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TDWI Upside: The Source for All Things Data & Business Analytics

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Upside delivers timely, relevant, actionable information about transforming data into intelligence, insight, and impact in your enterprise.

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Breaking Barriers in Conversational BI/AI with a Semantic Layer

By Pratik Jain

Learn how a semantic layer serves as a bridge between natural language queries and actionable insights.

Trends in Analytics

What’s Ahead in Generative AI in 2025? (Part Two)

By James G. Kobielus

Further predictions for the coming year.
What’s Ahead in Generative AI in 2025? (Part One)

By James G. Kobielus

Predictions for AI in the coming year.
Curb Your Hallucination: Open Source Vector Search for AI

By Ben Bromhead

Here’s why vector search is increasingly critical to AI success, and how open source can fit into that equation.
4 Practical Tips to Create Value with AI

By Cal Al-Dhubaib

Setting realistic expectations and taking lessons from previous tech trends can help you plan for successful AI programs.

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IT & Enterprise Data Management

The Tech Blanket: Building a Seamless Tech Ecosystem

By Ben Little

By fostering collaboration and ensuring data flows easily between tools, your organization can unlock the full potential of your technology investments.
Three Signs You Might Need a Data Fabric

By Kaycee Lai

A data fabric can help you access all your data and reach actionable insights. Here are three indicators that a data fabric may benefit your enterprise.
Four Tips for Achieving Lasting ROI with a Data Lakehouse

By Michael Hay

Data lakehouses provide new data storage possibilities, but implementing them can be challenging. These four tips will help you achieve long-lasting ROI from this architecture.
Ensuring Comprehensive Data Protection: 8 NAS Security Best Practices

By Volodymyr Zapotochnyy

A reliable NAS security system is critical for data protection. Discover how NAS backups can support production continuity and compliance.

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Data & Business Leadership

AI in 2025: Key Considerations for Technology Leaders

By Udo Sglavo

Is your organization ready to make the most use of AI in 2025?
Digital Transformation: Making Information Work for You

By Troy Hiltbrand

Digital transformation efforts help strategic analytics teams at all types of businesses leverage the information generated to improve business results.
AI Readiness with Fern Halper

By Upside Staff

TDWI’s Fern Halper explains what enterprises need to do to prepare for AI and introduces initial results from TDWI’s AI Readiness Assessment.
The Question Everyone Should Ask Before Deploying AI

By Rob Enderle

We need AI to help us make better decisions rather than speed up the impact of our bad ones.

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Artificial Intelligence Versus the Data Engineer

By Ed Thompson

Does generative AI change the role of the data engineer? As the demand for AI skyrockets, so does the demand for data and data engineering.
Our Cloud Migration Story: Challenges Faced and Lessons Learned

By Derick Ohmar Adil

Moving to the cloud brings numerous benefits, but there are challenges you must overcome. Here is one company’s experience.
Lessons Learned from Facebook’s Poor AI Implementation

By Rob Enderle

AI implementations will be more successful if you follow these three tips.
Real-World Techniques for Machine Learning with David Langer

By Upside Staff

David Langer discusses four easy-to-learn, state-of-the-art, real-world techniques that will help you get value from machine learning.

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Updated Alluxio Enterprise AI Accelerates GPUs

Features new native integration with Python ecosystem and expanded cache management
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Leaders note lack of understanding, business strategy, sufficient data. and regulation preparedness as concerns; data privacy, security, and governance are primary challenges.
Updated MicroStrategy One Enables Enterprises to Layer AI-Driven Data Insights into Any Web, Mobile App

New solution provides frontline workers with on-demand AI insights from within any application, eliminating need for complex, expensive, and slow application integration projects.

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