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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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5 Steps to Creating Business Value

Connecting high-quality data assets to the consumers who depend on them unleashes new possibilities for creating more business value.


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Build the Future with Decodable and Stream Processing

What is stream processing and how can developers leverage this technology?


Independent Consulting Study: The Total Economic Impact of the Stardog Enterprise Knowledge Graph Platform

Read this study to learn how customers turned their data into knowledge and unlocked new business opportunities with Stardog.


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Scalable Probabilistic Record Linkage

You need an approach to scalable, probabilistic record linkage that opens a clear path to data-based actionable insights.


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Modernize Your Data Warehouse to Gain a Competitive Advantage

In a world where optimal data use is absolutely essential, you need to know the current state of your data warehousing solution and what your next moves should be.


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Building the Case for Cloud Migration

Knowing the factors that drive moves to the cloud can help clarify your decision about whether it’s right for your organization.


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Building the Case for Cloud Migration

Download this paper for some of the most important questions you need to ask yourself when considering migrating to the cloud and learn how to build the case for cloud migration.


Forrester Wave Data Governance Solutions

Does your data governance solution support the unique needs of your business?


How to Evaluate a Data Catalog

Only a data catalog built as a platform can empower people to find, understand, and govern data and support emerging data intelligence use cases.


Weaving Data into Wider Value

Download this white paper to learn the basics of the data mesh, including how it can transform your processes and infrastructure to ensure increased data trust, access, and value.


Accelerate Your Data Warehouse Modernization with Google Cloud

Download this white paper to learn about today’s cloud data management challenges and recommendations for overcoming them.


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Maximize the ROI of Your Databricks Lakehouse with Stardog

Enterprise knowledge graphs provide the ideal platform to accelerate returns from data lake investments.


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Best Practices Shorten Your Time to Value with External Data Sources

Following a few key best practices can significantly shorten your path to creating value with external data.


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Act on Data in the Moment: Automate Your Data and Analytics Workflows with Qlik

With so much data pouring in and so many SaaS apps in the mix, how can you make data-triggered action a reality?


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Gartner Top Trends in Data and Analytics 2022

Read the Gartner report: Top Trends in Data and Analytics 2022 to help you understand the latest industry trends.


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How to Analyze and Maximize Customer Retention

Understanding all the factors that impact customer health and retention requires a comprehensive view of complex data.


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How Samsung used data to jumpstart a $1B product launch

Read this case study to learn how Samsung is able to successfully address critical business decisions with an augmented intelligence solution.


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Six Steps to Sourcing Enrichment Data for Your Business

Download this e-book for the six steps to successfully sourcing third-party enrichment data for your business.


Data Management 101

Streamline the full data management life cycle.


Building the Data Lakehouse

Get your copy to discover the 5 key steps to building a successful data lakehouse.


The Big Book of Data Engineering

This how-to guide provides everything you need to learn how to translate raw data into actionable data.


Building a High-Performance Data Organization

Every organization today recognizes the strategic value of generating actionable insights from their enterprise data.


The Path to Self-Service Analytics on the Data Lake

Download this white paper to get a step-by-step roadmap for adopting Dremio and migrating workloads while maintaining coexistence and interoperability with existing systems and technologies.


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3 Ways to Increase Your Data Lake ROI

Every enterprise needs real-time, actionable insights based on a single, trusted view of their data.


Building a Modern Data Stack: What Playbooks Don’t Tell You

Download this report for the answers to five crucial questions about how data and analytics are evolving today.


How to Budget for Your Data Warehouse Modernization Project

Budgeting for a data transformation project is an enormous task that many leaders struggle to complete.


IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2022 Predictions

This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for cloud for 2022 and beyond.


Modernizing Legacy ETL Platforms

Download this white paper to learn how you can migrate to a modern ETL platform and modernize your workflow for higher performance.


ETL or ELT? Choose the Right Process for the Right Outcome

Which model should you use, and when?


