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                | Wednesday, June 13, 2012 |  
                | News Highlights
                    
                      
                        |  |  | Linda BriggsHP's Mike Mansur, a master consultant 
with HP's Enterprise Information Solutions group, explains how 
developing a BI vision and strategic plan is all-important in 
realizing the promise of business intelligence. |  
                        |  |  | Sanjay BhatiaWith so much data in so many places, 
how can you quickly connect to the sources you need?  Data 
virtualization may be the answer. |  
                        |  |  | Forget Big Data: can today's -- or 
tomorrow's -- DW workloads take advantage of Big Density? |  
                        |  |  | As the pressure to deliver accurate and 
reliable data increased, a pharmaceutical company realized it needed 
an enterprisewide master data management (MDM) solution. (Short 
registration required) |  |  
                
               
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                        |  |   | TDWI Webinar Series:Speaker: 
                          Philip Russom
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                        | At one end of the spectrum, many 
organizations initiate data governance programs because of pressing 
compliance issues that impact data usage. At the other end of the 
spectrum, some organizations begin by governing data that's shared 
broadly through a variety of data integration and application 
integration technologies. |  |  
                | Upcoming Webinars of Interest
                    
                      |   | Data discovery is one of the hottest 
categories in the BI market today, allowing business users to 
explore data visually, with minimal IT support or extensive data 
modeling. As the variety of data explodes, decision-makers want to 
combine data from the data warehouse with unstructured content such 
as customer comments, resumes, tweets, and blogs. Speaker: 
                        
                        Cindi Howson
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Now 
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                      |   | There are good reasons why data 
governance (DG) has become a critical success factor for a number of 
life-cycle stages within data quality (DQ) and master data 
management (MDM) initiatives. Speaker: 
                        
                        Philip Russom
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Now |  |  
                
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                      |  | July 30-August 1, 2012 |  
                      | TDWI BI Executive Summit: Big Data Analytics for 
Better Customer IntelligenceSan Diego, CA |  
                      | Learn More / Register Now |  |  |