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TDWI Checklist Report | Seven Data Governance Best Practices for Your Data Warehouse and Data Lake

August 29, 2022

This TDWI Checklist Report discusses seven top data governance best practices for your data warehouse and data lake.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Data Science for Data-Intensive Applications in the Cloud

August 24, 2022

This Checklist Report examines five organizational and technology considerations for data science in the cloud.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Leveraging AI-Powered iPaaS for Augmented Business Process Automation

August 22, 2022

In this TDWI Insight Accelerator, we consider business drivers and technology trends that motivate business-focused augmented automation.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Five Must-Have Data Integration Capabilities for Your Cloud Data Warehouse

July 26, 2022

This TDWI Insight Accelerator examines challenges in moving to cloud platforms for data and analytics as well as recommendations for data integration capabilities that can help in the modernization journey.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Popular Use Cases Enabled by a Logical Data Fabric

July 14, 2022

This Checklist Report examines the six most popular and frequently used solution categories that are enabled by a logical data fabric architecture.


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2022 State of Data Quality

June 30, 2022

Download this new report today to learn the current state of data quality management and how to overcome common data quality challenges.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Best Practices for Seamless Migration of ETL Workloads to the Cloud

June 29, 2022

This TDWI Checklist Report discusses what organizations need to do to migrate ETL seamlessly to the cloud.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Modernizing the Organization to Support Data and Analytics

June 29, 2022

This TDWI Best Practices Report provides new research about how successful companies are organizing to support successful modern analytics.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Cloud Data Modernization

June 28, 2022

This TDWI Insight Accelerator explores how AI/ML is driving business transformation and modernization today.


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TDWI Data Points | Modern Cloud Data Environments in Financial Services

June 24, 2022

This TDWI Data Points Report discusses the current state of modern data environments in financial services, with a focus on the cloud.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Next-Level Customer Analytics in the Game, Entertainment, and Media Industries

June 23, 2022

This TDWI Insight Accelerator examines how various analytics methods are employed to understand customer behavior and how customer analytics can help improve customer experiences, customer retention, and opportunities for monetization.


Solution Landscape Enterprise Data Governance

June 22, 2022

This new report from TDWI is designed to help technical and business professionals like you evaluate and deploy new, emerging, and promising business technology solutions in the field of data governance.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Accelerating Outcomes with AI and Analytics

June 15, 2022

This TDWI Insight Accelerator discusses key challenges and recommendations for accelerating insights using modern, cloud-based analytics.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Transitioning to a Modern, Flexible, and Scalable Data Architecture in the Cloud

June 10, 2022

This Insight Accelerator discusses adopting a modern cloud-based data architecture.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Steps to Migrate and Modernize Traditional Data Warehouse Systems

May 31, 2022

This TDWI Insight Accelerator considers what it means to transition to a modernized reporting and analytics environment.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Modernizing Your DataOps Pipeline to Address Fresh Challenges: Six Best Practices

May 26, 2022

This TDWI Checklist provides DataOps practitioners and other enterprise stakeholders with six best practices for addressing challenges successfully within a cloud-focused modernization program.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Is BI Still Relevant? How Modernization with Cloud Services Reinvigorates BI and Increases Its Value

May 26, 2022

This TDWI Insight Accelerator focuses on how organizations can take advantage of cloud services to modernize BI reporting.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Unleash Intelligence with Analytics and Cloud Services

May 19, 2022

This TDWI Insight Accelerator discusses key challenges and recommendations for moving forward, including how cloud-native solutions can help.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Speeding Development of Data-Intensive Applications in the Cloud: Key Best Practices

May 9, 2022

This TDWI Checklist Report presents best practices for application providers to accelerate their workflows in the cloud.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Accelerating Your Data Lake Journey

May 5, 2022

For enterprises considering or implementing a cloud data lake, this Insight Accelerator provides information about key features of modern data lakes as well as recommendations for getting started on the journey.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Establishing a Cloud Analytics and Big Data Strategy

