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Wednesday, September 05, 2012

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Data Warehouse Architecture: Anticipating Future Needs

Mike Schiff

Even if their existing data warehouse architecture satisfies current requirements, organizations need to be prepared to address their future needs.

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Q&A: Game Publisher Scores a Win with BI Analytics

Linda Briggs

Massively multiplayer online games can stay relevant and competitive through quick decisions behind the scenes. U.S. gaming company En Masse Entertainment is using its data to tweak products as games are played.

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Collaboration Best Practices for Data Management/Business Process Reengineering

Theresa Kushner and Maria Villar

Is it time to re-examine and reengineer how you create, read, update, and delete data in your enterprise? These tips will help you get off to a great start.

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Integrated Health Intelligence: The Key to Healthcare Transformation

To transform how healthcare organizations lower costs, improve quality and outcomes, increase care accessibility and affordability, and improve patient and physician satisfaction, they need one thing their electronic medical record system can't provide: integrated health intelligence. (From TDWI's "What Works in Healthcare" -- short registration required.)

TDWI Webinar Series:

Emerging Business Intelligence Best Practices

Speaker: David Stodder

September
11
9:00AM PT
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The ground is shifting beneath business intelligence. Users are adopting mobile platforms, a trend that introduces an exciting new form factor for BI but also new challenges for information management. Users are demanding better data visualization and more dynamic self-service access, and not just on their desktops, but on smartphones and tablets.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Managing Human Information in a Big Data World

Research indicates that structured data accounts for only about 15 percent of the information available to organizations today. The rest lives in the realm of unstructured content found in multimedia, documents, geo-location data, and new sources such as social media.

Speaker: David Stodder

September
12
9:00AM PT

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Cloud -- Your Next Data Integration Platform?

When a new technology or platform enters IT, we often see it applied first with operational applications and their servers. Then BI platforms and data warehouses adopt the new technology, followed by data management tools. We've seen this with various technologies, including Java and services. We're now seeing the same sequence with clouds (whether public, private, or hybrid).

Speaker: Philip Russom

September
13
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

September 10-12, 2012

TDWI BI Symposium

London, UK

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September 16-21, 2012

TDWI World Conference: Agile BI

Boston, MA

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October 1-4, 2012

TDWI Seminar Series: Dimensional Modeling

Vancouver, BC

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