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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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Making Flow Happen: How to Build Dashboards That Persuade, Inform and Engage

In data visualization, flow is crucial. Your audience should smoothly absorb and use the information in a dashboard without distractions or turbulence. Lack of flow means lack of communication, which means failure.


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Marketing Accountability: A CEO Blueprint

Despite years of vetting and advances in media measurement, analytics, models and attribution, Forbes research—with over 800 CMOs and 50 subject matter experts—revealed that most CMOs still struggle to quantify and communicate the value marketing creates to their leadership, peers and partners.


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Data Catalog: Creating a Single Source of Reference

The machine learning data catalog has emerged as a key technology enabler for a "single source of reference" -- one place for anyone within the organization to find curated data, understand how that data has been used and why it was created, and trust that it is right for the analysis at hand, whether they are a data scientist, an analyst, or even a casual business consumer of data.


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Actian Vector Benchmarks: Cloud Benchmarking Summary Report

Summary report on a series of benchmarks to determine the relative performance of the Actian Vector in-memory second generation columnar analytics database.


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Data Catalogs in the Enterprise Driving Value Over Technology

The crushing problem of managing data in an increasingly complex, hybrid, distributed world is too great for even highly-skilled analysts and scientists to handle alone.


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Compare Top Embedded Business Intelligence Product Vendors: Based On the G2 Crowd Embedded Business Intelligence Product Comparison User Satisfaction Ratings

In this whitepaper, we’ll look at what ratings from G2 Crowd really mean and highlight some critical factors when choosing your embedded business intelligence solution.


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Delivering Analytics-as-a-Service

A guide to picking the right data warehouse infrastructure for analytics service providers


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