Wednesday, December 04, 2013 |
News Highlights
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Fern Halper
TDWI's Big Data Maturity Model helps
organizations assess their big data readiness and offers best
practices for moving along the maturity path. Its co-author, Fern
Halper, explains the five major maturity stages.
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Cindi Howson
Big data took New York by storm at the
annual Strata conference, coincidentally on the anniversary of Super
Storm Sandy.
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James Powell
Is big data at the center of the future
of data warehouses? Is big data valuable or overrated? Jonas
Olsson, CEO of Graz, gives us perspective.
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Linda Briggs
The use of analytics in higher
education can yield rich results, as two leaders in the use of BI in
higher education discuss.
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Kamran Ashraf
The vice president and head of analytics
of Visa Europe discusses why analytics has become today's modern IT
buzzword and why such a system must fit the end user employee need
and not just IT.
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The 2013 Successful BI Survey shows BI
adoption is only 24 percent of employees and that BI tools are easy
(enough). What do you say? Tell BI Scorecard and get a free summary
of the survey highlights and a chance to win $100. Hurry -- the
survey closes soon.
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TDWI Webinar Series:
Speaker:
Philip Russom
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Organizations today are seeking to drive
deep analysis, detect patterns, and find anomalies across terabytes
or petabytes of raw big data. Whether you're trying to discover the
root cause of customer churn or the hidden costs eroding the bottom
line, you need analytic tools and techniques that work well with
unstructured and multi-structured data in its original raw form.
Apache Hadoop is maturing as a loosely coupled stack for inexpensive
batch storage, where you don't need to know data formats or schemas
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Upcoming Webinars of Interest
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More and more, companies are looking to a
variety of data types and new forms of analysis in order to remain
competitive. Geospatial data is emerging as an important source of
information, both in traditional and big data analytics. Companies
are using geospatial data and geospatial analytics in applications
ranging from marketing to operations. The analytics are moving past
mapping to more sophisticated use cases.
Speaker:
Fern Halper
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There is considerable buzz in the IT
industry about in-memory technologies. At the same time, there is
considerable confusion about the role and benefits of these
technologies in business intelligence processing and performance. A
major reason for this confusion is that in-memory computing means
different things to different people.
Speaker:
Fern Halper
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Events Calendar
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February 17-20, 2014
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TDWI Seminar Series: Building the Foundation for
Business Analytics in Your Organization
London, UK
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Learn More / Register Now
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February 24-26, 2014
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TDWI BI Executive Summit: New Directions in
Analytics and Data Architecture
Las Vegas, NV
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Learn More / Register Now
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