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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

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Q&A: Using Decision Management to Maximize Analytics

James Powell

What is decision management and how is it related to advanced analytics? What kind of decisions can be managed (and thus improved), and how can you identify them?

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Realizing Analytics Potential: It's Not Magic

David Stodder

One of the biggest trends today is the democratization of BI and analytics. Today's tools, applications, and platforms are making it easier for nontechnical business users to discover, analyze, and share data insights without handholding by IT or data scientists.

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Agile Data Integration with Extreme Scoping

James Powell

Do your data integration projects need to be more responsive to your users? Extreme Scoping may be just what you need to be more agile, and it's easy to incorporate its principles into your current methodology.

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SAP Lumira is the Exciting Headline but Enterprise BI is the Bread and Butter

Cindi Howson

The Sapphire Now event this year was all about simplicity, the cloud, and millenials. That's the message that SAP CEO Bill McDermott wanted to drive home in his keynote. BI, meanwhile, took a back stage to HANA and cloud announcements.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Are Advanced Analytics Possible without a Data Scientist?

Speaker: Colin White

June
19
9:00AM PT
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Data scientists are in high demand and companies are frantically looking for ways of overcoming the costs and shortage of experienced data science talent. To help solve this problem, both established and new start-up vendors are introducing products that claim to enable business users to do advanced and predictive analytics without the assistance of a data scientist.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

In-Memory Data Fabric: A Modern Approach to Data Warehouse Architecture

Defining the term data warehouse is getting more difficult. Many of the recent technology innovations in software and hardware have enabled a new generation of data warehouse architectures. In-memory processing coupled with today's faster hardware gives new data warehouse architectures greater speed and scale.

Speaker: Philip Russom

June
25
9:00AM PT

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Preparing Your Data Warehouse Environment for Big Data

Significant changes are afoot in data warehouse environments (DWEs) because organizations are evolving their DWEs to leverage big data for business value, practice advanced forms of analytics for new insights, scale up to larger user communities, enable self-service data exploration, and operate the business more competitively based on real-time and near-real- time data.

Speaker: Philip Russom

June
26
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

July 8 - 10, 2014

TDWI BI Symposium: BI Essentials, Data Modeling, Analytics, and Agile BI

Toronto, ON

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July 20 - 25, 2014

TDWI World Conference in Boston: Evolving Your Analytics Infrastructure: From DW to Big Data

Boston, MA

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July 21 - 23, 2014

TDWI Executive Summit in Boston: Realizing the Potential of BI, Analytics, and Big Data

Boston, MA

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