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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

News Highlights

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The BI Year That Was: 2014

Stephen Swoyer

The 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.

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Major Data Warehousing Events of 2014 (and Predictions for 2015)

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.

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Teradata's QueryGrid Comes into Focus

Stephen Swoyer

At 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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TDWI Webinar Series:

Next-Generation Analytics and Platforms for Business Success

Speaker: Fern Halper

January
13
9:00AM PT
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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

Modernizing the Operational Data Store with Hadoop

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

January
29
9:00AM PT

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Moving Forward with Analytics: Introducing TDWI's New Maturity Model Assessment Tool

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

February
3
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

February 22 - 27, 2015

TDWI Las Vegas

Las Vegas, NV

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February 23 - 25, 2015

TDWI Executive Summit in Las Vegas

Las Vegas, NV

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March 15 - 17, 2015

TDWI Solution Summit Savannah

Savannah, GA

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