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TDWI maintains this library of white papers as a resource for in-depth research and commentary about the big data, business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics industry. The content in this repository is crafted by TDWI's software and consulting partners. To find out how your company can promote its content in this library, click here.


Digital Transformation of Federal Governments

Download this white paper to learn how MicroStrategy solutions are transforming how federal agencies can work.


Ten Characteristics of a Modern Analytics Platform

Download this white paper to discover the ten characteristics a solution must have to be considered a true modern analytics platform.


Digital Transformation of Municipal Government

Download this white paper to discover how MicroStrategy analytics, mobile capabilities, and multifactor security features can increase productivity and help local governments to run more effective programs.


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Customer Engagement Is at the Heart of Digital Transformation

Download this white paper for an exploration of how enterprises will leverage digital transformation to improve customer experience and engagement.


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Within Reach: The End of Your Struggle for Data

Download this new eBook to learn how your organization can benefit from adopting data warehousing built for the cloud.


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Gigaom Sector Roadmap: Cloud Analytic Databases 2017

Download this white paper for an evaluation of several relational databases either built for the cloud or with significant cloud-related development in their latest releases.


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Making Integration Pervasive: The Rise of Cloud Integration Platforms

Download this white paper for an overview of the current state of software solutions for integration in the cloud, including distinct capabilities and diverse market approaches.


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Digital Transformation of Sales

Download this guide to discover the top analytics and mobile sales applications and how your business can use MicroStrategy.


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Digital Transformation of Manufacturing

Download this guide to learn why forward-thinking manufacturers use MicroStrategy to deploy powerful analytics, mobility, and security solutions.


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Digital Identity Credentials Deliver an Omnichannel Customer Experience

Download this white paper to learn how smartphone-based technology is giving companies a comprehensive view of the customer experience and helping transform the consumer-company relationship.


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How to Deliver Optimized Analytics for Redshift with Etleap and Zoomdata

The ability to quickly, efficiently, and inexpensively analyze data has never been more important. This report highlights the benefits of using Etleap and Zoomdata to extract, transform, load, and analyze all types of data with Amazon Redshift.


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The Rise of the Data-Driven Application for Business Intelligence

By and large, BI experts are conditioned to accept dashboards as the de facto mechanism for consuming insights. However, general business users often require another environment, which has given birth to the data-driven application.


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Empowering Business Users with Big Data

With the increased availability and lowered cost of scalable parallel computing, application execution no longer throttles performance, but data movement does. This paper considers the advantages of moving analytics to where the data lives.


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Top Ten Business Intelligence Trends for 2017

Download this white paper for a summary of expert opinion on where business intelligence is headed in 2017.


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Top Ten Cloud Trends for 2017

Download this white paper to understand how enterprises are slowly but steadily moving to the cloud by prioritizing hosted computing and cloud data storage, building technical expertise, and recruiting employees with cloud experience.


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Top Ten Big Data Trends for 2017

Download this white paper to understand how the market will demand platforms that help data custodians govern and secure big data, while empowering end users to analyze that data.


Checklist for Implementing Governed Self-Service

Download this white paper to learn why business intelligence solutions should involve more users and facilitate information sharing and collaboration between teams.


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Digital Transformation of Healthcare

Download this guide to learn about the top analytics and mobile applications that are transforming the healthcare industry.


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7 Ways to Transform Your Retail Organization with Mobile

Download this white paper to explore seven ways mobile technology can power a unified retail strategy.


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Digital Transformation of Banking

Download this guide to discover the top analytics and mobile applications that are transforming banking.


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Exposing Cyberthreats with Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning

Download this white paper to learn how a leader in delivering cybersecurity solutions and services partnered with Cloudera to deliver advanced statistical and behavioral analytics along with machine-learning capabilities.


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Modern Data Strategy

Download this white paper to learn how to develop an effective--and modern-—big data strategy.


Driving Predictive Maintenance in a Connected World

Download this white paper to learn how predictive maintenance enables organizations to effectively predict when and how an asset might fail.


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Helping the Fortune 100 Access a 360-Degree Customer View Through a Self-Serve Data Hub

Download this white paper to learn how a self-serve data hub has helped a major company generate detailed insights around customer behavior.


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Komatsu Mining Corp: Doubling Equipment Utilization with Industrial IoT and Machine Learning

Download this white paper to learn how a mining company optimizes production with an IIoT analytics platform powered by Cloudera and Microsoft.


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Cybraics: Harnessing AI to Change the Economics of Cybersecurity

Download this white paper to learn how a cybersecurity platform, powered by Cloudera, delivers new capabilities.


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Attention, CIOs: Do You Know Where Your Data Scientists Are?

Download this white paper to learn how to rein in the Wild West of data science and make it a core enterprise capability.


