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                | Wednesday, August 22, 2012 |  
                | News Highlights
                    
                      
                        |  |  | John O'BrienMajor shifts converging in today's BI 
environment bring the opportunity to discover new answers to old 
questions about what BI architectures are about and how they are 
designed.  |  
                        |  |  | James E.  PowellEstimating can be a chore -- and 
produce inaccurate results.  Ralph Hughes introduces us to a new 
approach to the practice: agile estimating. |  
                        |  |  | Konstantin PolukhinAs growth of cloud-based applications 
outpaces growth of on-premise apps, enterprises must address how 
best to integrate data between the cloud and on-premise storage. |  
                        |  |  | Linda BriggsWith a few exceptions, vendors simply 
aren't pushing the state of the art in data visualization, says 
researcher and author Jonathan Koomey. Here, he discusses how to 
improve visual presentations with a few simple rules that reflect 
current knowledge about graphical displays. |  
                        |  |  | Sanjay BhatiaAlthough storage prices are dropping, 
you must still consider how your customized data set will work for 
self-service or ad hoc reporting, especially in a real-time 
environment. |  
                        |  |  | Why self-service clinical analytics was 
a priority at the University of California Irvine Medical Center. 
(From TDWI's What Works in Healthcare; registration required) |  |  
                
               
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                        |  |   | TDWI Webinar Series:Speaker: 
                          David Loshin
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                        | A widening community of business analysts 
and managers has expressed a growing desire to take advantage of 
analytics, especially as opportunities for integrating "big data" 
sets from a variety of sources. |  |  
                | Upcoming Webinars of Interest
                    
                      |   | Most everyone has heard about big data 
and advanced analytics as it seems as though every vendor has 
managed to work these terms into their marketing messages. However, 
to date, most of these discussions have centered on the definition 
of what is big data and the intricacies of the technologies 
involved, rather than on how to apply analytics to these new sources 
of value to reap business benefit. Speaker: 
                        
                        Colin White
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                      |   | Despite rumors to the contrary, the 
report of the death of the data warehouse is, to quote Mark Twain, 
exaggerated. An evolutionary approach to querying, reporting, and 
analytics may still rely on the traditional dimensional models of 
the data warehouse and the data mart. Speaker: 
                        
                        David Loshin
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