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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

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A Look into the Future of Analytics

Stephen Swoyer

At the recent Pacific Northwest BI Summit, industry luminaries Claudia Imhoff and Harriet Fryman led a session about the future of analytics. The pair noted the need to make business more analytics-driven and analytics more pervasive.

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7 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a BI Consultant

John Remby

How can you tell if the consultant you're considering will meet your needs? This set of questions can help.

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Q&A: Managing Mobility and Reassessing the Importance of BYOD

How to find value beneath the BYOD hype.

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Marketing IT In-House: Good News Is Not Enough

Max T. Russell

Spreading the good news of BI requires marketing language. Good news by itself is rarely enough to move people to action.

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Q&A: Aerial Property Analysis Uses BI to Compare Images

Linda Briggs

High-resolution images of buildings and terrain can be analyzed to determine changes to structures -- hugely useful for governmental agencies, insurance companies, and others.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Making Data Beautiful for Business Users: Tips for Creating Rich, Visual, and Actionable User Experiences

Speaker: David Stodder

September
23
9:00AM PT
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Data "democratization" is here. Data is in demand today from an ever-widening community of users who seek data-driven insights to inform critical decisions and actions. To move business intelligence and analytics beyond just the specialists, applications must be "beautiful" and the user experience must be rich, visual, interactive, and actionable.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Visual Data Discovery for Self-Service BI

A picture can paint a thousand numbers and broaden the appeal of BI tools. Specialty BI vendors are growing at a rapid pace and visual discovery has become a critical component of the BI platform. BI platform vendors have rushed to add visual discovery capabilities to their portfolio.

Speaker: Cindi Howson

September
25
9:00AM PT

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Exploring the Benefits of the Modernized Data Warehouse

Traditional data warehouses are becoming even more complex as they strain against the weight of today's data explosion.

Speaker: Philip Russom

October
8
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

September 21 - 26, 2014

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

San Diego, CA

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September 22 - 23, 2014

TDWI Executive Forum in San Diego // Master Data, Quality, and Governance

San Diego, CA

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October 6 - 9, 2014

TDWI Seminar Series in New York // Dimensional Modeling

New York, NY

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