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5 Reasons Qlik and Snowflake Are Better Together: Automating the Data Warehouse for Faster Time-to-Insight

Now more than ever, data is moving to the cloud, where data warehousing has been modernized and reinvented.


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Data Warehouse Automation in Azure for Dummies

Find out how a cloud data warehouse in Azure has advantages in cost, time to value, and the ability to work with real-time data across the organization for analytics.


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Data Integration Success Stories: 12 Solutions to the Top Data Delivery Challenges

See how enterprises are overcoming barriers and delivering on the promise of their data, faster.


Data Governance in the Modern Data Analytics Pipeline: How to Manage Quality and Security

How do you balance rising demand for fast access to data against quality risks and security threats? With modern, secure, efficient data-to-analytics pipelines.


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Top Cloud Data Warehouses for the Enterprise: Amazon vs. Azure vs. Google vs. Snowflake

This e-book describes leading cloud data warehouses and their noteworthy differences and proven approaches that make them accessible, effective, and efficient for all data users.


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Unlocking Mainframe Data for Modern Cloud Uses

In this e-book, you’ll discover the modern data integration approaches that allow you to leverage mainframe data for data warehouse automation, operations monitoring, modern app development and more.


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SAP Made Simple: 3 Ways Qlik Transforms SAP Data into Value

In this e-book, you’ll learn how Qlik data integration and analytics solutions supercharge your SAP data in a trusted way that’s SAP certified.


Enterprise Architect’s Guide: Top 4 Strategies for Automating and Accelerating Your Data Pipeline

How can you satisfy today’s real-time data requirements while keeping data traceable and governed?


Forrester Study: The Total Economic Impact™ Of The Qlik Data Integration Platform

Ready to deliver trusted data to your analytics platform in real time—and save millions of dollars in the process?


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Eckerson Group Report: Deep Dive Data Warehouse Automation

Take a deep dive into data warehouse automation (DWA) to know its history, drivers, and evolving capabilities.


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Cloud Data Lake Comparison Guide: Explore Solutions from AWS, Azure, Google, Cloudera, Databricks, and Snowflake

Take a deep dive into cloud data lakes so you can make the best choice for your business.


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Change Data Capture 101: What Works Best—and Why

Traditional, manual processes can’t meet today’s data demands—but modern, automated technology can.


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Accelerating Cloud Data Warehouse Productivity by 400%

Qlik Data Integration when used with cloud data warehouses can massively improve the productivity and ROI of your most critical analytics projects.


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A Guide to Maximum Data Lake Value

Read this whitepaper to learn how to create data lake value.


Why External Data Needs to Be Part of Your Data and Analytics Strategy

Download this report to learn about the benefits of external data, how an external data platform can fit into your data architecture, and how you can start leveraging external data today.


Reimagining Healthcare and Life Sciences: 5 Ways to Accelerate AI and Analytics

This paper highlights top priorities for AI and analytics initiatives in healthcare and life sciences and offers five proven strategies to make them successful.


Four Keys to Accelerating Modern Data Engineering at Scale

In this e-book, data engineering and analytics decision makers will gain a better understanding of what it takes to enable consumable data at any scale.


A Panoramic View of Cloud Analytics: The Insight You Need to Grow Your Business

Download this white paper to learn about what capabilities are available in the cloud, what organizations are looking for when moving to the cloud, and the challenges to be aware of during cloud analytics migrations.


IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Data and Content Technologies 2022 Predictions

IDC's 10 predictions representing expected trends with the greatest potential impact on deployment and use of data, content, and analytics technologies over the next few years.


IDC FutureScape: Worldwide CIO Agenda 2022 Predictions

Every year IDC identifies the key external drivers that will influence businesses in the coming years.


Activate Your Data Governance Program with a Data Catalog

In this e-book, learn about the practice of non-invasive data governance and how you can create an active data governance program quickly and effectively with a data catalog.


