News Highlights by TDWI

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Read Share Treating Your BI Project Like an Entrepreneurial Startup Ken Collier Startups know that what customers say they want isn't necessarily what they want. The same principle is critical to the success of your BI project. Read Share Oracle Showcases Data Discovery, Commits to Public Cloud Cindi Howson What's new and forthcoming from Oracle? Cindi Howson takes us inside Oracle's annual analyst conference. Read Share In Praise of Data Replication Stephen Swoyer Comparatively few enterprises appreciate just how useful data replication can be, but vendors sure do. Consolidation activity and aggressive product pushes demonstrate how data replication's status is improving -- and it's about time. Read Share Yellowfin Displays Adaptability Stephen Swoyer Yellowfin was designed to be a powerful BI reporting platform. The company's core design decisions helped to make it a surprisingly adaptable platform, too. BI has quickly moved beyond just reporting, and so has Yellowfin.

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TDWI Webinar Series: Data Analytics and Interactive Gaming -- Opportunities to Influence Consumer Behavior Speaker: David Loshin May 22 9:00AM PT Register Now Tween interactive social worlds such as Club Penguin, Webkinz, and Poptropica provide environments for children to play games, interact with each other, earn virtual money, and spend that virtual money on a variety of items.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest Faster, Must Go Faster: The Need for Operational BI Business intelligence applications are playing an ever-increasing and important role in driving and optimizing daily business operations. This trend is leading to major changes in both the functionality and the usability of BI-related technologies and products. Speaker: Claudia Imhoff May 23 9:00AM PT Register Now Visual Discovery Beyond the Hype A picture can paint a thousand numbers and broaden the appeal of BI tools. Specialty BI vendors are growing at a rapid pace and visual discovery has become a critical component of the BI platform. Speaker: Cindi Howson May 30 9:00AM PT Register Now

Sponsor Strategic Planning for Big Data Management TDWI has published a new Checklist Report designed to help develop a strategic plan for big data. Many major organizations are considering alternative methods of analytics suited to massive amounts of data acquired through different channels, in different formats, and streaming at various rates. Fortunately, there is a ray of hope that technologies grouped under "big data" can provide a new way of gaining insights. Click here for details.

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