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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

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Q&A: Managing and Evaluating Your BI Tool Portfolio

James E. Powell

Cindi Howson explains best practices for evaluating (and re-evaluating) your BI tool set and looks at what's cool in BI.

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Building the Business Case for Big Data

Krish Krishnan

What do companies do when they need the power of analytics to be increased with decision support architecture from enterprise data? They build business cases. Here are five business components to address in your own business case.

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NoSQL Data Structures: One Structure Does Not Fit All

Mike Schiff

The traditional relational database is not the only answer to every database application. It's time to gain experience with non-relational (and non-legacy) NoSQL and NewSQL database technologies.

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Why Organizations Must Get the Small Stuff Right

Stephen Swoyer

With so much attention paid to big data, advanced analytics, and the cloud, are we ignoring the small stuff -- the bread-and-butter, SQL-centric activities such as operational reporting or scorecards?

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Survey Shows Correlation between Cloud Use, Better Decision-Making

James E. Powell

A new survey from IBM links financial performance with use of cloud computing for competitive advantage.

TDWI Webinar Series:

5 Best Practices for Data Visualization Success

Speaker: Lyndsay Wise

November
19
9:00AM PT
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Today's organizations need to display data in interesting, meaningful ways in order to empower users to take action and make good business decisions. Often, difficulties arise when choosing the correct visualization to best illustrate the important message the data provides.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Using Master Data to Supplement Your Company's Customer Centricity Strategy

Master data management (MDM) comprises a robust set of processes, techniques, and technologies. MDM has matured to the point where organizations now recognize a need to transition away from "integration" and move toward "information use." That implies a more informed concentration on customer data visibility to support corporate directives for improving the customer experience in ways that create and maintain corporate and customer value.

Speaker: David Loshin

November
21
9:00AM PT

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Using Enterprise Information Governance to Balance Enterprise Information

Organizations are increasingly recognizing the intrinsic value in growing information resources to drive decisions. However, management of information from a systemic perspective has historically reflected a dichotomy between the business side of the organization and the IT department.

Speaker: David Loshin

December
3
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

December 8-13, 2013

TDWI World Conference: Emerging Technologies 2014

Orlando, FL

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March 9-11, 2014

TDWI Solution Summit: Delivering Business Value from Big Data Analytics

Savannah, GA

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November 18-21, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: Agile BI

Chicago, IL

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