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Logical Data Fabric to the Rescue: Integrating Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Data Hubs

This whitepaper discusses the benefits of using data virtualization to create data fabrics.


13 Essential Data Validations for Trustworthy Data in the Cloud

Automating 13 essential data validation checks will immediately engender trust in the cloud and lake.


Processing Modern Data Pipelines

This white paper describes the technical challenges that arise when building modern data pipelines and explains how these challenges can be solved by automating performance with near-zero maintenance.


Log Analytics for CloudOps: Making Cloud Operations Stable and Agile

This whitepaper explains what CloudOps and log analytics mean, why traditional pipelines for log analytics break down, and how to streamline or re-architect these pipelines.


Gartner Hype Cycle for Data Management, 2021

This report helps data and analytics leaders plan ahead and make informed decisions relative to emerging and maturing data management technologies.


The Future of Data

This Raconteur Future of Data report explores the opportunity for companies to craft their own data strategies.


Best Practices for Managing Unstructured Data

A modern data management platform that can effectively incorporate unstructured data offers valuable advantages.


Moving from On-Premises ETL to Cloud-Driven ELT

Read this white paper to learn how you can maximize the value of your data pipelines by using the right type of transformation method for each situation and workload.


Deep Dive on the Cloud Data Platform

This Deep Dive report by Eckerson Group takes a look at four cloud data platforms and defines the index-driven data lake platform in the context of evolving cloud data platforms


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Total Cost of Ownership to Build and Operate an ELK Stack

This whitepaper offers a path to estimate the true cost of building and maintaining a do-it-yourself production ELK stack.


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2021 Benchmark Report: Log Management and Analytics

Log management and analytics remains a dynamic field. Companies who value log data and invest in capturing data will harness insights that propel their businesses forward.


Faster Together: Actian Avalanche on Google Cloud Platform

Affordable, direct access to the data that users and business processes really need has long remained an unchecked box—until now.


Better Together: Actian Avalanche on Google Cloud Platform

Download this white paper to learn how Actian Avalanche on Google Cloud Platform can improve outcomes for your organization.


Google Cloud Reference Architectures for Data-Driven Application Builders

This reference architecture e-book is designed for application builders looking to leverage the Actian portfolio and the Google Cloud Platform.


Accelerating Business Analytics Performance in 2021 and Beyond

Read this white paper to learn how technologies such as columnar storage, massively parallel processing, and in-memory processing are allowing organizations to evolve past the limitations of the traditional database and data warehouse.


Unified Analytics Warehouse: A Guide for Investing in Unified Analytics

Should you invest in a data warehouse or a data lake?


Accelerating Data-Driven Decision Making: 5 Ways to Turn Crisis Mode into Growth Mode

The COVID-19 pandemic is certain to herald long-term changes to the demands placed on data analytics infrastructures.


DataOps Dilemma: Survey Reveals Gap in the Data Supply Chain

The survey associated with this report focused on identifying the limiting factors slowing down the data supply chain as it relates to the overall DataOps methodology of the organization.


2021 Analytical Data Infrastructure Market Study (Excerpt)

The goal of this report is to help organizations understand priority use cases and preferences for features/capabilities for analytics platforms.


SaaS API Checklist: 10 "Must-haves" for SaaS Companies

So what makes a good API? The same thing that makes products outstanding – design.


11 Best Practices for Migrating to a Cloud Data Lake

Here are 11 best practices you can follow to help ensure a more successful, streamlined, and seamless data lake migration to the cloud.


A Buyer’s Guide to Data Warehousing in the Cloud

Read this paper to explore cloud data warehouse options and understand the important factors you should consider when selecting technology.


Maximize Tableau Investment with Exasol

Using Exasol as the database for Tableau can provide more speed, scale, and flexibility for your Tableau deployment.


Your Checklist to a Successful Data Platform Migration

Before you embark on your next data and analytics project, see if you can check these three things off your list.


