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Wednesday, September 04, 2013

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Q&A: Return on Investment for Information Projects

James Powell

When it comes to calculating ROI for BI projects, what's hampering your colleagues and what are they doing right? Consultant, author, and speaker William McKnight explains what you need to know about BI ROI.

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Marketing IT In-House -- Four Principles for Making Your Customers Look Good

Max T. Russell

The IT department's value to the enterprise becomes all the more obvious as you make other departments' value obvious.

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Q&A: Thinking of Data as Information Capital

Linda Briggs

Thinking of data as information capital and treating it much as a company treats other kinds of capital (such as financial and human) can get leaders thinking about information in a different way.

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The Expanding Scope of Data Visualization

Stephen Swoyer

These days, the term "data visualization" has a less specific, less technical meaning. Increasingly, "data visualization" means how we expect to consume information. A new report from TDWI Research explores this change.

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Three Ways Healthcare Providers Are Transforming Data from Information to Insight

If your data is not helping you solve your organization's toughest challenges every day, then it is a drastically underutilized asset. (Short registration required for those downloading content from TDWI for the first time.)

TDWI Webinar Series:

Using Customer Analytics to Make Better Business Decisions

Speaker: David Stodder

September
5
9:00AM PT
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To compete effectively and keep the 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.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

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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Harnessing the Power of Big Data for Healthcare Organizations

Big data has arrived in healthcare. Increasingly, healthcare provider and payer organizations have access to growing volumes of structured and unstructured data. New sources are mushrooming in size and importance for access and analysis. Big data holds the potential to give users a more complete and timely view. At all levels, users in healthcare organizations must leverage this data to discover insights for improving patient care, cost management, and operational process improvement.

Speaker: David Stodder

September
10
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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