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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

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The Changing Face of Geospatial Analytics

Fern Halper

Why geospatial and IoT are an important part of big data's evolution.

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The MPP Data Warehouse Takes to the Cloud

Stephen Swoyer

Between them, Snowflake Computing and Teradata articulate two distinctly different visions of the data warehouse in the cloud, but both company's MPP data warehouse services are available via Amazon Web Services. Amazon already offers its own MPP data warehouse-as-a-service, Redshift. How are Teradata and Snowflake different?

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Convergence of Big Data, Cognitive Analytics, and the Internet of Things

Raghu Sowmyanarayanan

The generation of big data may be growing exponentially and advancing technology may allow the global economy to store and process ever-greater quantities of data, but there may be limits to our innate human ability -- our sensory and cognitive faculties -- to process this data leveraging the Internet of Things.

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Informatica Takes on Big Data

Stephen Swoyer

Informatica says its new Big Data Management offering addresses the three-fold challenge of integrating, governing, and securing data in tandem with big data platforms such as Hadoop.

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Best of TDWI's Data Digest

Quint Turner

Interesting articles we found on the Web focus on the pitfalls of predictive analytics, prepping big data, spatial analytics, storytelling, and simplifying visualization projects.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Adaptable, Intuitive, and Faster: Key Trends Shaping the Future of Business Intelligence

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Leveraging Data Governance to Align and Operationalize Business Policies

Learn about embedded data governance requirements in business policies and how to transform business policies into data governance rules. This Webinar will discuss the federated approach to starting small and gradually embracing data sets across the organization and how to collaborate in using master data, metadata, and data lineage to operationalize business policies.

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Your Data Warehouse is Not Alone: Now It has Friends in the Extended Analytics Architecture

In this Webinar we'll explore the evolution of the data warehouse and what extended analytics architecture (EAA) is and means. We'll look at use cases for each EAA component and discuss how to get started with this warehouse evolution.

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