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News Highlights Read Share QlikView Update Gets an Enterprise-Oriented Makeover Stephen Swoyer The revamped QlikView 11 boasts new social and collaborative amenities and a mostly platform-agnostic mobility story. Its enterprise feature-set might merit the most attention, however. Although QlikView never pitched itself as an enterprise BI platform it's doing just that with the latest version. Read Share   Oracle Announces Exalytics for In-Memory, Visual BI Cindi Howson At Oracle Open World, the company announced a new combination hardware/software solution, laying down the gauntlet to SAP and specialty visualization vendors. Read Share GIS Enriches Data, Enhances Decision Making Stephen Swoyer GIS information can enrich internal data, improve business processes, or enhance decision making. If you're a large organization, you probably already have a GIS practice somewhere in your enterprise, whether you know it or not. So why aren't you using it? Read Share Integrating Canonical Message Models and Enterprise Data Models (Part 1 of 3) Dr. Tom Johnston The enterprise data model (EDM) has failed. We explore a new way of using EDMs -- one in which an EDM can more directly affect the management of data than as merely a paper reference model. Read Share Q&A: Governance Challenges of Unstructured Data Linda Briggs Unstructured and semi-structured data presents special data governance challenges, and its mushrooming growth over the past several years makes its management a special problem. In the second part of our two-part interview, Daniel Teachey addresses this and other issues surrounding data governance. Read Putting the "BI" in Big Data Andrew J. Brust Microsoft's recent announcements aren't about just Big Data; they're about Big BI, now open for Big Business.

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TDWI Webinar Series: Dashboards & Visual Discovery Tools: An Evaluation Framework Speaker: Cindi Howson November 9 9:00AM PT Register Now Dashboards and visual discovery are now must-have components of the BI tool portfolio.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest Effective Presentation of Analytical Results Today the world is flooded with information. How do you make sense of it all, and how can you then best share your findings with others? Speaker: Jonathan Koomey November 10 9:00AM PT Register Now ETL 2.0: The Imminent Evolution of ETL Most ETL environments were designed for the business requirements of at least ten years ago -- before the number of data sources, applications and use-cases exploded, and before the demands of Big Data, social media and mobile technology were added to the mix. Speaker: Robin Bloor November 16 9:00AM PT Register Now

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