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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

News Highlights

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Is Big Data Tipping toward Pragmatism?

Stephen Swoyer

The theme of this month's TDWI World Conference in Chicago was "The Big Data Tipping Point." That tipping point may be occurring in some not-so-obvious ways.

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Leveraging Tiered Data Analytics Approaches for Better Cloud Utilization

David S. Linthicum

We explore how to leverage tiered data architectures when leveraging cloud-based platforms.

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What "In-Memory" Truly Means

Stephen Swoyer

In-memory database engines seem to be everywhere. Trouble is, few so-called "in-memory" databases actually run completely in memory.

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Q&A: Big Data and Database Technologies

James Powell

When it comes to big data, technologies abound. How do you select the options best for your environment?

TDWI Webinar Series:

Managing the Mayhem of Mobile BI

Speaker: Cindi Howson

May
23
9:00AM PT
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Apple defined a new category of computing with the release of the Apple iPad. It also reinvigorated the BI market with visually attractive dashboards on every tablet. Mobile BI promises to make BI more immediate and accessible for executives and field workers alike.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Do You Need to Be a Data Scientist to Analyze Text?

Part of the discussion and debate recently about big data, big data analytics, and the role of the data scientist revolves around the skills required to be a data scientist, who is supposed to possess statistical or quantitative model-building skills, computer science skills to deal with new and diverse technologies, business savvy and acumen, and subject matter expertise.

Speaker: Fern Halper

May
29
9:00AM PT

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Boost Your Data Warehouse and Analytics Environments with "Fresh" Data

To help business users make better and faster decisions, your business intelligence (BI), data warehousing (DW), and analytics environments should provide access to the most current information residing in your operational systems.

Speaker: Philip Russom

May
30
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

June 17-19, 2013

TDWI BI Symposium: Building an Analytics-Driven Organization

Toronto, ON

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August 12-15, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: BI Essentials

New York, NY

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August 18-23, 2013

TDWI World Conference: Agile BI

San Diego, CA

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