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TDWI Pulse Report | Accelerating Data Warehouse Development

January 15, 2021

TDWI feels confident that data warehouse professionals can rise to the challenge of accelerating data warehouse development as long as they have the right tools and the right skills.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Data Architecture for IoT Communications and Analytics

December 18, 2020

This checklist explores eight key suggestions for establishing an effective data architecture for an IoT environment.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Challenges to the Conventional Wisdom of the Cloud

December 18, 2020

In this checklist, we identify six commonly accepted beliefs about cloud computing, highlight situations where that wisdom might be challenged, and provide some ideas to mitigate those situations.


Best Practices Report

TDWI Best Practices Report | Modern Data Governance

December 18, 2020

This report canvasses current and future data governance strategies and best practices to help organizations understand the new requirements for data governance.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Data Governance on Cloud Data Platforms: Five Best Practices

December 8, 2020

This report examines five organizational and technology best practices for governing data specifically in a cloud data platform.


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TDWI Insight Accelerator | How to Reduce TCO and Increase the ROI of BI and Analytics

November 30, 2020

This TDWI Insight Accelerator focuses on how organizations can reduce TCO without negatively impacting the business benefits they seek through expansion of BI and analytics.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Capabilities to Eliminate Data Chaos by Unifying Your Hybrid Data and Analytics Platforms

November 23, 2020

This checklist guides the reader through creating an end-to-end environment that enables data consumers while effectively guarding against data chaos.


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TDWI Pulse Report | Beyond “Lift and Shift”: Rearchitecting BI, ETL, and Data Warehousing for the Cloud

November 17, 2020

This TDWI Pulse Report discusses how organizations can leverage the flexibility and scalable and elastic processing power of the cloud to solve business problems and grow revenue through new, data-rich products and services.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Evolving Data Science in the Cloud

October 30, 2020

This Checklist Report examines five best practices for utilizing the cloud for data science.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Five Steps to Enabling Quicker Business Decisions with Integrated and Governed Cloud Data

October 13, 2020

This TDWI Checklist addresses five important areas for modernizing the integration, delivery, and governance of cloud data.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Five Ways Continuous Intelligence Accelerates Digital Transformation

October 5, 2020

This TDWI Checklist Report introduces the concept of continuous intelligence and describes its critical capabilities.


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TDWI Checklist Report | The Future of Analytics: An End-to-End Platform

September 30, 2020

This TDWI Checklist discusses five requirements for an end-to-end platform to support the future of analytics.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Seven Steps for Migrating Sensitive Data to the Cloud

September 30, 2020

This checklist highlights the challenges of migrating sensitive data to the cloud and how to overcome them.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Seven Steps to Complementing Your Analytics Arsenal with a Graph Database

September 30, 2020

This TDWI Checklist Report looks at how data-driven organizations will benefit from graph databases.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Maximizing Data Utility by Ensuring Trust in the Data

September 30, 2020

Data utility reflects a combination of data’s usefulness, its contribution to organizational profitability, and its ability to benefit the organization.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Analytics for Everyone: Seven Tips for Promoting Analytics Adoption

September 29, 2020

This Checklist Report is designed to help the reader identify core issues to consider when democratizing analytics to empower the organization.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Evolving from Traditional Business Intelligence to Modern Business Analytics

September 25, 2020

This TDWI Best Practices Report offers recommendations for ensuring that the evolution toward modern business analytics is successful.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Five Steps for Accelerating Data Readiness

September 25, 2020

This TDWI Checklist discusses how data catalogs, knowledge graphs, graph databases, master data management, and workflow automation can enable organizations to move faster to prepare all their data.


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TDWI Pulse Report | The Modern Analyst: Meeting Tomorrow’s Challenges

September 21, 2020

This TDWI Pulse Report examines how data and analytics professionals would like to see the analyst role change as well as how to measure analytics value.


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TDWI Checklist Report | How to Use Cloud-Based iPaaS to Modernize Integration

September 11, 2020

This TDWI Checklist report presents recommendations for modernizing integration in the context of supporting modern, digital enterprises that need state-of-the-art tooling.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Things You Need to Know about Machine Learning to Be Successful

September 2, 2020

This checklist report focuses on six technology considerations for successful machine learning and data science.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Considerations for Utilizing Cloud Data Platforms

July 21, 2020

This checklist introduces the cloud data platform, examines its value, and addresses several important requirements.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Data Onboarding for Cloud Data Lakes

July 17, 2020

This checklist explains five ways to support data onboarding and simplify cloud data migration and modernization.


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TDWI Best Practices Report | Data Management for Advanced Analytics

May 29, 2020

This TDWI Best Practices Report explores data management strategies and best practices, then links combinations of these to the leading forms of advanced analytics to help data management and advanced analytics professionals and their business counterparts achieve greater success and business impact.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Accelerating Time to Value with Enterprise Data Preparation

May 19, 2020

This TDWI Checklist discusses eight considerations aimed at enabling you to accelerate time to value with modern enterprise data preparation.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Critical Capabilities of a Logical Data Fabric

May 11, 2020

This checklist describes six important capabilities of the logical data fabric to deal with modern data management and analytics efforts.


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TDWI Pulse Report | Faster Insights for All: Empowering Citizen Data Professionals to Make Powerful Business Decisions

May 5, 2020

This TDWI Pulse Report examines the rise of “citizen data professionals” and recommendations for supporting them.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Five Strategies for Creating a Culture of Self-Service for Analytics and Business Intelligence

April 28, 2020

This Checklist Report focuses on helping organizations understand and employ organizational and technology best practices for fostering a self-service analytics and BI culture.


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2020 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report
TDWI Member Exclusive

February 28, 2020

  Average salaries for full-time DM/A employees and contractors rose by 11.1 percent from 2018 to 2019. Read more in the 2020 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report.


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TDWI Pulse Report | Achieving Business ROI with Cloud Data Warehousing and Analytics

December 20, 2019

This TDWI Pulse Report examines five areas that organizations need to address to ensure business value and ROI as they increase the role of the cloud in data life cycles.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Solving Modern Data Integration Challenges with an Enterprise Integration Fabric

December 20, 2019

This checklist explores ideas for determining where traditional approaches to data integration are impeding modern analytics and will guide the reader in ways to modernize.


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Best Practices Report | Faster Insights from Faster Data

December 20, 2019

This TDWI Best Practices Report examines where organizations are facing barriers to getting relevant data into the right condition for analytics, for developing artificial intelligence (AI) programs, and for delivery to users who need insights in time to solve business problems.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Data Management Requirements for Data Science, ML, and AI

December 13, 2019

This TDWI Checklist report drills into the business and technical requirements for preparing data for machine learning and related practices in artificial intelligence and predictive analytics.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Cloud at Scale for Modern Data Warehousing

October 30, 2019

This TDWI Checklist Report drills into the business and technical requirements of the modern DW.


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TDWI Checklist Report | The Modern Data Warehouse and Analytics Stack

October 30, 2019

This TDWI Checklist Report examines best practices for the modern data warehouse and the modern analytics stack.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Migrating from On Premises to the Cloud

September 30, 2019

This checklist provides guidance to the information professional who needs to justify a cloud migration initiative.