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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

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Making BI Analytics Fun

Stephen Swoyer

BI analytics as fun? "Gamification" advocates claim that by applying game-play principles to the search for (and discovery of) insights using BI software, vendors can intensify the productivity while injecting a feeling of fun.

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Q&A: Expanding the Definition of Data Governance

James Powell

Data governance is more than just managing data in order to optimize outcomes.

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BI Tech Talk: Behind the Wild Profusion of ESBs

Stephen Swoyer

Why are so many data integration players selling enterprise service buses of their own? Is it just a matter of vendor opportunism?

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Next Generation Master Data Management: An Overview in 35 Tweets

Philip Russom

To help you better understand next- generation MDM and why you should care about it, Philip Russom's Twitter messages provide an overview in a form that's compact yet amazingly comprehensive.

TDWI Webinar Series:

BI in the Cloud: Blue Skies or Storms?

Speaker: Cindi Howson

April
25
9:00AM PT
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Business intelligence in the cloud was once a strategy for niche vendors. Now mega vendors and solution providers recommend cloud as a way of lowering your infrastructure costs.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Bridging the Gap Between Business and IT

Business-IT partnership is one of the most critical aspects to successful business intelligence solutions that are aligned with the goals of the business, and yet most companies continue to report painful disconnects between the business and IT.

Speaker: Cindi Howson

April
26
9:00AM PT

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Real-Time and Big Data Challenge Data Management Best Practices

The incremental movement toward real-time operation is the most influential trend today in data-driven IT disciplines, such as business intelligence (BI), data warehousing (DW), and data integration (DI). From a technology viewpoint, collecting, processing, and delivering data is hard enough; doing it in real time is downright herculean.

Speaker: Philip Russom

May
1
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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