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TDWI Pulse Report | Operationalizing Analytics for Business Value

September 30, 2019

This TDWI Pulse Report focuses on operationalizing analytics models in order to help organizations take action and gain value.


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Best Practices Report | Driving Digital Transformation Using AI and Machine Learning

September 25, 2019

This TDWI Best Practices Report examines how organizations using AI are making it work. It looks at how those exploring the technology are planning to implement it. Finally, it offers recommendations and best practices for successfully implementing AI in organizations.


TDWI Checklist Report | Six Strategies for Simplifying Hybrid, Multicloud Data Integration

September 12, 2019

This TDWI Checklist discusses why data virtualization is relevant to the challenges of hybrid, multicloud environments.


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TDWI Pulse Report | The Modernization of the Data Warehouse

August 30, 2019

This report drills into four critical success factors for the modernization of the data warehouse.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Strategies for Data-Centric Decision Making

June 24, 2019

This checklist report focuses on six strategic issues that set the stage for greater speed, confidence, and quality in data-driven decision making.


TDWI Checklist Report | Ingestion and Integration for Cloud Data Warehousing

June 20, 2019

To successfully navigate the transition from an on-premises data warehousing solution to one that may span a multicloud hybrid environment, you need a solid plan for ingesting and integrating data for your migrated, modernized cloud-based data warehouse. In this checklist we will examine some of the challenges of data ingestion and integration for cloud-based data warehouses.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Five Best Practices for Managing Data in Hybrid Cloud Environments

June 14, 2019

Businesses are using cloud compute and storage services for application development, quality assurance, and analytics for a number of key reasons. This report focuses on best practices for organizations managing data in hybrid cloud environments.


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TDWI Pulse Report | Business Innovation with Analytics

June 14, 2019

This TDWI Pulse Report discusses how some of these newer technologies—machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), the Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain—have the potential to help organizations innovate and digitally transform. It discusses the trends and highlights activities and uses. It also includes best practices for getting started.


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TDWI Checklist Report | A Step-By-Step Guide to Adopting a Hybrid Integration Platform

May 31, 2019

This TDWI Checklist Report provides a step-by-step guide for adopting a hybrid integration platform.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Preparing to Migrate to the Cloud

May 27, 2019

This checklist can help you determine which workloads are best suited to migrate to the cloud.


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Best Practices Report | Cloud Data Management

May 24, 2019

This report explains in detail what cloud data management (CDM) is and does so data professionals and their business counterparts can understand what CDM can do for them and how they might organize a successful program.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Building a Modern Operational Data Warehouse

March 29, 2019

This TDWI Checklist Report drills into the business and technical requirements of the modern operational data warehouse with a focus on how satisfying these requirements enables modern data-driven business practices.


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TDWI Checklist Report | How to Use Data Preparation to Accelerate Cloud Data Lake Adoption

March 29, 2019

This TDWI Checklist offers six steps for data preparation processes and solutions that can help accelerate cloud data lake adoption.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Pathways to Cloud Data Warehouse Modernization

March 29, 2019

This TDWI Checklist Report provides suggestions when considering modernizing your data warehouse in the cloud.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Overcoming Challenges to Data Warehouse Modernization

March 22, 2019

In this checklist, we delineate a number of challenges to data warehouse modernization and provide suggestions for addressing the underlying issues.


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2019 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report
TDWI Member Exclusive

February 27, 2019

  In 2018, the average salary dropped for the first time since 2015, but nearly all individual employees saw their salaries rise from the previous year. Read more in the 2019 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report.


Checklist Report

TDWI Checklist Report | Data Management Best Practices for Ongoing Regulatory Compliance

January 14, 2019

In this checklist, we will examine best practices for data management that support ongoing compliance with a variety of regulations.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Best Practices to Ignite the Customer Experience with IoT

January 3, 2019

This checklist focuses on how IoT data and analytics can be used to help drive the customer experience.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Seven Steps to Building a Data-Centric Organization

January 3, 2019

Any organization can become data-centric by taking advantage of some of the emerging trends discussed in this checklist. This report reviews some of the practices adopted by data-centric organizations and suggests ways to learn from their experiences.