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Charting the Expanding Horizons of Big Data: Report Summary (EMA/9Sight Consulting)

Download this white paper for findings from the 2016 EMA/9sight Big Data End-User Survey, which looks at various trends associated with big data.


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Democratize Big Data: How to Bring Order and Accessibility to Data Lakes (Constellation Research)

This report explores key trends in the popularization of Hadoop and strategies being employed to manage data lakes and make them more accessible.


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The 4 Roadblocks of Data Preparation

Stop wasting time on manual data preparation! See how automating manual tasks ensures rapid data analysis. Get your copy of this e-book today!


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Optimizing Customer Engagement Through Connected Data

Download this white paper to understand the shortcomings of traditional approaches to data preparation, such as data warehouses and data lakes, and explore the power of connected data.


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IBM Drives Deployment Choices with Latest Hadoop Distribution Release (451 Research)

This report from 451 Research explains how the rebranding of BigInsights in 2015 is helping IBM earn the respect of the Hadoop community.


Top Five Data Discovery Applications for Optimizing Sales Operations

Download this white paper to learn how your sales teams can benefit from five critical sales operations apps run on the MicroStrategy platform.


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Budgeting and Planning Made Easy: How Technology Changes the Game

Download this white paper to learn how BOARD provides everything an enterprise needs to manage corporate planning processes.


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Forrester: The IoT Heat Map, 2016

Download this white paper to learn how your company can take full advantage of the Internet of Things (IoT) with key IoT-enabled applications.


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Big Data Maturity Survey, 2016

Download this white paper for a global survey focusing on companies that have deployed big data, their best practices, and their intentions.


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Breaking Down the Barriers Between Model Development and Deployment

Download this white paper to learn how the “analytics factory” breaks down the barriers between IT and business and automates the mundane, iterative tasks of model building.


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Journey to Your Data-Inspired Future with Liaison’s Innovative Approach to Integration and Data Management

Transformative enterprises around the world are leveraging data to bring exciting innovations to market. Download this white paper to learn why your organization should plan for a data-inspired future.


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Liaison Provides Princeton HealthCare System with Unprecedented Access to Data for Patient Insights

Download this white paper to learn how Princeton HealthCare System achieves real-time integration, interoperability, and data access across its accountable care organization network.


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Managing the Analytical Life Cycle for Decisions at Scale: How to Go from Data to Decisions as Quickly as Possible

Download this white paper to learn how to quickly turn data into insights and actions by efficiently integrating accurate predictive models into the production systems that drive your automated decisions.


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Global Manufacturer Relies on Liaison to Achieve 100% Supplier Integration

Download this white paper to learn how a leading heavy equipment manufacturer automates the long tail of suppliers using Liaison’s cloud integration platform.


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Redefine Your Analytics Journey with Interactive Data Exploration and Predictive Analytics

Download this white paper for five steps to getting more value from your data and analytical investments.


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How Midsized Businesses Can Take Advantage of Big Data

Download this white paper for seven practical tips for getting started with data visualization.


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Are Your Integration Operations Stuck in the Middle?

The data landscape is changing dramatically. Download this white paper to learn how to extend your legacy middleware to support your organization’s digital transformation.


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Machine Learning with SAS Enterprise Miner

Download this white paper to learn how a team of SAS modelers created and determined a champion model to predict customer churn.


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The Great Middleware Transition: Managed Services Address Key Needs

Download this white paper for key considerations for evaluating what should come next for your organization’s cloud integration and data management operations.


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Compare Liaison ALLOY with iPaaS: Your Checklist to Better Cloud Integration

Download this white paper to learn why Liaison ALLOY Platform’s unique and thoughtful approach to cloud integration outperforms the developer productivity tools of iPaaS.


The ROI of Data Modeling

Download this white paper for a look at how data modeling is continuing to play a key role in new technology innovations, such as big data, by adapting and redefining its role to survive and sustain momentum.


The State of Mobility in the Enterprise

Download this technical guide to learn how to implement a mobile strategy that will deliver maximum value to your organization.


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Speaking to More Than a Million Customers Individually

Download this white paper to learn how True Corporation, Thailand’s leading communications conglomerate, built a big data platform to better serve their customers’ needs.


Qvidian Embedded Analytics Case Study

This white paper describes how Qvidian, a sales software provider, used Birst Embedded Analytics to increase revenue and boost product differentiation in just eight weeks.


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Three Reasons to Modernize Your Cybersecurity Architecture

Download this white paper to learn how forward-thinking organizations have discovered a new class of cybersecurity solutions.


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The Horsepower of Hadoop: Fast and Flexible Insight with Results

Download this white paper for an investigation into the impact of Hadoop on the data, people, and performance of today's companies.


