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Wednesday, April 04, 2012

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Cool BI: Heading to the TDWI Forum in Chicago

Cindi Howson

Which key BI trends matter most? Cindi Howson explains the top seven innovations she and co-presenter Dave Stodder will discuss at the Cool BI Forum in Chicago in May.

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Q&A: The Magic Bullet for BI and DW Success

James E. Powell

How do organizations effectively handle the inevitable challenges in human dynamics to ensure project success?

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Host Analytics Touts Benefits of CPM in the Clouds

Stephen Swoyer

Host Analytics' new SaaS offering serves up a single view of operational and financial data, making it competitive with on-premises corporate performance management tools from IBM Cognos and Oracle Hyperion. Host Analytics says its cloud pedigree gives it advantages over on-premises solutions.

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Predixion Aims to Make Predictive Analytics Simple, Accessible

Stephen Swoyer

Predixion Software made its U.S. splash last year, promising to democratize and demystify data mining. Predixion's solution was designed to make data mining usable by rank-and-file workers. Has it succeeded?

TDWI Webinar Series:

Big Data and Your Data Warehouse

Speaker: Philip Russom

April
5
9:00AM PT
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Just a handful of years ago, Big Data was a problem in terms of scaling up IT systems and discovering the business value. Thanks to advances in vendor platforms and user practices, most enterprises today consider Big Data an opportunity - - not a problem -- because they can mine it and analyze it for valuable business insight.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Next Generation Master Data Management

Master data management (MDM) is one of the most widely adopted data management disciplines of recent years. That's because the consensus-driven definitions of business entities and the consistent application of them across an enterprise are critical success factors for important cross-functional business activities.

Speaker: Philip Russom

April
10
9:00AM PT

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Taking Data Integration to the Next Level: Techniques for Right-Time Data Delivery and Integration

Historically, the demands of independent business processes led to the development of applications with a focus on satisfying immediate functional or operational requirements.

Speaker: David Loshin

April
12
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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