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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

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Pervasive BI Still Elusive, Survey Reveals

Stephen Swoyer

Pervasive business intelligence (BI) remains an elusive goal. For the last two decades, BI vendors, industry thought-leaders, and BI administrators have pulled out all the proverbial stops to drive adoption. According to the 2012 edition of "The Successful BI Survey," these efforts haven't paid off.

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Q&A: How Strategic Planning Can Help Manage Big Data

Linda Briggs

Are organizations prepared to pilot new techniques around big data, then absorb those methods back into the existing infrastructure? In this interview, BI and analytics expert David Loshin discusses ways that enterprises can successfully adjust to big data -- or any new tool or technology.

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SAP Business Suite Heads to HANA

Stephen Swoyer

It's been 16 months in the making, but SAP AG this month announced a version of its flagship SAP Business Suite for HANA, its flagship analytic platform.

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MegaFon Centralizes 200 Billion Real-Time, Mobile Communications Billing Transactions

How a mobile Internet solutions provider's real-time data integration implementation enabled more sophisticated, business-specific analysis for billing and customer data so it could improve business decisions, better target customer marketing, and enjoy continued growth.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Operationalizing Big Data Analytics: Turn Isolated Analytic Insights into Repeatable BI Solutions that Benefit the Whole Enterprise

Speaker: Philip Russom

February
12
9:00AM PT
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Many user organizations are moving deeper into advanced analytics with big data because conventional wisdom now tells us that there are leverage-able business insights to be discovered in big data. However, many organizations are deploying teams and tools for big data analytics in silos that are disconnected partially or wholly from the rest of an enterprise.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Five Steps for Getting Your BI Dashboard and Self-Service to the Next Level

Dashboard and self-service excellence is essential to gaining full value from investment in BI tools. Dashboards can be critical in increasing your information awareness and in improving overall transparency, strategic alignment, accountability, collaboration, and data governance, but after initial implementation, then what?

Speaker: David Stodder

February
26
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

February 17-22, 2013

TDWI World Conference: Data Strategy for the Enterprise

Las Vegas, NV

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February 18-20, 2013

TDWI BI Executive Summit: Enterprise Data Strategies for Analytics and BI

Las Vegas, NV

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March 18-21, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: Data Modeling

Austin, TX

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