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TDWI White Paper Library

TDWI maintains this library of white papers as a resource for in-depth research and commentary about the big data, business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics industry. The content in this repository is crafted by TDWI's software and consulting partners. To find out how your company can promote its content in this library, click here.


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Data Governance for Self-Service Analytics

Download this white paper for the steps to find confidence in data and the distribution infrastructure that makes it available.


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How to Build a Culture of Self-Service Analytics

Read this white paper to learn five steps to adopting the modern approach to enterprise analytics.


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Define Analytics: The Changing Role Of BI’s Favorite Catch-All Term

Today, businesses of all sizes can connect to and analyze data (even big data) to educate each other and drive better business decisions.


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Evaluation Guide: How to Choose the Right Modern BI and Analytics Platform

This evaluation guide aims to support IT organizations as they evaluate and select a modern BI and analytics platform suitable for a broad, enterprisewide deployment.


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3 Shifts in the Modern Data Environment (And What It Means for IT Leaders)

Download this white paper to understand the three shifts within the modern data environment that are critical to becoming a data-driven organization.


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Agile Data Governance: Why Modern Data Challenges Require a New Approach to Governance

Read this report to learn how agile data governance can be the fastest route to true, repeatable return on your data strategy investment.


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The Importance of Unified Data and Analytics

This Opportunity Snapshot from Forrester Consulting explains why and how preintegrated data and analytics solutions drive business success.


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IDC Business Value Study SAP Advanced Data Migration

Failed data migrations no longer need to be the norm.


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Forrester Snapshot: The Importance of Unified Data and Analytics

Business leaders are increasingly focused on integrating their data management and analytics platforms to enable real-time, business-ready insights.


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SAP Innovation Awards 2020

Explore this e-book to learn how today’s technology leaders are innovating by using the power of SAP solutions and technology.


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The Rise of Unified Data and Analytic Platforms: The Case for Convergence

This EMA white paper provides initial guidance on how SAP Data Warehouse Cloud aligns with market and customer expectations through empowering business professionals with insight-driven decisions.


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Modernizing Data Architectures for a Digital Age Using Data Virtualization

This whitepaper describes how data virtualization can help to modernize an existing data architecture to unlock and exploit all the existing data more quickly.


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Launch Your DataOps Journey with the DataOps Maturity Model

A DataOps Maturity Model can be an incredibly useful tool to help organizations understand where they are today and how to get where they need to go.


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Accelerating Data Vault Success with Automation

An overview of Data Vault 2.0 and the importance of data automation to ensure successful project delivery.


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WhereScape Automation Software: Offering Overview

Deliver data and analytics faster, with less cost and risk.


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Data Preparation for Dummies

Getting your data preparation right is essential in order to increase the quality of your data and information.


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Migrating Analytic Workloads from On-Premises to the Cloud with Informatica and AWS

A modern cloud data warehouse offers features and capabilities that address the flaws inherent in its traditional predecessors.


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Modernizing Data-Driven Applications with MongoDB and AWS

Data-driven application modernization offers capabilities and benefits to help you transform and accelerate application development and deployment.


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The Essential Guide to Data Lineage in 2021

In this e-book, we describe data lineage in detail with illustrations from several core use cases.


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Data Science as a Service: Leverage Expertise and Data Enrichment to Optimize AI Value

Reduce risk, lower costs, and realize business value faster with a stepwise approach to data-enriched AI.


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Building a Modern Architecture for Interactive Analytics on Amazon S3 Using Dremio

With a modern cloud data lake engine, data teams can simplify their environments and get maximum value from their cloud data lake investments.


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Sense Corp and Denodo: Accelerating Speed-to-Data to Deliver Better Results to Customers and Constituents

Working together, Sense Corp and Denodo enable today’s organizations to gain all of the benefits of modern data architecture.


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Mainline and Denodo – Enabling Companies to Balance Agility and Quality

Mainline and Denodo have partnered to combine state-of-the art professional services with the industry’s most advanced data virtualization platform to help enterprises quickly stream value to the business while transforming their data into a true competitive advantage.


