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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

News Highlights

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Making Real-Time Analytics a Reality

MC Brown

In-memory analytics processing and access to live data is finally achievable and will make active live analytics a real possibility, and that opens up a new area of information processing and exchange.

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Personal Data Collection: Privacy Concerns May Degrade Data Quality

Mike Schiff

In an effort to protect their privacy, consumers may be providing merchants with inaccurate data.

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5 Steps to Turning Big Data into Smart Data
(Part 2 of 2)

Lee Feigenbaum

Most data is dumb; it is hard to find, hard to combine with other data, and hard to understand. If data is dumb, then big data is very dumb. Here are five steps to making it smart.

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TDWI's What Works: How NCR Corporation Improved Quality and Time to Market for Advanced Analytics

NCR's customers, including banks and retailers, can't afford downtime. Learn how NCR keeps uptime high for millions of deployed devices thanks largely to how it uses big data. (Very short registration required if you are downloading What Works content for the first time.)

TDWI Webinar Series:

How Data Science is Changing the Way Companies Do Business

Speaker: Colin White

July
17
9:00AM PT
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Data scientists are a new type of analyst -- part data engineer, part statistician, and part business analyst. They're in high demand, but, although they are great at analyzing data, data scientists are not always the best at explaining their findings to executives and business workers in understandable terms.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Modernize Data Warehousing with Hadoop, Data Virtualization, and In-Memory Techniques

A growing number of user organizations are under pressure to capture and manage big data as well as get business value from big data by analyzing it. To achieve these goals, many organizations are extending and revamping their data warehouse (DW) environments. According to TDWI surveys, the new technologies being adopted most by users who are modernizing their DWs include, Hadoop, data virtualization, and in-memory techniques.

Speaker: Philip Russom

July
24
9:00AM PT

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Big Data Analytics for Better Customer Intelligence: Steps to Success

Becoming customer centric is a critical success factor for most organizations. The marketplace rewards those that have the smartest and most responsive customer marketing, sales, service, and engagement. Superior use of data is essential to achieving goals in all of these areas. Leading organizations are separating themselves from the pack by deploying big data analytics, data visualization, analytics platforms, and business intelligence to gain the most insight from customer data generated across all channels, including social media.

Speaker: David Stodder

July
29
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

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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August 4 - 6, 2014

TDWI Seminar Series in Columbus: Big Data

Columbus, OH

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