Business Intelligence This Week Newsletter 02-08-2012

Wednesday, February 08, 2012 News Highlights Read Share Big Data Killed the Data Modeling Star Paul Sonderegger Big data offers BI professionals new ways of making information work for the business. Read Share 5 Macro Trends Shaping Next-generation BI and Analytics George Mathew The traditional BI stack has failed. What’s next? Read Share TDWI Report Explores Challenges, Lessons Learned from Mobile BI Deployments Stephen Swoyer A new report from TDWI highlights the lessons gleaned from existing mobile BI and analytic deployments, discusses the challenges — immediate, imminent, and longer term — of mobilizing BI, and, most important, explores the why of BI mobility. Read Share Q&A: How BI Competency Centers Can Add Business Value Linda Briggs A BI Competency Center can add business value, but it must be done right. HP’s Chris Carney discusses the focus and skills needed and mistakes to avoid, and shares an example of a successful BICC implementation. Read Share JackBe is sMashing BI Barriers Stephen Swoyer An update that JackBe unveiled late last year for its Presto business intelligence platform demonstrates just how far it’s come since the days when it focused on AJAX and SOA application development. Nowadays, JackBe is focused solely on BI, which makes it easy to expose any kind of information — including data you wouldn’t typically want to bring into a data warehouse. Sponsor Discover Success in Your Data The online Master of Science in Business Intelligence gives you the foundation to effectively evaluate information within a business context. Our nationally recognized program, offered by the AACSB-accredited Haub School of Business, has recently been endorsed by the SAS Institute providing graduates with an SAS Business Intelligence Certificate. Click to learn more. Click here for details. TDWI Webinar Series: The Confluence of Big Data and Advanced Analytics Speaker: Philip Russom February 9 9:00AM PT Register Now The term “big data” has arisen in recent years to describe multi-terabyte datasets. Big data certainly has its challenges relative to scalability and data management, but it’s also useful for business intelligence. Massive datasets of big data provide substantial data samples for many forms of analytics, especially advanced forms that are discovery oriented. Upcoming Webinars of Interest Seven Data Discovery Steps for Improving Information Delivery and Accuracy Know your data. With today’s information-driven business projects, no maxim could be truer. Yet many organizations lack fundamental knowledge about their data — and the situation is getting tougher as “big data” sources grow in size and variety and manual documentation efforts can’t keep pace. Speaker: David Stodder March 1 9:00AM PT Register Now Successful Strategic Planning in the World of Big Data It is difficult to ignore the growing influence of broad, massive streams of data from unexpected sources, especially when these data sources can directly influence customer satisfaction, expose opportunities for revenue generation, lead to brand risk, or improve customer profiling. Speaker: David Loshin March 7 9:00AM PT Register Now Sponsor Don’t Miss TDWI’s World Conference in Las Vegas, February 12-17 At the TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas, the focus is on developing a true enterprise strategy for your organization’s data. And it’s not just IT’s responsibility. If you hope to transform your data into information and knowledge that will produce measurable improvements in business performance, a true strategy is essential, and it depends on a partnership across departments. Click here for details. Forward to a Friend Change E-Mail | Unsubscribe Events Calendar February 12-17, 2012 TDWI World Conference: A Data Strategy for the Enterprise Las Vegas, NV Learn More / Register Now February 13-15, 2012 TDWI BI Executive Summit: Executing a Data Strategy for Your Enterprise Las Vegas, NV Learn More / Register Now March 19-22, 2012 TDWI Seminar Series: Data Modeling Austin, TX Learn More / Register Now
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