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                | Wednesday, December 17, 2014 |  
                | News Highlights
                    
                      
                        |  |  | Stephen SwoyerThe year that was 2014 was a 
transitional year in business intelligence and data management, with 
vendors emphasizing data visualization, storytelling, databases, 
Spark, and intriguing inventions. |  
                        |  |  | Michael Schiff All seven predictions the author made 
last year came true.  What's ahead for 2015?  Here are seven new 
predictions for the New Year. |  
                        |  |  | Stephen SwoyerAt its recent Partners annual 
conference, Teradata announced new products and services.  Among the 
most eagerly anticipated of new unveilings, however, was the 
official debut of key deliverables in Teradata's QueryGrid 
initiative. |  
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 BITW On Holiday
BI This Week is taking some time off to 
enjoy the holidays.  Our next issue will arrive in your inbox on 
January 7, 2015. |  |  
                
               
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                        |  |   | TDWI Webinar Series:Speaker: 
                          Fern Halper
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                        | How are organizations implementing next-
generation analytics to meet their business objectives, and what 
challenges do they face with such analytics? What best practices can 
you adopt in your own organization to address next-generation 
analytics? TDWI Research director for advanced analytics Fern Halper 
will explain. |  |  
                | Upcoming Webinars of Interest
                    
                      |   | Learn why operational data stores need to 
be modernized and how some users are doing it, as well as how ODSs 
still support data warehouse architectures as well as new approaches 
to advanced analytics, data archiving, data lakes, and enterprise 
data hubs.  Russom will explain how Hadoop makes a highly scalable 
and cost-effective platform for ODSs, especially when compared to 
traditional relational databases, and he'll discuss how you can 
industrialize the data integration process for a data hub. Speaker: 
                        
                        Philip Russom
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Now 
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   | Learn more about the TDWI Analytics 
Maturity Model and Assessment Tool and hear preliminary results from 
the assessment. Co-authors Fern Halper and David Stodder will lead a 
lively discussion with the sponsors of the assessment about how to 
improve an organization analytics maturity and the state of BI and 
analytics today. Speaker: 
                        
                        Fern Halper and David Stodder
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