Guide to the Lakehouse: Connecting Data and Teams to Bridge the Information Gap

Learn how a data lakehouse enables data engineers, data scientists, and other data users to share data, collaborate more effectively, and deliver more business value faster.


Data Platform Migration: Your Guide to Successful Legacy Data Platform Migrations

Download this guide today to make sure your data and analytics project starts on the right foot—and you’ll get to that promised land of the cloud.


Automated Data Lineage: The Cornerstone of Effective DataOps

This paper focuses on the imperative role of automated data lineage in bridging the gap between technical and business stakeholders and outlines what leadership should look for in a lineage solution to fuel DataOps success.


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From ETL to ELT: The Next Generation of Data Integration Success

In this e-book we review pivotal moments in data warehousing history to understand the changes in ETL.


Microsoft 365 Security in the Cloud

Start protecting your data, devices, and passwords today so that you can focus on growing your business with confidence.


Step-by-Step Cloud Evolution with Microsoft Azure

In this e-book, we illustrate the iterative process of cloud adoption by following the IT transformation journey of a fictitious company.


The Rackspace Technology Guide to Protecting Your Business with Microsoft 365

You must continuously protect your organization against a multitude of potentially costly cyberattacks.


Defend, Protect, and Secure with Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Together, Microsoft and Rackspace Technology have provided a few notes on how you can improve security and productivity with Microsoft 365 Business Premium.


Seven Steps to Get Started with Microsoft Azure

Getting started with Microsoft Azure can be easier than you imagine.


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Security Log Analytics: Spotting and Stopping Bad Guys at Scale

Security log analytics helps security operations teams improve the cost and scale at which they predict, prevent, and mitigate rising threats.


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The Threat Hunter’s Handbook: Using Log Analytics to Find and Neutralize Hidden Threats in Your Environment

Cybersecurity leaders are engaged in a difficult arms race against the threat actors who seek to attack their organizations.


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Automated Data Governance 101

Data science and governance programs can, if implemented properly, reinforce each other’s objectives.


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Immuta Data Engineering Survey: 2021 Impact Report

This report highlights the current and future state of data engineering and DataOps.


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Building Interactive Data Apps with ThoughtSpot

This e-book explores the journey of seven organizations that have reinvented the analytics experience for their customers with search-driven embedded analytics.


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Dashboards Are Dead

In this e-book, you’ll learn why data leaders are increasingly turning away from analytics dashboards.


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Four Reasons Your Metadata Is Broken

Changing the way you think about metadata can make it faster and easier to make sense of data. Download this white paper to understand four common reasons your metadata is broken.


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Governed Self-Service Analytics at Scale

Download this white paper to learn the four key steps to successfully deploying governed self-service analytics across your organization.


Samsung Case Study

When Samsung’s team needed to understand upgrade preference across demographics, device profiles, carrier loyalty, and more, they needed answers, fast.


A Modern Data Architecture

With this guide, discover how to build a stack that empowers everyone on your team to get answers fast, build better products, and move your data strategy to a new level of maturity.


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The Data Value Formula

The data value formula explains how data value can be determined and identifies three essential value drivers.


Business Monitoring Systems: Using Machine Learning to Analyze Business Metrics

A new study from Eckerson Group finds that business monitoring tools fill a vital gap in data analysis and will soon be part of every organization’s analytics toolkit.


Accelerating Analysis: KPI-Driven Proactive Intelligence for the Data-Driven Business

Proactive, continuous intelligence enables more frequent data processing to automate the monitoring of KPIs.


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Data Warehouse Performance Testing Benchmark Study

Learn why Cloudera Data Warehouse is named the leader in this price-performance report.


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Redefining the Role of IT in a Modern BI World

How IT can evolve from producer to enabler and foster collaboration around analytics.


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Data Virtualization: The Modern Data Integration Solution

Data virtualization is a modern data integration approach that is already meeting today’s challenges, providing the foundation for data integration in the future.


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