enable Real-Time Reporting

June 22, 2023

This TDWI Checklist Report focuses on two important developments coming together to support today’s data demands: unifying data management with a data lakehouse and modernizing data pipelines.


TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report 2023

2023 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report
TDWI Member Exclusive

June 16, 2023

Average salaries continued to rise in keeping with recent trends. See the fresh new look for our 2023 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Achieving Success with Modern Analytics

June 7, 2023

This Best Practices Report examines the drivers for modern analytics and the current state of analytics adoption.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Five Steps to Optimize Both Cost and Performance with Cloud Data Platforms

May 31, 2023

Critical to achieving goals is being able to optimize both cost and performance of cloud data platforms, which is the focus of this TDWI Checklist Report.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Modernizing Your Data Warehouse and Analytics: Key Pillars of a Data Lakehouse

May 25, 2023

This TDWI Checklist Report examines what sets the data lakehouse apart from the data warehouse and the data lake and the key pillars of the modern cloud data lakehouse.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Creating Life Sciences Supply Chain Resilience Through Data and Analytics

May 18, 2023

This TDWI Insight Accelerator discusses key challenges and recommendations for overcoming them, including how cloud solutions can help.


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Digital Dialogue | How to Keep Financial Services Data Fit for Business Use

May 3, 2023

Download this Digital Dialogue today to read the highlights of this discussion!


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TDWI Playbook | Five Critical Plays for Democratizing Analytics

April 20, 2023

This Playbook shows five ways your organization can improve access to analytics with democratized data.


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Digital Dialogue | Accelerating Retail Digital Transformation with Cloud Data Management

April 19, 2023

The key to retaining customers in the competitive retail industry is to provide unique and memorable experiences that keep them highly engaged with your brand.


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2023 State of Data Management

April 19, 2023

This State of Data Management Report examines the current state of data management, the top challenges organizations face, and best practices for your success.


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Checklist Report | Six Pillars for Building Business Value in the New Data Landscape

March 31, 2023

This TDWI Checklist discusses six “pillars” essential to taking advantage of new opportunities to build business value in the new data landscape.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Modernizing the Manufacturing Supply Chain Using Cloud-Based Data Analytics

March 30, 2023

Download this Insight Accelerator today to learn the important business drivers behind modernizing supply chain analytics and get recommended steps for supporting your modern supply chain.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Migrating Your Data Warehouse to the Cloud: Five Best Practices

March 23, 2023

This TDWI Checklist shares five best practices for migrating your enterprise DW to the cloud and presents recommendations for aligning your DW migrations with your modernization strategies and business imperatives.


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Digital Dialogue | Optimizing the Cost of Cloud Data

March 23, 2023

Enterprises are finding that controlling, reducing, and otherwise optimizing the cost of cloud data can be a daunting challenge.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Real-Time Data Processing: Five Use Cases to Know

March 22, 2023

This TDWI Checklist Report examines five categories of business use cases for extreme real-time data that can benefit a wide range of organizations.


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TDWI Playbook | Future-Proofing Your Data Pipeline

March 17, 2023

This playbook discusses what a data pipeline is and why it is important.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Monetizing Data and Analytics

March 16, 2023

This Best Practices Report examines whether enterprise democratization of data and analytics is making a contribution to financial performance.


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TDWI Playbook | Closing the Data Science Talent Gap with the Power of Code

March 8, 2023

Download this TDWI Playbook to learn how you can successfully scale your advanced analytics with code-first data science.


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TDWI Checklist Report | The Semantic Layer's Critical Roles in Modern Data Architectures

January 26, 2023

This TDWI Checklist educates data and analytics leaders about modern platforms and practices for the semantic layer.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Responsible Data and Analytics

December 22, 2022

This TDWI Best Practices Report examines where organizations are today in terms of responsible data and analytics and what work they still need to do.


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Digital Dialogue | Simplifying the Data Architecture to Support Analytics

December 14, 2022

Many organizations are expanding their data and analytics strategies as they pursue deeper insights and take meaningful action on data.