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Five Common Hadoopable Problems

Download this white paper to learn how organizations are harnessing the power of Apache Hadoop.


Gartner Critical Capabilities for Data Quality Tools

Download this Gartner report to see how 18 data management technology vendors stack up when comparing performance across the most significant use cases for data quality tools.


New MCG Global Services Hadoop Data Integration Benchmark Report

Download this report to see how the performance of data quality and data management workloads on Hadoop clusters stack up when comparing speed, implementation, and usability.


Strategies for the Game: How to Win at Big Data Analytics and Double the Impact of Your Analytics Team

Download this informative e-book today and learn winning strategies for dealing with explosive data growth and the proliferation of data sources.


IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: Big Data and Analytics in the United States

Understand your big data and analytics maturity level against industry benchmarks and make data-driven decisions based on organizational goals.


Key Shifts: Transforming the Data Center

Cloudera and Intel jointly commissioned Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc., to survey IT and corporate line of business managers involved in or responsible for data center operations.


The Forrester Wave: Big Data Hadoop Distributions, Q1 2016

Hadoop is data’s darling for a reason — it thoroughly disrupts the economics of data, analytics, and data-driven applications.


Cybersecurity at Petabyte Scale

Learn why organizations are turning to Cloudera’s enterprise data hub, powered by Apache Hadoop, to modernize their cybersecurity architecture, detect advanced threats faster, and accelerate threat mitigation.


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Data Drives Business

Data is transforming businesses, reducing business risks, and creating a competitive advantage for those who use it effectively.


Forrester: Secure IoT As It Advances Through Maturity Phases

This report analyzes the attributes of IoT risk by industry. The framework provided helps enterprise security and risk professionals predict when the products they are building, or the technologies they use, will likely become targets of attack.


Real-time Data Pipelines: Bring in More Data, Faster

Explore traditional ingestion and data processing architectures and new modern approaches using Cloudera.


10 Reasons Big Data Is Important Today

Download this white paper to learn how big data can lower business risks, drive customer insights, and improve product and services efficiency.


IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Big Data and Analytics 2016 Predictions

This IDC study offers IDC analysts' collective advice to IT and business decision makers to consider in their planning for big data and analytics (BDA) initiatives.


Three Ways to Get Started with Hadoop

Dell and Intel share three solutions that provide end-to-end scalable infrastructure, leveraging open source technologies, to allow you to simultaneously store and process large datasets in a distributed environment for data mining and analysis, on both structured and unstructured data, and to do it all in an affordable manner.


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7 Data Visualizations You're Not Using Enough

Download this white paper and discover how to tell better stories with data.


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Big Data Analytics Buyer’s Guide

If you have large volumes of diverse data and need to perform sophisticated analysis on this data, you need big data analytics.


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Using Customer Behavior Analytics to Increase Revenue

Customer behavior analytics maximizes the value of customer relationships by identifying actionable insights that drive valuable outcomes.


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Getting Value from Hadoop: Build, Bridge, or Buy

Hadoop plays an important role in the big data architecture in many organizations. Big data analytics platforms provide a faster path to prove business value and eliminate risk that can upend your big data initiatives.


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Data Preparation for Modern BI: Common Design Patterns

If you want to be successful in mining big data for insights that will move the needle for your business, then the data you’re analyzing needs to be clean, organized, detailed, and well-understood.


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Evolving Your Analytics with Big Data

Big data analytics allows you to answer a new generation of questions to become an agile business, and it allows your BI and analytics team to deliver more insights to your organization.


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Avnet, Inc.: Serving Up Insight to Customers Faster Than Ever with Data Analytics and Warehousing in the Cloud

Download this white paper to learn how Avnet, Inc., takes advantage of the powerful data warehousing and business intelligence capabilities of cloud-based IBM dashDB.


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Harvard Research Group Assessment: IBM dashDB

Download this white paper for Harvard Research Group's assessment of IBM dashDB, a family of cloud-based data warehouse and database solutions for analytics and transaction processing.


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Ovum Enterprise Case Study: Understanding Customer Viewership and Behavior Across Platforms

Adapting to the expectations and changing buying behaviors of customers is becoming a Herculean task, requiring both business and technology transformation. Download this white paper for a case study on achieving a complete view of the customer with a scalable cloud database and analytics.


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IBM dashDB Local: Using a Software-Defined Environment in a Private Cloud to Enable Hybrid Data Warehousing

Download this white paper to learn about architecting a hybrid data warehouse that ultimately lowers the cost of analytics, enables unprecedented flexibility, and delivers deeper insights.


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Analyze JSON Data for 360-Degree Customer Insights

Download this white paper to learn how IBM Cloudant and IBM dashDB enable semistructured NoSQL data forms to be efficiently incorporated into business processes and quickly converted into actionable insights.


