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There is considerable buzz in the IT industry about in-memory technologies. At the same time, there is considerable confusion about the role and benefits of these technologies in business intelligence processing and performance. A major reason for this confusion is that in-memory computing means different things to different people.
Colin White
Sponsored by
Tableau Software
Organizations are increasingly recognizing the intrinsic value in growing information resources to drive decisions on product and service innovation, customer relationships, operations, and value-chain activities. Yet management of information from a systemic perspective has historically reflected a dichotomy between the business side of the organization, where information is created, shared, delivered, and discovered, and the IT department, where information/data is being stored, protected, secured, and preserved.
David Loshin
Sponsored by
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Master data management (MDM) comprises a robust set of processes, techniques, and technologies. MDM has matured to the point where organizations now recognize a need to transition away from “integration” and move toward “information use.” That implies a more informed concentration on customer data visibility to support corporate directives for improving the customer experience in ways that create and maintain corporate and customer value.
David Loshin
Sponsored by
TDWI and IBM Content
Today's organizations need to display data in interesting, meaningful ways in order to empower users to take action and make good business decisions. Often, difficulties arise when choosing the correct visualization to best illustrate the important message the data provides.
Lyndsay Wise
Sponsored by
Actuate - now OpenText
Business-IT partnership is one of the most critical aspects to successful business intelligence solutions, and yet many companies continue to report painful disconnects between the business and IT. The business wants fast time to value. IT seems to act only as a barrier and gatekeeper to data.
Cindi Howson
Sponsored by
Dell EMC
According to a 2012 TDWI survey about Hadoop, only 10 percent of respondents have the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) in production today, while a whopping 63 percent expect to deploy HDFS within three years. The survey reveals that user organizations are aggressively adopting HDFS and other Hadoop technologies for data warehousing, analytics, and other purposes. Organizations in this situation are completely new to this technology, so they need to educate themselves quickly about the best practices that are now emerging for Hadoop, especially in the context of data warehousing and analytics.
Philip Russom, Ph.D.
Sponsored by
SAP, Precisely
No individual is a “segment.” Big data and advanced analytics allow companies to treat customers as individuals and not as broad demographic slices. Smarter marketing starts conversations and delivers useful services—to one individual at a time.
Colin White
Sponsored by
Hewlett Packard Enterprise