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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

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Q&A: Managing the Risks of Offshore Data Warehousing

Linda Briggs

As multinationals become truly global companies, key business functions can be distributed worldwide. Moving a data warehouse offshore offers attractive cost savings, but critical success factors and risks must be addressed.

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From the BI Scorecard: Tableau Launches Version 7, Challenges Old School BI

Cindi Howson

News from Tableau's recent user conference, including the CEO's explanation of how Seattle Children's Hospital uses Tableau to improve care and reduce costs.

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Integrating Canonical Message Models and Enterprise Data Models (Part 2 of 3)

Dr. Tom Johnston

How an enterprise data model is used to "facilitate messaging" and the benefits of using it that way.

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How Continuous Transaction Monitoring Uses Targeted Analytics to Prevent Fraud

Patrick Taylor

How to stop fraud, strengthen controls and improve business processes by finding and fixing root causes behind improper transactions in real time.

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Q&A: Making the Move to Better Data Governance

Linda Briggs

In most organizations, poor data governance practices have become institutionalized over the years. As more organizations move toward implementing solid data governance programs, the challenge is overcoming bad practices while ensuring that information is accessible, usable, and of good quality.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Can Business Intelligence Save Us?

Speaker: Laura Madsen

November
17
9:00AM PT
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Business Intelligence has a lot to prove and now is the time to do it. There has been a lot of talk lately in the BI circles that BI is a necessary business function.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Analytic Workloads: Which Data Warehouse Architecture Is Right for You?

The number of workloads for analytics has increased significantly in recent years. This is because more user organizations than ever before are using advanced forms of analytics, including complex SQL, data mining, and statistical analysis.

Speaker: Philip Russom

November
29
9:00AM PT

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Reinventing Your Business Intelligence Program

Whether you're new to BI or have already started down the road, it is critical that your BI investments deliver business value.

Speaker: Nancy Williams

November
30
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

November 29, 2011

Solution Spotlight on Analytics

Columbus, OH

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December 1, 2011

Solution Spotlight on Analytics

Minneapolis, MN

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February 12-17, 2011

TDWI World Conference: A Data Strategy for the Enterprise

Las Vegas, NV

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