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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

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Five Tips for Better Data Stories

Ted Cuzzillo

Even Hemingway had to learn how to write stories. Data storytellers are no different.

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Vendor M&A Considerations

Michael Schiff

What should your enterprise do once you hear of M&A activity?

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Cloud Data Integration and the Role of REST

Stephen Swoyer

The writing's on the wall: the application infrastructures of the not-so-distant future will be largely REST-ified. This means on-premises IT resources will be augmented by RESTful middleware to expose them to other (internal and external) REST services.

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Best of TDWI's Data Digest

Quint Turner

Interesting articles we found on the Web focus on real-time streaming analytics, getting started with Internet of Things data, and storage features that help you manage data.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Igniting Analytics: Apache Spark's Promise and Potential Perils

Speaker: Philip Russom

September
24
9:00AM PT
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Apache Spark is a parallel processing engine for big data that achieves high speed and low latency by leveraging in-memory computing and cyclic data flows. Interest in Spark is rising rapidly because it offers a number of other advantages over Hadoop MapReduce and aligns with the needs of enterprise users and IT organizations. This Webinar will also contemplate Spark's role today and in the future.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

New Approaches for Fast Decision Making with Analytics: 5 Tips You Should Know

Organizations want easy-to-use analytics software for both traditional BI and even more advanced analytics. The need for speed, flexibility, and agility in decision making is becoming a business imperative, just as data is becoming more voluminous, more disparate, and more real-time. This Webcast features a case study describing how Cisco successfully met its need for speed. The Webcast will also include a lively roundtable discussion on how organizations can get to insight more rapidly and improve their decision-making processes.

Speaker: Fern Halper

September
29
9:00AM PT

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Cloud: Your Adaptive Integration Platform?

Learn about the benefits of and barriers to cloud data integration, explore prominent use cases for cloud- based data integration solutions, and discover the trends and possible future directions for data integration as it embraces the cloud.

Speaker: Philip Russom

September
30
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

October 5 - 8, 2015

Seminar in New York // Dimensional Modeling

New York, NY

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October 12 - 15, 2015

Seminar in Atlanta // Best Practices for Enterprise Data Management

Atlanta, GA

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December 6 - 11, 2015

TDWI Orlando 2015

Orlando, FL

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