April 29, 2022

This TDWI Insight Accelerator explores the business drivers for more aggressive adoption of advanced analytics applied to expanding volumes and variety of information resources.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Empowering Users Through Business Intelligence Transformation

April 22, 2022

This TDWI Insight Accelerator examines key considerations for transforming BI with cloud-native services to meet today’s business demands.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Turning Traditional ETL Systems into Intelligent DataOps Pipelines

April 14, 2022

Download this TDWI Insight Accelerator today to learn best practices for modernizing your ETL systems.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Mobilizing Financial Services Data for Customer Centricity

April 4, 2022

Effectively creating a 360-degree customer view to enable customer centricity is critically dependent on effective and trustworthy data integration.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Tactical Steps for Cloud Migration

March 29, 2022

This TDWI Checklist Report recommends practices that can ease the cloud migration process.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Five Signs Your Organization Needs an Agile Data Pipeline

March 25, 2022

This Checklist Report discusses five signs that your organization needs a more agile pipeline and explains the features of such a data pipeline.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Unifying Data Management and Analytics Pipelines

March 25, 2022

This report illustrates how the unification of DataOps and MLOps platforms, workflows, and methodologies is dovetailing with enterprise data modernization initiatives.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Data Mesh and the Cloud: Five Essentials for Success

March 24, 2022

What are the implications for the data mesh and the cloud?


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Steps for Minimizing Risk with Modern Data Governance

March 18, 2022

This TDWI Checklist Report discusses six steps for minimizing risk through modern data governance.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Steps for Improving Cloud Cost Management

March 14, 2022

This TDWI Checklist Report examines how your enterprise can develop an effective and sustainable cloud cost management program aligned with business performance.


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TDWI Pulse Report | The Data Office in the New Normal: Driven by the Hub-and-Spoke Operating Model

March 8, 2022

This TDWI Pulse Report examines data office operating models and best practices for success.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Best Practices for a Modern Data Layer in Financial Services

February 24, 2022

This TDWI Checklist Report offers steps for preparing a strategy for modernizing data layers while addressing the demand for real-time customer experience and other critical business functions.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Using the Consumable Data Lakehouse to Advance Data Democratization

February 23, 2022

This TDWI Checklist offers best practices for maximizing the use of cloud-based data lakehouses for a full range of enterprise applications.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Using Data Observability to Boost Quality and Efficiency Throughout the Data Pipeline: Five Best Practices

February 22, 2022

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


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2022 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report
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February 14, 2022

Average salaries for full-time DM/A employees and contractors increased nearly 7 percent in 2021, although specific roles saw larger salary increases. Read more in the 2022 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Data Modernization and the Open Data Lakehouse

February 11, 2022

This checklist recommends emerging best practices for data modernization that leverage open data architectures.


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TDWI Pulse Report | Simplifying Risk Mitigation for Cloud Modernization

January 28, 2022

As cloud service providers have hardened system security measures, other types of information risks increasingly need to be acknowledged and addressed. This Pulse Report reflects upon six key dimensions of information risk.


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TDWI Pulse Report | Accelerating Data Monetization Through the Cloud Data Marketplace

January 2, 2022

This Pulse Report examines the process by which businesses transform data assets directly or indirectly into fresh revenues.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Closing the Information Gap

December 17, 2021

Remedying the information gap requires a solid data infrastructure, new tools, new skills, and strong data governance.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Tactics for Evolving a Modern, Cloud-Based Data Platform for Financial Services

December 17, 2021

Download this TDWI Insight Accelerator to learn what is driving data and platform modernization trends.


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TDWI Checklist Report | The Wisdom of Transitioning to a Data Lakehouse Strategy

December 16, 2021

This TDWI Checklist examines the limitations of existing data architecture strategies when supporting emerging and future analytics needs and how a data lakehouse approach addresses those limitations.