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TDWI Playbook | Search at Scale: Using Modern Search Engines for Applications, Observability, and Analytics

November 18, 2022

This TDWI Playbook will examine the business drivers behind growth in the use of search engines and the need for scalable and integrated capabilities.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Succeeding with Data Observability

November 17, 2022

This TDWI Checklist discusses five best practices for using observability tools to monitor, manage, and optimize operational data pipelines.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Deriving Maximum Value from the Enterprise Data Marketplace

November 16, 2022

This TDWI Checklist focuses on how enterprises can build an online, self-service data marketplace to ensure that their users are provided with trusted data assets and are able to derive the maximum value from them.


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TDWI Playbook | Performance Monitoring and Observability

November 15, 2022

This playbook describes the business case for implementing enterprise-wide observability and best practices for getting started.


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TDWI Playbook | Serverless for Big Data Applications: Get Over Infrastructure Pains

November 10, 2022

In this Playbook, TDWI discusses the business case and drivers for adoption of serverless platforms for enterprise big data applications and modernization.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Building the Agile Data Pipeline for Cloud-Native Computing

November 10, 2022

This TDWI Checklist discusses best practices for building agile pipelines to accelerate development of artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, and other data applications.


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TDWI Playbook | Empowering Self-Service Users with Serverless Cloud Data Warehousing

November 9, 2022

This TDWI Playbook discusses how serverless cloud data warehousing removes barriers to self-service data interaction while increasing trust in shared, governed data.


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TDWI Playbook | How Streaming Data Analytics Enables Real-Time Decisions

October 31, 2022

This playbook discusses the drivers and business case for streaming analytics and how streaming data can enable real-time decisions.


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TDWI Playbook | Building Stream Processing Applications in the Cloud with Kafka

October 27, 2022

This playbook describes Kafka in detail, provides the business case for it, and describes best practices for getting started.


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TDWI Playbook | Modernizing Data Pipelines

October 27, 2022

This TDWI Playbook focuses on solving data pipeline challenges so you can grow your organization’s data infrastructure with confidence and future-proof it to handle new data and use cases.


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TDWI Playbook | Cloud Data Integration: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?

October 26, 2022

This playbook discusses the drivers and business case for integrating data in the cloud.


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TDWI Playbook | Modernize Your ETL Processes to Unleash Better Business Intelligence

October 25, 2022

In this playbook, TDWI discusses the business drivers and case for ETL modernization and outlines the journey your enterprise must take.


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TDWI Playbook | Modernizing Data Integration

October 21, 2022

This playbook considers some of the top business cases driving data integration modernization and how they shape organizations’ strategies.


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TDWI Playbook | Building a Modern Data Platform

October 20, 2022

This playbook describes the business case for modernizing legacy DWs and other enterprise data management platforms.


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TDWI Playbook | Modern Data Paradigms and Architectures: The Data Mesh and the Semantic Layer

October 20, 2022

This playbook describes the business case for the data mesh and the semantic layer, as well as plays for getting started.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Increasing Customer Satisfaction and Business Profitability with Data-Driven Retail Personalization

October 12, 2022

This TDWI Insight Accelerator focuses on data-driven personalization strategies for retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) organizations.


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TDWI Playbook | The Data Integration Cloud Modernization Playbook

September 30, 2022

For this playbook, we interviewed data professionals from three organizations that recently modernized their data environments.


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TDWI Checklist | Five Best Practices for Data Security in Modern Cloud Platforms

September 30, 2022

This Checklist examines five organizational and technology best practices for managing data access in modern environments.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Maximizing Business Value with Data Platforms, Data Integration, and Data Management

September 29, 2022

This TDWI Best Practices Report explores current practices for maximizing the value of data platforms as well as independent data integration and data management technologies and services.


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Checklist Report | Best Practices for Succeeding with Data Integrity in Financial Services

September 27, 2022

This TDWI Checklist discusses how data integrity best practices help financial services to succeed in five ways.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Enhancing Data Integrity and Improving Decision-Making Through Geocoding and Data Enrichment

September 21, 2022

This TDWI Checklist Report provides guidance for enhancing data integrity through address verification, geocoding, and data enrichment.


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