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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

News Highlights

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Six Ways Data Replication Enables Real-Time Data Integration

Philip Russom

As real-time operation becomes a more prominent business requirement, don't forget data replication.

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Traditional Tools Still Big Part of Big Data

Stephen Swoyer

A new survey from open source business intelligence (BI) specialist JasperSoft sheds light on how and why adopters are using big data, but the survey actually raises many intriguing questions.

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Talend "All-in" on Hadoop, MapReduce

Stephen Swoyer

Talend's commitment to Hadoop and MapReduce includes tapping the technologies to parallelize ETL jobs. Talend's Open Studio design tool addresses the Achilles' Heel of Hadoop: its lack of usable, intelligible, data management-oriented programming or management tools.

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Last Chance to Boost Your BI Success and Rate Your BI Tool

Take BI Scorecard's 2012 "Successful BI" survey to get recommendations to improve your BI impact, benchmark your adoption, and tell us which BI modules are most important. Participants will receive a free copy of summary findings and have a chance to win $100. Survey closes this week.

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Q&A: Harnessing Big Data for Business Advantage

Linda Briggs

Big data introduces uncertainty and changing business requirements, but having the right processes in place to guide engagements can help smooth the way to success.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Cloud -- Your Next Data Integration Platform?

Speaker: Philip Russom

September
13
9:00AM PT
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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).

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Self-Service BI: The Top 7 Selection Criteria

Self-service BI is becoming increasingly popular as business users demand more control over their analytical assets and IT continues to be strapped by budget and resource constraints. Many information workers now expect to be able to interact with information and create their own views to address pressing business issues.

Speaker: Claudia Imhoff

September
25
9:00AM PT

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The Role of the Analytic Database in a Modern Data Warehouse Architecture

TDWI sees user organizations continuing their long-running success with various designs and architectures for data warehouses. However, recent business and technology requirements demand support for numerous workloads for advanced analytics and big data, workloads that many data warehouses were not designed for by their users (due to an organizational focus on requirements for reporting and OLAP).

Speaker: Philip Russom

September
27
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

October 1-4, 2012

TDWI Seminar Series: Dimensional Modeling

Vancouver, BC

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October 22-25, 2012

TDWI World Conference: Dimensional Modeling

New York, NY

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TDWI World Conference: Emerging Technologies 2013

Orlando, FL

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