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IBM DataWorks Solution Brief

In order to stay on top of new data demands and remain competitive, enterprises must find ways to transform line of business professionals into skilled data workers, taking some of the burden off of IT.


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Jibes Anticipates 30 Percent Jump in Revenue from Cloud-based Analytics

IBM Bluemix speeds analytics time-to-insight by up to 75 percent while minimizing a client’s investment.


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Rapid Insight with Results: Harnessing Analytics in the Cloud

Today's evolved cloud-based environments allow for acceleration in the process of converting raw data into consumable insight, ultimately paving the way for enhanced business decisions.


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The Forrester Wave: Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions, Q2 2016

Download this white paper for an evaluation of leading big-data Hadoop cloud solution vendors to find the right one for your enterprise.


Setting Your Data in Motion: Why Fluidity Is the Goal to Mastering MDM

Let Your Data Flow! Learn why fluidity is the key to mastering MDM. 5 best practices for setting your data in motion.


Mastering MDM: Lessons from B2B Leaders in Managing Data

Mastering MDM: Real-World Lessons in Managing Data. Best practices for building an A+ framework for MDM.


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7 Tips to Succeed with Big Data

Download this white paper to learn seven new ways to achieve success with big data.


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Big Data Analytics: Assessing the Revolution in Big Data and Business Analytics (10 Best Practice Recommendations)

Download this e-book for 10 recommendations for big data analytics best practices from Ventana Research.


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The Guide to Big Data Analytics

Download this e-book to learn how your company can use big data to generate more revenue and savings.


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Big Data Analytics Buyer's Guide

Download this guide to learn what's important when it comes to selecting a big data analytics platform.


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Using Big Data Analytics to Understand Customer Journeys and Drive Revenue

Download this e-book to discover how companies are using big data to understand their customer data across channels.


Making Analytics Part of Your Product: 5 Keys to Success

Download this e-book to how learn how embedding the right analytics technology should help differentiate and strengthen your organization's customer value proposition in the market.


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5 Reasons to Move Your BI to the Cloud

Download this white paper for a closer look at the benefits of cloud BI and how you can get started today.


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IBM dashDB: Enterprise MPP Service

IBM dashDB Enterprise MPP is a high performance, massively scalable cloud data warehouse service, fully managed by IBM. It enables simple and speedy information management, analytics, and business intelligence operations in the cloud.


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The Fluid Data Layer: The Future of Data Management

Download this e-book for an exploration of a new approach to making data available and accessible when and where it’s needed most: the fluid data layer.


Data Engineering with Apache Hadoop: Highlights from the Cloudera Engineering Blog

Download this white paper for selected posts from the Cloudera Engineering Blog about key concepts pertaining to building and maintaining analytics data infrastructure on a Hadoop-powered enterprise data hub.


Apache Impala (Incubating): Analytic Database for Apache Hadoop

Apache Impala provides high-performance, low-latency SQL queries on data stored in popular Apache Hadoop file formats. Download this white paper for featured blog posts from the Cloudera Engineering Blog about key Impala concepts, performance, and best practices.


Handling Hadoop Together: Dell | Cloudera | Intel

Dell, Cloudera, and Intel team to deliver an easy to consume modern data architecture.


Securing Sensitive Data: How to Navigate the New World of Compliance

This paper describes five best practices for achieving the latest compliance standards based on work done between MasterCard and the Hadoop market leader, Cloudera. The urgent need for partnerships to embrace data usage and security is detailed as well as the importance of achieving the latest compliance standards to use data responsibly, with a flexible, future-proof platform, to defend against potential security breaches.


mBank: A Modernized Data Architecture Drives Business Value In Banking

See how Cloudera provided mBank with a modern architecture for storing, processing, and analysis for all its data, enabling new methods of data utilization to improve competitiveness, and support more efficient use of the company’s existing IT infrastructure.


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Big Data Review 2015: A Detailed Investigation into the Maturing of Big Data Analytics

2015 was the year that Big Data went from being something that a few bigger organizations were doing to being something that a majority of organizations were either doing or at the very least actively considering. The maturing of cloud-based Big Data services has made Big Data analytics a feasible reality for organizations of all sizes. The benefits of Big Data are more widely understood – driven by the increasing numbers of case studies available. Vendors of Big Data software and services have become better at explaining exactly how their solutions benefit businesses. The Computing Big Data Review 2015 summarizes the results of a comprehensive research program undertaken by Computing during the first quarter of 2015.


The Enterprise Data Hub in Financial Services: Three Customer Case Studies

Download this white paper to learn how Cloudera is helping financial services firms address their big data challenges today and downstream.


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