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Submission Guidelines

Content is what makes TDWI the unrivaled leader in independent and valuable guidance for the data driven world. We encourage you to share your great ideas, insights, and lessons with our audience. This page is a starting point for submitting ideas for both our events as well as publications.

TDWI Events

TDWI Events bring together business leaders, architects, data scientists, analysts, developers, and implementers to learn how to harness the latest innovation in big data, streaming insights, visualization and management

Our events include:

• TDWI Events
• TDWI Leadership and Executive Summits
• TDWI Accelerate

Our 2017 Call for Papers is now open. To submit your ideas for consideration, visit https://go.tdwi.org/LV-2017-Call-For-Papers.html.

Business Intelligence Journal

The Business Intelligence Journal is a quarterly journal that focuses on all aspects of unbiased, critical business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) knowledge. The Journal’s name and content reflect TDWI’s mission to educate business and IT professionals about the array of technologies and disciplines required to deliver valuable insight to business users and to help organizations operate more intelligently.

Upcoming Submission Deadlines

• Submission Deadline: August 23, 2019
• Distribution: December 2019

SEND YOUR SUBMISSION TO:

Email: [email protected]
Attn: Peter Considine, Managing Editor
Subject: _AuthorLastname_Submission to the Business Intelligence Journal

Formatting Your Submission

In general, the Journal's editors expect a comprehensive treatment of your topic and suggest that submissions be 3,000–5,000 words. Articles must be original and unpublished. Submission of a manuscript implies the author(s)' assurance that the work has not been submitted to and is not currently being considered by any other publisher, either print or electronic. The work must not have been posted on a Web site (internal or external, personal or commercial) or incorporated in a white paper.

ENGLISH: The Journal editors are happy to consider submissions from around the globe. However, we strongly recommend that authors for whom English is not their native language have their work reviewed for proper grammar, style, and English usage before submitting it to the Journal. Articles that are deficient in these characteristics cannot be considered for publication.

>>Word document

Your manuscript should be saved in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or docx) and sent as an attachment. Do not use styled templates with special formatting; limit formatting to bold, italics, and bullet lists. We prefer Times New Roman font, 12 point.

Your document should include:

• An abstract of 150-200 words describing the manuscript's contents, including particular words or phrases that will help the reader key into the subject.
• A short 20-word author biography, including only name, affiliation, and email address.
• If there are references, make sure they are placed at the end of the manuscript in alphabetical order by first author. Use the following general format when listing references. If you're not sure, provide all the relevant information (editions, editors, translators, etc.).
  • Articles: Author [year]. "Title," Journal Name, Vol. __, No. __, Month.
  • Books: Author [year]. Book Name, Publisher.

In the text, refer to the author by name and publication date, such as (Smith, 1994). For multiple authors, include all names, such as (Smith, Jones, and Wilson, 1995).

>>Graphics

• Graphics should be sent separately in PowerPoint format (or, if not possible, in their native file formats). We need to recreate your graphics in our own format, so we prefer that you create any graphic in a PowerPoint slide. If that is not possible, please submit an original graphic file (.jpg, .bmp, .tif, .xls, etc.).
• In the text of the manuscript, indicate placement of each chart or graphic by inserting a copy of the image followed by a caption: "Figure 1: Short description of the graphic."
• Tables may be created within Word.
• Only original graphics created specifically for your article can be included with your manuscript. Do not include graphics (for example, any illustration you've found on a website) for which you do not have express, written permission to republish in the Business Intelligence Journal.

>>Other items

• Author photo must be digital and high resolution.
• Include a completed writer's agreement (scan and include with submission OR fax to 425.687.2842 OR mail within 24 hours to the address on the form).

Editorial Acceptance

• All articles are reviewed by the Journal’s editors before they are accepted for publication.
• It is our policy to revise content without contacting the author for approval. We edit for grammar, punctuation, spelling, and style to meet our editorial standards, and edit text to fit the space allotted. Only if significant changes are made to the content will we send a courtesy copy to the author prior to publication.
• Articles must be original and unpublished. Submission of a manuscript implies the author(s)' assurance that the work has not been submitted to and is not currently being considered by any other publisher, either print or electronic. The work must not have been posted on a website (internal or external, personal or commercial) or incorporated in a white paper.
• Authors will be required to sign a release form before the article is published.
• The Journal will not publish articles that market, advertise, or promote a particular product, company, or technology.
• Due to space constraints, accepted articles may occasionally be held for a future issue.

Suggested Topics

Journal authors are encouraged to submit articles or proposals that address the following list of pertinent topics, or other topics of interest to data management and analytics professionals.

• Trends and best practices in analytics
  • real-time streaming
  • edge analytics
  • predictive analytics
  • prescriptive analytics
  • in-memory analytics
  • cloud-based analytics
  • text analytics and disambiguation
• Big data
  • security, privacy, governance (especially with IoT)
  • evolution (Apache Kafka, Storm, Spark, Hadoop/MapReduce)
• IoT (protocols, architecture, security, analytics)
• Cutting-edge enterprise applications of analytics/data marketing
• Next-generation architectures/data warehouse modernization
• Cloud services
  • software-as-a-service (SaaS)
  • platforms-as-a-service (PaaS)
• The changing role of IT and self-service BI
• Bridging the gap between business and IT
• Changing data-related roles
  • data scientists
  • chief data officers
  • chief analytics officers
• Self-service data preparation and visualization
• Machine learning/AI
• Interesting uses of data—hive (mind sensors, virtual reality, etc.)
• Next-generation data management
• Data storytelling and visualization
• Mobile business intelligence
• Cognitive computing
• Graph databases

About Our Audience

TDWI's Business Intelligence Journal is targeted at business intelligence and data warehouse professionals who are members of our organization. Readers include business-unit managers who use BI to project sales and maximize revenue to administrators who work within IT to ensure top performance of their hardware and software. From business intelligence/data warehousing end users and project leaders to the people who support them, Business Intelligence Journal readers want to stay on top of the latest developments within their field, understand the trends that affect their specialty, and learn about new technologies and approaches to solving their everyday problems.

Our readers typically work with large data stores, are challenged by data integration and data quality issues, and want to get the most out of the tools and technology they already have.

Writing Tips

Proofread your work carefully or have a friend or colleague do so. The editorial staff will review and correct your work for occasional grammatical and spelling errors, but we cannot correct overall style problems or compensate for a lack of basic English language skills. Writing that does not meet our editorial standards cannot be considered for publication.

Focus on practical, in-depth information. Our audience of active BI/DW practitioners is looking for new techniques and approaches they can put to use. The Business Intelligence Journal occasionally publishes thought pieces that look to the future of BI, but we will not publish articles that cover BI or DW fundamentals (which are already known to our readers) or that describe current trends and buzzwords without providing actionable information for putting new technologies or ideas to work in readers' own environments.

Read a copy of the Business Intelligence Journal before submitting. Contact us at [email protected] to request a sample; then read it to ensure your manuscript is consistent with the approach, style, and tone of our other articles. For example, keep bullet lists to a minimum. Your article should be 3,000 to 5,000 words long and contain proper citations for all references.

Don’t promote your own company or its products, services, or technology. If your company sells a solution that addresses the subject matter of your article, ensure that you are representing a balanced view: discuss both the pros and cons of your suggested approach, explain why it works, and do not suggest that our readers buy your solution.

Get feedback in advance. Send a short abstract of your proposed article to [email protected]. We’ll let you know if the subject is of interest and may offer suggestions about what to include or avoid as you write your manuscript. However, such feedback does not guarantee acceptance.

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