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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

News Highlights

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Treating Your BI Project Like an Entrepreneurial Startup

Ken Collier

Startups know that what customers say they want isn't necessarily what they want. The same principle is critical to the success of your BI project.

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Oracle Showcases Data Discovery, Commits to Public Cloud

Cindi Howson

What's new and forthcoming from Oracle? Cindi Howson takes us inside Oracle's annual analyst conference.

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In Praise of Data Replication

Stephen Swoyer

Comparatively few enterprises appreciate just how useful data replication can be, but vendors sure do. Consolidation activity and aggressive product pushes demonstrate how data replication's status is improving -- and it's about time.

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Yellowfin Displays Adaptability

Stephen Swoyer

Yellowfin was designed to be a powerful BI reporting platform. The company's core design decisions helped to make it a surprisingly adaptable platform, too. BI has quickly moved beyond just reporting, and so has Yellowfin.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Data Analytics and Interactive Gaming -- Opportunities to Influence Consumer Behavior

Speaker: David Loshin

May
22
9:00AM PT
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Tween interactive social worlds such as 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.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Faster, Must Go Faster: The Need for Operational BI

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

May
23
9:00AM PT

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Visual Discovery Beyond the Hype

A picture can paint a thousand numbers and broaden the appeal of BI tools. Specialty BI vendors are growing at a rapid pace and visual discovery has become a critical component of the BI platform.

Speaker: Cindi Howson

May
30
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

June 25-28, 2012

TDWI BI Symposium: Agile BI and Analytics

Toronto, ON

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July 29-August 3, 2012

TDWI World Conference: Big Data Tipping Point

San Diego, CA

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July 30-August 1, 2012

TDWI BI Executive Summit: Big Data Analytics for Better Customer Intelligence

San Diego, CA

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