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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.


Bring Your Own Data

Download this e-book to learn how you can take advantage of external data to contextualize your analysis.


OpenText Analytics for Healthcare: Improve Efficiency and Quality and Deliver Better Healthcare Services

Download this white paper to learn how OpenText Analytics and Reporting technology allows healthcare organizations to pull large amounts of information from multiple sources for comprehensive and predictive analysis, while ensuring the quality, security, and availability of data for better decision making and optimal patient care.


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Business Intelligence Competency Center Market Study

In 2015, dashboards, end-user self-service, advanced visualization, and data warehousing lead the list of technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence (fig. 10). As in our 2014 study, the data show ongoing focus on fundamental and traditional BI functionality. Operational integration and data discovery also represent fundamental BI focus; only after these do “newer” initiatives including data mining, embedded BI, mobile device support, and in-memory analysis begin to emerge. Complex event processing, Internet of Things, and cognitive BI are the lowest ranked priorities in 2015.


The Five Most Common Big Data Integration Mistakes to Avoid

This white paper focuses on how to avoid the top five most common mistakes enterprises make when approaching big data integration initiatives. Understanding and fixing these mistakes will kick-start your big data integration project.


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The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q1 2015

As traditional BI functionality (e.g., reporting and OLAP) becomes commoditized, buyers need to look for other differentiation, such as in the area of big data capabilities. BI on Hadoop; predictive, streaming, and text analytics; data exploration; and other features related to big data are now key strategic enterprise BI platform selection criteria.


Big Data Preparation Cloud Service (BDP)

Download this white paper to learn about Oracle Big Data Preparation Cloud Service and how it automates, streamlines, and guides the process of data ingestion, preparation, enrichment, and governance without costly manual intervention.


3 Reasons Why You Need a Story, Not Just Data

Storytelling helps you transform your argument into a persuasive presentation. Download this e-book to learn the three key reasons why you need a story, not just data.


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