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TDWI Checklist Report | The Future-Proof Data Lake: Six Considerations for Success

December 3, 2021

This TDWI Checklist examines important characteristics of the modern data lake and factors to consider to ensure your data lake is future-proof.


TDWI Checklist Report | Augmented Intelligence: Six Best Practices for Moving Beyond Self-Service BI

November 30, 2021

This TDWI Checklist discusses six best practices for using augmented intelligence solutions to drive better business decisions.


TDWI Checklist Report | Five Principles for Successful Cloud Data Governance

November 30, 2021

This Checklist examines important considerations for data governance in the cloud journey.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Modernizing Data and Information Integration for Business Innovation

November 17, 2021

This TDWI Best Practices Report offers recommendations that highlight priorities for modernizing data and information integration for business advantage.


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TDWI Pulse Report | The Journey to Modern Data Lakes

September 23, 2021

As the demand for newer and better data and analytics continues to grow, more and more data tools and functions are moving to the cloud. Learn how cloud data lakes are improving today’s data and analytics workloads in this new report.


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TDWI Pulse Report | The Role of Modern Data Governance in an Internal Data Marketplace

September 22, 2021

In this TDWI Pulse Report, we examine recent research regarding the use of modern cloud platforms and automation to ensure robust protection of all data assets.


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TDWI Pulse Report | Modernizing Your Data Architecture to Unlock Business Value

September 17, 2021

In this TDWI Pulse Report, we look closely at key opportunities and challenges regarding data architecture modernization and examine how to unlock the business value of data.


TDWI Best Practices Report: Unified Platforms for Modern Analytics

TDWI Best Practices Report | Unified Platforms for Modern Analytics

September 10, 2021

This TDWI Best Practices Report examines the adoption, use, challenges, architectures, and best practices for unified platforms for modern analytics.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Achieving Scale and Simplicity in Data Engineering: Five Best Practices

September 3, 2021

This TDWI Checklist discusses key steps for deploying and operating cloud-based data pipelines.


TDWI Checklist Report | Six Requirements of the Modern Data and Analytics Cloud Stack

August 20, 2021

This TDWI Checklist Report examines what a modern stack means in the modern world and explores six characteristics of a truly modern data and analytics cloud stack.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | Closing the Governance Gap: Enabling Governed Data Sharing

July 14, 2021

This Insight Accelerator examines the data governance gap for data protection policies and considers ways to enable governed self-service data access and sharing.


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TDWI Pulse Report | Building a Data-Literate Organization

July 9, 2021

How data and analytics professionals view data literacy and why it is important, the characteristics of data-literate companies, and best practices for becoming a data-literate organization.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Bring Your Analytics Investments into the Cloud-Native World: Key Best Practices

June 29, 2021

This TDWI Checklist discusses three key best practices for migrating enterprise data analytics investments to the emerging cloud-native world of distributed containerized applications.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Using Data Intelligence to Drive Trust in Data

June 29, 2021

This TDWI Checklist Report discusses key best practices for data intelligence to ensure ongoing compliance with privacy, security, governance, and other mandates.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Transform the Enterprise Data Warehouse into a Cloud Data Platform: Six Best Practices

June 28, 2021

This TDWI Checklist discusses six best practices for transforming today’s cloud EDW into a next-generation converged data hub.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Ways to Accelerate ROI from Data Warehouse and Data Lake Modernization

June 16, 2021

This TDWI Checklist focuses on how organizations can accelerate ROI with data warehouse and data lake modernization initiatives.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Building Resilient Supply Chains with Multidomain MDM

June 8, 2021

This checklist offers six key steps for developing a multidomain MDM strategy to improve supply chain resilience.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Building the Unified Data Warehouse and Data Lake

May 28, 2021

This TDWI Best Practices Report examines the convergence of the data warehouse and data lake, including drivers, challenges, and opportunities for the unified DW/DL and best practices for moving forward.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Preparing for the Next-Generation Cloud Data Architecture

