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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

News Highlights

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How to Acquire, Analyze, and Act on Big Data to Predict Customer Behavior and Drive Revenue

Scott Swartz

To find the most meaningful data, organizations must move beyond how to best acquire information and focus on how to analyze and act on it.

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SAP Unveils Bundles of Enterprise, Mid-Market, SMB BI Tools

Stephen Swoyer

New "analytics editions" of SAP's BusinessObjects BI Suite combine Sybase IQ and BusinessObjects Data Integrator with industry-specific scorecards, KPIs, dashboards, and other content. SAP has been pumping up analytic capabilities in its BI products, but it's now more analytically ambitious than ever.

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Why Your BI Investment Isn't Paying Dividends

Glenn Wirick

How can BI deliver on its promise while enabling the real-time capability required by today's business users?

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Foster a Data- Driven Culture for Better Patient Care

To remove the bottleneck posed by a small, centralized team of analytics experts, consider self-service clinical analytics. (From TDWI's "What Works in Healthcare" -- short registration required.)

TDWI Webinar Series:

Completing the Big Data Picture: Understanding Why and Not Just What

Speaker: Colin White

October
24
9:00AM PT
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There is considerable interest at present on the topic of big data. Much of the discussion about this topic, however, is focused on the technology supporting big data, rather than on how big data can be leveraged for business benefit.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Selecting the Right BI Technologies for Your Business Needs

The use of business intelligence (BI) is growing rapidly as companies seek to use the power of business intelligence to help improve business efficiency and look for new business opportunities. BI products are also evolving rapidly to take advantage of advances in software and hardware technologies.

Speaker: Colin White

October
30
9:00AM PT

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Turning Big Data Insights into Business Value

In one of the strongest trends today, many user organizations are moving deeper into advanced analytics with big data. That's because conventional wisdom now tells us that there are business insights to be discovered and leveraged in big data.

Speaker: Philip Russom

October
31
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

October 22-25, 2012

TDWI World Conference: Dimensional Modeling

New York, NY

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November 11-16, 2012

TDWI World Conference: Emerging Technologies 2013

Orlando, FL

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November 12-13, 2012

A TDWI Forum: Emerging Technology Strategies for Big Data Analytics

Orlando, FL

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