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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

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How to Sell a Data Quality Project

Gian Di Loreto, Ph.D.

It's a tough time to cost-justify BI projects and get buy-in from upper management. Here's how to get your data quality project approved.

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The BI Revolution: Cloud BI Progress and Pitfalls

Brian Gentile

With so much written about cloud and BI in the last year, it would seem the intersection of these two hot IT trends must be a winner -- but is it?

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Roambi BI: Right Place, Right Time

Stephen Swoyer

Is MeLLmo playing a dangerous game? Its Roambi mobile BI software runs only on Apple's iOS devices such as iPhones and iPods. It might seem like a recipe for stagnation or a drop-dead savvy strategy.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Making Sense of Big Data and Big Data Analytics

Speaker: Colin White

March
15
9:00AM PT
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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.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Is Your Approach to Modeling MDM Fixed or Flexible? How to Evaluate the Cost vs. Benefits of Prepackaged vs. Model-driven MDM

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

March
20
9:00AM PT

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Operational Analytics: Empowering Business Analytics and Decisions in Motion

"Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves." Operational analytics works the same way. Analyze what's happening historically and in the moment for all the day-to-day activities of your business.

Speaker: Barry Devlin

March
27
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

April 23-26, 2012

TDWI Seminar Series: BI Essentials

Washington, DC

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May 6-11, 2012

TDWI World Conference: Validating Your BI/DW Direction

Chicago, IL

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May 7-8, 2012

A TDWI Forum: Cool BI: Leading-Edge Solutions for Business Intelligence

Chicago, IL

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