May 25, 2021

This TDWI Checklist discusses the transition to a modernized data architecture.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Developing a Mature Approach to Information Risk Management

May 20, 2021

In this TDWI Checklist, we explore how different levels of information risk require increasingly mature levels of data governance.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Unlocking Insights from ERP Data: Five Best Practices

May 18, 2021

This TDWI checklist discusses five best practices for using analytics to extract maximum business value from enterprise data and analytics in the cloud.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Delivering Faster Insights: The Hybrid Cloud Data Warehouse

May 12, 2021

In this report, we explore how a hybrid cloud data warehouse enabled by a logical data fabric and data virtualization can deliver faster insights.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Data Considerations for Successful Multicloud Deployments

April 29, 2021

This report discusses six data-focused considerations for succeeding with multicloud deployments and examines some of the benefits of cross-cloud functionality for data sharing in a multicloud environment.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Modernizing Your Approach to Reporting and Analytics

April 14, 2021

In this TDWI Checklist Report, we consider what it means to transition to a modern reporting and analytics environment.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Streamlining Business Analytics with Self-Service Data Pipelines

March 17, 2021

This TDWI Checklist walks through six best practices for streamlining business analytics with self-service data pipelines and examines key issues that can help organizations prosper.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Cloud Data Warehousing Straight Talk

March 17, 2021

This TDWI Checklist is intended to increase awareness about cloud data warehouse architectural paradigms.


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2021 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report
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February 25, 2021

  Average salaries for full-time DM/A employees and contractors remained stable in 2020, although some industries saw sizable salary increases or decreases. Read more in the 2021 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Signs Your Organization Needs Embedded Analytics

February 5, 2021

This checklist discusses six prominent signs that your organization needs embedded BI and analytics and examines related success factors.


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TDWI Pulse Report | Accelerating Data Warehouse Development

January 15, 2021

TDWI feels confident that data warehouse professionals can rise to the challenge of accelerating data warehouse development as long as they have the right tools and the right skills.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Data Architecture for IoT Communications and Analytics

December 18, 2020

This checklist explores eight key suggestions for establishing an effective data architecture for an IoT environment.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Challenges to the Conventional Wisdom of the Cloud

December 18, 2020

In this checklist, we identify six commonly accepted beliefs about cloud computing, highlight situations where that wisdom might be challenged, and provide some ideas to mitigate those situations.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Modern Data Governance

December 18, 2020

This report canvasses current and future data governance strategies and best practices to help organizations understand the new requirements for data governance.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Data Governance on Cloud Data Platforms: Five Best Practices

December 8, 2020

This report examines five organizational and technology best practices for governing data specifically in a cloud data platform.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | How to Reduce TCO and Increase the ROI of BI and Analytics

November 30, 2020

This TDWI Insight Accelerator focuses on how organizations can reduce TCO without negatively impacting the business benefits they seek through expansion of BI and analytics.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Capabilities to Eliminate Data Chaos by Unifying Your Hybrid Data and Analytics Platforms

November 23, 2020

This checklist guides the reader through creating an end-to-end environment that enables data consumers while effectively guarding against data chaos.


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TDWI Pulse Report | Beyond “Lift and Shift”: Rearchitecting BI, ETL, and Data Warehousing for the Cloud

November 17, 2020

This TDWI Pulse Report discusses how organizations can leverage the flexibility and scalable and elastic processing power of the cloud to solve business problems and grow revenue through new, data-rich products and services.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Evolving Data Science in the Cloud

October 30, 2020

This Checklist Report examines five best practices for utilizing the cloud for data science.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Five Steps to Enabling Quicker Business Decisions with Integrated and Governed Cloud Data

October 13, 2020

This TDWI Checklist addresses five important areas for modernizing the integration, delivery, and governance of cloud data.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Five Ways Continuous Intelligence Accelerates Digital Transformation

October 5, 2020

This TDWI Checklist Report introduces the concept of continuous intelligence and describes its critical capabilities.