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UST Global and Denodo - Amplifying Productivity and Accelerating Insights for Data Analysts, with the Denodo Platform and QUBZ™

Big data systems need to combine with the power of online analytical processing (OLAP) technology to make it possible to design powerful inquiries across hundreds of billions of records and myriad dimensions.


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Orgspire Partner Solution Brief: Facilitating Compliance with the California Consumer Protection Act of 2019 (CCPA)

Data privacy is a global concern, and each locality has its own set of laws to protect it.


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Bridging the Gap Between Operational Reporting and Strategic Analytics

You need real-time reporting and deep business insights, so let’s explore what that means and how you can achieve it.


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Get the Most Out of Your Snowflake Cloud Data Platform

In this e-book, we take a brief tour of the evolution of data warehousing to understand why a modern, cloud-native strategy is an imperative in today’s hyper-competitive markets.


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Beyond Customer 360: Exploring Context to Unlock Customer Insights

It’s time to remove data barriers, connect difficult-to-access information, and share it across your entire business.


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Explore How Customer 360 Uplifts Customer Experiences and Fortifies Competitive Advantage in Retail

Download this e-book to explore the challenges retailers face and the links between high-quality (trusted) data and sustainable competitive advantage.


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Evaluating Master Data Management Solutions

Learn how to establish an evaluation methodology and evaluate 5 key criteria.


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Garbage In, Garbage Out

How we got here and why we must get out now.


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Why CRM and Data Warehouses Fail with Customer 360

This article explains why achieving a complete view of the customer is so difficult.


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How “Good Enough” Quality Is Eroding Trust in Your Big Data Insights

Precisely’s 2019 Enterprise Data Quality survey explores the challenges and opportunities for organizations looking to bring data quality across the enterprise.


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Accelerate Next-Generation BI Adoption—Qlik® Analytics Modernization Program

This datasheet is your guide to the Analytics Modernization Program, providing QlikView customers insight into the drive to modernize BI by adopting Qlik Sense.


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Modernize your BI Experience—Qlik® Sense and QlikView®

This datasheet provides a brief overview of Qlik's Analytics Modernization Program.


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Upgrade to Agility: The Value of Modernizing Data and AI Services to IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Delivering data and AI initiatives quickly and efficiently requires intelligent workflows and integration that enable all tools to work together seamlessly.


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Top 3 Reasons to Modernize Your QlikView® Analytics

Adopting next generation analytics has never been easier.


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2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Solutions

High-quality data is essential for business analytics that supports decision making.


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2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools

The market for data integration tools continues to evolve and is supported by strong levels of market growth and adoption.


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Evaluation Guide: How to Choose a Modern Analytics Platform

Not all analytics platforms are created equal.


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Organize Your Data to Be AI-Ready with DataOps

Find out what sets the top companies apart from the rest.


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Deliver Business-Ready Data in Real Time for AI with IBM Cloud Pak for Data DataStage

IBM DataStage allows you to move and transform large volumes of data at high speeds to feed data warehouses, data lakes, cloud repositories, and many other target systems.


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How DataOps Can Accelerate Your Journey to AI

This e-book highlights the DataOps methodology, practice, and required orchestration of people, processes, and technology to deliver trusted, high-quality data and transform business outcomes.


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Multicloud Data Integration That Fuels AI

Explore this e-book and learn more about modernizing your data integration capabilities.


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Eliminate Data Silos: Query Many Systems as One—Data Virtualization in IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Transform and expedite decision-making: Learn how to query data easily and more securely across multiple sources, on cloud or on premises.


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What You Need to Know About Data and Digital Transformation

This collection will cover how to adopt and analyze data and use it as part of your digital transformation.


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Mastering the Model Lifecycle Orchestration Journey

This ebook is a collection of best practices on Machine Learning in production presented during the 2020 SAS Global Forum.


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The Rise of Computer Vision

Why computer vision matters to your business.


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HBR: Creating a Data-Driven Culture: How Culture Impacts the Success or Failure of Advanced Analytics and AI

In this HBR webinar summary, Tom Davenport describes the problem, implications, and solutions to the data-driven culture issue.


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MIT SMR: How AI Changes the Rules: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Organization

Download this report to learn about the changes that leaders must prepare for to successfully implement trusted AI.


