Wednesday, March 07, 2012 |
News Highlights
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Mike Schiff
If your organization isn't benefiting
from data mining and predictive analytics, consider using them now.
We explore why these technologies are increasingly popular with
enterprises of all sizes.
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Philip Russom
The first of a three-part sneak peek at
the latest TDWI Best Practices Report, "Next Generation Master Data
Management," to be published in April. The report helps user
organizations understand MDM life-cycle stages so they can better
plan and manage them.
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Stephen Swoyer
Users tend to dislike their data
integration (DI) tools for their high cost. Gartner's latest Magic
Quadrant for DI tools shows that three vendors most stung by pricing
criticisms are making an effort to address pricing concerns. Will it
result in meaningful savings for most users?
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Linda Briggs
Editor's Note: Due to
a production error, some readers may not have been able to access
the Q&A in last week's issue.
"If users are able to locate, query, and visualize their data far
more easily, they are suddenly in control," says Sean Martin of
Cambridge Semantics. He uses the term "operational intelligence" to
refer to new uses of data that can drive day-to-day operational
decisions.
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TDWI Webinar Series:
Speaker:
Nancy Williams
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Mid-sized companies are increasingly
interested in acquiring new business intelligence capabilities
because they spend most of their time looking for data rather than
using it. Many still use slow, manually intensive, spreadsheet-based
approaches to obtaining and using information. |
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Upcoming Webinars of Interest
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Big data challenges involve not only the
task of harnessing and managing big volumes of data stemming from a
host of traditional as well as new types of data, but also trying to
meaningfully make sense of big data by leveraging analytics tools
and applications that are best suited and optimized for big data
volumes and workloads.
Speaker:
Colin White
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Fundamentally, there are two different
approaches to modeling MDM: (1) prepackaged and (2) business-model
driven. Each approach determines if the data model is fixed or
flexible, Web services are pre-generated or dynamically generated,
and user interfaces are pre-defined or user-defined.
Speaker:
David Loshin
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Events Calendar
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