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TDWI Checklist Report | The Future of Analytics: An End-to-End Platform

September 30, 2020

This TDWI Checklist discusses five requirements for an end-to-end platform to support the future of analytics.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Seven Steps for Migrating Sensitive Data to the Cloud

September 30, 2020

This checklist highlights the challenges of migrating sensitive data to the cloud and how to overcome them.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Seven Steps to Complementing Your Analytics Arsenal with a Graph Database

September 30, 2020

This TDWI Checklist Report looks at how data-driven organizations will benefit from graph databases.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Maximizing Data Utility by Ensuring Trust in the Data

September 30, 2020

Data utility reflects a combination of data’s usefulness, its contribution to organizational profitability, and its ability to benefit the organization.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Analytics for Everyone: Seven Tips for Promoting Analytics Adoption

September 29, 2020

This Checklist Report is designed to help the reader identify core issues to consider when democratizing analytics to empower the organization.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Evolving from Traditional Business Intelligence to Modern Business Analytics

September 25, 2020

This TDWI Best Practices Report offers recommendations for ensuring that the evolution toward modern business analytics is successful.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Five Steps for Accelerating Data Readiness

September 25, 2020

This TDWI Checklist discusses how data catalogs, knowledge graphs, graph databases, master data management, and workflow automation can enable organizations to move faster to prepare all their data.


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TDWI Pulse Report | The Modern Analyst: Meeting Tomorrow’s Challenges

September 21, 2020

This TDWI Pulse Report examines how data and analytics professionals would like to see the analyst role change as well as how to measure analytics value.


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TDWI Checklist Report | How to Use Cloud-Based iPaaS to Modernize Integration

September 11, 2020

This TDWI Checklist report presents recommendations for modernizing integration in the context of supporting modern, digital enterprises that need state-of-the-art tooling.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Things You Need to Know about Machine Learning to Be Successful

September 2, 2020

This checklist report focuses on six technology considerations for successful machine learning and data science.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Considerations for Utilizing Cloud Data Platforms

July 21, 2020

This checklist introduces the cloud data platform, examines its value, and addresses several important requirements.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Data Onboarding for Cloud Data Lakes

July 17, 2020

This checklist explains five ways to support data onboarding and simplify cloud data migration and modernization.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Data Management for Advanced Analytics

May 29, 2020

This TDWI Best Practices Report explores data management strategies and best practices, then links combinations of these to the leading forms of advanced analytics to help data management and advanced analytics professionals and their business counterparts achieve greater success and business impact.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Accelerating Time to Value with Enterprise Data Preparation

May 19, 2020

This TDWI Checklist discusses eight considerations aimed at enabling you to accelerate time to value with modern enterprise data preparation.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Critical Capabilities of a Logical Data Fabric

May 11, 2020

This checklist describes six important capabilities of the logical data fabric to deal with modern data management and analytics efforts.


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TDWI Pulse Report | Faster Insights for All: Empowering Citizen Data Professionals to Make Powerful Business Decisions

May 5, 2020

This TDWI Pulse Report examines the rise of “citizen data professionals” and recommendations for supporting them.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Five Strategies for Creating a Culture of Self-Service for Analytics and Business Intelligence

April 28, 2020

This Checklist Report focuses on helping organizations understand and employ organizational and technology best practices for fostering a self-service analytics and BI culture.


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2020 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report
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February 28, 2020

  Average salaries for full-time DM/A employees and contractors rose by 11.1 percent from 2018 to 2019. Read more in the 2020 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report.


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TDWI Pulse Report | Achieving Business ROI with Cloud Data Warehousing and Analytics

December 20, 2019

This TDWI Pulse Report examines five areas that organizations need to address to ensure business value and ROI as they increase the role of the cloud in data life cycles.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Solving Modern Data Integration Challenges with an Enterprise Integration Fabric

December 20, 2019

This checklist explores ideas for determining where traditional approaches to data integration are impeding modern analytics and will guide the reader in ways to modernize.


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