TDWI | Training & Research | Business Intelligence, Analytics, Big Data, Data Warehousing

Achieving Faster and More Agile BI and Analytics with Virtual Data Processing

TDWI Speaker: David Stodder, TDWI Research Director for Business Intelligence

Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Time: 9:00 a.m. PT, 12:00 p.m. ET

Webinar Abstract

Speed, agility, and intelligence are competitive advantages that nearly all organizations seek. To seize these advantages, organizations require timely, diverse, complete, and accurate data. Unfortunately, traditional data warehouse extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes are not fast enough. They put too much burden on ETL developers to understand every nuance of every data source, and it’s getting worse as Hadoop and other big data sources become part of the mix. How can organizations take advantage of new big data sources to deliver complete and diverse views of data—and get beyond the limits of traditional data warehouses?

Forward-thinking organizations are adopting a new architecture that has as its centerpiece virtual data processing, also known as data virtualization or data federation. Leading analyst firms are pitching in with their definitions of this emerging architecture, calling it “information fabric” or a “logical data warehouse.” The purpose of this approach is to employ powerful new technologies and practices that can serve up more complete data views of remote sources faster, without having to run through slower ETL processes.

You will learn:

• How virtual data processing can contribute to business user satisfaction with BI and analytics 
• The key elements of emerging virtual or federated data architectures, and how existing data sources such as Hadoop and existing data warehouses can be incorporated
• The role of in-memory computing for enabling real-time and right-time access to more complete and diverse data views

David Stodder

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