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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

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Agile Data Quality Best Practices

Philip Russom

How enterprises can accelerate the creation of new data quality solutions while aligning with business goals.

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Project Management: Do Less by Committing to More

Ken Collier and Lynn Winterboer

Agile leaders focus more on the continuous delivery of high-priority value to business stakeholders and less on making sure each worker is always busy. We explain how your BI program will benefit by limiting developer multi- tasking.

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Q&A: Large-scale ETL Driving Hadoop Projects

Linda Briggs

"Hadoop will radically change the cost structure of managing data, and thus of ETL," according to Syncsort's Jorge A. Lopez. Despite that, he says, organizations embarking on Hadoop ETL initiatives must realize that Hadoop is not a complete ETL solution on its own.

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Big Data: What Your Colleagues Are Doing

Jill Dyché

How are enterprises adopting big data and what challenges do they face?

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Video Data-Sharing Library Opens Up Big Data for Behavioral Research

Rutrell Yasin

A cadre of researchers and digital library and computer scientists are creating a Web-based video library to encourage widespread data sharing in the behavioral sciences where video is commonly used but rarely shared. (Courtesy of GCN.com.)

TDWI Webinar Series:

Using Analytics to be Predictive and Proactive

Speaker: David Stodder

August
14
9:00AM PT
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Organizations today need to get ahead of events so they can adjust decisions about resources, personnel, up- sell and cross-sell offers, fraud and abuse detection, and more in dynamic fashion. Analytics can play a key role in bringing predictive insights to executives and managers. With these insights coupled with continuous, real-time data views from business and operational intelligence systems, organizations can be "proactive" - - that is, they can do more than just react after the fact to events and market changes, and instead shape their own destiny.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Improving Ad hoc Query Speed for Hadoop Data

As user organizations dive deeper into big data analytics, many are depending more heavily than ever on SQL-based, ad hoc queries as their primary method for data exploration and discovery analytics (sometimes called investigative analytics). At the same time, the same organizations are adopting or considering Hadoop as their primary storage platform for big data. SQL-based analytics and Hadoop are good choices in isolation, but bringing them together has a catch: Hadoop's support for queries is minimal at the moment.

Speaker: Philip Russom

August
27
9:00AM PT

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Big Data and Your Data Warehouse

Just a few years ago, big data was a problem in terms of scaling up IT systems and discovering the business value. Thanks to advances in vendor platforms and user practices, most enterprises today consider big data an opportunity - -not a problem -- because they can mine and analyze it for valuable business insight.

Speaker: Philip Russom

September
5
6:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

August 12-15, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: BI Essentials and Foundations in Analytics

New York, NY

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August 18-23, 2013

TDWI World Conference: Agile BI

San Diego, CA

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August 19-21, 2013

TDWI Executive Summit 2013

San Diego, CA

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