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Wednesday, February 08, 2012

News Highlights

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Big Data Killed the Data Modeling Star

Paul Sonderegger

Big data offers BI professionals new ways of making information work for the business.

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5 Macro Trends Shaping Next-generation BI and Analytics

George Mathew

The traditional BI stack has failed. What's next?

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TDWI Report Explores Challenges, Lessons Learned from Mobile BI Deployments

Stephen Swoyer

A new report from TDWI highlights the lessons gleaned from existing mobile BI and analytic deployments, discusses the challenges -- immediate, imminent, and longer term -- of mobilizing BI, and, most important, explores the why of BI mobility.

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Q&A: How BI Competency Centers Can Add Business Value

Linda Briggs

A BI Competency Center can add business value, but it must be done right. HP's Chris Carney discusses the focus and skills needed and mistakes to avoid, and shares an example of a successful BICC implementation.

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JackBe is sMashing BI Barriers

Stephen Swoyer

An update that JackBe unveiled late last year for its Presto business intelligence platform demonstrates just how far it's come since the days when it focused on AJAX and SOA application development. Nowadays, JackBe is focused solely on BI, which makes it easy to expose any kind of information -- including data you wouldn't typically want to bring into a data warehouse.

TDWI Webinar Series:

The Confluence of Big Data and Advanced Analytics

Speaker: Philip Russom

February
9
9:00AM PT
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The term "big data" has arisen in recent years to describe multi-terabyte datasets. Big data certainly has its challenges relative to scalability and data management, but it's also useful for business intelligence. Massive datasets of big data provide substantial data samples for many forms of analytics, especially advanced forms that are discovery oriented.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Seven Data Discovery Steps for Improving Information Delivery and Accuracy

Know your data. With today's information- driven business projects, no maxim could be truer. Yet many organizations lack fundamental knowledge about their data -- and the situation is getting tougher as "big data" sources grow in size and variety and manual documentation efforts can't keep pace.

Speaker: David Stodder

March
1
9:00AM PT

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Successful Strategic Planning in the World of Big Data

It is difficult to ignore the growing influence of broad, massive streams of data from unexpected sources, especially when these data sources can directly influence customer satisfaction, expose opportunities for revenue generation, lead to brand risk, or improve customer profiling.

Speaker: David Loshin

March
7
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

February 12-17, 2012

TDWI World Conference: A Data Strategy for the Enterprise

Las Vegas, NV

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February 13-15, 2012

TDWI BI Executive Summit: Executing a Data Strategy for Your Enterprise

Las Vegas, NV

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March 19-22, 2012

TDWI Seminar Series: Data Modeling

Austin, TX

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