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Best Practices Report | Data Warehouse Modernization in the Age of Big Data Analytics

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.


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2016 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report
TDWI Member Exclusive

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.


Best Practices Report | Operationalizing and Embedding Analytics for Action

December 21, 2015

Download this report for recommendations and best practices for successfully operationalizing analytics in your organization to derive business value.


Seven Best Practices for Adopting Data Warehouse Automation

TDWI Checklist Report | Seven Best Practices for Adopting Data Warehouse Automation

December 18, 2015

This Checklist discusses seven best practices for implementing data warehouse automation within an agile development framework.


TDWI Checklist Report | Seven Steps to Faster Analytics Processing with Open Source: Realizing Business Value from the Hadoop Ecosystem

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Modernizing Data Integration to Accommodate New Big Data and New Business Requirements

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Becoming Big Data Ready: Evolving Best Practices in Data Management

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Data Lake Principles and Economics: Evaluating Data Economics, Business Value, and Real-Time Delivery Options

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Best Practices for Delivering Actionable Customer Intelligence

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.


Best Practices Report | Emerging Technologies For Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Warehousing

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Using and Choosing a Cloud Solution for Data Warehousing

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.


Best Practices Report | Visual Analytics for Making Smarter Decisions Faster

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Data Warehousing in the Cloud

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Eight Tips for Modernizing a Data Warehouse

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Bringing Modern Data-Driven Applications to the Enterprise

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.


2015 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report
TDWI Member Exclusive

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Seven Steps for Executing a Successful Data Science Strategy

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Evolving Big Data into a Mature Platform

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Self-Service Big Data Exploration Best Practices

December 22, 2014

This Checklist Report defines broad and unlimited data exploration best practices, with an emphasis on the roles of SQL and Hadoop.


TDWI Checklist Report | Telling a Story with Data

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Modernizing a Data Warehouse for Business Advantage

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.


Best Practices Report | Real-Time Data, BI, and Analytics

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Seven Keys to Data Blending

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Demystifying Cloud BI: Six Issues to Consider

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Preparing Your Organization for In-Memory Computing

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Moving Beyond Spreadsheets: Six Steps for Enabling Small and Midsize Businesses to Gain Data Insights

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Applying Analytics with Big Data for Customer Intelligence: Seven Steps to Success

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Adopting Next-Generation Data Technologies

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.


TDWI Best Practices Report Q3 2014

Best Practices Report | Business-Driven BI and Analytics

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Using Streaming Analytics for Continuous Operational Intelligence

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Seven Tips for Unified MDM with Data Quality and Data Governance

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Active Data Archiving for Big Data, Compliance, and Analytics

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Eight Steps for Using Analytics to Gain Value from Text and Unstructured Content

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.


TDWI Checklist Report: Using Next-Generation Analytics to Gain Value from Enterprise Reports

TDWI Checklist Report | Using Next-Generation Analytics to Gain Value from Enterprise Reports: Six Best Practices

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.


TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilites Report 2014

2014 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report
TDWI Member Exclusive

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.


TDWI Checklist Report | Eight Considerations for Utilizing Big Data Analytics with Hadoop

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.