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                | Wednesday, May 09, 2012 |  
                | News Highlights
                    
                      
                        |  |  | Mark PecoHow can the principles of branding be 
applied to BI to help multiple groups in large organizations work 
collaboratively across departmental boundaries? |  
                        |  |  | Stephen SwoyerWith SAP Predictive Analysis, the 
company says it wants to bring predictive analytic capabilities to 
as many users as possible. With its huge installed base, it says 
it's just the software vendor to do it, too.  |  
                        |  |  | Linda BriggsChatter in the marketplace and plenty 
of interest from both customers and vendors point to a busy 
intersection of predictive analytics and big data, says analyst and 
researcher Fern Halper. |  
                        |  |  | Stephen SwoyerAll MPP databases must scale out over 
multiple nodes and scale up on today's beefy hardware. According to 
Calpont CTO Jim Tommaney, they don't do that very well, and most 
analytic databases focus on MPP to the detriment of SMP. Although 
not everyone agrees with Calpont, experts concede that increasingly 
beefy compute resources pose new challenges -- and opportunities -- 
for BI and DW.  |  |  
                
               
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                        |  |   | TDWI Webinar Series:Speaker: 
                          Philip Russom
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                        | According to TDWI's Next Generation Data 
Integration survey, the types of data integration functionality that 
are seeing the hottest adoption and growth today are those forms 
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                | Upcoming Webinars of Interest
                    
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Club Penguin, Webkinz, and Poptropica provide environments for 
children to play games, interact with each other, earn virtual 
money, and spend that virtual money on a variety of items.  Speaker: 
                        
                        David Loshin
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                      |   | Business intelligence applications are 
playing an ever-increasing and important role in driving and 
optimizing daily business operations. This trend is leading to major 
changes in both the functionality and the usability of BI-related 
technologies and products. Speaker: 
                        
                        Claudia Imhoff
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                      |  | July 30-August 1, 2012 |  
                      | TDWI BI Executive Summit: Big Data Analytics for 
Better Customer IntelligenceSan Diego, CA |  
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