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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

News Highlights

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9 Ways to Get Business Value from Big Data

Philip Russom

Many use cases are available today as safe starting points for leveraging big data.

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Tableau Takes on the Cloud

Stephen Swoyer

Tableau says its new Tableau Cloud offering gives users the best of both worlds. Officials foresee adoption as a complement to existing Tableau implementations and in greenfield accounts. BI pros have taken notice; in its first two weeks of availability, Tableau logged more than 1,000 Tableau Cloud try-outs.

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Q&A: Patterns of Information Management

James Powell

Take a holistic view of how information flows around your organization's information systems and enjoy faster decision-making. Authors Mandy Chessell and Harald Smith show us how.

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Catching up with Actian ParAccel

Stephen Swoyer

What Actian's acquisition of ParAccel means for BI professionals.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Critical Success Factors for the Creation of Self-Service BI

Speaker: Claudia Imhoff

August
29
9:00AM PT
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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.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Predictive Analytics: A Critical Part of an Evolved Decision Support Platform

Why predictive analytics now? Many companies use BI to get a better understanding of what has already happened in their business -- a backward-looking view. Although this can be somewhat useful, organizations can gain real value by harnessing their valuable corporate data to understand why something is happening now, and more important, what's likely to happen next.

Speaker: Claudia Imhoff

September
4
9:00AM PT

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Using Customer Analytics to Make Better Business Decisions

To compete effectively and keep their best customers loyal, organizations need to capture a variety of data about customers and analyze it effectively. This includes tapping new and promising big data sources such as social media data. However, if organizations cannot analyze data in time and deliver insights to business decision makers quickly, all the data in the world won't make a difference.

Speaker: David Stodder

September
5
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

October 7-10, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: Dimensional Modeling

Minneapolis, MN

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October 20-25, 2013

TDWI World Conference: Business-Driven BI

Boston, MA

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October 15-18, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: Big Data

San Diego, CA

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