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Best Practices Report | BI and Analytics in the Age of AI and Big Data

December 21, 2018

This TDWI Best Practices Report focuses on the emerging world of BI and analytics in the age of AI and big data. The research explores organizations’ satisfaction with current technologies and the issues driving interest in newer solutions that enable organizations to exploit advances in AI and big data.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Optimizing Data Quality for Big Data

December 20, 2018

This TDWI Checklist report drills down into the adjustments and optimizations in data quality practices required for big data.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Steps for Generating Business Value from Operational IoT Data

December 14, 2018

This TDWI Checklist focuses on how organizations can develop strategies for improving operational intelligence, particularly by realizing value from IoT data.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Digital Transformation Using Machine Learning

December 14, 2018

This TDWI Checklist Report discusses three broad areas of best practices for helping to make machine learning, and those involved with it, successful.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Best Practices for Real-Time Analytics on High Data Volumes

December 10, 2018

In this checklist, we explore the concept of hybrid transaction/analytical processing (HTAP), an alternative architecture that enables analytics to be performed in concert with transaction processing. We will present best practices for taking advantage of this alternative architecture to enable real-time analytics.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Five Benefits of Modern Data Catalogs

December 7, 2018

In addition to automation using AI, next-generation data catalogs often contain new features such as crowdsourcing and collaboration. This TDWI Checklist describes five ways modern data catalogs drive business value.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Seven Ways to Liberate Data with a Platform for DataOps

October 31, 2018

Existing enterprise infrastructures are engineered in a way that complicates some types of data provisioning. In this checklist, we will consider the benefits of a platform-based approach to DataOps that addresses some of these complexities.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Five Data Engineering Requirements for Enabling Machine Learning

October 26, 2018

This TDWI Checklist Report discusses best practices for data engineering and management to support machine learning with a focus on collecting, cleansing, transforming, and governing new types of data for analysis.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Keys to Maximizing Big Data Benefits and Project Success

September 29, 2018

This TDWI checklist discusses six important issues that organizations should address to start big data projects off right and then manage them to achieve objectives faster and with less difficulty.


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TDWI Checklist Report | AI for BI: Six Strategies for Augmenting Business Intelligence with AI and Machine Learning

September 28, 2018

This TDWI checklist discusses six best practices for gaining greater value from AI for BI and self-service analytics. Our objective is to help organizations accomplish projects faster and provide relevant and accurate insights that users can trust.


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TDWI Checklist Report | The Modern Data Hub

September 17, 2018

This TDWI Checklist Report presents seven recommendations for successful data hub design and use. It should help you understand the new direction that the data hub has taken as well as what you should demand when evaluating products and deploying a modern data hub.


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TDWI Checklist Report | Achieving High-Value Analytics with Data Virtualization

July 25, 2018

This Checklist Report discusses six areas that are critical to achieving high-value, business-driven analytics and the role data virtualization plays in realizing success in these areas.


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TDWI Pulse Report | Developing Data Strategy for IoT

June 29, 2018

This TDWI Pulse Report discusses some best practices for developing an IoT data strategy. It examines the organizational as well as the data and analytics aspects of such a strategy. This includes organizational alignment, understanding the unique nature of IoT, and other issues at play when managing and analyzing this “new” kind of data.


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TDWI Checklist Report | The Cloud Data Integration Primer

June 29, 2018

A number of newly mature trends are making cloud-based data integration platforms, technologies, and user best practices more relevant than ever.


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TDWI Checklist | Five Data Management and Analytics Best Practices for Becoming Data-Driven

June 12, 2018

It can be difficult to create an organization that thrives on data and analytics. This TDWI Checklist Report discusses best practices to build a program and an infrastructure for becoming data-driven.


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TDWI Checklist | Strategies for Improving Big Data Quality for BI and Analytics

May 18, 2018

Organizations dependent on big data for a wide range of business decisions need data quality management that can improve the data so it is fit for each desired purpose. This TDWI Checklist Report offers six strategies for improving big data quality.


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TDWI Checklist Report | The Automation and Optimization of Advanced Analytics Based on Machine Learning

May 8, 2018

Machine learning is being used today to solve well-bounded tasks such as classification and clustering. Note that a machine learning algorithm learns from so-called training data during development; it also learns continuously from real-world data during deployment so the algorithm can improve its model with experience. This report will drill into the data, tool, and platform requirements for machine learning with a focus on automating and optimizing ML's development environment, production systems, voracious appetite for data, and actionable output.