TDWI Checklist Reports
TDWI Checklist Reports provide an overview of success factors for a specific project in business intelligence, data warehousing, or a related data management discipline. Companies may use this overview to get organized before beginning a project or to identify goals and areas of improvement for current projects.
July 27, 2017
All organizations, no matter how big their budget, must overcome barriers in order to realize value from data faster. Those that have historically experienced centralized, IT-centric BI implementations must transition to flexible environments that embrace the increased use of self-service technologies.
June 29, 2017
Augmenting the conventional EDW design with Hadoop and Hive can help optimize your EDW by expanding usability, improving performance, improving results, and reducing overall costs.
June 2, 2017
When numerous diverse data platforms are integrated for multiple use cases, it is called a hybrid data ecosystem (HDE), a concept invented and popularized by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) in 2012. An HDE provides options for rapidly diversifying data and its business use. Despite the extreme complexity and challenges, users are succeeding with HDEs. This TDWI Checklist Report drills into the data requirements of the HDE with a focus on the role of data virtualization.
June 1, 2017
The growing adoption of cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) is merging with easier-to-use business intelligence and analytics tools to allow more users to interact with and analyze data. This Checklist Report discusses seven recommendations to help organizations be successful sooner in enabling a data-driven culture through visual, easier-to-use business analytics.
May 1, 2017
Modern marketers are capturing success with an arsenal of advances in data management, software automation, and customer analytics that enable a single view of the customer. New sophisticated practices in omnichannel marketing leverage that view so marketers can serve burgeoning numbers of customers and channels. This Checklist Report drills into the data requirements of modern digital marketing, with a focus on the single customer view and omnichannel marketing.
April 17, 2017
Organizations need a strategy for a modern data platform that can support users who need more than traditional BI and OLAP provide but don’t have the specialized skills of advanced data scientists. This Checklist focuses on six key considerations for modern data platforms that enable more users to benefit from big data through easier to use, visual big data analytics.
March 29, 2017
In a recent TDWI survey, 51 percent of respondents said that enhancing business analysts’ skills was one of their top two strategies for growing their data science competencies. How do businesses get started with machine learning? This Checklist defines machine learning and discusses best practices for the business as it takes the next step on its analytics journey toward using machine learning.
March 15, 2017
Business intelligence (BI) is becoming increasingly democratized, and realizing value from BI tools is no longer limited to an exclusive group with technical expertise. This Checklist Report focuses on how organizations can revise and revitalize enterprise BI in the age of self-service technology.
March 1, 2017
Organizations can unleash the potential of business intelligence (BI) and analytics by empowering users with greater freedom and flexibility in how they work with data. However, it is critical for organizations to improve ROI. This TDWI Checklist covers six strategic issues to address to realize higher ROI with BI and analytics. In some cases, our recommendations focus on traditionally enterprise-level concerns, such as governance. In others, we look at overcoming challenges to enable more users to meet dynamic business demands.