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Data, Analytics, and AI: How Trust Delivers Value

Findings from the Annual Data and Analytics Global Executive Study.


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Getting Started with ModelOps E-book

This paper explores how ModelOps can help you break that cycle by redefining how you deploy models.


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TDWI Best Practices Report: Faster Insights from Faster Data

Achieving faster insights can only happen if delays and bottlenecks are addressed using better practices and modern technologies


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Make Every Voice Heard with Natural Language Processing

Everything you need to know about communication between humans and machine intelligence.


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Gartner: Introducing DataOps Into Your Data Management Discipline

To relieve bottlenecks and barriers in delivery of data and analytics solutions, organizations need to change the way they work.


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Why Just Data Lineage, Just Data Discovery, or Just a Business Glossary Isn’t Going to Cut It for Your Data Team

For enterprise organizations to remain competitive, the tools they use to find and understand their data must work together.


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Faster, More Accurate Insights for Insurers: A Hybrid Cloud Approach to Analytics

Insurance industry success is driven by how fast and accurately a company turns large, complex data sets into profitable business decisions.


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Faster Insights for Telecommunications Companies

Telecommunications companies face critical pressure points that require more data and data analytics than ever before.


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Yellowbrick for Retail

Learn how to modernize your data warehouse to get the scale and speed you need to keep your customers satisfied and your business profitable.


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Yellowbrick for Banking and Financial Services

Learn how to modernize your data warehouse and turn large, complex data sets into profitable business decisions.


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Demystifying Legal Automation

Paving the route towards compliance automation for analytics and data science.


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Optimizing an Enterprise Data Warehouse for a MultiCloud Strategy

This ESG whitepaper covers the modern challenges, best practices, and the many benefits when optimization is done right.


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2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools

The data integration tool market is resurging as new requirements for hybrid/intercloud integration, active metadata, and augmented data management force a rethink of existing practices.


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Deliver a Business-Ready Data Pipeline with DataOps

DataOps brings best practices from DevOps, data management, and data governance into a common framework, with a collaborative way of developing and maintaining data flows across multiple stakeholders.


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DataOps Interactive Guide: Deliver Business-Ready Data Fast With DataOps

A DataOps practice that is fueled by the power of automation enables you to better know, trust, and use your data.


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A Comprehensive Guide for the Modern Data Catalog

This comprehensive guide will cover the benefits of a modern data catalog, getting started with taxonomy best practices, and five use cases on implementing a data catalog.


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Governing Volume: Ensuring Trust and Quality in Big Data

Discover how a strong focus on data quality will help ensure trust and quality in your analytics that drive business decisions.


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Creating Synergy Between Data Governance and Data Quality in Collibra

Data governance helps organizations focus on outcomes that are top of mind for senior leadership.


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Operationalize Machine Learning

In order to successfully achieve ML at scale, firms must invest in MLOps.


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Kubernetes for MLOps: Scaling Enterprise Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and AI

In this book we explore the role that the container orchestration system Kubernetes plays in supporting MLOps.


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Hybrid Cloud Data Warehouse Basics for Dummies

In this e-book, you will learn how a hybrid cloud data warehouse enables a 360-degree view of the customer by enabling analysis across all business data assets regardless of their location, whether cloud or on-premises.


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GDPR Is Just the Beginning: How to Stay Ahead of the Regulatory Curve with Your Data Governance and Ethics Program

Learn five workflows common to all data governance programs, how trends complicate existing workflows, and how tools can help overcome complications.


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The Layers of Trust

Security and privacy are colliding in the cloud and creating challenges organizations have never seen.


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Turbocharge Your Data Lake: Deliver Real-Time Insights at Scale

Are you struggling with getting insights quickly from your data lake?


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TDWI Checklist Report | Six Strategies for Data-Centric Decision Making

This checklist report focuses on six strategic issues that organizations need to address to set the stage for better data-driven decision making.


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10 Enterprise Analytics Trends to Watch in 2020

MicroStrategy has compiled insights on the top enterprise analytics trends to watch from leading BI, analytics, and digital transformation influencers.


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MicroStrategy Takes Self-Service to the Next Level with HyperIntelligence

Technology buyers should use this report to evaluate MicroStrategy HyperIntelligence for implementation.


