RESEARCH & RESOURCES

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.


Seven Steps to Actionable Personal Analytics and Discovery

TDWI Checklist Report | Seven Steps to Actionable Personal Analytics and Discovery

October 16, 2012

Organizations today want to anchor daily and strategic decisions in a bedrock of solid, extensive, and timely analysis and reporting. Personal, self-service BI and analytics tools are now available that can give users more control over how they view and access the information they need to perform their roles in the enterprise. This TDWI Checklist Report details seven steps toward personal BI and analytics success.


TDWI Checklist Report: Analytic Databases for Big Data

TDWI Checklist Report | Analytic Databases for Big Data

October 4, 2012

This report presents a requirements checklist for analytic DBMSs with a focus on their use with big data. You will also learn definitions for the many techniques and tool types involved. The report will help you evaluate analytic databases and/or develop strategies for big data analytics.


TDWI Checklist Report Geospatial Analytics

TDWI Checklist Report | Using Location Information for Geospatial Analytics

September 26, 2012

This TDWI Checklist Report presents tips for aligning geospatial information with the business intelligence environment, empowering analytics to use location data to yield operational efficiencies, revenue growth, and other potential benefits.


TDWI Checklist Report // Operational Analytics: Balancing Business Benefits and Technology Costs

TDWI Checklist Report | Operational Analytics: Balancing Business Benefits and Technology Costs

September 5, 2012

This TDWI Checklist Report examines the business drivers and technology requirements for deploying operational analytics. The main objectives of the Checklist are to identify specific business benefits of operational analytics, review the ways these benefits can be achieved, and explain the potential trade-offs or IT costs involved.


Why MDM Needs Data Governance

TDWI Checklist Report | Seven Reasons Why Master Data Management Needs Data Governance

August 29, 2012

There are good technology and business reasons why master data management needs data governance. This TDWI Checklist Report drills into seven of these reasons as well as use cases and organizational situations where DG and MDM work well together.


TDWI Checklist Report: Predictive Analytics Project Design

TDWI Checklist Report | Predictive Analytics Project Design: A Nine-Step Guide to Realizing Business Value

July 12, 2012

Ultimately, the effective utilization of predictive analytics is the goal-driven analysis of data to enhance business performance metrics. This TDWI Checklist Report examines the strategic steps that predictive analytics project teams must take in order to define, design, and implement successful projects.


TDWI Checklist Report: Satisfying New Requirements for Data Integration

TDWI Checklist Report | Satisfying New Requirements for Data Integration

June 27, 2012

Mounds of structured data, unstructured data, big data, and advancements in cloud technology are imposing new requirements for data integration. This TDWI Checklist Report will explore some of the key drivers these new requirements are intended to address. Whether you are looking to support the performance needs of big data applications, filter concepts from unstructured data, monitor hundreds of data feeds for unexpected behavior, export data across enterprise boundaries, or provide real-time reporting and analysis, there is a rapidly expanding need for data integration competency that extends well beyond traditional ETL.


TDWI Checklist Report: Strategic Planning for Big Data Management

TDWI Checklist Report | Strategic Planning for Big Data Management

May 9, 2012

This TDWI Checklist Report provides grounding for developing a strategic business intelligence (BI) plan for agility when adopting innovative data management and utilization techniques, while retaining a line of sight to corporate mission and corresponding business objectives.


TDWI Checklist Report: Data Replication for Real-Time Data Warehousing and Analytics

TDWI Checklist Report | Data Replication for Real-Time Data Warehousing and Analytics

April 2, 2012

This TDWI Checklist Report gives data replication the recognition it deserves, as a highly useful data integration technique for real-world applications in business intelligence (BI), data warehousing (DW), analytics, and general data management. But not all replication tools are created equal, and this report explains which capabilities you should look for in a tool.


TDWI Membership

Get immediate access to training discounts, video library, research, and more.

Find the right level of Membership for you.