TDWI BI This Week Analysis and News TDWI

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

News Highlights

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Solving Business Problems with Predictive Analytics Collaboration

Joseph Pigato

To get the most from predictive analytics, encourage collaboration between data and business departments and cultivate hybrid employees who are part analyst, part decision maker.

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Getting Data Correct: Balancing Data Control and Business Demands

Charles Caldwell

How do you balance the need for dependable data with the need for decision speed? Take these three steps.

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How Data Virtualization Turbocharges Cognitive Analytics and Big Data

Suresh Chandrasekaran

Data virtualization helps organizations access and virtually integrate disparate data to feed cognitive analytical tools and delivers that intelligence more easily and widely through data services.

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Q&A: Cloud Service Provider Provides Quick Big Data Solution

Linda Briggs

Muji, an Asian-based company focusing on product quality and minimalism, chose a cloud-based service provider to handle vast quantities of data from its websites and online credit card.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Moving Beyond the Spreadsheet for Analytics

Speaker: Fern Halper

August
14
9:00AM PT
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TDWI Research shows that spreadsheets are arguably one of the most popular tools used for analysis among business analysts. Although spreadsheets fit the needs of many organizations, they are limited in numerous ways. For instance, it is hard to deal with multiple sources of data, or dirty data, in spreadsheets.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Stream Processing: Streaming Data in Real Time In-Memory

As big data continues to grow bigger and become more diverse and more real-time, forward-looking organizations are looking to manage and analyze this data using advanced analytics in an environment that might include multiple approaches and technologies. For real-time streaming data, this could include utilizing technologies that support in-memory processing, where data and mathematical computations are performed in RAM rather than on disk, enabling processing thousands of times faster than data access from disk.

Speaker: Fern Halper

August
21
9:00AM PT

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Cloud BI: Demystifying the Issues

Cloud BI has been positioned as the next evolution in BI because of its advantages in flexibility and elasticity. However, there is still confusion about moving to a cloud model, and cloud BI adoption has been slow, although interest is increasing. In a recent TDWI survey, a majority of respondents were either already using the cloud or were considering it for BI and analytics.

Speaker: Fern Halper

August
26
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

September 8 - 10, 2014

BI Symposium - In-Depth BI/DW Courses: Essential Education, Immediate Impact

London, UK

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September 14 - 16, 2014

Solution Summit in Austin // Hadoop, Cloud, and Hybrid Architectures: Components for Analytics Innovation

Austin, TX

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September 21 - 26, 2014

TDWI World Conference in San Diego // Managing Agile BI for the Enterprise

San Diego, CA

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