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Wednesday, August 07, 2013

News Highlights

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One Way to Bring Advanced Analytics to the Masses

Fern Halper

How deploying a multiplier effect model can help spread analytics throughout your organization.

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A Dark Side of the Cloud: Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Mike Schiff

Why enterprises must have contingency plans for their data before moving to the cloud.

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Increase BI Adoption by Embedding BI in Everyday Apps

Stephen Swoyer

Try as they might, organizations haven't been able to push BI adoption beyond a quarter of its work force. JasperSoft's Karl van den Bergh has a theory about this dilemma and suggests a commonsense solution.

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Marketing the IT Department In-House: The Powerful Position of a Servant

Max T. Russell

The dynamics of professional servanthood put the IT department in a position of increased effectiveness.

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Implementing Data Governance in Complex Healthcare Organizations: Challenges and Strategies

Learn how solid data governance practices help healthcare providers identify and track an individual patient and improve patient outcomes. This paper illustrates how a successful data governance program can harness the energy of disparate IT initiatives and focus on the ultimate goal of patient- centric care. (Short registration required for those downloading TDWI resources for the first time)

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What You Can Do about Big Data's Big Exposure

From an information security perspective, big data can mean "big exposure" to risk if approached solely from a traditional IT perspective. (Courtesy 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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Critical Success Factors for the Creation of Self-Service BI

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. At the same time, BI teams would like to offload report and analytics creation duties to users and focus on more value-added activities.

Speaker: Claudia Imhoff

August
29
9:00AM 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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