March 22, 2016
No matter the vintage or sophistication of your organization’s data warehouse (DW), it probably needs to be modernized. Download this report for a presentation of the many issues and categories of DW modernization, plus the strategies, methods, and enabling technologies that lead to success.
March 14, 2016
The gender gap in wages saw a dramatic narrowing in 2015, as women’s average salary rose by 1 percent and men’s dropped by 4 percent. Read more in the 2016 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report.
December 21, 2015
Download this report for recommendations and best practices for successfully operationalizing analytics in your organization to derive business value.
December 18, 2015
This Checklist discusses seven best practices for implementing data warehouse automation within an agile development framework.
December 9, 2015
This Checklist discusses seven key considerations to help organizations focus their evaluation and develop a strategy for gaining value from open source technologies to support faster, more powerful, and more flexible analytics.
December 2, 2015
This TDWI Checklist Report drills into seven recommendations and discusses many of the new vendor product types, their functionality, and user best practices that can contribute to data integration modernization. It also presents the business case and technology strengths of each recommendation.
November 4, 2015
To help the reader understand the ongoing evolution of data management—in response to new requirements around big data and analytics—this report provides a checklist of data management practice areas that are most affected. In addition, the report relates new practices to existing ones, indicating when to use which one.
November 2, 2015
This Checklist Report discusses what your enterprise should consider before diving into a data lake project, no matter if it’s your first or second or even third major data lake project. Presumably, adherence to these principles will become second nature to the data lake team and they will even improve upon them at some point.
October 9, 2015
This Checklist offers seven best practices for formulating a strategy to derive and deliver actionable customer intelligence. The practices are aimed at helping organizations turn their increasingly voluminous data riches into competitive business advantage.
October 1, 2015
Download this report to learn about the emerging technologies and methods (ETMs) that apply to business intelligence, analytics, and data warehousing. Discover how ETMs can support innovation in business processes, customer management, competitiveness, IT best practices, and the business leverage of data.
July 27, 2015
To help readers succeed in their cloud
data warehousing projects, this checklist identifies the benefits the
cloud offers, offers potential use cases, and presents key criteria for
using and choosing a cloud solution for data warehousing.
July 11, 2015
Download this report to examine how visual analytics fits with this and other important goals and trends that are enabling organizations to realize higher value from their data.
June 29, 2015
Our objective in this Checklist Report is to share best practices that will position the reader to take advantage of a cloud-based data warehousing solution.
May 15, 2015
To help user organizations prepare, this TDWI Checklist Report canvasses eight of the leading data warehouse modernization scenarios, discussing many of the new product types, functionality, and user best practices (as well as the business case and technology strengths) of each.
March 20, 2015
To help the reader select data-driven applications (DDAs) and prepare for their use, this Checklist Report drills down into their desirable characteristics, best practices, and use cases.
March 13, 2015
Average salaries rose 3.5 percent in 2014 for full-time U.S. BI professionals. Read more in the 2015 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report.
January 21, 2015
To solve business problems, develop new products and services, and optimize processes, organizations increasingly need analytics insights produced by data science teams with a diverse set of technical skills and business knowledge who are also good communicators. This TDWI Checklist Report describes seven steps to achieve a successful data science strategy.
January 12, 2015
By reflecting on the trajectory of big data adoption, this TDWI Checklist Report examines how selecting the right components will guide your transition and integration strategy to realize a mature big data platform that can be integrated within a production information technology environment.
December 22, 2014
This Checklist Report defines broad and unlimited data exploration best practices, with an emphasis on the roles of SQL and Hadoop.
November 7, 2014
This checklist provides practical guidelines to nascent data storytellers. It describes some important principles of data and analysis—the supporting characters in a story—as well as some tips for making a story engaging.
September 29, 2014
This Checklist Report explores the leading business reasons for modernizing a data warehouse, plus the common technical measures taken today for data warehouse modernization.
September 22, 2014
Download this report to learn about the many available technologies and practices for real-time data, BI, and analytics, plus how they enable fast-paced business processes and yield a wide range of
organizational advantages.
August 18, 2014
Data blending isn’t simply a matter of throwing data together; issues like data quality still need to be addressed. This Checklist Report
focuses on helping organizations understand the steps and features that are part of data blending.
August 14, 2014
This Checklist Report focuses on helping organizations demystify several cloud BI issues. It examines the models emerging as
companies adopt the cloud.
August 7, 2014
This TDWI Checklist Report will help your organization prepare for in-memory computing by discussing how it improves application performance. In-memory computing enables the peaceful coexistence of transaction processing and analytics without demanding data extraction, transformations, rampant replication, and heterogeneous computing platforms.
August 1, 2014
This TDWI Checklist Report details six areas where small and midsize businesses (SMBs) should focus as they move beyond spreadsheets to improve capabilities for gaining data insights.
July 15, 2014
Big data analytics is about applying advanced methods and technologies to derive insights from very large and diverse data sets that often include varied data types and streaming data. This TDWI Checklist Report discusses steps for realizing value from big data and analytics for better customer intelligence.
June 26, 2014
Tools from new vendors incorporating new big data technologies (such as Hadoop) for distributed and parallel computing and NoSQL data management are rapidly being evaluated and brought into
organizations. At the same time, numerous vendors of traditional platforms are offering the same or similar new technologies that are more robust and have more enterprise-ready capabilities than the new technologies can provide. This Checklist Report offers several important items to consider for your data management infrastructure, whether your implementation is on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid.
June 25, 2014
Download this report to learn how business-side leadership can step up to ensure that chaos does not reign in the era of less direct IT involvement, and provide direction for the adoption of new technologies and practices for the betterment of the enterprise as a whole.
May 30, 2014
This TDWI Checklist Report examines the user best practices and vendor tool functions for analyzing streaming data, with a focus on those that enable new applications in continuous operational intelligence.
May 13, 2014
Master data management (MDM) can be practiced many different ways, with various user conventions and a broad array of vendor-built technologies. However, this report focuses on a specific practice called unified MDM, and examines the characteristics typical of business programs and technical solutions for unified MDM.
May 6, 2014
Users must start planning today for active data archiving. To help them prepare, this TDWI Checklist report will drill into the desirable attributes, use cases, user best practices, and enabling technologies of active data archiving.
April 28, 2014
Following TDWI’s previous Checklist Report on this topic, How to Gain Insight from Text, this Checklist discusses the relevance of text analytics for improving user experiences with the semi-structured and unstructured textual big data now at their disposal.
April 9, 2014
New techniques are emerging to help business analysts automate the extraction of information from reports stored in enterprise content management systems and use it for analysis. This Checklist Report focuses on helping organizations understand how to get started with report analysis.
March 17, 2014
Average salaries rose 1.2 percent in 2013 for U.S. BI professionals. Read more in the 2014 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report.
March 10, 2014
As enterprises look to embrace big data and Hadoop, they have numerous questions about data preparation, visualization, available analytical techniques, in-memory processing, and more. This Checklist Report focuses on these questions and provides information to help you explore big data analytics with Hadoop.