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Moving Analytics to the Cloud

As concerns and uncertainties around transitioning to the cloud disappear, organizations are prioritizing the business initiatives that can benefit most from a cloud deployment.


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The Total Economic Impact of the MicroStrategy Platform

MicroStrategy commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the potential ROI enterprises may realize by deploying the MicroStrategy platform.


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IDC Technology Spotlight: Bringing Enterprise Mobile Apps and Analytics Together in the Digital Business

This IDC Technology Spotlight highlights the value of embedding business intelligence into enterprise mobile apps.


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The Future of Data in Digital Transformation

We hope you’ll find this Q&A featuring Constellation Research Principal Analyst, Founder, and Chairman R “Ray” Wang a valuable resource for looking ahead.


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2020 Global State of Enterprise Analytics

MicroStrategy surveyed BI and analytics decision makers from around the world about current analytics initiatives and plans for the future.


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Critical Capabilities for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms

Data and analytics leaders should begin piloting capabilities that enable the “augmented consumer.”


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Next-Generation Embedded Analytics Spark Digital Transformation

This report examines the evolution of embedded analytics as a route to digital transformation and emerging, data-driven business models.


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IDC Technology Spotlight: The Business Value of Cloud Analytics at Scale

This IDC Technology Spotlight examines the deployment of cloud-based BI and analytics, along with its benefits and challenges for enterprise adoption.


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The 2020 Vision: The Next Decade for Mobile Intelligence

In the next decade, the use of mobile devices to gain intelligence will significantly change how an organization does its work.


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Data-driven DevOps with IBM Virtual Data Pipeline and IBM Cloud Object Storage

Read this ESG Technical Validation report to learn about the cost-effective and time-saving test and development database environments that IBM provides.


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Deliver Business-Ready Data with Intelligent Data Cataloging and Data Lake Governance

Today, many organizations are launching a new attempt to implement a data lake successfully—this time leading with DataOps.


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The Forrester Wave™: Machine Learning Data Catalogs

Enterprises are turning to data catalogs to democratize access to data, enable tribal data knowledge to curate information, apply data policies, and activate all data for business value quickly.


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The Strategic Advantages of Hybrid Cloud Data Warehousing

In this white paper from 451 Research, you’ll learn how hybrid cloud is viewed as a strategic imperative to enable enterprises to make the most efficient use of their data warehouse infrastructure.


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Unlocking the Value in Data Lakes with Hybrid Cloud Analytics

Did your company invest heavily into your data lake, but you’re still looking for business value?


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Modernizing Your Data Warehouse for Hybrid Cloud Analytics

In this white paper, you’ll learn how a modern data strategy based on hybrid cloud not only supports all of today’s requirements but also provides a path to the future.


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Analytics and Cloud Infrastructure Spending During Disruption

Yellowbrick Data recently surveyed 1,000 enterprise IT managers and executives to uncover their infrastructure priorities during this era of economic uncertainty and disruption.


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Privacy by Design: The Key to Unlocking Your Compliance Strategy

This short whitepaper aims to provide the beginnings of a framework for operationalizing privacy by design.


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Automated Data Governance 101

An introduction to proactively addressing your privacy, security, and compliance needs—and maintaining customer loyalty.


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E-Book: How to Enhance Privacy in Data Science

This document will provide you with an overview of the challenges and opportunities of privacy-aware analytics.


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The Forrester Wave: Enterprise BI Platforms (Vendor-Managed), Q3 2019

In our 19-criterion evaluation of vendor-managed enterprise business intelligence platforms providers, we identified the 14 most significant ones and researched, analyzed, and scored them.


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Analytics for All Your Data: Pervasive Insight in the World of Cloud

To lead in your market or industry, you must figure out how to extract business value from all your data and deliver it to the front lines.


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Protect Sensitive Data and Ensure Compliance with Data Privacy Regulations

Find out how eleven enterprises reduce the risk of exposing personal information, stay in compliance with data privacy regulations, and give customers peace of mind.


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Protecting Personal Information Is the Key to Reducing Compliance Risk

Download this white paper to discover what data is considered personal information and how to protect it to avoid costly fines and reputation damage.


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